{"id":8440,"date":"2024-10-10T01:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T01:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/cheating-on-the-corners-mini-blog\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T01:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T01:30:25","slug":"cheating-on-the-corners-mini-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/cheating-on-the-corners-mini-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating On The Corners (mini-blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Let Us Now Praise Unknown Men?<\/span><\/p>\n … six driving wheels; followed by this …<\/p>\n But it isn’t.<\/p>\n See the two wheel “bogie” dangle. So standard was this modelling procedure that fbb always thought that the real 12-inches-to-the-foot A4 actually had a pony truck at the rear<\/span>!<\/p><\/div>\n The driving wheels have flanges but the back “4” do not; so they are not constrained by the rails. On sharp curves and viewed from directly above, those wheels would hang out over the rail.<\/p><\/div>\n But there’s more complexity to this problem. Here is a model of a British Railways standard class 9F 2-10-0.<\/p>\n And the centre driving wheels have no flanges. This helps the model go round the corners. But it’s no cheat because here is the centre driving wheel of ….<\/p><\/div>\n … the full size 2-10-0 92220 Evening Star, the very last steam loco built by British Railways.<\/p><\/div>\n