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Well as some of you my know I have once again been bitten by the Model Railroading bug! For the longest time I've been wanting to build a serious model railroad. I've grown tiresome of a simple loop of track with a train going around in circles and never getting anywhere.
Well I have finaly started drawing up some plans and making some as well. I will eventually build an On30 scale ("O" scale or "1/4" scale running on HO gauge track) mountain railroad. Its called the "Wolf Creek & Flagstone" and recently I've made a Roster for most of the Engines/Locomotives I'll have running on it.
This locomotive is Wolf Creek & Flagstone #9, a 2-6-0 Mogul Built by Danforth Cooke and Co. The real life "Colorado & Southern" railroad (sadly is now abandoned) was well known for their use of Cooke Moguls. At one point in time they were the bulf of their locomotive fleet.
My Cooke Mogul is a representation of the C&S 2-6-0s complete with their trademark "Bear Trap" spark arrestors. (the funny looking thing attatched to the smoke stack) Really the only fifference between my version and the C&S locomotives is the color/paint scheme and its gauge. (the width of track the train ran on)
A color version complete with weathering will be posted eventualy, sometime after Christmas of 09. But untill then I hope you enjoy it.
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Well I have finaly started drawing up some plans and making some as well. I will eventually build an On30 scale ("O" scale or "1/4" scale running on HO gauge track) mountain railroad. Its called the "Wolf Creek & Flagstone" and recently I've made a Roster for most of the Engines/Locomotives I'll have running on it.
This locomotive is Wolf Creek & Flagstone #9, a 2-6-0 Mogul Built by Danforth Cooke and Co. The real life "Colorado & Southern" railroad (sadly is now abandoned) was well known for their use of Cooke Moguls. At one point in time they were the bulf of their locomotive fleet.
My Cooke Mogul is a representation of the C&S 2-6-0s complete with their trademark "Bear Trap" spark arrestors. (the funny looking thing attatched to the smoke stack) Really the only fifference between my version and the C&S locomotives is the color/paint scheme and its gauge. (the width of track the train ran on)
A color version complete with weathering will be posted eventualy, sometime after Christmas of 09. But untill then I hope you enjoy it.
COMMENT IF YOU FAV!!!
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No, "Bear Trap" spark arretors didn't redirect smoke. Smoke still flew up ito the air like on all traditional steam locomotives.
The bear trap arrestor is designed to keep hot embers and ash from ignighting surounding plant life. As can be seen there is a pipe running from the back of the spark arrestor to the ground. When the locomotive exhausts and shoots up smoke the hot embers and ash are blown against the mesh screen and forced backward to the end of the bear trap arrestor.
There the sinders fall down the pipe to the ground where there is little chance of them ignighting anything. Most types of spark arrestors use a collector which needs to be regularly emptied and cleaned.
With the Bear Trap design you almost never had to do anything! The Colorado & Southern railroad were about the only company who used them. The only other Railroad I've seen them used on was the Durango & Silverton, but I think they stopped using them a number of years ago.
The bear trap arrestor is designed to keep hot embers and ash from ignighting surounding plant life. As can be seen there is a pipe running from the back of the spark arrestor to the ground. When the locomotive exhausts and shoots up smoke the hot embers and ash are blown against the mesh screen and forced backward to the end of the bear trap arrestor.
There the sinders fall down the pipe to the ground where there is little chance of them ignighting anything. Most types of spark arrestors use a collector which needs to be regularly emptied and cleaned.
With the Bear Trap design you almost never had to do anything! The Colorado & Southern railroad were about the only company who used them. The only other Railroad I've seen them used on was the Durango & Silverton, but I think they stopped using them a number of years ago.
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