Model Railroading > and you thought a DD40 was big

How about a double DD40? times 3?
http://www.trainmaster.ch/WML-11.htm

Can you imagine the minimum radius needed to run those monsters?

I liked the UP 007, too.

I've always loved double D's, but I'm afraid that quadruple D's are too much to handle...even for a man like me.



Kick em!

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Great for straight lines!

Joel Brazy
Coatesville, PA

One fuel tank feeding four prime movers...Half of the train would be fuel tenders!

-Sean

bigmc83 Wrote:
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> One fuel tank feeding four prime movers...Half of
> the train would be fuel tenders!
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> -Sean

Check again only 2 turbo stacks only 2 prime movers lots of cooling though

pal77 Wrote:
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> Check again only 2 turbo stacks only 2 prime
> movers lots of cooling though

Actually it could still work like shown, just that second prime mover would be tucked under the forward part of the radiator and each pair of prime movers would need to share the same exhaust port and auxiliary equipment. You could have the drive shafts of each pair prime movers hooked together. I'm just not sure where a second generator could go.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

That is completely awesome! Wow!

-Jason

59 centimeters is almost 2 feet (23.23 inches).



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pmack Wrote:
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> How about a double DD40? times 3?
> http://www.trainmaster.ch/WML-11.htm

It looks like a photoshop job done on a photo of a DD40 but its real eh..

All I can say he sure has a conversation piece, but good luck finding a place to run those - especially in Germany where they have far less room for layouts and large radius curves than we have here in the US. I expect those models will spend their lives on shelves being talked about mostly. All I can do is shake my head!

Cheers, Jim Fitch



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trkspd Wrote:
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> I've always loved double D's, but I'm afraid that
> quadruple D's are too much to handle...even for a
> man like me.
>
>
>
> Kick em!
>
> Posted from Android


The Dolly Pardon of Locomotives!

If I'm reading it correctly, he says he used Genesis units, but those are obviously Bachmann. That ABA set would have cost a small fortune to build with Genesis units.