smallest steam locomotive

[UKBob]

I had a friend years ago who had a pretty impressive miniature railway which worked - the tracks must have been milimetres appart.

Can anyone explain guage sizez? Im curious how small the smallest mini steam locomotive is.

[andy mac]

[url]www.fantasyarts.net/worlds-smallest-steam-engine.htm[/url]

Is that small enough?

>> Edited by andy mac on Sunday 9th October 22:29

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andy mac said:

[url]www.fantasyarts.net/worlds-smallest-steam-engine.htm[/url] Is that small enough?

So.... Smarty pants, explain how it works? Wheres the piston? the resevoir? the coupling for the passanger cars?

[andy mac]

Steamy website says... said:

This tiny engine actually runs! The device works much the same way as a normal steam engine. It has a tiny reservoir of water, and a boiler with a heater in it. When the tiny heater is turned on by applying an electrical signal, the water boils creating steam. The pressure generated by the steam forces the piston outward. When the electrical signal is removed, the steam condenses back to water, and the pressure is reduced, and the piston retracts back into the cylinder. By turning the voltage on and off, the piston repeatedly moves in and out of the cylinder.

[rich 36]

Ah yes but, where does the driver sit



And anyway, no cow catcher

hah!

[andy mac]

Where does the driver sit? On the bloody seat...

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[rich 36]

Oh.
OK i can see him now, look everyone he's smiling,

toot toot!

[scared but happy]

Amazing....
Fred Dibnah would have loved that.

[rich 36]

Perhaps its a 'mahmood' one, stick thing poking out of the funnell

[UKBob]

Oh Dear

No LocomotiveHeads here then

Someone must have a decent link

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UKBob said:

Oh Dear No LocomotiveHeads here then Someone must have a decent link

Okey dokey, here you go . Just googled and got this. Seems like a database of suppliers.

HTH More than the above anyway

[dilbert]

I believe that I have seen an "N" Gauge live steam railway locomotive before. I think it was single cylinder with a flash steam boiler, so not really a scale model.

I guess that even the 5" and 7 1/4" engines are'nt that close in terms of scale, but the N gauge one did work.

I don't know if it's on the internet. I saw it in a magazine probably a decade before the internet existed.

>> Edited by dilbert on Monday 10th October 01:25

[Pigeon]

Live steam in OO scale is in current production (Hornby), so one-offs in N sound quite possible.