December 23, 2012 06:40PM
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Gavin Hamilton Wrote:
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> Not sure of the differences between
> a 'Fairlie' and a 'Mason Bogie'
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The Mason-Bogie uses a separate frame - a bogie, or truck - for the engine (the lead truck, cylinders & drive wheels) which swivels under the boiler somewhat like the lead engine of a conventional articulated tank locomotive. The boiler, cab and tank are all connected together as a single unit. Calling them 2-6-
0-6T's (or 2-8-
0-6T's) wouldn't be too far off.
SFAIK the Fairlies - the single ones, anyway - are all on one frame with a swiveling 4-wheel truck under the tank but no separate swiveling engine carrying the cylinders & drivers.
Mea Culpa - or actually, Mea Senilitosis. Per the Wikipedia article to which Brian Nordon's post (below) points, Fairlies are the Old-Whirled ancestors of Gnu-Whirled Mason-Bogies, or - perhaps more accurately - Mason-Bogies are the 'Wild West' descendants of Fairlies
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- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 12/29/2012 03:50PM by Russo Loco.
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