Re: Conjectural Compounding a la Bill Scobie ...

> > Bill Scobie Wrote:
> > ========================================
> > > It looks like an old HO PFM L-131/132
> > > in the 3600 class that has been reworked
> > > into a triplex.   Would that make an
> > > L-198?   I want one in Sn3.
> >
> Johnson Barr Replied:
> ==================================================
> > Hhhhhhmmmmmmm -
> >
> > Surely you don't want one of those re-worked
> > to run on 3' gauge track, as was done to cre-
> > ate the K-37's - that could result in a three-
> > foot-gauge 4-10-10-10-6 triplex - so do you
> > mean you want one in 1/64 scale, or you want
> > one from PFM in roughly HO scale - as above -
> > re-gauged slightly to run on Sn3 track?
> >    
>
Bill Scobie Wrote Again:
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> Well if I can do that I will go back to my other
> plan and that is an Sn3 Garratt. All I need is two
> old PFM K-27's. That would be an L-54 would it
> not?   I can see it now - RGS #500 coming out
> of the Rico engine house and I know one guy on
> my crew would go off the deep end and never
> run it if I ever get it done. Model railroading is
> fun, isn't it.


Hi, Bill -

I think your dream locomotive would be more appropriate for the Georgianatown Loop-de-Loop
Railway than for the RGS - see [ngdiscussion.net].

- Rüsso