A part-built 4 inch scale Burrell DCC road locomotive, to the Live Steam Models design and using their castings.
Work to date includes:
- Boiler by Franklin and Bell with paperwork
- Mounted hornplates with machined Cannon Brackets, 2nd shaft and axle
- Machined one-piece crankshaft with gears, eccentric inners and flywheel
- Cylinder block machined by LSM, complete with safety valves and Pickering governor
- Pistons and piston rods
- Valves and valve rods
- Front and rear wheels
- Smokebox, perch bracket, axle, springs, chimney with base
- Water pump
- Clack valves
- Weighshaft bracket
- Castings including fire bars, crossheads, steering wheel, brake wheel
scale |
4 inch |
weight/kg |
est 750 when complete |
cylinder material |
cast iron |
valve type |
slide |
valve gear |
Stephensons |
governor type |
Pickering |
boiler maker |
Franklin & Bell |
boiler type |
locomotive |
boiler material |
steel |
boiler construction |
welded, expanded tubes |