Atsf 2926 generator#
Atsf 2926 drivers#

Hopefully soon I will be able to take a video of it running with its smoke generator working!

More pictures of #2926 can be found on my flickr account here: This is on my list of things to resolve in the future!Īnd here's a short video of it running at the Phoenix Comic Convention! It now has a much stronger motor bogie, albeit with only 3 axles per truck. This of course led to quite a panic as I tried to find a suitable temporary replacement. The night before I left to bring it to a show, however, my 4-axle truck design at the last minute proved not to be up to the strength of the motors after several weeks of running. My LEGO version contains two XL motors for it's power. of water and fuel that #2926 brought with it. This tender sports two 4-axle trucks capable of holding the 464,700 lbs. This locomotive has an absolutely massive tender, as you can see here it is very nearly both the height and length of the engine. As you can see, #2926 also sports some functional valve gear that is both slim and functional thanks to Zephyr's great drive rods. This side has a lot of my favorite details, including the rope for the whistle and the speedometer wheel resting against the rear driver. This method helped make sure all the light from the LEGO LED made it to the end of the headlight, and the flexibility also let me route it through the boiler around a smoke generator I've installed (yet sadly haven't had opportunity to get a video of). #2926 is also equipped with some PF lights, one of which illuminates the cab and the other feeds into the LEGO fiber optic cable used to assemble the headlight and smokebox door. #2926 is powered by a pair of XL motors in the tender which, while not doing any real justice to the speed of the locomotive, provide an insane amount of power properly fitting the locomotive. My model of #2926 is no small engine herself! Weighing in at nearly five pounds and 94 studs long, she easily dwarves the rest of my steam roster. In 1999, however, it was bought for $1 by the New Mexico Steam Locomotive & Railroad Historical Society, who have been working ever since on restoring it back to running condition! Unfortunately, #2926 was taken out of active service in December of 1953, and three years later donated as a display piece to Coronado Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where it languished in the harsh elements. The advanced designs of the running gear though suggest that, if it had been at all allowed, the engine should have been able to sustain speeds up to or higher than 120 MPH. Anecdotal evidence from the crew says that the fastest these engines ever run was up to 110 MPH, much faster than the 90 it was designed to do.

Atsf 2926 drivers#

Despite this heavy weight, it's 80 inch drivers and full set of roller bearings meant this locomotive could run very quickly. Together with its loaded tender, one of if not the largest ever built, the locomotive came in at a whopping 974,850 lbs.

The 2900's design was a modified version of the 3700 class of Northern, built using thicker heavier metals as necessitated by the war time metal rationing. #2926 was one of 30 of the P2900 class of steam locomotives built between 19, during WWII. Hello all! I have returned yet again with a new engine complete, this time a rather large 4-8-4 Northern!