From: gl4317@yahoo.com

In article ,
 Larry Sheldon  wrote:

> I have been studying all the pictures you nice people have pointed to
> and I for the life of me see were the articulation "hinges" are nor how
> they "work".  From the pictures, it looks like any articulation will
> have one or more drivers fouling the boiler chassis.


It really isn't very obvious, but on the larger Garratt locomotives the
frame split is almost always above the 3rd driving axle.  Then, the
upper body may or may not have some overhang one way or the other.

It is probably best to see a model of one run, as that gives you sort of
an above the model look as it goes around curves.  This is the best I
could find so far, of a British 2-6-0+0-6-2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYlM-9j1AQI

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