From: lfsheldon@gmail.com

On 5/19/2014 12:20 AM, Glen Labah wrote:
> 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


Fascinating!  Thanks.

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