Why can't we get US models like this?

[3rdrail]

Here's the finished model, to be available within the month:



At over $2.00 to the Pound Sterling and with none available lettered for Southern Railway, I won't be buying one. 

[Mark5]

Heh, the thing looks too simplistic to be a model of a real loco.

[CVSNE]

That thing looks really, really ugly -- even for a British engine . . .  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Weedline]

That thing looks really, really ugly -- even for a British engine . . .  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

... then it has plenty of company like the American diesel CF-7.  If ever there was a mutt, the CF-7 fits the mug shot.

[up1950s]

Ok , where are the pistons , between the frame ? If so there must be 2 , no ? Or is this a steam turbine ?

[3rdrail]

Ok , where are the pistons , between the frame ? If so there must be 2 , no ? Or is this a steam turbine ?

It is an inside connected locomotive. It has two inside cylinders (you can barely see extended piston rods under the boiler front). This was the most common British goods (freight) locomotive. The Q1 was a World War II design, like the German Kreigslok.

It's gotta have been one of the weirdest things to ever run on rails.

[Bob Bufkin]

Kind of like certain dogs I like.  So ugly but the more you look at it, the cutier they get.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Any idea why inside connected locomotives were so popular in the isles?

[3rdrail]

Any idea why inside connected locomotives were so popular in the isles?

Yes, they are much easier to counterbalance and therefore do less damage to the track structure. Much more maintenance intensive, though.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Interesting. I had guessed it was because of the clearance issues, but that makes sense too.  But wow, what a headache maintaining them must've been.