LGB ÖBB BoBo 2095

I suppose with the right paint-scheme, and if you squint into the sun, they can pass for an early British outline dismal of some sort??
Now, just to work out what sort!! :oops::rolleyes:
 
PhilP said:
I suppose with the right paint-scheme, and if you squint into the sun, they can pass for an early British outline dismal of some sort??
Now, just to work out what sort!! :oops::rolleyes:
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Erm Austrian 2095?

Was suggested by a friend Hymec but no perhaps a Sulzer Class 2? Both sans wizzy cranks. But I still do not see it sorry.
JonD
 
PhilP said:
I suppose with the right paint-scheme, and if you squint into the sun, they can pass for an early British outline dismal of some sort??
Now, just to work out what sort!! :oops::rolleyes:
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I think they're closest to a class 73. They even have the power pickup shoes!
 
AddictiveBiscuit said:
Question why are they called wizzy cranks? :D
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Because the cranks and connecting rods really whizz round when you turn up the speed! We're all used to 1:1 narrow gauge railways travelling quite slowly, meandering lazily through the countrside, but if you look for some youtube clips of the OBB 2095 in action they can really shift - there's some footage of them going like the clappers, with the motion cranks just a blur!

Someone coined the phrase "whizzy cranks" to describe the loco, don't know if it was on here or carried over from another forum, but it has stuck - those who have been here for a while will always know that you mean a 2095 when you use that name.

Jon.
 
With regards to a livery, I have seen a whizzy cranks finished off in the br civils livery, aka Dutch livery. It was based on the class style that the class 26/27/33 were painted.

I think it was at an Exeter show, but can't be to sure.

Dan
 
Zerogee said:
A great clip for showing what the real 2095 sounds like - gotta love that clag-blowing startup sequence......!


It's just like LGB, but 22.5 times bigger! ;)

Jon.
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I think I'll have a fit a smoke generator to my whizzy cranks to see if I can recreate that start-up blow-out!
 
Zerogee said:
A great clip for showing what the real 2095 sounds like
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Oh lovely, sounds just like mine. I was interested to see that the connecting rods were completely painted red..... now where did I put my paintbrush....

David
 
trammayo said:
Nah! Go green - go electric -
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Wow Wizzy Crank Tram. Must have Tram. My Railcar would have Wizzy Cranks if I could get some Spare Con Rods n Fly Cranks as it has a WC Chassis both ends.

Was it Gizzy who coined Wizzy or Wizzy who coined Gizzy? Hm confused me thinks.
JonD
 
dunnyrail said:
Wow Wizzy Crank Tram. Must have Tram. My Railcar would have Wizzy Cranks if I could get some Spare Con Rods n Fly Cranks as it has a WC Chassis both ends.

Was it Gizzy who coined Wizzy or Wizzy who coined Gizzy? Hm confused me thinks.
JonD
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It was the Whizzy Cranks of it's day but it didn't last long - it was too fast and caught up with the other trams! Built in 1927, totally "in-house" at B.C.T.'s Thornbury Works. Varnished teak bodywork and drop centre entrance - 50 years, or more, ahead in its' concept.
 
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