Locomotive Tour

Google SketchUp animation "Tour" around and IN a steam locomotive.

Viewpoint moves around the outside of a fictional Steam Locomotive, pausing at each significant part. Then follow the steam path from the boiler through the dry pipe and regulator valve then to a slide valve and into the cylinder, out the exhaust, up the blast pipe and out the smokestack.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Steam
• Locomotive
• Train
• Google
• SketchUp
• Animation

[SemperVaporo]

That is one reason I put the wrench on top of the steam chest and the star on the front of the cylinders... helps one to get oriented to where you ended up!

[sketchuphelpful]

i think you have got a god shape for this model, im not keen on the see-through texture. But its a good model, well done. I have made a steam train on sketchup aswell you could take a look at that :)

[Inuyasha4lif]

yeah i did notice how the throttle was like some live steamer trains models lol,but i got lost and confused at the cylinders wich got me stumped becuas eon the exuas stroke i wa slike,wait wtf,i could see were and thats wer ei got losty i kept replayign it to see it looks liek you made an error there :P

[SemperVaporo]

No offense taken. :-) Actually, this is kind of like some "toy" steamers (like the Aster Mikado) where the throttle is on the backhead and the steam delivery pipe is used as a stay for both the back and front tube sheets as drawn here.

This started as a very simple drawing of a valve chest and cylinder... & it just kept growing because of how simple it was to add things in Google's SketchUp.

[Inuyasha4lif]

wow got lost at some points ol