Excellent!

clipka wrote:

> There! Got the drive and valve gear finished at last (the moving 
parts,
> that is). Fully rigged for animation (it was actually easier to 
create
> it this way than with static coordinates).
> 
> Used a patterned texture to check whether texture is properly moving
> with the parts.
> 
> 
> So why, for hell's bells sake, of all the many locomotive types to 
ever
> roam the American continent did I happen to pick virtually the one 
and
> only that did NOT use Walschaert valve gear, but "Southern" gear
> instead?? Can you imagine what a pain it is to try find some close-
up
> images on the 'net? In the end I had to resort to some solid 
guessing. I
> still can't tell whether I got the bellcrank right... ah well, in 
case I
> got it wrong I guess I can file that under artistic license: It 
/could/
> have been built this way.

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