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Chapelon's planned engines

Various versions of the "Ultrafast Ten Wheel" project.

 
P.O. - Midi, 1938  
1948 Version  Rendering is far more ancient 
than C.A.D. software... 

4 - 8 - 4 In P.O. - Midi era version - 6 cyl. compound

 




4 - 6 - 4 for heavy fast trains in P.O. - Midi version





Oil fired 4 6 2, then 4 6 4 tank-van engine project. Designed to be driven by a single man.

Four external cylinders compound, coaxial Lentz-Dabeg valves;
 

 1938, P.O. - Midi version (Pacific); 5232x1520 .gif Last version (464), introduced by Chapelon in '52; 4380x1935 .gif file with legend and dimensions.


 
 
 


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