It's been a while since we
last looked at the
Andreyev 4-14-4. Rest assured, I've been debugging a number of annoying short circuits and binds in the mechanism, plus an unforced error in putting the tender trucks under the tender backwards (must be a senior moment, years ago I painted the port side ends of the axles red; then I put them on with the red marks to starboard.)
What can be more Soviet than hero project steam locomotive in front of a steel mill?
Stalin couldn't make it disappear: perhaps his curse is that any model of it will be as difficult to get running as the real thing ever was. That's where a little Yankee stubbornness and a few choice cuss words (take your pick, Slavic, German, Anglo-Saxon) come in handy.
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