Not intended to be a hurtful thing. It is a joke. My friends in the club in Billings have "names" for N scale that I understand as a joke. I have modeled in N, HO, O, Lionel and dabbled in G. They are all fine and FUN! The modelling being done in all scales is awesome today compared to when I started in this FUN hobby! So, it is just a joke!
That would make you a "Rubber Scaler" kind of like me. However, I have done some modeling in S and Lionel #1 as well. My favorite is 12" to the foot scale though.
I did forget the time I spent on 12 in to the foot scale! Duh!! 15 years either rewiring, rebuilding testing or maintaining GE and EMD locos! Those were fun!!!! Especially the one......
I had heard of lignite in the past. If I recall correctly, it was in connection with an old time Union Pacific camelback??? of all things. The description stated that it had a wide firebox for burning lignite, which I was totally unfamiliar with and still know very little about. Can anyone elaborate?
I don't know about UP, but the NP spent a lot of bux researching the lignite from Colstrip. It required a large firebox. In fact, the Yellowstones had the largest firebox ever when they were built! The BTU content is lower, but since it came from their own mines on their own land, the investment was worth it. In fact, the "Rosebud" coal as they called it, had a BTU content about half that of eastern bituminous and about 65% of that found in the Red Lodge, MT mines. However, it's cost was about 1/4 the cost of the eastern coal. This required a larger firebox though when the Mike's and Pacific's came into general useage. The need was for more airflow, a larger grate area was required, kind of similar to a Wooten, with more air openings. The result was the design of the first 'Northern' type over the 'Mountain' type. The 4 wheel trailer was required to support the extra large firebox. As was a taller stack. They discovered that this coal tended to burn in suspension, hovering just off the grate itself when under power! Now that would be a sight to see!
