On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 19:03:13 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:


8:55 PMMr. Luddite
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Considering the OP posted this in 1994, I suspect he has long given
up on a paddle wheeler.

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Probably so unless he just wanted to build a scale of one. Though kinda cool, yes they are inefficient. But it’s amazing the tonnage then hold and so little draft theyd pull

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I was about to tell him where he could find a nicely detailed model of
an authentic walking beam steam engine until noticing that it was a 24
year old post. :-)