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Introduction to 5" Scale Locomotives. |
| There are currently four designs small steam locomotive in the Maxitrak range. Available as fully machined kits in stages, in painted kit form, also available in stages or complete fully assembled, painted and ready to run. The design arrangements of these share many common components such as wheels, cylinders and boilers although they each build into quite different engines, similar in characteristics but not in appearance. |
| "DIXIE" for example is an open cab engine with the distinctive and attractive square saddle tank so typical of the Kerr Stuart "Wren" class. |
| "SAPPHIRE" is a closed cab industrial engine with a round top saddle tank and is based on a Baguley designed Bagnall. "RUBY" (available only by special order) is a side tank and tender locomotive and all three are narrow gauge industrial outline. |
| "SWALLOW" however is a Standard gauge tank engine, typical of those used on industrial lines and is based on a Hunslet locomotive. |
| All these locomotives utilise the unique one piece aluminium chassis casting which incorporates many parts such as the saddle, footplate and buffer beams. There are a number of different valve gears available to suit the different prototypes such as Marshall, Walschaerts and Hackworth with slip eccentric supplied as standard. |
| Construction of all locomotive kits is straight forward using hand tools only and following the step by step construction manual supplied with each kit. |
| Boilers are silver soldered and tested to twice working pressure! |
