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The Maximod concept was started when my friend Henner came up with the idea of using a Stuart D10 engine to power a locomotive through a chain drive system. This happened in the late 1960s. A friend of his built a first engine using a vertical boiler. In 1977 another friend began selling plans for a tram engine based on the first locomotive but using an horizontal boiler. In the early 1980s Henner started work on his own tram engine: he got as far as a complete running chassis and an unfinished boiler. All these parts sat in his house in Germany until early 2005 when his son shipped the whole thing to him in California. He then gave me the locomotive in exchange for a brand new D10 kit. The original boiler was declared unusable, so I ordered a vertical boiler from Stuart. This album chronicles the re-birth of this locomotive. It is named Maximod because it is a large version of my gauge 1 Vermod...
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