Bent boiler Franco-Crosti Project

Probably the oddest locomotive you will ever see, the wheel arrangement is 2-4-4-2 + 2-8-8-2 + 2-4-4-2 yes this is indeed a hexaplex This was an ambitious project intended for the Russian market, making full use of the enormous Russian loading gauge, and the 5-foot gauge track. Total weight would have been about 410 tonnes, of which about 320 Tonnes would have been available for adhesion. It would have carried 60 m3 of water and 15 tonnes of coal. The idea was proven by a design which was only one set of wheels smaller to have been nt just feasible but to have actually worked. My own version has three renault ft-17 turrets mounted on top obviously from export if one had been built for the french as a military hauling locomotive. In length this engine would have surpassed the famous american bigboy by a whopping ten feet.