When I first saw Brickshelf user "gcarstensen 's" newest steam engine, I immediately thought it was too large to be in scale with standard 6 or 8 wide LEGO locomotives.  However, I now believe myself to be dead wrong.  There is, in fact, a giant standard gauge Shay known as Western Maryland #6 , or "Big 6" to her friends.  Big 6 was the lagest Shay ever built, and gcarstensen's model is a dead ringer for her.

I've been considering building a shay for quite some time, so I tend to study them very carefully.  As yet I've not figured out if she can handle LEGO curves, but even so, there are a lot of great details to see.  From her pistons to her cheese-slope boiler, this is a great MOC.

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• |2009-07-25 15:25:54 Cale Leiphart  - Foiled again!
  It would seem my Arch Nemesis Anthony Sava (just kidding) has beat me to the punch on this one. And a Western Maryland engine too. I love WM.
  
  Great work Carstensen.
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