Small-Scale Live Steam Locomotives

Valve Gear Design Simulator Software


Charles Dockstader has written a program for MS Windows which will take the geometry of your valve gear design (pretty much every gear type imaginable) and show the physical arrangement of the motion, animate the events, draw an indicator card, etc.  This is the ideal way to shake out your valve gear design.  The program is easy to use and the results are outstanding.

The simulator is available here: http://jf2.com/bcwrr/Dockstader-Valve-Gear.html

Download the ZIP file(s), unpack them all in the same directory, then run vgstart.

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Valve gear software © copyright 1998-2005 by Charles Dockstader, and placed in the public domain by him. It may be freely shared and distributed, but not sold.

Last updated: 8 December 2010