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Here's the loco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6029
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6029
My mules in contrast;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_AC4400CW
Rumor has it that GE (Erie, PA) is getting out of the locomotive business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_AC4400CW
Rumor has it that GE (Erie, PA) is getting out of the locomotive business.
Originally Posted by userfriendly
My mules in contrast;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_AC4400CW
Rumor has it that GE (Erie, PA) is getting out of the locomotive business.
GE Transportation was sold to Wabtec recently and will probably close the Erie, PA plant and build the locomotives in Ft Worth, TX.
My mules in contrast;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_AC4400CW
Rumor has it that GE (Erie, PA) is getting out of the locomotive business.
GE Transportation was sold to Wabtec recently and will probably close the Erie, PA plant and build the locomotives in Ft Worth, TX.
Quite the beast, interesting configuration.
I've seen big steam locomotives on the UPPR transcontinental road but nothing like that. Very interesting power arrangement.
Driving again Shannow. It's called double dipping. Almost 40 years with a class1, now industrial switching on a class 3.
That is an amazing engine. I've never seen anything like it. It appears to be a single unit. How would you describe it? 4-8-4-8-4?
Was expecting pics of Walter Johnson pitching...???
Locomotive graveyard outside Tucson: http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/507/t/257549.aspx
Kinda sad to see those ‘ol smokers lay down.....
Kinda sad to see those ‘ol smokers lay down.....
Originally Posted by ecotourist
That is an amazing engine. I've never seen anything like it. It appears to be a single unit. How would you describe it? 4-8-4-8-4?
4-8-4+4-8-4
The boiler and the operators are suspended in the middle section that's articulated like a semi...there's an (used to be) asbestos flexible coupler under the cabin that if it lets go makes life "difficult" for the crew.
Due to the arrangement, here, there were tunnels that could only be traversed backwards, as they had a habit of cooking the drivers with coal smoke.
Here's that one...
and back in the day..
Apparently they still ran in Zimbabwe into the '90s.
That is an amazing engine. I've never seen anything like it. It appears to be a single unit. How would you describe it? 4-8-4-8-4?
4-8-4+4-8-4
The boiler and the operators are suspended in the middle section that's articulated like a semi...there's an (used to be) asbestos flexible coupler under the cabin that if it lets go makes life "difficult" for the crew.
Due to the arrangement, here, there were tunnels that could only be traversed backwards, as they had a habit of cooking the drivers with coal smoke.
Here's that one...
and back in the day..
Apparently they still ran in Zimbabwe into the '90s.
.Reminded me that there's a Queensland narrow guage one sitting at the ZigZag railway yard, awaiting refurbishment.
Tried to get pics as best I could that sort of showed the articulation points.
This one is oil fired, not coal...
Tried to get pics as best I could that sort of showed the articulation points.
This one is oil fired, not coal...
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Driving back out, could catch but a glimpse of the viaducts that they built back in 1866-69 for the Zig Zag Railway.
It was considered one of the great engineering feats if the 19th century, and allowed local coal, cement, copper and steel to build Sydney...
It was considered one of the great engineering feats if the 19th century, and allowed local coal, cement, copper and steel to build Sydney...
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