RODOL From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (7 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2438 times:
I have always been a fan of the Class 20, not very glamorous I know, but I think they've got real character. I managed haulage off about 90 of them in my 'bashing' days, admittedly they weren't hard to get in the summer months. If any of our uninitiated a-netters care, it is a 1000hp English Electric diesel which had a characteristic whistling engine note like its big brother the Class 40, and was almost always seen in pairs due to only having a cab at one end. 228 were built in the 1950's & 60's and very few remain in service.
AirworldA320 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2005, 316 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (7 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2417 times:
Quoting RODOL (Reply 6): have always been a fan of the Class 20, not very glamorous I know, but I think they've got real character. I managed haulage off about 90 of them in my 'bashing' days, admittedly they weren't hard to get in the summer months. If any of our uninitiated a-netters care, it is a 1000hp English Electric diesel which had a characteristic whistling engine note like its big brother the Class 40, and was almost always seen in pairs due to only having a cab at one end. 228 were built in the 1950's & 60's and very few remain in service.
AirworldA320 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2005, 316 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (7 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2397 times:
Quoting RODOL (Reply 11): Cheers for the thrash Airworld! You join my RUL.
L410Turbolet From Czech Republic, joined May 2004, 5411 posts, RR: 18 Reply 14, posted (7 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 2381 times:
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SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 17, posted (7 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2349 times:
Geared locomotives, especially the Shay. Among the Shays especially the two-truck models in the 37-40 ton range made in the first two decades of the 20th century. Of those, especially the narrow gauge models. I used to have the number plate of a couple of them, and a bell off another.
AirworldA320 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2005, 316 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (7 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2339 times:
Quoting SlamClick (Reply 17): Geared locomotives, especially the Shay. Among the Shays especially the two-truck models in the 37-40 ton range made in the first two decades of the 20th century. Of those, especially the narrow gauge models. I used to have the number plate of a couple of them, and a bell off another.
What a wierd looking loco, full of power though surely?
SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 19, posted (7 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2330 times:
Quoting AirworldA320 (Reply 18): What a wierd looking loco, full of power though surely?
Torque up the wazoo!
My grandfather's lumber company had three of them. They would only do about 15-18 mph wide open, and would eat a tender full of wood in about three miles doing that. But they handled rough 3-foot gauge track, in some cases just laid along a gravelly creekbed without tamping. They handled hills you would not believe. I have pictures of a 3-foot gauge train carrying redwood logs twelve feet in diameter! It is quite a sight.
There were several geared locomotives but the Shay, with the cylinders on the right side and the driveshafts to the wheels is my favorite.
A couple of years ago I found a bunch of those geared wheels with the teeth stripped off. They'd been rolled off a cliff behind the engine shop.
Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.
57AZ From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2550 posts, RR: 2 Reply 20, posted (7 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2278 times:
The Southern Railway Ms Class 2-8-2. Only survivor (and first of the class) is currently stored at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, TN. As an employee in train service, I got to run her in passenger service a couple of times. Nothing like loafing along at 20 mph with 180 tons of locomotive and 240 tons of train behind you!
"When a man runs on railroads over half of his lifetime he is fit for nothing else-and at times he don't know that."
NKP S2 From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 1714 posts, RR: 6 Reply 21, posted (7 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 2261 times:
Large modern "superpower" steam. Here's a Pere Marquette Berkshire ( 2-8-4 ) in upper Michigan of the US in Oct '05. ( Click on thumbnail for full images )
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