Structure on cab roof has the flavor of being some kind of heater. Thawing catenary with blast from curved pipe?
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Even de Zwitsers ambeteren met een 5 daagse in de sneeuw ,de matterhorn gotthardbahn rangeer lok van wacht Gm 3/3 72 aan het station van Zermatt - 9/03/2017. by peterspoor, on Flickr
I don’t know, but that’s a very interesting looking loco.
Reminds me of an old shoe…
It just looks like a normal exhaust pipe. But interesting locomotive.
Sorry, that is not an ice melter for the overhead wiring.
It is a Swiss narrow gauge yard switching engine #72.
An 0-3-0 diesiesel(I like steam or overhead electric:-))
I poked around and found out this was taken in a yard BEFORE the passenger terminal.
Was there at the passenger station in December 2009 and never knew about the yard-boo hoo:-(
Would have been easy to get to see the yard as we had time before the down train to Visp was scheduled.
Pic of the loco where you can see the 3 wheels.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/93471658@N08/33067807810/in/photostream/
The loco in question looks like it is in the Google earth pic next to the lettering for Spissstrasse.
Don Howard said:
Sorry, that is not an ice melter for the overhead wiring.
According to the photographer I am right and you are wrong.
Forrest Wood 20h
Structure on cab roof has the flavor of being some kind of heater. Thawing catenary with blast from curved pipe?
peterspoor 18h
Forrest Wood Yes and a few filters for the smoke cleaniing
Don Howard said:
It is a Swiss narrow gauge yard switching engine #72.
An 0-3-0 diesel(I like steam or overhead electric:-))
Pic of the loco where you can see the 3 wheels.
The picture shows 3 drive wheels on the left side. Assuming the drive wheels are the same on the right side, it is an 0-6-0 in this country!(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
The Swiss do have a strange designation system though. This loco is designated as a Gm 3/3. G=narrow gauge; m means diesel fuel; 3 means number of drive axles; the second 3 means total number of axles.
Here is the right side…
Forrest Scott Wood said:
Don Howard said:
Sorry, that is not an ice melter for the overhead wiring.
According to the photographer I am right and you are wrong.
Forrest Wood 20h
Structure on cab roof has the flavor of being some kind of heater. Thawing catenary with blast from curved pipe?
peterspoor 18h
Forrest Wood Yes and a few filters for the smoke cleaniing
I noticed that the cab roof structure matches the tall cars that follow, I wonder if it doesn’t knock down icicles and melts the droppings off the roof. Either that or the engineers have gas…
I guess I’ll defer to the photographer’s statement.
He was there.
A before picture, without the exhaust muffler cowling:
The same site I got the pic without the cowling has a description in Dutch or Flemish(or???) I interpret to mean that there was a change in 2004 to their exhaust system on both #71 and #72. http://zermattbahn.weebly.com/gm-33.html
A replacement locomotive series is coming: Stadler HGm 2/2 diesel-electric Abt rack locomotive for the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn.
Rack version below.
Exhaust exit pipes are no longer centered.
Anyone know what the big grilled things are on 2/3rd of the roof?
Over there they are rather fussy about exhaust noise, and fumes. That locomotive is just used for switching, and maintenance work.
an 0-6-0 implies a steam locomotive. It would be a C truck switcher (3 powered axles). Cool beast though.
