Cliff all my pics were dumped by those good folks … over there.
The host pc fried itself during a surge that beat the protector…
On a different track for all our Live Steamers that run their locos on rollers, it was a break in method 1:1:
How about a little fix er upper?
With apologies to Beebe and Clegg, This might be called a Slow Jim Crow across Alabama …
Here she comes!
First the dignitaries must pose and then the train gets serviced …
Smile …
OK you on the right get off … our bean counter gets his chance…
I guess if you want to ride and can’t afford a ticket, you can load the wood…
We backed over the bog to where where they had tapped the spring … I think they are still adding water, look how skinny that pipe is…
No we can’t leave yet, still adding water…
John Caughey said:
Fry or no fry, you sure do come up with the goods, John!
But WTH is that?? Looks like a baby buggy hauling logs!
That my friend is a Fordson tractor … but on the pole road she’s a mighty lumber hauling locomotive!
Cliff Jennings said:
Many moons ago, back when John Caughey and I were on the other site, we often posted photos of old and strange locomotives.
Continuing along that line, I’d like to post on a really weird one I saw described at the Versailles KY RR museum. It was just a framed article, talking about the first loco on the Lexington & Ohio, ca. 1835.
This afternoon, I finally got around to looking it up. Here’s the article I found,
http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/lexington-ohio-railroad
It doesn’t exist anymore, but a replica was made in 1925 (scroll down in the article and you’ll see it and its “passenger car”).
Per the article, “This engine was under powered and proved impracticable. The rigid frame on rigid tracks allowed the traction wheels to slip. The railroad returned to horse power.”
Of course, that doesn’t stop anyone from making a working model if it, haha!
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You and John were doing what on the other site ??
Continuing along another line, I would like to post on a really weird one I saw at Ken Brunts layout if I may !
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Massive driver slip or perhaps they are not quartered all the time in the 1:1 world ?
CRAZY LOCO
Staying on topic and re-read it twice as suggested
Very cool, Rooster!
So Ken likes Thomas, huh?
Cliff Jennings said:
Very cool, Rooster!
So Ken likes Thomas, huh?
That got snuck onto the RR while the rest of us were eating lunch. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
The guy who brought it, does his name rhyme with “booster”? (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Cliff Jennings said:
The guy who brought it, does his name rhyme with “booster”? (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Yup, and I’d to introduce him to Colonel Saunders…(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
HAhaaha!
And I just noticed Friar Fred on the platform, with the (“fryer”?) rooster, perfect!
Rooster, I love your crazy loco (the “Utility”). I agree with the traction issue you mention. That’s one huge boiler for the maybe small loads it could haul.
But like many of these oddballs, it would be cool to see it running as a model… Especially since we’d use a motor block and let the linkage and valve gear ride for free. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Cliff Jennings said:
But like many of these oddballs, it would be cool to see it running as a model… Especially since we’d use a motor block and let the linkage and valve gear ride for free. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Like that ?
WOW, who made that, Rooster? That’s amazing!
He did, Cliff. There should be a Forum topic about it on here somewhere about how he built it.(From many moons ago! May 28, 2012)
It was built as a display piece for a local museum, if my memory serves me correctly.
A Real Rube Goldberg kinda thing…(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Thanks Ken. That’s mighty impressive work, Rooster! You have a link handy?
John Caughey said:
That my friend is a Fordson tractor … but on the pole road she’s a mighty lumber hauling locomotive!
The logging book has several “pole road” photos, and something I had not seen - photos of the successor ‘technology’, square wooden beam railroads.
Yep, Plank roads followed, instead of replacing the whole log, they replaced planks on top as they wore.
This pic has the square look in the wheel treads;
Ah, John, that wasn’t what I was seeing. Now I’ll have to scan some more pics…
