Holy Moly I love John’s tow truck. That’s what my fantasy motive power looks like: old, hacked together, specialized to what my railroad needs.
I’m also inspired by Dennis Rayon’s backwoods porter [link] (where I learned to make real rusted corrugated roofing):
There was also that recent great topic started by Cliff with really unusual prototype photos [link] like this:
Cheers!
I’m feeling it
Alco’s that were either proposed or fiction
Jim Rowson said:
Holy Moly I love John’s tow truck. That’s what my fantasy motive power looks like: old, hacked together, specialized to what my railroad needs.
I’m also inspired by Dennis Rayon’s backwoods porter [link] (where I learned to make real rusted corrugated roofing):
There was also that recent great topic started by Cliff with really unusual prototype photos [link] like this:
Cheers!
Oh, those brings this website to mind, http://www.gearedsteam.com/ lots of interesting locos there.
" Rooster " said:
@ Forrest …thoughts …(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
That could well fit with the theme of Mark Dashnaw’s post “Alco’s that were either proposed or fiction”
“Rooster,”
Thanks a bunch! I sent you a post with a photo and some details of the proposed project. If it looks feasible, we can work something out! Now I REALLY need to get that mountain fixed!
Aloha,
Eric
Probably wouldn’t have large enough radius to run it on, but this is mine.
Chris Kieffer said:
Probably wouldn’t have large enough radius to run it on, but this is mine.
In early 1980s I worked with a fellow who grew up in Topeka when those 4-12-2 were in use. Jack said they shook the ground for quite a remarkable distance around when they came through.
Here is one I bashed into just a good looking western narrow guage locomotive. Two very different locos mashed into this.
Probably a cog or geared track RR for an incline. Look at the engines for Mount Washington, you can see that type in operation. I rode up the mountain in the early 60s.
The artist drew a fine tooth gear where a coarse one would work better.
John:
Does not appear to be a cog. Here’s the description from the site [link]:
Robb Engineering Company (builder & designer) - Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
Owner : Weymouth & New France Railway - New France, Nova Scotia, Canada
The boiler was tilted upward to help with water circulation and fire draught.
Two cylinders were mounted next to the boiler and at a similar upward tilted angle. They drove disk cranks which were attached to a shaft mounted below and perpendicular to the boiler. "This was spur geared, at a 4 to 1 ratio, with an intermediate shaft carrying chain-sprocket wheels, which drove the four carrying wheels by steel chains."
The four wheels were mounted on “sensitive springs”. They were concave or double flanged with treads for gripping the logs used for rail (“poles”). It could haul as many as 10 loaded cars. Note the size of the steam dome.
| boiler diameter: 3 feet 4 inches | boiler length: 10 feet 6 inches |
|---|---|
| boiler pressure: 125 psi | cylinders: 9 inch diameter & 10 inch stroke |
| wheels: 3 feet in diameter | weight: 11 tons |
| spur gear ratio: 4 to 1 |
Emile Stehelin (owner) - a French migrant lumberman who operated a 15 mile long “pole” railroad to haul logs out of his timberland.
Drat!
Jim Rowson said:
Forest provided the link to gearedsteam.com and this crazy engine caught my eye:
Brings to mind a Mark Twain quote, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.”
Playing in Google found this trucked locomotive from same railway company, http://yarmouthhistory.ca/yarmouthhistory/Albums/Pages/Remains_of_Nova_Scotias_New_France.html#2
The locomotive “Maria Theresa” was built in 1897 for the W&NFR by Robb Engineering & Co., Ltd., Amherst. President D. W. Robb is seated at the throttle; standing behind him are Emile Charles Stehelin and (perhaps) Emile Jean, his oldest son. Although the locomotive is on iron rails in the factory yard, it was designed to run on rails constructed from wood logs, 20–30 feet long, squared on three sides and laid with the rounded side up. (PH–56–19, YCMA)
Here is a worthwhile candidate. Might have to re-think some tunnels and bridges for weight and boiler overhang. That’s what stopped the Rio Grande from going ahead with the plan. In 1:20.3 this would be a great outside frame locomotive. It could replace 2 of the larger K class and save on your crew costs.
Kenneth Matzick said:
Here is a worthwhile candidate. Might have to re-think some tunnels and bridges for weight and boiler overhang. That’s what stopped the Rio Grande from going ahead with the plan. In 1:20.3 this would be a great outside frame locomotive. It could replace 2 of the larger K class and save on your crew costs.
Build it !
You have the plans …I dare you !
Much as I love imagination, I’m going to stick to reality, since my wish-list fantasy locos are actually achievable, given the wonders of 3D printing et al. My first choice would be my beloved SP&S E1 Northern, #700. I got a quote from a fine gentleman over here in yUK who advised me that if I obtained an Aster S12 he would convert if for me, including the radical tender rebuild necessary. All I had to do was to find the extra £3500 on top of the £6500 base price.
My second/third choice, that I actually gave a lot of consideration to doing, was either the GN Y-1 electric, or even the gigantic W-1. Common sense prevailed in the end, but then, this post isn’t about common sense, right?
Great “bashes”, John…
Before we moved into a senior retirement community, I really enjoyed building “bashes” like that as well…
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