Anyone have a 45 tonner they dont know what to do with?
Interesting. Any idea who it belongs to and what it is used for. I am guessing MOW since it is grey.
Wonder what the need for the extended roof is.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Boomer;
Just a guess, but if it did primarily switching, perhaps the extended roof provided shelter for brakemen/switchmen in bad weather?
Regards, David Meashey
P.S. Just noticed the wooden steps, so perhaps it is/was a museum display.
Roof like that usually found on locos in a hazardous area like a mine/quarry
Its sort of a cross between a switcher and a transfer caboose.
Bob;
There used to be a transfer caboose in Roanoke, VA that surely would have made the “ain’t prototypical” category. It had a regular caboose chassis. The shelter was the short hood from a Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster with the attaching side open to the elements. Inside was a very large pot-bellied stove. Two white-painted Wonder Horses were bolted to the roof.
My luck being as it were, I never had a camera handy whenever I saw the thing. Today’s cell phones would have solved that problem!
Regards, David Meashey
Dan, I was wondering about the roof’s purpose. Can’t have been for shade, no point. Your answer makes perfect sense. I don’t see it working inside a mine, due to fumes. But anywhere there’s falling rock, like in a strip mine or quarry, you bet. Also perhaps in logging or smelting operations, where big things are swinging overhead.
Nice porch, bet it rains a lot there.
A pair of NW2’s working Vulcan quarry in Manassas, VA. Notice the cute little “car ports” over the exhaust stacks!
