Happy Rails???
Dave
Um, whats the big deal here? the shay geared type trucks on a diesel?
YES!
loggin railroads had to adapt, looks cool actually
made me look twice…didn’t see in the first pic, but the 2nd caught my eye!
Actually that is pretty neat. I bet that thing could really rip up the rails with its tractive effort. I wonder if this was a one off ? NOPE just looked again and the 2 have different road names.
Add this to the list of “there is a prototype for everything”.
Dammit! Now I have to get another Bachmann Center cab and a shay to make one of those.
John
I want to see the leftovers made into a shay cab on the center cab running gear.
Tom
Well, actually I really don’t hate it per say, just that I’m not a fan of diesel in general.
It would be a pretty cool conversion for a B-mann 45 tonner.
John,
I’ve got a 45 tonner NIB, that I’d part with…
Dave
For the cost of a pair of replacement Shay power trucks it would make a cool scratch build.
Sorry guys…theres a Shay Frame under there too…offset an all…and yes its a one off built for Candian Forest Products by Tyee Machinery of Vancouver BC…Sigh guess I need another set of Shay Trucks…
I’m neither particularly a Shay nor a diesel fan, but I like it! That’s some pretty cool adaptive thinking there. I saw a photo of a converted Shay where the boiler, cab, and bunker were all kept in place, but where the cylinders should be was the engine and tranny out of a Chevy or somesuch. Alas, Google failed me when trying to find a photo online.
Someone might tell Matthew(OV) about this. He’s got that CMP 44-tonner for sale. Maybe he could work something with that…
Later,
K
Tom Stephens said:
John
I want to see the leftovers made into a shay cab on the center cab running gear.
Tom
That’s the easy part, Tom. Getting the scratch to buy (or trade) the two lokies is the hard part.
Wow, I’ve seen a lot of weird converted steam locos but I don’t recall ever seeing that before.
Here’s an 0-4-0 that was converted to diesel:
More info, and another pic of it, here:
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industrial/ont/century_coal.htm
OK back to CFP 98…the prime mover definately has to be under the front hood…prolly why all the doors are open in the color photo…and if you look carelfully the front hood is rounded similar to a 44 tonners…the rear hood however looks as if the rear third or so of it…adjacent to the sander is a flat topped tank…wonder if thats for fuel or just ballast? Oh , I found the bell too…
That is one FUNKY loco Ray. A camel back diesel saddle tank pusher? Is that a coupler on the front or is it something else used to push? It looks like a buffer in a pocket.
Kevin Strong said:
I’m neither particularly a Shay nor a diesel fan, but I like it! That’s some pretty cool adaptive thinking there. I saw a photo of a converted Shay where the boiler, cab, and bunker were all kept in place, but where the cylinders should be was the engine and tranny out of a Chevy or somesuch. Alas, Google failed me when trying to find a photo online.
Someone might tell Matthew(OV) about this. He’s got that CMP 44-tonner for sale. Maybe he could work something with that…
Later,
K
THAT could be arranged …! (Bring your own Shay.)
John B, check your PM.
I was thinking about ideas for a logging engine, wanted diesel, revisited this thread and thought what about this idea
(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10151933_1478961095665596_2045199964_n.jpg)
It would be a 1 truck shay with a pilot, basing the drawing together now to see what it might look like, will post progress later