Yeah I think RS 1.5 is a photoshop. On the wires above the nose are 2 dots, all other dots are connected to other wires…
But she’s cute!
JC
Ok I am not sure which one I like more so far John’s straight 6 conversion or J three boiler beast. Both are just simply awesome
ow what I find funny about that is that John was right about photoshop but not because of the two dots. I like the photoshop better.
OK so I just got a book on interlibrary loan called American Locomotives 1871-1881. Old book but excellent detailed drawings of locos. But i came across a drawing of this and just have to say “what the heck”
Built by Grant.
What 2 dots? Who said that? (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-embarassed.gif)
This one is whole…
Just two words: Beyer Garrett.
These ATSF Mallets with flexible boilers are pretty weird. The first batch had a bellows joint:
When the bellows failed, they replaced them with a ball joint:
That worked better but overall the experiment was a failure and the six flex-boiler locos were retired in the mid-1920s.
Photos and info curtesy of “loco locos” http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm
More from “Loco Locos”…
After Baldwin built the famous “Triplex” locomotive, they seriously considered something truly monstrous… this “Quadruplex” 2-8-8-8-8-2:
It would have required a flexible boiler, and was so long that they put the engineer’s cab at the front and a fireman’s cab at the rear of the boiler. The crew would have to communicate via voice tube.
The idea was scrapped when the Triplex turned out to be a failure.
Another one from “Loco locos”…
A type of Quadruplex was built in Belgium by Franco-Crosti in 1932:
Details on this loco can be seen here: http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/francocrosti/francocrosti.htm#b
A mirage…
Quad fun