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/slg/ steam loco general - Innovation edition Fri 22 Apr 2022 15:54:21 No.1791071 View View Reply Original Report

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Steam loco general /slg/
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>steam posting
>de facto autistics anonymous meetings
>arguing about things neither person understands
>narrow gauge is cozy

Previous thread >>1763742

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Anonymous Fri 22 Apr 2022 19:18:26 No.1791159 Report

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 12:43:57 No.1791569 Report

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what is /slg/'s opinion on Livio Dante Porta?

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 14:13:20 No.1791613 Report

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>>1791071
alright can someone spoonfeed me what the fuck am i looking at lol

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 15:37:10 No.1791638 Report

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>>1791071
wait is it a 2-4-4-2? are there hidden linkages for the two pairs of unconnected drivers, or are they on the other side?

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 15:38:42 No.1791639 Report

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>>1791159
>our boilers won't explode this time guys look how much we spent on tubes they're so nice they definitely won't explode at all

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 20:28:48 No.1791707 Report

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>>1791569
Good ideas, but unfortunately he was a man swimming against the current.
Maybe if oil becomes very scarce steam might have a renaissance. But it's also likely that in a peak oil scenario nuclear power + electrification will become more common.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 21:46:21 No.1791733 Report

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>>1791638
>>1791613
It's individually driven wheel sets. No idea if they are connected on the other side or even if there are other pairs of cylinders on the other side. Odd contraption for sure.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:51:57 No.1792167 Report

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Have some weird valve gear.
LMS Black 5 44767 with outside Stephenson Valve Gear. Built as part of Ivatt's experiments into improving the already great Black 5.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 19:55:56 No.1792169 Report

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The unique BR Standard 8P, the Duke of Gloucester. Currently one of two operational locomotives with Caprotti valve gear and the only 3 cylindered example.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 20:03:10 No.1792174 Report

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And the final one, Gresley conjugated valve gear.
Meant to be a convenient workaround to a 3 rd set of valve gear for the centre cylinder, it could create as many problems as it solved. In pic related it's the horizontal bar found in front of the cylinder valves between the pilot and smokebox

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Anonymous Mon 25 Apr 2022 07:42:27 No.1792430 Report

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what does /slg/ think of the SL7/Pashina class?

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Anonymous Mon 25 Apr 2022 10:45:25 No.1792516 Report

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>>1792430
it's not without its charm

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Anonymous Mon 25 Apr 2022 22:09:32 No.1792687 Report

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Anyone know anything about this site? http://www.multipowerinternational.com/standard.html

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2022 03:31:44 No.1794264 Report

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2022 04:03:05 No.1794269 Report

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2022 08:48:54 No.1795068 Report

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Aussie steam

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2022 08:54:57 No.1795071 Report

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2022 09:27:25 No.1795080 Report

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>>1795068
Garratts are wild

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2022 09:28:48 No.1795081 Report

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>>1795080

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2022 10:12:23 No.1795090 Report

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2022 10:18:50 No.1795093 Report

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>>1795080
They're a very simple, but logical concept.
Slap a thicc boiler between the two engines and adding fuel and water on the spare spaces on top of the engines.

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2022 13:27:24 No.1795147 Report

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>>1795093
No design is without drawbacks though.

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2022 21:31:02 No.1795273 Report

Quoted By: >>1795284

>>1795147
Agreed, but for most of the world Garratts were the most common articulated design.
Only issue with them is that they're tank engines. Steam locos need a tender for them to go appreciable distances. Getting coal from the tender would be an issue, though if they were oil fired it would be fine.

Must admit I do like Mallets but they're pretty impractical outside of North America

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2022 22:26:54 No.1795284 Report

Quoted By: >>1795626

>>1795273
>Agreed, but for most of the world Garratts were the most common articulated design.
Probably in part because they could be craned and shipped from Europe to colonial territories in sections of actionable weight.
>Steam locos need a tender for them to go appreciable distances.
Garratts also lose weight over the drive axles and therefore traction in the process of using up fuels.

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 04:34:13 No.1795377 Report

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>>1791733
That is the perfect machine for multi track drifting

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 18:40:04 No.1795626 Report

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>>1795284
Not just that, but you can get a big, fat parallel boiler with a huge firebox that's only restricted by the overall loading gauge. No need to worry about trying to fit wheels under it like a Mallet, Meyer, Fairlie, etc.
It's a big advantage to the design, as large grates and wide boilers are the best shapes to generate more power. Unless you have a loading gauge like the US or Russia, it's a struggle to try and fit everything in.

This is a SAR GL class Garratt, and has a 75sqft grate, which is fairly small for the US but absolutely enormous anywhere else. If US railroads took it up, there would have been monstrosities that make the Allegheny look puny

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 22:16:58 No.1795686 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1HyhTmwlHs

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Anonymous Thu 05 May 2022 06:56:55 No.1796596 Report

Quoted By: >>1797026

The Whyte notation is shit and I'm tired of pretending it isn't. It completely disregards what's mounted on a bogie and what isn't.

t. UIC Chad

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Anonymous Thu 05 May 2022 21:39:53 No.1796811 Report

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Anonymous Fri 06 May 2022 14:18:47 No.1797026 Report

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>>1796596
wym by mounted on a bogie

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Anonymous Fri 06 May 2022 16:22:47 No.1797039 Report

Quoted By: >>1797380 >>1797412

>>1797026
4-4-0

How do you know whether any part of it is on a bogie or whether it's completely rigid. Actually how do you know which part of it is driven in the first place? Why can't you just say 2B or 2'B so everyone knows what you mean?

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 10:59:51 No.1797380 Report

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>>1797039
when i hear "4-4-0" i think of 19th century american locomotives or edwardian era british locos, context makes it make more sense but i get your point

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 13:00:16 No.1797412 Report

Quoted By: >>1797429 >>1797472 >>1802051

>>1797039
Not to mention weird things like this...the best whyte could do would be "0-6(2)-0"? "0-4-0+2-2-0" would imply two engines, not a single engine with an undiven axle in the middle. Though the UIC "B2A" also implies the axles are driven separately...

Side note, when it comes to diesels, does anyone else prefer to keep the "o" suffix (ie Bo-Bo vs B-B for an EMD F unit) for diesel locos even though US tends to drop it? (Since it applies to pretty much all US locos anyway)

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 13:46:54 No.1797429 Report

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>>1797412
>does anyone else prefer to keep the "o" suffix (ie Bo-Bo vs B-B for an EMD F unit)
No. Makes me think of BoBo the clown.

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 16:20:25 No.1797472 Report

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>>1797412
>Though the UIC "B2A" also implies the axles are driven separately...
yeah the Belgian Type #3 fucks pretty much every wheel classification system over

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Anonymous Wed 11 May 2022 13:16:45 No.1798740 Report

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Anonymous Thu 12 May 2022 08:04:14 No.1799029 Report

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Got bullied for my love of choo choo by a friend of mine. Not sure if they were just doing some light teasing but my autistic ass got silently butthurt by them and I didn't want to have a spurgout over it

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Anonymous Thu 12 May 2022 10:11:44 No.1799039 Report

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>>1799029
You did the right thing by containing your power level though

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 12:43:40 No.1799470 Report

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She's coming along

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 12:46:36 No.1799472 Report

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>>1799470

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 12:54:24 No.1799480 Report

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>>1799472
I'll see what the Trust has to say in a few hours

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 15:08:23 No.1799530 Report

Quoted By: >>1799556

Bad news. The T1 will soley be an oil burner. Their reasoning was because the Big Boy shit-eaters were okay with that conversion. I guess this is the price of appeasing the Class 1's that will probably come up with new restrictions post-production.

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 15:39:36 No.1799542 Report

Quoted By: >>1799597

Their logic is certainly something else. The Trust wants to follow the business model like 611 does - going to different places like Steamtown etc for a year at a time instead of doing mainline excursions that dont make money. Keep in mind the 611 is a coal burner. But they also want to go to oil burning because the mainlines have nowhere to dump ash/wont let them dump ash. They also seem to think more and more steam locomotives will be converted to oil burning. Not sure why they think most steam owners have that kind of money. Also find it interesting they've had no communication with the Reading & Northern.

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 16:51:58 No.1799556 Report

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>>1799530
Honestly a big shame. One would think they'd at least try to make it a hybrid

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 18:38:21 No.1799588 Report

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>>1799556
It's like they're trying to go for Big Boy 2.0, but that doesn't fit the planned business model. They're going to great lengths to make the thing compatible for both Class 1s and shortlines with tighter curves and to keep such design modifications from being too noticeable. The only mainline excursions they're considering at the moment is doubleheading with the K4 out of Altoona which is coal burning herself. I get that they need to make this decision now before more work is done and being oil fired would allow the T1 to run under her own power to these places - but these people are betting on the idea the Class 1 won't just make up a new excuse to keep her towed on the mainline. The fact that they've had no communication with a railroad like the Reading and Northern - a relatively large steam friendly railroad - is concerning.

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 19:05:46 No.1799597 Report

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>>1799542
>the mainlines have nowhere to dump ash/wont let them dump ash
What do they mean by this? Surely there must be some way to dump ash?

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 19:44:03 No.1799619 Report

Quoted By: >>1799623

>>1799597
I think it's more like there is no way to do it that will appease the class 1s.

Btw, the 1361 restoration continues to look promising and confirmed they will be burning coal

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 20:20:07 No.1799623 Report

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>>1799619
>confirmed they will be burning coal
extremely based

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 21:06:46 No.1799647 Report

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>>1799623
The people who took over that museum board are old school and intend to run the 1361 across the Commonwealth shortlines. They know what they're doing and know the cancer that the Class 1s currently are. One used to be Norfolk Southern's CEO. They didn't say any place specific to avoid making premature promises but they sounded optimistic. Very likley Strasburg and Everret (thier owner is on the board) at least. There are a lot here afterall.

The T1 Trust seems to be going for more mass appeal. I think they saw thier donations stats trending towards younger people and figured that demographic wouldn't care or notice as much about oil vs coal. I was talking to thier founder (before finding out about the oil) and he seemed very excited about younger people funding the project

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 21:20:05 No.1799663 Report

Quoted By: >>1799672 >>1799692 >>1799774

Running oil makes everything so much easier. It's just not something you should give a shit about

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 21:28:15 No.1799672 Report

Quoted By: >>1799796

>>1799663
If you like easy to run, then get into diesels.

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Anonymous Fri 13 May 2022 21:54:42 No.1799692 Report

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>>1799663
West coast hands typed this post

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 02:32:59 No.1799774 Report

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>>1799663
Coal firing is absolutely part of the charm of steam locomotives especially here on the East Coast.

The bigger issue is thier conflicting reasoning. I suspect the real reason is likely that thier home they have for the locomotive (should be announced later this year) will be no where near the east coast. It also calls into question if they really intend to treat the T1 like the 611, going to smaller railroads for months or a year at a time, or really intend to run her on mainline excursions charging +$1000 starting price for tickets. At that point she's just a shorter, shittier 4014.

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 02:55:23 No.1799796 Report

Quoted By: >>1799813

>>1799672
>>1799692
Seethe all you want. You know I'm right.

>>1799774
Coal smells nice, but given the availability and comparative difficulty of coal firing it should be no wonder that they'd want to go with oil instead. You can get a fill-up anywhere, the fire is easier and faster to control, there's no ash, no shoveling, less of a mess in the flues, and no mechanical stoker is needed.

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 03:16:25 No.1799813 Report

Quoted By: >>1799834

>>1799796
Right about what? You think the crews that volunteer to operate these things care about what's easier to operate?

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 03:32:38 No.1799820 Report

Quoted By: >>1799903 >>1800059

They've actually updated thier website. At least I didn't see this a few days ago in the faq.
>The locomotive will be used as a test bed for alternative environmentally friendly fuels to allow operation of America’s steam locomotives into the foreseeable future. The locomotive would be a national touring education center when complete while testing coal alternative fuel sources such as torrefied biomass, natural gas, vegetable oil, recycled oils and propane. As well as fuel sources being tested, combustion and drafting would also be tested for increased combustion performance and reduction in carbon output. Results would be shared with operators around the country as well as plans for coal to other fuel conversions.
lmao

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 03:57:05 No.1799834 Report

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>>1799813
No but the people who manage them do

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 08:14:34 No.1799903 Report

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>>1799820
Why even build a steam locomotive at this point if this is how you feel about them?

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 08:54:50 No.1799913 Report

Quoted By: >>1799931

>>1799903
Why not? It's not a crazy idea to test if the fuel used makes it easier to run/more environmentally friendly.
Especially as governments worldwide are looking to reduce coal use, it's worthwhile to get some data on alternative fuels before jurisdictions outright ban coal or the supply dries up.

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 10:05:35 No.1799931 Report

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>>1799913
Foamer persecution complex. No person or politician fucking cares about a few dozen steam engines burning a few tons of coal on the weekends.

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 11:50:17 No.1799962 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1EWpCQP7eE&list=TLPQMTQwNTIwMjJLjgfeEtts5g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePpG4tVHSMQ&list=TLPQMTQwNTIwMjJLjgfeEtts5g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0izTlCTHJc&list=TLPQMTQwNTIwMjJLjgfeEtts5g

>>1799931
It's better to have a plan and not need it than being caught out.

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 12:11:03 No.1799964 Report

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>>1799931
These guys aren't foamers. At least one describes himself as a venture capitalist to put things into perspective. You know they probably got promised a deal by some company trying to promote some bullshit green idea that will never make it past the planning stages. Anyone who thinks this thing will ever burn anything other than bunker oil is delusional.

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 12:54:00 No.1799985 Report

Quoted By: >>1800064

>>1799962
>It's better to have a plan and not need it than being caught out.
Plan B is just burning regular oil if coal use becomes a problem. Way easier than all that dumb green shit

>>1799964
>These guys aren't foamers.
Oh I know. I mean actual foamers who think the government is coming for their excursion locomotives.

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 15:00:03 No.1800031 Report

Quoted By: >>1800100 >>1800329

Truly cursed

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 16:36:33 No.1800059 Report

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>>1799820
how do they expect to put biomass in an oil burner lmao
>>1799931
the problem is that coal mining is not economical if the heritage sector is the only consumer

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 16:57:19 No.1800064 Report

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>>1799985
Way easier yes, but you can't get those juicy "green" carbon credits with petroleum.

>>1800059
>how do they expect to put biomass in an oil burner lmao
You take out the burner and put in a normal grate

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 17:29:49 No.1800072 Report

Quoted By: >>1800208

>>1799931
In a logical world, yes; but climate activists don't operate on logic.

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 18:27:18 No.1800088 Report

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>>1800059
>>1800064
They don't ever intend to run it on green shit. This is just an appeal to the under 30 crowd. They'll claim it wasn't practical and just run it on bunker oil.

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 18:38:02 No.1800091 Report

Quoted By: >>1800828 >>1816766

Let's say in some alternate timeline Wilbert Awdry was born and raised in the US, but still had the same adoration for trains. If The Railway Series came to fruition using North American prototypes, which engines would be best suited for the engines?

>Thomas - Montreal Locomotive Works/Alco 0-6-0T
>Gordon - A Hudson (Either a NYC J1 or a CP Royal Hudson)
>Henry - Not really sure here, I wanna say a K4 but I feel like there's a better choice
>Edward - A 4-4-0 (One of the more "modern" looking ones like the NYC 999 rather than the stereotypical wild west ones)
>James - Definitely a Mogul.
>Percy - HK Porter 0-6-0 Dockside Saddle Tank

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 19:02:40 No.1800100 Report

Quoted By: >>1800329

>>1800031
Pennsy should have done a 4-10-4

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Anonymous Sat 14 May 2022 23:58:19 No.1800208 Report

Quoted By: >>1800725

>>1800059
>the problem is that coal mining is not economical if the heritage sector is the only consumer
The big mines for power plants will close down eventually (who knows when), but there are a ton of smaller open pit operations that will be around. I don't think it will be hard to source coal in the quantities heritage operators need.

>>1800072
Are the climate activists in the room with us now, anon?

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Anonymous Sun 15 May 2022 08:58:33 No.1800322 Report

Quoted By: >>1800725

>>1800059
>the problem is that coal mining is not economical if the heritage sector is the only consumer
Then don't make heritage the only consumer. That's just stupid.

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Anonymous Sun 15 May 2022 09:45:28 No.1800329 Report

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>>1800031
>4-8-4
>Not 4-4-4-4 Duplex
It's truly sensible

>>1800100
Nah, the Q2 as a 2-6-6-4 or S1 boiler on a Yellowstone frame would've been far better. The Q1 and Q2 were both dead-end developments.

*This post has been sanctioned*

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Anonymous Sun 15 May 2022 12:25:55 No.1800392 Report

Quoted By: >>1800784

what is the best wartime locomotive design /slg/?

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 06:43:03 No.1800725 Report

Quoted By: >>1800729 >>1800996

>>1800208
>I don't think it will be hard to source coal in the quantities heritage operators need
supply and demand anon
less coal mines, more expensive coal
>>1800322
What other customers do you propose?

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 06:56:11 No.1800729 Report

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>>1800725
Mines would theoretically shutter because of lack of demand. The biggest coal consumers are power plants. Even so, the US alone exports tremendous quantities of coal so at least some of the mines here will continue to operate for international trade. But you can mine coal with a small dragline and a crew of a few men economically right now.

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 10:52:34 No.1800784 Report

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>>1800392
for me it's

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:03:18 No.1800828 Report

Quoted By: >>1800843

>>1800091
Henry would be a Santa Fe heavy Pacific.

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 13:38:41 No.1800843 Report

Quoted By: >>1801089

>>1800828
Those drivers look awful

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Anonymous Mon 16 May 2022 22:44:17 No.1800996 Report

Quoted By: >>1801109

>>1800725
I think you overestimate how much coal the heritage railroads use and how easily they would be able obtain it even if coal consumption for electricity was outright banned. Hell there probably would be enough stockpiles left after such a ban to outlast the useful lives of most heritage locomotives still up and running. Ultimately it would still probably be cheaper and or practical than converting your +100 year old locomotive to burn bunker oil. Also if you're so concerned about green zealots banning your coal what makes you think burning bunker oil would be any better?

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Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 04:01:35 No.1801089 Report

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>>1800843
Made for the ATSF by LFM in Kansas. I'm a Scullin man meself.

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Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 04:02:36 No.1801090 Report

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Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 05:19:55 No.1801109 Report

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>>1800996
Welsh railways are already running out of coal
https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/coal-crisis-welsh-heritage-railways-23974166

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Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 10:35:07 No.1801166 Report

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>>1801090
Did the train stop in the middle of the road to unlaod the passengers?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 20:48:34 No.1801359 Report

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Anonymous Tue 17 May 2022 20:53:12 No.1801363 Report

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Green Steam engine.

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 01:17:25 No.1801462 Report

Quoted By: >>1801489 >>1801541

>New York Central got to have one of their engines in Thomas the Tank Engine but not the Pennsy
REEEEEEE

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 03:16:37 No.1801489 Report

Quoted By: >>1801523

>>1801462
Is that Gordon? Wtf?!

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 03:42:32 No.1801500 Report

Quoted By: >>1801596 >>1801642

We should be honest with ourselves, it's time to scrap 3801.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 05:01:20 No.1801523 Report

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>>1801489
Connor, an American engine in CGI Thomas the Tank Engine

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 06:03:02 No.1801541 Report

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>>1801462
I'm not even a Thomas fan and I know they've had a K4 character.

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 08:26:03 No.1801563 Report

Quoted By: >>1801566 >>1820244

>>1801541
One can be forgiven for forgetting Hank existed considering he was in Late HiT era which is often ignored by Thomas fans

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 08:30:29 No.1801566 Report

Quoted By: >>1801872

>>1801563
Why the fuck is this giving me uncanny valley?
Something is wrong with this but I don't know why and it scares me

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 10:41:44 No.1801596 Report

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>>1801500
why's that then

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 10:53:21 No.1801600 Report

Quoted By: >>1801607 >>1801751

Don't mess with the devils buddy, we're number one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 11:37:13 No.1801607 Report

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>>1801600
>Don't mess with the devils buddy, we're number one.
Check'd and kek'd. Very nice

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 13:39:55 No.1801640 Report

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>>1801166
No, I don't believe so. Just passing through from Central's station

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 13:40:57 No.1801642 Report

Quoted By: >>1801661

>>1801500
American's truly built the best locomotives.

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 14:34:23 No.1801661 Report

Quoted By: >>1802778

>>1801642
are you retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 16:40:14 No.1801693 Report

Quoted By: >>1801764

How much more power/speed could a steam engine with a firebox requiring a 2 axle truck be than a comparable locomotive with a firebox with a single axle? For example, a relatively similar 4-6-2 vs. a 4-6-4?

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 19:58:17 No.1801751 Report

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>>1801600
[spoiler:lit]railroad tycoon 3[/spoiler:lit]

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 20:46:14 No.1801764 Report

Quoted By: >>1801773

>>1801693
What do you mean by relativly similar? A locomotive requiring two axles for it's firebox means the firebox is heavier and will have more power than the one requiring a single axle. Especially when comparing locomotives of the same driver configuration like a 464 and a 462

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 21:05:29 No.1801773 Report

Quoted By: >>1801780

>>1801764
The trailing truck supports the firebox. More axles under it means it has a larger firebox.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 21:19:04 No.1801780 Report

Quoted By: >>1801781 >>1802095

>>1801773
Yes so something with two axles would be more powerful and/or faster as a general rule of thumb.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 21:28:19 No.1801781 Report

Quoted By: >>1801792

>>1801780
How much more

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 22:06:21 No.1801792 Report

Quoted By: >>1801797

>>1801781
That really depends on a lot of factors. Best bet would be to look into locomotives that were rebuilt with larger fireboxes that resulted in adding an extra axle to the trailing truck and compare the before and after performance. Personally I am not aware of any such rebuilds that didn't also include other upgrades, like the Reading 2-8-0s rebuilt into the 4-8-4 T1.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 22:57:15 No.1801797 Report

Quoted By: >>1801805 >>1802038 >>1802100 >>1802102

>>1801792
The next time you don't know anything just refrain from posting

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Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 23:37:54 No.1801805 Report

Quoted By: >>1801817

>>1801797
Okay in other words,you won't get an answer that has a specific value.

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 00:32:05 No.1801817 Report

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>>1801805
Fine with me

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 03:11:40 No.1801872 Report

Quoted By: >>1802189

>>1801566
Real model, CGI face

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 10:01:53 No.1801928 Report

Quoted By: >>1802227

>>1791071
>narrow gauge is cozy
"No!"

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 18:27:31 No.1802038 Report

Quoted By: >>1802071

>>1801797
Nah he's right about the multiple factors playing a role in performance.
If you had a "modern" steam locomotive, with a 2 axle trailing truck and all the best tech, then proceeded to give it a tiny blast pipe, you'd fuck up any chance it had of performing well. Several UK designs never reached their full potential due to this sort of thing, BR 71000 being a prime example, with the change between BR days and post-restoration being remarkable.

This is also reflected in the first generation of superpower locomotives. Several had issues with hammer blow created by small drivers, unbalanced forces and the higher speeds they could achieve.

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 19:04:36 No.1802051 Report

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>>1797412
Let's just take the L and call it the Type 3, same as every Belgian I carry the guilt of it having come to existance already.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 19:55:45 No.1802071 Report

Quoted By: >>1802088 >>1802101 >>1802102

>>1802038
>No answers but many words
Pottery

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 20:48:03 No.1802088 Report

Quoted By: >>1802092

>>1802071
Have you ever stopped to consider it's your retarded question that is the problem? You're demanding that people tell you how much more power/speed a 2 axle trailing truck locomotive has over a 1 axle trailing track locomotive without giving any kind of information about the fireboxes themselves. The only conceivable situation I can think of where the information you're seeking would be useful is if you had identical 1axle trailing truck locomotives and wanted to increase the power/speed output of one by enlarging the firebox until a 2nd axle on the trailing truck is required to support the weight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 21:07:53 No.1802092 Report

Quoted By: >>1802095 >>1802102

>>1802088
>Have you ever stopped to consider it's your retarded question that is the problem?
Stop being autistic ffs. I didn't ask for a comparison of hard data, just an off-the-cuff opinion. Didn't read the rest of your post

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 21:16:13 No.1802095 Report

Quoted By: >>1802096

>>1802092
>just an off-the-cuff opinion
so this >>1801780 ?
Really don't understand why you're being such an asshat over this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 21:23:38 No.1802096 Report

Quoted By: >>1802100 >>1802102

>>1802095
>Really don't understand why you're being such an asshat over this.
Mirror

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 21:40:29 No.1802100 Report

Quoted By: >>1802123

>>1802096
I don't think anyone one was being like that to you until you posted this shit >>1801797

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 21:43:08 No.1802101 Report

Quoted By: >>1802123

>>1802071
>Does a bigger firebox make more power
>Yes but you've got to get the other aspects right or you'll fuck it up

Is that better you cretin?

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 21:44:45 No.1802102 Report

Quoted By: >>1802123

>>1801797
>>1802071
>>1802092
>>1802096
>literal autist
Surely not in a train thread?

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 22:23:38 No.1802117 Report

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 22:39:52 No.1802123 Report

Quoted By: >>1802171

>>1802100
>>1802101
>>1802102
Good god you are mad

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 May 2022 01:09:00 No.1802171 Report

Quoted By: >>1802176 >>1802258

>>1802123
It's someone else commentating on your insufferability, fag.

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Anonymous Fri 20 May 2022 01:23:28 No.1802176 Report

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>>1802171
Seething

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Anonymous Fri 20 May 2022 02:13:28 No.1802189 Report

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>>1801872
Thank you, I knew something was off but I hadn't watch thomas since I was 10 so couldn't tell right away

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Anonymous Fri 20 May 2022 05:54:13 No.1802227 Report

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>>1801928
"Yes!"

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Anonymous Fri 20 May 2022 07:16:00 No.1802233 Report

Quoted By: >>1802235

>>1802227
Broad gauge only.

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Anonymous Fri 20 May 2022 07:26:48 No.1802235 Report

Quoted By: >>1802237

>>1802233
>tfw never got to witness victorian railways in the 50s/60s
why live

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Anonymous Fri 20 May 2022 07:37:24 No.1802237 Report

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>>1802235
On the subject of VR, does anyone know if the 2nd volume of Steam locomotives of the Victorian Railways was ever published? Or did the authors die or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 May 2022 09:38:57 No.1802258 Report

Quoted By:

>>1802171
Doubt it

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Anonymous Sat 21 May 2022 15:49:23 No.1802716 Report

Quoted By:

The T-1 with soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpiHrGD_6o

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 May 2022 18:49:28 No.1802778 Report

Quoted By: >>1802932

>>1801661
Seethe, faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 07:31:33 No.1802932 Report

Quoted By: >>1803023

>>1802778
it's an australian loco. i'm not the seething faggot here you retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 14:25:17 No.1803023 Report

Quoted By: >>1803095

>>1802932
shut up u filthy bogan. go roast ur dick on the barbie faggit

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Anonymous Sun 22 May 2022 19:48:57 No.1803095 Report

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>>1803023
kek

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Anonymous Mon 23 May 2022 07:12:05 No.1803264 Report

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forgot to post terriers

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Anonymous Mon 23 May 2022 08:30:47 No.1803278 Report

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Essex steam train & riverboat, a winning combo

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Anonymous Mon 23 May 2022 17:44:19 No.1803412 Report

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Salem, MA

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Anonymous Tue 24 May 2022 01:16:30 No.1803496 Report

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Anonymous Tue 24 May 2022 22:28:32 No.1803795 Report

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Anonymous Wed 25 May 2022 14:24:35 No.1803977 Report

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benis

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 09:25:49 No.1804345 Report

Quoted By: >>1804348

AB 788, Kingston Flyer New Zealand. Childhood train

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 09:27:21 No.1804348 Report

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>>1804345

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 09:28:25 No.1804351 Report

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>>1804348

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 09:30:00 No.1804353 Report

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>>1804351

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 09:34:35 No.1804356 Report

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KA 942

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 09:37:37 No.1804357 Report

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Ja 1271

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 09:39:01 No.1804360 Report

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Ja1250 & Ja1240

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 09:40:20 No.1804361 Report

Quoted By: >>1804443

Here's Pixie, a Bagnall 0-4-0 which ran on Teddy Boston's 97 yard long narrow gauge railway he built in his garden, the Cadeby Light Railway. It spent 42 years going backwards and forwards on the line, I rode on it many times before it closed in 2005.

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 13:25:24 No.1804410 Report

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>>1804356
Kiwi 4-8-4?

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 14:00:11 No.1804419 Report

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have a Rio Grande challenger

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 14:16:36 No.1804420 Report

Quoted By: >>1804520

I'm trying to remember the name of a defunct railroad in the PNW or Northern California, started with "Ray," I believe it was a logging or industrial railroad. Anyone know of it? Wikipedia didn't have it listed among defunct railroads up there.

Anyway, have a pic of a Shay fording a river

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 15:52:30 No.1804443 Report

Quoted By:

>>1804361

I was there for the Final Fling, maybe on the day that photo was taken.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 20:14:37 No.1804520 Report

Quoted By: >>1804521

>>1804420
https://railfandepot.com/product/rayonier-the-last-steam-logger/

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 20:17:16 No.1804521 Report

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>>1804520
Thanks anon

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2022 20:49:53 No.1804527 Report

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Anonymous Sat 28 May 2022 02:48:53 No.1805016 Report

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>>1791071
>narrow gauge is cozy
Come and see the Puffing Billy Railway, don't get raped.

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2022 00:04:18 No.1806160 Report

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The Awesome A

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Anonymous Thu 02 Jun 2022 09:17:52 No.1806833 Report

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Anonymous Thu 02 Jun 2022 15:10:24 No.1806922 Report

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>>1806833
stanier's finest imo

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jun 2022 08:55:56 No.1807168 Report

Quoted By: >>1807178 >>1807197 >>1807326

>>1791071
Model of an Austrian Federal Railway (ÖBB) 80 series locomotive with a heat exchanger. I can find photos of real conventional 80 series locos but I can't find any with the heat exchanger installed.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jun 2022 09:39:26 No.1807178 Report

Quoted By: >>1807179

>>1807168
Never mind, I just found two poor quality photos of the real thing.

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jun 2022 09:40:28 No.1807179 Report

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>>1807178

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Jun 2022 11:47:35 No.1807197 Report

Quoted By: >>1807199 >>1807326

>>1807168
Exchange heat between what things?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Jun 2022 11:53:30 No.1807199 Report

Quoted By: >>1807326

>>1807197
The steam exhaust and the outside air in order to recover the water, usually.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Jun 2022 19:41:35 No.1807326 Report

Quoted By:

>>1807168
>>1807199
I am not entirely convinced this is a heat ex-changer. I initially thought it was a condenser with an air intake which is also >>1807197s idea but an excerpt from a German Wikipedia article on it translates to: "A flue gas preheater was tested on the 80.4911, whose angular and voluminous appearance earned the machine nicknames such as 'loudspeaker' or 'farmer's terror.'" This indicates it is an early feedwater heater but I don't understand why a preheater would have a cold air intake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Jun 2022 23:47:36 No.1807395 Report

Quoted By: >>1807409 >>1807413

The Heat Exchanger was not intended to recover steam or preheat Feedwater, It was actually installed to preheat combustion air, hence the large ducts leading to the bottom of the Firebox.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jun 2022 00:51:10 No.1807409 Report

Quoted By:

>>1807395
Thankyou. Your explanation fits the appearance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jun 2022 01:03:42 No.1807413 Report

Quoted By: >>1807414

>>1807395
I'm no thermodynamicist, but that looks like it would only preheat max 15C

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jun 2022 01:08:30 No.1807414 Report

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>>1807413
I guess that's why you don't see them on every locomotive.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Jun 2022 03:42:07 No.1807446 Report

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No problem, there is more information on the Douglas self site, along with a Shit load of other experimental loco designs that all of you can sperg out over.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jun 2022 04:12:37 No.1807450 Report

Quoted By: >>1810820

i hate freight locos

where my crack engines at i need me some 4 wheel drivers

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jun 2022 19:59:58 No.1809798 Report

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Mountain railroading is the best

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jun 2022 03:53:20 No.1809965 Report

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in 1902, these chonky tanks are built by Esslingen for a rack railway built as a shortcut to a Dutch fort in Ambarawa. Now 3 engines survive 2 of them still run up and down carrying tourists

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 08:40:20 No.1810820 Report

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>>1807450

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 13:01:45 No.1810906 Report

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>>1809798
I’ve been to the Hot Sulphur Springs spa and sat broiling in pools of mineral water a stone’s throw away from the old Moffat Road mainline. Lots of coal traffic which I’ve heard is way down lately.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2022 15:02:03 No.1810956 Report

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>>1791071
how do you, fellow steam locomotives

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jun 2022 07:38:49 No.1811791 Report

Quoted By: >>1811802

>>1791071
Quick! Someone get me PRR Streamliner WEBMs and pngs, I need them for summer course history project. I did a report on American railroading but I realized my pics of the PRR Streamliners are jpeged to hell and back after looking at them from my friend's 4K monitor and will quite literally bring my grade down because it'd be worse on the projector

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Anonymous Tue 14 Jun 2022 09:16:00 No.1811802 Report

Quoted By: >>1811915

>>1811791
no

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Anonymous Tue 14 Jun 2022 17:42:13 No.1811915 Report

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>>1811802
fuck

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Anonymous Thu 16 Jun 2022 01:17:31 No.1812476 Report

Quoted By: >>1812483 >>1812504

Man I love the New Haven's I-5...

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Anonymous Thu 16 Jun 2022 01:30:01 No.1812483 Report

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>>1812476
Based. Too bad none got preserved.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Jun 2022 02:26:56 No.1812504 Report

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>>1812476
S C U L L I N

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Anonymous Fri 24 Jun 2022 00:22:01 No.1816409 Report

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Choo choo

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Anonymous Fri 24 Jun 2022 21:22:22 No.1816766 Report

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>>1800091
Toby would 100% be one of these weird ass covered Shays the NYC kept for street(tram) running

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Anonymous Sat 25 Jun 2022 04:21:55 No.1816866 Report

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>>1816766
The 0-6-0Ts they had are a dead ringer for Toby

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2022 13:00:19 No.1820240 Report

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>>1792430
It looks like it's covered in foil and then thickly painted.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2022 13:05:17 No.1820244 Report

Quoted By: >>1820708

>>1801563
Fun fact: Nigel Gresley modelled his A1s after these engines.

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Anonymous Sun 03 Jul 2022 10:38:32 No.1820708 Report

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>>1820244
we wuz brits and shit

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Anonymous Sun 03 Jul 2022 12:34:48 No.1820757 Report

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I've only watched maybe a dozen vids of people playing a territory with North American rolling stock and none of them know how to read the air brake gauges or know how to use the independent brakes correctly

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Anonymous Thu 07 Jul 2022 21:45:00 No.1822668 Report

Quoted By: >>1824426

>a bagasse powered Garrett
Thoughts?
https://youtu.be/zcjcJnIyuIE

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Anonymous Sat 09 Jul 2022 13:35:44 No.1823333 Report

Quoted By: >>1823782

>>1820708
>Gresley's initial Pacific project of 1915 was for an elongated version of the Ivatt Atlantic design with four cylinders. Finally realising that he was in a design impasse, he took as a model the new American Pennsylvania Railroad class K4 Pacific of 1914. This in turn had been updated from a series of prototypes scientifically developed in 1910 under Francis J. Cole, Alco's Chief Consulting Engineer at Schenectady and the Pennsylvania's K29 Alco prototype of 1911, also designed by Cole. Descriptions of those locomotives appeared in the British technical press at the time and gave Gresley the elements necessary to design a thoroughly up-to-date locomotive.

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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2022 13:04:54 No.1823782 Report

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i know it's true i'm just fuckin with ya

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Anonymous Mon 11 Jul 2022 21:32:48 No.1824426 Report

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>>1822668
Pretty neat.
It makes sense, but until one makes the plunge and finds that it works better than diesel, nobody's going to go for it

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Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 21:19:56 No.1824933 Report

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Steam Trains are cool.

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Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2022 02:41:12 No.1825045 Report

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Imagine the smell

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