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  • Registered Users Posts: 24,462 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    how about that, Americans over-building stuff :eek::eek::D

    here is a seriously cool looking piece of kit:
    1000px-Blue_tiger10.11.97.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    how about that, Americans over-building stuff :eek::eek::D
    Overbuilding...? Frankly, that 2-6-6-6 articulated job was designed to pull very heavy coal trains (close to 77,000 tonnes) over a specific bit of mountain railway in West Virginia. Even with all its power, those trains often required two Allegheny-types.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,462 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    CIE wrote: »
    Overbuilding...? Frankly, that 2-6-6-6 articulated job was designed to pull very heavy coal trains (close to 77,000 tonnes) over a specific bit of mountain railway in West Virginia. Even with all its power, those trains often required two Allegheny-types.

    the Swiss would just blow holes in the mountain :pac:

    like this one here
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6tschberg_Base_Tunnel

    The wiki entry doesn't even make it sound particularly competent...

    Another piece of kit I've an affinity for, the Bo Bo Bo E656 of Italian rail, articulated and all
    800px-Locomotiva_E656-569.jpg

    or how about this Russian Monster Co-Co Co-Co :eek:
    4,500 kilowats
    800px-Diesel_locomotive_2TE116-1737.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    That'd be 6,035 horsepower. Looks like they have the articulated-loco concept that was featured on General Motors' FT from 1939 (which was single-cab Bo-Bo+Bo-Bo with 2,000 kW total); this demonstrator has two articulated units.
    EMD_FT_demonstrator.jpg

    The successor to the 2TE116, the 2TE25A, has 6,705 horses (5,000 kW).


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,462 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    a 201 with her top off :pac:

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    IINM, this is the longest diesel-electric built...the General Motors DDA40X, for the Union Pacific. Do-Do wheel arrangement, two 16-645E3A engines, a whopping 30 metres long, fuel capacity of 31,154 litres, and rated at 6,600 horses (4,922 kW); could even hit a top speed of 90 mph.
    EMD_DDA40X_UP_6936.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    A few nice pictures of trains:)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    I see someone likes the Pennsylvania Railroad's T-1 streamliner (4-4-4-4 "Duplex" non-articulated); had a reputation for being rather slippery on the rails when starting, but once it got going it pulled a 16-car passenger train at 100 mph.

    The South Australian Railways' 520 class (4-8-4) had exterior styling that resembled the T-1. These ran on 5' 3"-gauge railways, for the record, and have an axle load of 35,400 lbs, which makes them lighter on their wheels than even the 071 class; some Irish railways they might be able to run on no problem, i.e. those with no loading gauge issues in terms of vertical and horizontal clearance, and track that's relatively straight and can handle an eight-coupled drivetrain.
    sar523.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    look at the jugs on that!

    Why are the very latest generation of locos so plug-ug,y?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Some more heavy metal for you. 7350 hp/ 5406 kW

    reklame%20El.%2015.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭An Bradán Feasa


    CIE wrote: »
    IINM, this is the longest diesel-electric built...the General Motors DDA40X, for the Union Pacific. Do-Do wheel arrangement, two 16-645E3A engines, a whopping 30 metres long, fuel capacity of 31,154 litres, and rated at 6,600 horses (4,922 kW); could even hit a top speed of 90 mph.
    EMD_DDA40X_UP_6936.jpg

    Great Scott!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    The German's had some interesting things too

    05-003.jpg
    Streamlined 3-cylinder 4-6-4 originally built with a cab-forward configuration. (1934)

    T18-1001.jpg
    Steam turbine powered 4-6-2
    Turbines proved to be too expensive to maintain (1923)

    19-1001.jpg
    An unusual streamlined 2-8-2 with 2 inclined cylinders per powered axle - 8 cylinders in total (1941)

    All taken from
    http://www.worldrailfans.info/Articles/Europe/GSteamExperimental.shtml


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Can't resist adding this to this gallery of appalling looking locos. :D

    356-2a.jpg
    An early CIE experiment on turf burning.

    http://aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/francocrosti/francocrosti.htm#turf


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,573 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Closer to home,this has always been my favourite Steam loco.:)

    15617.jpg

    And not to leave the Diesels out,the classic 121's.

    6824.1141934400.jpg


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Was there ever a more stylish diesel produced?

    VT11_TEE26_K%F6ln%20Hbf_15-05-66.jpg.jpg

    DB_Museum_Nuernberg_Trans_Europe_Express.JPG


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    another big train

    bnsf_rochester_9423.jpg

    and one i put in to show what we could have if it were not for those lovely new DMU railcars:D

    3.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,015 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    Here are some smaller (though no less impressive IMO) Harz Mountain Narrow Gauge (1m) loks.

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    Train from Wernigerode to the summit of the Brocken arriving at Wernigerode West station. Your's truly in shot.

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    Lok stops half way up the ascent to take on water and allow descending train to pass. Chance to stretch the legs. Snow getting progressively deeper as we climb. At the top it will be 6 foot deep in places.

    The Harz railways are run as a business-and a freight carrying business at that! The trains that connect the various towns in the region are used by locals all year, with steam traction on much of the network. The "special" trains like the one pictured include those trains that run to the summit of the Brocken, East Germany's highest peak and for many years during the cold war a total no go zone as it was used by the soviets to eavesdrop on western military communications.

    It's well worth a trip for anyone interested in trains.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    The Harz railways are run as a business-and a freight carrying business at that!

    I was surprised in the 1980s to see steam still used to a significant extent in the DDR and Poland. I didn't take many pics though, as this was somewhat verboten in those days.

    Snow and trains always looks nice
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B89N78zeKAs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGYJRsiuHEM


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,309 ✭✭✭dowlingm




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    dowlingm wrote: »
    The UAC Turbotrain, oh yes. Those once ran those between New York and Boston, too (by the New Haven, then Penn Central and Amtrak after that), there being a "dual-mode" version that could operate on third rail and so into Grand Central and Penn Station in New York City. Apparently they got up to 274 km/h (170 mph) during tests, but on the "high iron" they were never run faster than 100 mph.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    Hmm; this thread's gone back to sleep. Might as well wake it up with some 186-mph ICE running.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Sounds like the cameraman had a little accident:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,398 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    I know nothing about trains, but I'm adding this:

    7214.jpg

    And if satan had a train, it would be this:

    uprr4012.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    Uh-oh, someone posted a pic of a Big Boy (Union Pacific's 4000-class); 4-8-8-4 articulated simple-expansion engine, with a firebox big enough to park a Cortina in (literally!) ;) and two chimneys. These types of freight-specific heavy engine were the last hurrah for steam before diesels took over; some of the trains they had to handle during the war actually required two Big Boys, if you can imagine that. They had to refuel after going 30 miles up Sherman Hill in Wyoming (steepest grade of 1 in 64.5); they'd burn a short ton (0.893 ton, 0.907 tonne) of coal per mile.

    About the closest operational steam engine to a Big Boy is Union Pacific's #3985, a Challenger type (4-6-6-4) and the predecessor to the Big Boy (which was basically a stretched Challenger). This engine was resurrected in 1981, and converted to oil-burning in 1990 (as they claim, to prevent fires along the tracksides). It's currently the largest operational steam engine on the planet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


    This from the BBC Top Gear series some time back :rolleyes::D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭dermo88


    steamengine

    What a wonderfully crazy and entertaining idea. Top Gear could have just revived Waterford to Rosslare and restored service to several other routes with their Pavee Point express.

    Its dreadfully unsafe, but it looks like fun!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    Part 1 of that show demonstrates the importance of adhesive weight (starting at 05:47). The lack of same was the detriment of the Crampton-type steam engines. (They could have put a better suspension on the carriages as well.)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


    dermo88 wrote: »
    steamengine

    What a wonderfully crazy and entertaining idea. Top Gear could have just revived Waterford to Rosslare and restored service to several other routes with their Pavee Point express.

    Its dreadfully unsafe, but it looks like fun!!!!


    Couldn't believe it when I saw it on Top Gear some months back, there's nothing that bunch of crazies won't get up to - hilarious indeed. :D


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