L&N's Big Emmas
rfpjohn L&N's Big Emmas
Correct! L&N's 1991 was originally scheduled to be the "last", but NKP 779 couldn't be completed due to a missing side rod, to replace which Lima had to call back recently laid off workers.
Well, since Berkshires are in the forefront, as best as I can determine, these Berkshires were the last North American examples to see revenue service, though far removed from their original home. Name the original owner, final owner and what else was unique about these engines.
Norfolk Southern's Berkshires - the little bitty ones, kinda like the MEC class D's were to Hudsons.
Wound up on N de M and worked until the late '60s.
Exactly right! Classy little hogs, in my opinion! Yer next!
We all know the locomotive builder that manufactured automobiles. What was the distinctive emblem used for automobiles built by a major railroad-car builder?
As far as I know it never built complete automobiles, but the Budd Company's streamlined logo was on lots of carbodies built for automakers, including Dodge, Chrysler, Nash and the famous "longer, lower, wider" Hudson. Budd may not have invented unibody construction, but did a great deal to perfect it.
There was a Pullman automobile made in York PA, but not by the "real" Pullman Co. Osgood-Bradley of Worcester MA, also built carbodies but not complete vehicles.
This company built complete automobiles with the distinctive name and emblem.
Standard Steel of Pittsburgh, Pa. The emblem, and this a guess, a keystone.
This is what I found with a copy of an advertisement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Steel_Car_Company
You are correct on both counts.
The keystone is in an 'appropriate' red enamel. There is a good clear picture on the Web, and here it is:
In the mid-1950s a professor at the University of Utah and his students in a Technology course had a great idea.
Regular locomotives had to make frequent stops to take on coal or oil. How much better would be a locomotive that could travel around the world twice without refueling? This thinking resulted in the xxx, a locomotive developed by the professor and his students—in collaboration with the Association of American Railroads and several industries, including GM, Commonwealth Edison, Trane, GE and Westinghouse.
What idea were they promoting? They have several patents for the idea.
Borst's atomic locomotive - perhaps the best-documented of the locomotive proposals, but dependent on weapons-grade U-235 to run. Se 'To Peoria by Atom' for more details.
The proposal with the large nuclear-electric battery was in my opinion a much better solution, despite its use of plutonium.
Wizlish Borst's atomic locomotive - perhaps the best-documented of the locomotive proposals, but dependent on weapons-grade U-235 to run. Se 'To Peoria by Atom' for more details. The proposal with the large nuclear-electric battery was in my opinion a much better solution, despite its use of plutonium.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-days-of-atomic-locomotives-in-america-1564623650
Wizlish your question again.
narig01It was the first idea that came to mind this morning. I kind of had to wonder about how practical it would have been.
“An atom-powered, steam turbine machine ... capable of crossing this country in thirty-six hours."
Turned out not even to be practical money-making science fiction...
BUT right about this time there was a practical use of atomic power for American railroad operations. What was it? (And what isotope did it involve?)
No one answered this yet?
Or are people having the problems I had with the site last week not letting me in.
Well I for one am sure curious about that answer.
To jump in here with a hint while 'wizlish' can't log in: it does not involve something that moves very far.
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narig01 It was the first idea that came to mind this morning. I kind of had to wonder about how practical it would have been.
An atomic-powered switchstand lamp?
Johnny
DeggestyAn atomic-powered switchstand lamp?
That's what I think, too - krypton-85 being the original, and something involving tritium (which later became 'mainstream' for plenty of things like watches and gunsights) discussed as a follow-on experiment. We had a discussion about this somewhere, not too long ago it seems.
UPDATE - he says Johnny's answer is right, but he can't get logged in yet to say it himself. So Degges, you're up.
RME Deggesty An atomic-powered switchstand lamp? That's what I think, too - krypton-85 being the original, and something involving tritium (which later became 'mainstream' for plenty of things like watches and gunsights) discussed as a follow-on experiment. We had a discussion about this somewhere, not too long ago it seems. UPDATE - he says Johnny's answer is right, but he can't get logged in yet to say it himself. So Degges, you're up.
Deggesty An atomic-powered switchstand lamp?
In 1945, the Southern Railway System comprised five railway/railroads. Name them, stating which are railways and which are railroads. Also, name five shortlines that shared the top officials of the Southern Railway System (some were railways and some were railroads).
I have long been amused that when two adjacent towns on one of the shortlines merged the name adopted for the new town was a combination of the two names--and was later changed to "Eden." No credit--but what was the first name of the consolidation?
DeggestyIn 1945, the Southern Railway System comprised five railway/railroads. Name them, stating which are railways and which are railroads.
Southern Railway
Cincinatti, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
DeggestyAlso, name five shortlines that shared the top officials of the Southern Railway System (some were railways and some were railroads).
Louisiana Southern Railway
Live Oak, Perry and Gulf Railroad
South Georgia Railway
Atlantic and East Carolina Railway
Carolina and Northwestern Railway
The only Eden I found in the Official Guides I have is Eden Alabama, on the Southern Ry. between Birmingham and Atlanta. It seems to be part of Pell City AL, having meged with Pell City and nearby Oak Ridge in 1956. Doesn't sound like the one you were looking for.
Eden NC, on the CR&N (Carolina and Northwestern) was formed by the consolidation of Leaksville, Spray and Draper. Is "Leaksville" the interim name?
Rob, you have the correct makeup of the Southern Railway System at the time. However, you named only one of the roads that was associated with tthe Southern at that time.
Leaksville was a part of the interim name, which was two-part, but it was not on the Carolina and Northwestern at that time.
Leaksville must have been on the Yadkin Railroad, which didn't become part of the Car&NW until 1951. I also give back the A&EC, which was also an early 1950s item.
I can add in the Belt Railway of Chattanooga, an AGS property. The Atlantic and Danville was also leased and operated by Southern in 1945.
I was working out of a 1960 OG and missed a fair number of ownership changes on the short lines.
No--not on the Yadkin
Not sure what the name was in 1945 - the line was built as the Danville and New River and seems to have become the Danville and Western.
The interim name for Eden seems to have been Leaksville Spray.
Yes, it was Leaksville-Spray. It leaked and then sprayed?
You now have three of the shortlines.
Deggesty Yes, it was Leaksville-Spray. It leaked and then sprayed? You now have three of the shortlines.
I am leaving on #6 Tuesday morning, and will not be able to respond until I am in Chicago Wednesday.
Tallulah Falls Railway
Carolina and Tennesee Southern Railway
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