Engine is a ???

[bryanfarris]

My wife's grandfather used engines like this in the Chicago Stock Yards. The original picture is not as good as this computer image. It is hard to tell what this engine is. Thought I would let you all suggest some types.


http://www.ncwcom.com/~bryanfarris/pictures/Emil'strain.jpg

ok, what did I do wrong? picture not showing up here ....
but the link does work, weird ...

[Ray Dunakin]

Hmm... looks like a single-axle pilot, and possibly four drive axles. Can't tell for sure but it doesn't look like there are any trailing wheels. So my guess is, it's a 2-8-0.

[cacole]

It appears to me to be a 2-6-0 Mogul with large drivers for passenger train use. If it was used for switching duties around the stockyards, it most likely would not have had such large drivers.

[Anonymous]

It looks like a 2-6-0 or 2-6-2 to me.

[vsmith]

2-6-0, cabs too far forward to be a 2-6-2, high steeper too, shes got huge drivers.

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Cacole,
If your primary business was as a feedlot operator, or auction house owner; would you care if a locomotive was built for passenger service as long as the price was right and it would do the job you wanted done?

I don't imagine those folks ever ordered any brand spanking new engines! The economics of that business would seem to dictate that they would buy some clapped out cast off from some railroad that they could get at a good cheep (that's cheaper than cheap) price.

[Anonymous]

Hey Bob i only came into this so that i could contradict you but i don't know enough about the subject to even do that.

good luck mate.

ian

[Tom The Brat]

hehe[:-,]

[Capt Bob Johnson]

S'alright there Ian, Yer heart's in the right place!

Gotta be able to take it if you're gonna dish it!, right???

I got a chuckle outta it anyhoo!

[ragnar]

Heh' read a piece long ago about tthe GN. at the end of the steam era trying to use a P2 4-8-2 mountain as a switcher for a while.....that didn't work for long!!

[Train 284]

Yes, it is a mogul alright.

[Anonymous]

I guess it must be summer over there now, seeing as its winter here.

Sop everyones spirits should be up; whisky and vodka and those sorts of spirits.


Rgds ian