Learning Curve

[tatans]

I guess in this world we really don't know everything (big surprise) I was gawking around on ebay brass engines (nothing better to do) and up comes this "thing" an ATSF M-190 articulated gas-electric, now I thought I had seen almost, or close to, most engines or had a pretty good idea what they looked like, this loco is indeed a very strange looking device,(just how many of you brass guys have one of these? ? ) why have I never seen a photo somewhere in all the railway books I've read? surely it would have appeared somewhere, then I see this alco minaret 2-8-2T, what a "cutie". So hopefully in the future these seemingly mysterious, hidden, secretive locos will appear occaisionally to surprise us (at least me), I just wonder what is still out there lurking in the shadows. I feel they will keep us humble just when we think we know it all, and there really are other engines out there other than Big Boys and Royal Hudson's---- SURPRISE ! !

[Anonymous]

I can navigate the curve, just can't climb the grade.

[robengland]

How about the double Fairlie, such as sweet old Josephine down in Dunedin http://members.aol.com/belpaire/fairlie.htm#4.
Remember Dr Doolittle and the push-me-pull-you?

[robengland]

...or the Beyer Peacock 4-8-4-4-8-4 Garratt (yes that's correct)
http://satransport.moby302.co.za/SAR/rhodesianrailwayoutline.JPG
http://users.powernet.co.uk/hamilton/pics6.html

Talk about monsters of the deep