Brazilian Texas type locomotives

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[Fr.Al]

Ok, I'll bite. What about Brazilian Texas type locomotives? We're they narrow gauge or what? Any still running?

[Miningman]

I reply in 17 years.. you will get your answer in 2037.

[Fr.Al]

I get it. But as you know, I'm technologically challenged. I attempt to log in, and when I finally succeed, I end up with unanswered posts of years past.

[NDG]

 

Re. Texas Types, Brazil.

 

One exploded 1981. The remaining had B P Reduced, then retired.

 

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,219973,220059  

 

As here.

 

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

 

BLW 1950.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHMoblb0OS4

 

More on Internet.

 

Thank You.

[Overmod]

Baldwin and Alco both, I think.  In the same period as the GELSA locomotives.  Amazing what modern design can put on metre gauge, both steam and diesel...

Replaced by 2-10-2 Skodas improved by Porta, with about ¾ the TE each.  I agree they should have tried the EAR 59s for that service.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

EAR's Class 59's are impressive locomotives but they would have had to have been re-gauged from Cape gauge to meter gauge (just under three inches of difference).

[Overmod]

CSSHEGEWISCH

EAR's Class 59's are impressive locomotives but they would have had to have been re-gauged from Cape gauge to meter gauge (just under three inches of difference).

Don't know where you get this; they were built metre-gauge and stayed that way.

Another potential contender might have been the Burmese GD and GE classes, of roughly late-Forties vintage (the GEs being diverted to the Assam-Bengal line which also had Garratts of its own).

The Cape-regauging proposal was for a rigid-frame locomotive, I don't remember offhand what but it's in the NGDF posts somewhere, which we're going to be given the 'Russian Decapod' treatment -- wider tires centered on the drivers with the flanges moved inboard.  There was some question whether this would fully clear the spring rigging or perhaps brake gear; the Australian expedient of 'reversible dish' in the driver centers would probably not have been cost-efficient.  Presumably any of these regauging flavors could have been applied to Cape-gauge Garratts to much the same extent, with comparable concerns...