SMassey wrote:andrechapelon and Twhite you are right on the money. Was that one too easy?
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Texas Zepher wrote: M636C wrote:Mega Merger sounds like ConrailMega Merger in the dollar amount not quantity of railroads. The merger wasn't something like the Lousville & Wadley merging with the Wadley & Southern! Much closer to the Conrail type. I have some strange recollection of a GP35 being repainted in Reading and then withdrawn. ... Did Lehigh Valley also run GP35s? Excellent thought process and might be true, but it is not the one I have in mind.
M636C wrote:Mega Merger sounds like Conrail
I have some strange recollection of a GP35 being repainted in Reading and then withdrawn. ... Did Lehigh Valley also run GP35s?
This one?: http://atsf.railfan.net/cowls/bnsf6550a.jpg
Andre
SMassey wrote: Im going to give this one a try.There is only one of me, but there are alot of my type.I am powered with coal.I used a marine type boiler that operated at 900 psi.I did not travel far from the shops.I could crush a caboose if I pushed it too hard.I only ran for 3 years.I may have spent more time with a mechanic than I did my engineer Locomotive's road and # or the nic name
Im going to give this one a try.
There is only one of me, but there are alot of my type.
I am powered with coal.
I used a marine type boiler that operated at 900 psi.
I did not travel far from the shops.
I could crush a caboose if I pushed it too hard.
I only ran for 3 years.
I may have spent more time with a mechanic than I did my engineer
Locomotive's road and # or the nic name
This one: http://www.skyrocket.de/locomotive/img/nw_te1_2300e.jpg
N&W #2300 "Jawn Henry".
SMassey--
Your name isn't "Jawn Henry", is it?
Tom
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Texas Zepher wrote: Mentioning the Hillside Workshop is what gave it away.Ok, lets see if I can do this without making it too hard or too easy. I was the last locomotive to officially carry the colors of my original home road after a mega-merger. The unique thing is that I went to scrap in this fresh coat of paint, after only wearing it for about 3 months. And this was about 8 years after the merger! My locomotive class also was the last to carry the original home road colors of one of the other parent companies involved in the mega-merger.What loco am I?
Mentioning the Hillside Workshop is what gave it away.
Ok, lets see if I can do this without making it too hard or too easy.
I was the last locomotive to officially carry the colors of my original home road after a mega-merger. The unique thing is that I went to scrap in this fresh coat of paint, after only wearing it for about 3 months. And this was about 8 years after the merger! My locomotive class also was the last to carry the original home road colors of one of the other parent companies involved in the mega-merger.
What loco am I?
Mega Merger sounds like Conrail
I have some strange recollection of a GP35 being repainted in Reading and then withdrawn.
Did Lehigh Valley also run GP35s?
Anyway, that is all a bit hazy!
M636C
Texas Zepher wrote: andrechapelon wrote:Right hemisphere, wrong countries. However, the locomotive in question was built to the same gauge as the SAR Class 25 4-8-4's. Edit: I misstated where some of the locos were built. The later ones were built at Hillside Workshops not at Lower Hutt. New Zeland Railroad Ja class?
andrechapelon wrote:Right hemisphere, wrong countries. However, the locomotive in question was built to the same gauge as the SAR Class 25 4-8-4's. Edit: I misstated where some of the locos were built. The later ones were built at Hillside Workshops not at Lower Hutt.
Edit: I misstated where some of the locos were built. The later ones were built at Hillside Workshops not at Lower Hutt.
Yup.
Your turn
andrechapelon wrote:Right hemisphere, wrong countries. However, the locomotive in question was built to the same gauge as the SAR Class 25 4-8-4's.Edit: I misstated where some of the locos were built. The later ones were built at Hillside Workshops not at Lower Hutt.
twhite wrote: andrechapelon wrote: Texas Zepher wrote: andrechapelon wrote:I'll go with the 51 class Alcos.Right, your turn.OK, if you're going to be that way.I'm a steam locomotive and ran in a country in the Southern Hemisphere. I produced 25,000 lbs of tractive effort and was in regular service until around 1970. I was built both by North British Locomotive Company as well as in the Lower Hutt shops of my owning railroad. The last of my type were built at Lower Hutt in 1956. What am I? AndreAndre: Are you one of those cute little American-styled 2-8-2's that used to run from Lima up the Andes to Cuzco on the Peruvian Railway? Just taking a wild guess,but they always looked as if they'd be just as at home on either the D&RGW in Chama, or maybe the WP&Y in Skagway. OR: if not, perhaps one of those handsome condenser 4-8-4's on the South African Railways? Again, justa wild guess. Actually, I'm REALLY curious as to the right answer!Tom
andrechapelon wrote: Texas Zepher wrote: andrechapelon wrote:I'll go with the 51 class Alcos.Right, your turn.OK, if you're going to be that way.I'm a steam locomotive and ran in a country in the Southern Hemisphere. I produced 25,000 lbs of tractive effort and was in regular service until around 1970. I was built both by North British Locomotive Company as well as in the Lower Hutt shops of my owning railroad. The last of my type were built at Lower Hutt in 1956. What am I? AndreAndre: Are you one of those cute little American-styled 2-8-2's that used to run from Lima up the Andes to Cuzco on the Peruvian Railway? Just taking a wild guess,but they always looked as if they'd be just as at home on either the D&RGW in Chama, or maybe the WP&Y in Skagway. OR: if not, perhaps one of those handsome condenser 4-8-4's on the South African Railways? Again, justa wild guess. Actually, I'm REALLY curious as to the right answer!Tom
Texas Zepher wrote: andrechapelon wrote:I'll go with the 51 class Alcos.Right, your turn.
andrechapelon wrote:I'll go with the 51 class Alcos.
OK, if you're going to be that way.
I'm a steam locomotive and ran in a country in the Southern Hemisphere. I produced 25,000 lbs of tractive effort and was in regular service until around 1970. I was built both by North British Locomotive Company as well as in the Lower Hutt shops of my owning railroad. The last of my type were built at Lower Hutt in 1956. What am I?
Andre: Are you one of those cute little American-styled 2-8-2's that used to run from Lima up the Andes to Cuzco on the Peruvian Railway? Just taking a wild guess,but they always looked as if they'd be just as at home on either the D&RGW in Chama, or maybe the WP&Y in Skagway.
OR: if not, perhaps one of those handsome condenser 4-8-4's on the South African Railways? Again, justa wild guess. Actually, I'm REALLY curious as to the right answer!
Right hemisphere, wrong countries. However, the locomotive in question was built to the same gauge as the SAR Class 25 4-8-4's.
Was your nick name - Black Beauty?
nscaler711 wrote: hey im new to this forum so yea Hello Peoples alsoi have a locomotive from the local short line for u guys to guess http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=215459ur gonna have to copy and paste it sorry the darn internet service wouldnt let me copy and paste the link on here
hey im new to this forum so yea Hello Peoples also
i have a locomotive from the local short line for u guys to guess
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=215459
ur gonna have to copy and paste it sorry the darn internet service wouldnt let me copy and paste the link on here
Ex Santa Fe GP7u.
Kinda like this one:
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AggroJones wrote:You're talking about a diesel!? M'kay guys...we have to indicate if said mystery loco is steam or not from now on.
So Andre, are you thinking up a good one for us?
AggroJones wrote: Texas Zepher wrote: andrechapelon wrote:Well, it's either got to be the 16 class F3's or the 51 class Alcos.<p>OK, I'll go with the 51 class Alcos.And you would be exactly right. Source of story is "Santa Fe's Early Diesel Daze 1935-1953".</p>You're talking about a diesel!? M'kay guys...we have to indicate if said mystery loco is steam or not from now on.
Texas Zepher wrote: andrechapelon wrote:Well, it's either got to be the 16 class F3's or the 51 class Alcos.<p>OK, I'll go with the 51 class Alcos.And you would be exactly right. Source of story is "Santa Fe's Early Diesel Daze 1935-1953".</p>
andrechapelon wrote:Well, it's either got to be the 16 class F3's or the 51 class Alcos.<p>OK, I'll go with the 51 class Alcos.
You're talking about a diesel!? M'kay guys...we have to indicate if said mystery loco is steam or not from now on.
Why? That takes half the fun out of it.
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andrechapelon wrote:Well, it's either got to be the 16 class F3's or the 51 class Alcos.OK, I'll go with the 51 class Alcos.
OK, I'll go with the 51 class Alcos.
Texas Zepher wrote: andrechapelon wrote:Well, since the 5011 class wasn't delivered until 1944, Ah you picked up on that clue. But now I have to qualify that statement that "brand new" would have to be in relative terms of locomotive life. This story is from 1946.I'll say the 1790 class ex N&W Y-3.Nope. However a side note here is that these (the Y-3s) were the first articulated locomotives that Santa Fe had on the line since their first horribly failed experiment with the 2-10-10-2. It left such a bad taste in their mouth they never even considered articulated locomotives again. Notice there never were any Santa Fe Challengers, Big Boys, or Yellowstones....
andrechapelon wrote:Well, since the 5011 class wasn't delivered until 1944,
I'll say the 1790 class ex N&W Y-3.
Well, it's either got to be the 16 class F3's or the 51 class Alcos.
AggroJones wrote:A CB&Q's Colorado?
Texas Zepher wrote: andrechapelon wrote:Sounds to me more like Santa Fe's 2-10-4 #5000 (aka "Madame Queen"). Although only rated at 93,000 lbs of TE, that rating was nominal.Closer but nope, My source for this story states, "and wonder of wonders the xxxxxx even eclipsed one of the Santa Fe's monstrous brand-new 5011 class 2-10-4's!"
andrechapelon wrote:Sounds to me more like Santa Fe's 2-10-4 #5000 (aka "Madame Queen"). Although only rated at 93,000 lbs of TE, that rating was nominal.
Well, since the 5011 class wasn't delivered until 1944, this would either have to make the loco a diesel or one of Santa Fe's second hand N&W Y-3's. I'm going to discount any diesel since they were already a known quantity on the Santa Fe, so I'll say the 1790 class ex N&W Y-3. Santa Fe was sufficiently impressed with the steam generating capabilities of the ex-Y-3's to consider using the boilers to make a new class of 4-8-4's.
A CB&Q's Colorado?
AggroJones wrote: Texas Zepher wrote:On my maiden run before being put in regular survice I impressed the railroads officials by producing a drawbar horsepower of more than twice the 4-6-4 class, and more than even the 4-8-4 locomotives I was replacing.One of Canadian Pacific's T series 2-10-4s?
Texas Zepher wrote:On my maiden run before being put in regular survice I impressed the railroads officials by producing a drawbar horsepower of more than twice the 4-6-4 class, and more than even the 4-8-4 locomotives I was replacing.
AggroJones wrote: Texas Zepher wrote: AggroJones wrote: Railfan Alex wrote:The Toledo, Peoria & Western's six 4-8-4 Class H-10 Northerns?Yes!Since Railfan Alex hasn't gone, and the other similar thread seems to be degenerating into who' idea got stollen..... I'm posting the same locomotive question here. What am I?On my maiden run before being put in regular survice I impressed the railroads officials by producing a drawbar horsepower of more than twice the 4-6-4 class, and more than even the 4-8-4 locomotives I was replacing. Later, on the same run because the engineer wasn't familiar with how I loaded down, I stalled on the routes only 3.5% grade with 1182 tons of train behind me. Everyone thought they were going to have to call for a helper unit, but I impressed them again by digging in (producing 108,000 lbs of drawbar pull) and getting the train moving to 16mph by the top of the hill. One of Canadian Pacific's T series 2-10-4s?
Texas Zepher wrote: AggroJones wrote: Railfan Alex wrote:The Toledo, Peoria & Western's six 4-8-4 Class H-10 Northerns?Yes!Since Railfan Alex hasn't gone, and the other similar thread seems to be degenerating into who' idea got stollen..... I'm posting the same locomotive question here. What am I?On my maiden run before being put in regular survice I impressed the railroads officials by producing a drawbar horsepower of more than twice the 4-6-4 class, and more than even the 4-8-4 locomotives I was replacing. Later, on the same run because the engineer wasn't familiar with how I loaded down, I stalled on the routes only 3.5% grade with 1182 tons of train behind me. Everyone thought they were going to have to call for a helper unit, but I impressed them again by digging in (producing 108,000 lbs of drawbar pull) and getting the train moving to 16mph by the top of the hill.
AggroJones wrote: Railfan Alex wrote:The Toledo, Peoria & Western's six 4-8-4 Class H-10 Northerns?Yes!
Railfan Alex wrote:The Toledo, Peoria & Western's six 4-8-4 Class H-10 Northerns?
What am I?On my maiden run before being put in regular survice I impressed the railroads officials by producing a drawbar horsepower of more than twice the 4-6-4 class, and more than even the 4-8-4 locomotives I was replacing. Later, on the same run because the engineer wasn't familiar with how I loaded down, I stalled on the routes only 3.5% grade with 1182 tons of train behind me. Everyone thought they were going to have to call for a helper unit, but I impressed them again by digging in (producing 108,000 lbs of drawbar pull) and getting the train moving to 16mph by the top of the hill.
One of Canadian Pacific's T series 2-10-4s?
Can't be. The T-1's were only good for about 75,000 lbs of TE.
Sounds to me more like Santa Fe's 2-10-4 #5000 (aka "Madame Queen"). Although only rated at 93,000 lbs of TE, that rating was nominal.