Datafever wrote:If you get the opportunity, could you post some pictures of dual-gauge switches? I'd like to see how that maze of trackwork looks.
Here are some of them at Nova Granja yard...
...sorry, the link do not openned. Here is the photo...
Another dual gauge switch here in town...
A close on the points...
A narropw cut in the FCA mainline to soybean country. The BB40T-2 passes there very close to the walls
Great pictures. Thanks again for sharing them
The dual-gauge-switches look quite complicated.Lots of parts you have to lubricate.
martin.knoepfel wrote:Great pictures. Thanks again for sharing them The dual-gauge-switches look quite complicated.Lots of parts you have to lubricate.
Yes, the dual gauge tracks used in Brazil have some special parts like the ones called "pombinho" as shown here. The pombinho is used to change the rails of the meter gauge inside the broad. Note the narrow gauge uses the left track of broad gauge line and after pass by the pombinho changes to the rail on the right. The loco you see in the picture is an FCA narrow gauge BB40-2 and is aproaching the pombinho at Eldorado yard. Picture of my friend Carlos Marinho.
edblysard wrote: Just to help Pedro out...by the way, that is a photo he sent me, so you can see what he is talking about.
Just to help Pedro out...by the way, that is a photo he sent me, so you can see what he is talking about.
is that a SD 45 with a shortened nose?
oscaletrains wrote: edblysard wrote: Just to help Pedro out...by the way, that is a photo he sent me, so you can see what he is talking about. is that a SD 45 with a shortened nose?
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No, it´s a SD40T-2 rebuilt as a BB40T-2. The loco received long porches at front and rear to accept the BB+BB trucks.
Datafever wrote:Do you have any close-ups of the pombinho? It looks interesting.
I will get more pictures of them soom, because they do not exist in my town. I also like them a lot. it´s different piece to model in HO scale, for exemple.
pedrop wrote: Datafever wrote:Do you have any close-ups of the pombinho? It looks interesting.I will get more pictures of them soom, because they do not exist in my town. I also like them a lot. it´s different piece to model in HO scale, for exemple.
Exactly! I had never even considered the idea of modeling dual-gauge before, but now that I've seen some of the pictures that you have posted, it is very enticing. I like it!
Keep up the excellent work.
Today morning a got this picture of EFVM DDM45 passing by 628 km with an empty train. The pictures is good to show details on the dual gauge switches in the yard...
Another picture of the same switch...
Some friends posing at the front plataform of BB40T-2 #4825...
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C3812%5C4825_gutierrez_setti_x_eldorado_19nov2005.JPG
Hi Pedro,
Thanks for pointing me to this thread. Great pictures.
Do you have a map of Brazilian railroads?
Do you have pictures of station buildings, yards and workshops too?
What is the railroad situation in the north east? I can get relatively cheap tickets to that part (charter flight to the beach, you know) and it might be fun to do some railfanning.
greetings,
Marc Immeker
marcimmeker wrote:Hi Pedro,Thanks for pointing me to this thread. Great pictures.Do you have a map of Brazilian railroads?Do you have pictures of station buildings, yards and workshops too?What is the railroad situation in the north east? I can get relatively cheap tickets to that part (charter flight to the beach, you know) and it might be fun to do some railfanning.greetings,Marc Immeker
Hi Marc Immeke,
yes a have photos of almost everything related to railroads in Brazil. Railfaning is my hobby for at least 27 years!
In the north east we have CFN and metropolitan trains of CBTU only, but if you like ALCO locos, there you will find the great RSD8 on CBTU fleet, as the ones I post in the "Alco in Brazil" thread right now.
If you have the chance to visit Sao Luis, in Maranhao statte, go to EFC shops. There you can see a good fleet of SD40-2, SD60M, SD70M, C36-7, C30-7, C44-9W and other locos. Also you can run a 900 km long rail travel through Amazon land, from São Luis to Paraopebas. EF Carajas is the most modern railroad in Brazil. In my "Rebuilt Units" thread you can see pictures of it.
In the north we have just three railroads:
1 - EFA - (Amapa rwy) at Amapa state. This is the only standard gauge railroad in Brazil and use just SW1200 and SW1500 locos, but I know they will buy more locos soon. There you can have a wonderful travel from Santana port to Serra do Navio hill, a 193 km long run through Amazon forest. That´s a wonderful travel. I was there in 1999 and want to come back soon.
2 - EFJ (Jari rwy) - is a broad gauge saw mill railroad that run 76 km long close to Jari river. The nearest city is Monte Dourado. It is a place reached only buy plane or ship through Amazon river.
3 - EFT (Trombetas rwy) - this is the most distant railroad in Brazil, located not so far from EFJ, that carry bauxite. The nearest city there is closed because serve only to the employees. If somebody wants to visit EFT need to contact them first.
Not so far from EFT there is a place called Fordlandia, where Henry Ford made a railroad in the past to carry rubber from Amazon forest. The railroad used a Shay loco, but today the line was gone. But if somebody wants to visit the small town it is a great place. All buildings are well preserved and they accep tourist there.
I have lots of maps of brazilian railroads and will add them here soon.
keep in touch
pedro
marcimmeker wrote:Hi Pedro,Thanks for pointing me to this thread. Great pictures.Do you have a map of Brazilian railroads?Marc Immeker
Here is a map of brazilian rail network. Note this map shows the 5 railroads that joined to form ALL rwy: Ferronorte, Ferroban (part of it), Ferropar, FSA and Novoeste.
Pedro
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