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QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Email me ahead of time and we will arrange something... On thurs or friday, I am off, and we can spent a little more time poking around, do lunch or something. Any other day, if you show up at North Yard between 06:30 and 14:30, I will be switching the lead under/in front of the yard control tower. Come on down, we will leave the light on! Ed (Dave is a half man?...whats the other half?)[:D]
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Couple of reasons... Those drivers would beat the crud out of the track for one. They are not completly FRA compliant, The unions would want to treat them as a locomotive, instead of a railcar, and rolling on their own wheels, they would have to go on the head end of the train, which means they would have to bear the entire trailing weight of the train, have working air brakes, the ten wheels might not work on some curves, so forth and so on, you get the point... And I assume the owner wanted them shipped this way in the first place, saves wear and tear and miles on his locomotives and gets rid of the problems mentioned above. Ed
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard the ten wheels might not work on some curves, so forth and so on, you get the point... And I assume the owner wanted them shipped this way in the first place, saves wear and tear and miles on his locomotives and gets rid of the problems mentioned above. Ed The comments about the drivers and the effect of 10 wheels on the curves makes me wonder how useful these would be to the new owner?
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard the ten wheels might not work on some curves, so forth and so on, you get the point... And I assume the owner wanted them shipped this way in the first place, saves wear and tear and miles on his locomotives and gets rid of the problems mentioned above. Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by Soo2610 By the way, how did you manage to post about six messages on this topic and all of them are numbered message number 4641? Sounds like Trains adding machine got stuck.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Soo2610 Nice shots Ed. Didn't hear about these things coming until I read about it on the forum. By the way, how did you manage to post about six messages on this topic and all of them are numbered message number 4641? Sounds like Trains adding machine got stuck.
QUOTE: Originally posted by rrandb Do you mean the controls are left hand drive / steering wheel on firemans side. LOL. They're not Chinese ther're "English".
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QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 Re: Reverse Lever - I'm figuring the red handle to the left of the train brake: Since the driver's position seems to be a mirror image of a right-hand drive loco, that would positioned just right.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton If you examine pic 13 (the one of the rear side) it appears as the handle is connected to the bottom of the firebox through that red painted linkage, which would make it the ashpan dump. I am a bit concerned about the lenght of that handle if it's for the reverser,, it seems a bit short. There's 2 issues. One is the amount of throw that you'd get with a thing that short wouldn't be very much, and secondly the force required to move it with the motion connected to it would be tremendous, unless it was a steam assisted reverser. Does anyone know when they were built?
QUOTE: Originally posted by rockisland4309 Are both of the locomotives coal burners or oil burners?
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