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Vauclain Compounds

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Friday, October 9, 2015 7:39 PM

What makes the M&PP locos doubly unique is that they're rack locos...

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Posted by Wizlish on Monday, September 21, 2015 11:01 PM

Manitou and Pikes Peak has one that's runnable (and two that could be made to be).

UP 428 at IRM is an example of a locomotive built as a Vauclain Compound and later converted.

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Posted by wanswheel on Monday, September 21, 2015 10:46 PM
Also there's Klondike Mines No. 3, built for White Pass & Yukon.
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Vauclain Compounds
Posted by M636C on Monday, September 21, 2015 7:37 PM

Last night I wandered on to the Japanese language Wikipedia site looking at steam locomotive data (largely courtesy of Google translation, which is a bit odd). Anyway, I wandered further on to the Chinese language Wikipedia and found a reference to a 2-8-0 number X 180.

This was found buried in sand along a river bank in northern China, (during excavation for a new bridge) complete except for the wooden cab. There wasn't any information that I saw about when it was buried or why but one imagines wars with the Japanese in 1904-5 and during the 1930s are good opportunities to lose something as big as a locomotive.

Anyway this locomotive is a 5 feet gauge Vauclain Compund built during the late 1890s and has been partially restored (in the Chinese manner) and put on display in Changchun.

A plate on the cylinders lists, in English, various patents of the 1890s and has the statement that the design was patented in Russia, just in case the owners (the Russian operated Chinese Eastern Railway) thought they might copy it. Interestingly, the plate reads "Baldwin Compound" and not Vauclain Compound.

Are there any other Vauclain Compounds preserved anywhere in the world?

M636C

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