I've seen one of these up close and personnel.
Standing next to the drivers they are about even with the top of my head (they are 68 " dia.)---these things were truly awesome----I have to figure out a way to see this under power
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I've seen one of these up close and personnel.
Standing next to the drivers they are about even with the top of my head (they are 68 " dia.)---these things were truly awesome----I have to figure out a way to see this under power
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Not sure if anyone else is interested in this, but if you are, here are a number of pictures, that can give you a much better appreciation for the mass of this engine.
If you watch the video of 4012 being brought back for display you can see how the frame is articulating to allow it to go around normal RR curves. This is the engine that I have stood next to and walked around in wide eyed amazement
This engine is in Scranton PA.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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You can rest assured I'm interested...Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Ya had me worried big guyYou can rest assured I'm interested...
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I figured you already suspected I have a partiality toward smoke generators...The bigger the better...Ya had me worried big guy...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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That's why I was missing your approvalI figured you already suspected I have a partiality toward smoke generators...The bigger the better...
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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4014 and 844 coupled together with a diesel-electric...Sheer power!...
EDIT: Pay particular attention to the scene beginning at the 5:00 mark for some spectacular footage...
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
They had one in Travel Town at Griffith Park in Los Angeles at one time. I remember climbing all around all of their trains as a kid, it was so cool
https://www.laparks.org/traveltown/#history
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FYI the smaller 4-8-4 steam locomotive coupled between 4014 and the diesel-electric in the video, 844, has been in continuous service since Christmas Eve 1944...Rebuilt, but never retired...4014 was out of service for 59 years......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Thank you Ben---that was excellent.4014 and 844 coupled together with a diesel-electric...Sheer power!...
EDIT: Pay particular attention to the scene beginning at the 5:00 mark for some spectacular footage...
Watching that brought back memory's of my Utah years. The grade going west into Ogden coming down the west side of the Wasatch Mountains from Evanston runs along the same route as I-80 for much of the way. I used to watch the current diesel electrics pull that grade---and descend. Often on the east bound trains, they had 3 or 4 big GE engines on the front and 2 or 3 on the back. They were mostly 3300 and 3600 HP engines.
Often I have thought I got to be the wrong kind of engineer
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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A buddy grew up in Helper Utah.. railroad town where “helper engines “ were added to trains for the climb up the mountains.. he has great stories of the steam engines when he was small..
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It did not stop with steam engines. North of Helper the canyon narrows and there are places where you can pull off the road and have a great vista, maybe 100' above the track, to see the trains climbing that grade. First you hear them, way down in the canyon, then they slowly come into view around a curve, it is almost like a seductress slowly revealing herself. The sound of that raw power coming up the walls of the canyon can make a grown man embarrass himself
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Captain---------Bo is posting porn again
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Not the equal to trains---but something I always loved to do and could get my blood flowing was pushing pans (or scrapers), especially double barrels (twin engines). This video is recent and the exhausts are cleaned up---but in my time of doing this they still blew smoke which added to the visual. Depending on the size of the pusher (usually a D8 or D9) and the size of the pan you would be looking at three stacks blowing about 1400 HP in total.
The only down side was that I was the guy buying the fuel
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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