https://www.facebook.com/t1locomotive/videos/3171970519759288/
There’s more, for all the whiners finding reasons why ‘she’ll never start’…
https://www.facebook.com/t1locomotive/videos/something-special-is-coming/1151587942319836/
Yes, the ‘prow’ that goes on the end of that has also been fabricated… [:)]
Thanks L-O!
I don’t do facebook, but I just now looked at this.
Isn’t that just the boiler outer shell? There is no throatplate, no indication of an inner firebox so presumably no tubes…
Why does the nose apparently match the outer shell of the boiler? Shouldn’t it be larger to match the boiler after lagging?
Have they found someone to make a throatplate and inner firebox?
Peter
Peter, when I saw the first video, my first question was, “Why is the forward fairing noticeably larger in girth than the boiler?” Or, so it looks to me. Maybe we need a closer look, or for someone who knows to speak up.
-Crandell
It appears that the forward faring that makes the transition from the “round” of the smokebox to the “rectangle” of the prow will get some additional cladding.
The smokebox and smokestack on the T-1 actually sit relatively far back from the front of the locomotive from the drawings I have seen.
There are some very good T-1 photographs and a technical drawing on this site that might be of assistance.
Mr. Clark is correct. The boiler structure is not insulated/lagged and clad yet, as transported. To get the full ‘streamlined’ effect the outer surface of the boiler cladding should match the smokebox-to-prow shape.
Calculating and forming the inner wrapper was among the first things the ESC researched. As I recall there is a discussion on forming the throatplate and the Belpaire chamber wrapper somewhere on the Web. Joe Burgard calculated where the plate for the Chapelon sectional-boiler ‘feedwater heater section’ would go; his result had it surprisingly short, only about 3’3/8" back from the front tubesheet.
This belongs in the T1 file but there’s a lot of other good stuff here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiLIS2Sl29s
But what is that maintenance item at 12:59 that looks like a first world war tank?
Probably a light rhomboid tank with its sponson guns removed, adapted to serve as a tractor.
I dimly remember an American light tank design comparable to a British Mark I or improved version of same, that was made functionally obsolete as soon as any kind of speed became desirable for armor. Flintlock will probably know.
Much too small to be a tank with sponson guns. It’s just a tractor. It’s only about 3ft tall.
I took a look at that piece of equipment '54 mentioned being in the film at 12:59, and it’s no surplus tank, it looks to me like a purpose-built piece of maintanance gear, although what the philosophy behind the design was I have no idea.
As far as American WW1 tanks are concerned copies of the British Mark IV (that huge multi-man crew rhomboid tank) were built here in the US but never made it overseas and didn’t last long post-war, the French Renault FT-17 two-man tank being considered more practical. Copies of those were built here as well and lasted in-service into the 1930’s.
There were a number of experimental tank designs tried here between the wars, too many to go into and some quite promising, but there wasn’t enough money the the Army budget during those years to persue them.
OK, as an old Armor Officer, I have to chime in. I think no Mark V heavy tanks were built in the US and any vehicles operated by the AEF came from British stocks. What was built in the US was the Mark VIII heavy
"The Mark VIII tank also known as the Liberty or The International was a British-American tank design of the First World War
I haven’t been in years but there is a tank museum at Camp Borden and one of those is likely in the collection along with a T34. I did see a Bren gun carrier parked outside a garage away from the museum collection. I didn’t know they were powered by a flathead Ford V8. Also at Camp Borden are a bunch of hangars dating from 1917. I assume they are still there.
Technically, it was probably a Canadian built successor to the Bren Gun Carrier, the Universal Carrier.
"The Universal Carriers, in different variants, were also produced in allied countries. Ford Motor Company of Canada manufactured about 29,000 vehicles known as the Ford C01UC Universal Carrier
Universal Carriers were manufactured in the United States of America for allied use with GAE and GAEA V-8 Ford engines. About 20,000 were produced."
In production from 1934 to 1960, with about 110,000 produced - biggest production run of any AFV in history.
And here’s a shot of two wartime products of CPR’s Angus Shops
Virtually the entire production run of 1400 Valentine Tanks was shipped as aid to Russia
OK, that’s it. I’ll cease hijacking the forum!
And I’m glad you did! All good information I didn’t know, so thanks!
I was in the Marines myself, and armor wasn’t my MOS. I did get a ride in a M-48 once though.
By the way, are you familiar with “The Chieftan’s” YouTube channel?
Rhomboid. I always thought that “The Rhombus” would have been a great name for the national military command center. It just sounds more military than pentagon. Doing your best cartoon announcer voice: “Meanwhile, back at the Rhombus…” [swg]
Ehhh, some steam locomotives are so hideous looking, I am not sure they should be brought back from extinction.
While I think that the T1 has an interesting appearance, I think that a better choice would have been something smaller like a C&NW Class E 4-6-2 or an MILW Class A 4-4-2.