What is this?
Looks British - the cab must be from a Diesel loco, right?
I’m thinking a narrow gauge? From? I love Mark’s Mystery Photos—[swg]
Narrow gauge? Narrow gauge!
But either Mark has a good photo editing software or someone must have built his own loco not so long ago. Haven´t seen a thing on wheels like this before!
Or a combination of Photoshop and a wonderfully homemade lokie. I love the walkway. All heavy gauge diamondplate. And no ----(ohno ohno—brain cramp-[xx(]-)-‘fencing’ for the walkway either!
I wonder what the PSI for the boiler on that would be—
BTW–is that the tender for it in the front? a la small scale Garrett
Looks like the locomotive in Mark’s avitar.
WOW, those amusement park rides get wilder and wilder!
And the operators sure are getting spiffy in their dress! To paraphrase Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz - “We’re not in Chama anymore”!
Hey, ENJOY,
Mobilman44
DING!! DING!! DING!!
Looks like we have a winner!! I suspect it is the same as what he does have in his avatar—now, if only I remember where he took THAT from----[:-,]
No, no, guys, you are all wrong, utterly wrong. It is a G scale live steam Garrat from Locobox in UK, enlarged while photocopied. I can tell that the smokebox door was made from the bottom of a can of beer.
Right, Mark?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Fuegian_Railway
(clue was a earlier forum post by Mark mentioning that it was a South African build 0-40+0-4-0 Garrat used on a South American tourist line)
Grin,
Stein
Stein wins.
Those trains aren’t toys; however, the gage is about the minimum to have a economically functional “man-sized” railroad. It’s about the same gage as on temporary railroads used on the static front lines in France in WWI.
Mark
Mark,
may I correct you?
The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Rlwy in UK´s south-eastern coastal region runs on 15" track, is also steam operated, runs several trains daily, including “fast” trains. In WW II they even had cars with anti-aircraft guns mounted on them.
Check this webpage: www.rhdrr.org.uk
I was in Dover last month for one day…
… and wish I had time to see the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.
Its motive power is/was miniatures, so I wouldn’t call it man-sized.
Hey if I had a million dollars…
That’s the water tank in front. The fuel is in a bunker behind the cab. The fuel bunker, cab, and boiler are on one frame with a driver/cylinder assemblly swiveling under it at the rear, while the water tank is on a swiveling, articulated frame with the forward driver/cylinder assembly fixed to that frame. The locomotive is a Garrett except it doesn’t have a separate, articulated frame for the fuel bunker on top of the rear driver/cylinder assembly.
Mark
Sure you have. Just look at Mark’s avatar. It’s that relatively new Chilean cylinders-to-the-inside Garratt lookalike.
I’m still looking for a reasonable excuse to build a Garratt - but probably to the SAR 2-6-2 + 2-6-2 pattern rather than an 0-4-0 + 0-4-0. (Hm,m,m. Just how steep is that grade out of Kaminari on the Kashimoto Rintetsu?)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with active modeler’s license)
Mark: What firm makes the locomotive in your avatar anyway? The 15" gauge almost looked more 20" than that but—[:-^]
As for the articulation. Kind of makes one wonder what radius that would have been capable of if they did articulate at the back side as well-----
Chuck: Or anyone else for that matter. What is the steepest grade that that type of Garrett is capable of?—there goes some imagineering—again—[:-,][swg]
Well, I am not Mark, but since the answer is easily available in a couple of clicks and a quick google from the link posted earlier in the thread:
http://www.trendelfindelmundo.com.ar/tfm_base_en.html
http://www.trendelfindelmundo.com.ar/txtzubieta_en.htm
http://www.trainweb.org/tusp/girdlestone.html
Smile,
Stein
Two things I’d like to do before I’m too old and decrepit to do it:
Head down to Tierra del Fuego and ride the Argentinian ‘convict’ railway that Mark has posted pictures of, and then spend a week farther north in the Argentinian Pampas and have a Gaucho teach me the proper way to play (not dance) a “Malambo.”
Now that, to me, would be really NEAT! [:P] Nifty trains and some wild music.
Tom [:D]
Nice trip itinerary there — mind if some others come along?[:P][^][swg]