A 1905 photo of “Old Betsy” on the Oregon & California Railroad:
Full-size image here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/O_and_C_Photo_01_(8072079456)_(2).jpg
Sure would make a great little model!
That’s gotta be a fascinating boiler design, with the smokebox and the firebox both in the cab…
It’s either a return-flue, or a return-tube, type of boiler.
Charles Rous-Marten, a British Journalist mainly writing on railway topics, on seeing a New Zealand Railway A class 0-4-0T locomotive first built in 1873, described it as “a most absurd dwarf”. I wonder what he might have said if he had seen this loco??
http://www.trainweb.org/nzsteam/a_class.html
Thanks Ray for posting a photo of an interesting but unusual subject.
I wonder how busy Darth Santa Fe or hon30critter Dave are???[:-^] [;)]
Cheers, the Bear,
Here’s an old thread with a pic of the ‘B’ engine.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/128481.aspx
Steve S
Bear, with all due respect (ROFLMAO) to Charles Rous-Marten, I dare say that there’s nothing absurd about the Class A. I’d wager that they lasted longer in service than he did - and there seem to be a good number of survivors (including two still operational.)
My very similar 1873 Hohlenzollern (same gauge!) 0-4-0T is still going strong (in 1964) as was its prototype. #60 is now stuffed and mounted in Kyushu. The model, my infamous, "Block o
I found a couple other photos of the O&C RR loco:
These photos, and some similar small locos, can be seen at this site: