I recall seeing a T1 sprinting across Ohio when I was a kid … actually it passed us like we were standing still at 60+ … but I didn’t think the drivers were that large. Maybe 80" would be more likely.
In service to you and Firelock, I am holding my breath starting NOW.
GASP!! …Did it work?
Nah, didn’t work. Try it again.
I fully support 5550 t1 build bring it on
[color=blue]Not a T-1 but somewhat of a clone from the land down under[/color]
Ah, yes, the SAR 520 class. Good to see 523 out, regrettably she was rather hidden when I was there.
520 has retained her original headlight, which looks much better than the awful sealed beam arrangement that 523 has.
Holy smoke Mr. Balt, that thing’s amazing! I’d heard about those Aussie T-1 clones, but this it the first picture I’ve seen of one. Thanks for posting!
Here are two views of 520 with the ‘regular’ headlight…
[color=blue]What does the X or + sign indicate on the right side of the pilot. Also, what is the O in the left side of the top picture.[/color]
The 520 class is a documented copy of the T1 sharknose design. In an article in TRAINS many years ago at the time of the opening of the through standard-gauge transcon route in Australia, the designer of the 520 class stated that he drew on the styling of the T1 when designing the 520 class. Note that it even includes an all-weather cab.
Are 520 and/or 523 operational? Very well worth a trip to Austrailia to ride behind either! Along, of course, with enjoying the Melbourn tram system, now the world’s largest, and with those classic W-type trams still iin serivce. Like the Milan Peter Witts, seem like they are eternal.
520 is, with Steamranger. 523 isn’t.
What does the X or + sign indicate on the right side of the pilot. Also, what is the O in the left side of the top picture./quote]
From the steam_tech Yahoo group:
"The black squares with yellow designs?
"They’re destination boards intended to let signalmen and passengers in the Adelaide Metropolitan area know a train’s destination as follows:
- vertical cross designates main north line (Adelaide to Salisbury and destinations beyond)
- diagonal cross designates main south line (Adelaide to Bridgewater, Victor Harbour, Murray Bridge and destinations beyond)
- diamond designates Adelaide to Marino and Willunga
- vertical stripes indicate Adelaide to Port Adelaide
- horizontal yellow line designates Grange and Henley Beach line
"In addition there may have been destinat
wow I never knew these existed AWESOME
The post quote facility appears to be ‘down’ this morning, so I can’t paste in the context.
BaltACD wanted to know what the ‘destination sign’ on the other side (the circular one that looks a bit like ‘Kilroy Was Here’) is.
Ivan Marchant noted: “The disc on the right of the picture is what we call the States Emblem or Piping Shrike. Up until the 1960’s, all locos built and operated in South Australia carried that emblem.”
520 is operational, with steam ranger. 523 isn’t, or isn’t yet?
I don’t think that there are any plans to fire up 523 at the moment, she is sitting on display at the museum, although not where she is is Balt’s picture.
Prof O.
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If I may say , it’s sentences like this one here [to quote]
(see the experience, for example, with Meier-Mattern valve gear) <<
which make people
( who do not necessarily have as big and complete a volume
and content of a library available as you let on to have )
feel cut off from discussion .
I’d appreciate if you could allow yourself to get down
and offer a minimum of a functional explanation
of such items you like to mention all-too laconically
by simply dropping a name
- would you mind ?
Regards
= J =
Folks ,
could we back up from down-under and again get to speak pensively of pending matters T1 of the good old one-and-only perennial-in-our-mind Pennsylvania RR once roaming hilly land as thickly forrested as Transsylvania - name meaning ‘behind the forests’ which is why PRR could symbolically also be spelled Pensylvania RR - the railroad in the land of five forests - gee -
… although , that would be another story yet .
Regards
= J =