I also though of NYC’s weird RDC experiment! Those are aircraft engines, I had though they might be JT3s (from 707) or JT8s (like a DC9), but I googled it and according to Wikipedia they are ex Convair B-36 Peacemaker JT-47 engines. (Here’s the link to the Wikipedia page for those interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-497_Black_Beetle) If your firmiliar with the naucels on a B-36 you’ll see NYC hardly changed the engines on the M-497!
At the risk of being a “post-hog” and in light of the fact that this thread is trivia-oriented, here’s a copy of my New York Central employee’s magazine from September, of '66, with some insight into the M-497:
NYC_Headlight_1 by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC_Headlight_2 by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC_Headlight_3 by Edmund, on Flickr
I hope the OP is OK with that [:D]
I seem to recall that the engines were later used on some of NYC’s “Snow-Blowers”.
Cheers, Ed
In which country was the first camelback engine operated and for an extra added bonus, which railroad owned it?
Of course I am Ed[swg] Interesting stuff, enjoyed. I think extra info on related trivia makes the thread more fun[Y]
P.S. See added rule number 5.
Carry on[:)]
TF
Are you referring to the true camelback (anthracite burner) or to B&O’s Winan’s “Camel”?
According to my research, the first true camelback was built in 1877 in Reading, Pennsylvania, right here in the USA. It was a 4-6-0 built by the P&R’s own reading shops.
In what year was the first Union Pacific Challenger built?
(This assumes that the earlier B&O engines are ‘Camels’, not Camelbacks or Mother Hubbards as the design came to be known)
What great Next Big Thing device of the late 1930s, inspired by a method of oil firing, was installed on 74 B&O locomotives … before disappearing nearly entirely by the end of WWII? (Truth to tell … disappearing very shortly after the beginning of WWII)
Off hand, I’d say water tube boilers.
I’m going to stick my neck out here and say Front-Delivery Stokers.
Colonel Emerson was always trying some pretty radical ideas. I believe the peak number was eighty B&O and Alton locomotives to have the front stoker installed.
Regards, Ed
Ed’s right. Does he have pictures? They were in active development by Standard Stoker after 1937 so there ought to be some shots, somewhere…
Sure wish I did. That would be some monstrosity to see.
So, along those lines, can anyone identify what we are looking at here? And the name of the manufacturer?
Mystery_1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Good Luck, Ed
Oh dear. I think I had my most recent colonoscopy on one of those.
I wish you hadn’t reminded me of that, Ed.
Dave Nelson
Why do I all of a sudden want to watch “Star Trek” ?
OK, back to our fun-n-games [:O] Ed
Some sort of blower or dryer.
The only thing I can think of that fits that sort of Cerberus nozzle arrangement would be Fuller-Lehigh style pulverized-fuel feeding, as for lignite burning.
Here’s another hint that will pretty much disclose its purpose.
Southern Ry. stoker by Edmund, on Flickr
So — Who made it?
Good Luck, Ed
Serial # 51132. That one was made by Bob.[swg]
Southern Railway pulverized coal experiments in the '20s. You’re going to make me say Fuller-Kinyon distributing system, aren’t you?
Well, maybe this one was a stretch, certainly wasn’t Easy Street!
Street_page1 by Edmund, on Flickr
This is the Type B Street Stoker. Quite a mechanical contraption with that bucket-conveyor and all the associated gearing. Must have been a real headache, not only to keep this contraption in repair but to have to work around the cab appliances with this octopus in the way!
Stoker_street1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Any coincidence that their address was also shared with the American Locomotive Works?
Cheers, Ed.
Anyone else can come up with a question.