While you’re at it – there was also the Street underfeed stoker that was rather unsuccessfully put on the first PRR K4s – souring PRR on subsequent stoker use to the point they left stokers off the K5s as built, one of the dumbest of the dumb things a railroad did in that era…
Was that also known as the Crawford Stoker?
Let’s not forget the Rube-Goldberg Elvin Stoker!
http://www.martynbane.co.uk/modernsteam/tech/elvin.htm
I believe some Big Four and maybe other NYC engines had these for a while. They also look like a mechanic’s nightmare!
Cheers, Ed
Apart from the short-lived “G” Class Garretts amongst whose faults were an over complicated mechanical stoker, the NZR relied on firemen and shovel power, so due to Ed and others, I’ve learnt a lot, and have come to the conclusion that the “G” Class mechanical stokers must have been real doozies!
[^o)] Hmmm, 900 and something views and no one’s taking up Eds offer.
Ok, so what were the “Detroit”, “Manitowoc”, “Windsor” and “Pere Marquette 10”?
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Railroad car ferries.
What is the silver box and associated equipment?
Judgeing from the position of the equipment, especially where those pipes are pointing, and the fact that it is winter, my best guess is those are switch heaters!
I think I’m supposed to ask a question now right?
How about what do “Stampede”, “Stevens”, and “Snoqualmie” have to do with railroads?
P.S. I’m not 100% sure if I’m following the rules correctly here, so if I’m not please let me know!
Famous passes to the Pacific Northwest.
What, and when, was the first fixed rail crossing of the Mississippi River?
(Isn’t that silver box some kind of power derail, or perhaps an ‘occupancy sensor’ or axle counting device? It isn’t placed where it would do any good as a switch heater, it has a head reminiscent of a typical motor drive, and I see no tanks or lines for the fuel necessary in such a location for a heater. Note the large number of tie bars to the movable points, indicating either heavy loads or preservation of high-speed geometry…)
I considered the previously posted image being a derail, but it seems to me that they are not connected to the points, to me it looks like the switch rod heads off to the left out of the photo…
Occupancy detector seems possible… I don’t really know how they work…
I honestly have no idea what it is, these where just the reasons I didn’t say switch machine (that was actually my first idea!). I honestly can’t wait till the poster of that question responds! I don’t really care if I’m right, I just REALLY want to know the answer!
Good thoughts, but young Isaac has it correct. All electric. More info can be found here: https://spectruminfrared.com/railroad-products-and-track-switch-heaters/rrsh-hot-air-blower/
Now back to the game!
I checked out that link on switch heaters, very cool! They would make a nice detail for the more modern railroads, I wonder if anyone has done one on a model railroad?
That’s nifty!
Of course, this also means Isaac gets the next question… oh wait, he did. Carry on!
That thing would make a nifty set of detail castings for modelers. One piece for the box, one for the ‘manifold’, two for the directional heads… clean out a crib and glue it on down; doesn’t even seem to require detail painting.
Sorry for the late response, I got involved with a project and never got back to this. 1936 is indeed the correct build date for the first UP Challenger. If anyone is interested in more info on Camelback locos, this Wikipedia artical is where I got my information from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelback_locomotive This should be a fun and interesting thread if we can keep it going. I really like trivia, that’s why Jeopardy is one of my favourite tv shows.
Details West is your answer [Y]
https://www.walthers.com/switch-heater-with-blower-propane-tank-heater-duct
Cheers, Ed
I believe this is the current question. Wasn’t it the Rock Island, at Rock Island? I have to cheat and look it up…1856? I suspect a trick, though…
If correct, my trivia question is:
What locomotive caught the General?
The Texas.
For my trivia question: What types of locomotive (wheel arrangement) did the Colorado Midland Railway use?
P.S. You don’t have to name all of the types, (unless you want to) just one will do.
And the conductor William Allen Fuller drove the Texas backwards to catch Andrews in the stolen general.
The Texas
Image from Wikipedia
The General
Always loved the General[Y]
Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor
As far as I am concerned the designers of the General are world-famous artists and should be commemorated for their creation[Y]
It is a Piece of Art!
Carry on.
TF
Tenwheelers!
Which railroad connected the town of Marble/CO. with the outside world?
Fascinating! That’s something charming I would never have known to look for, like something out of a Mark Helprin novel.
Treasury Mountain Railway.
Ulrich, was it the Crystal River RR?
I’m going to assume that’s the answer until I hear differently.
My question: What is one of the only two or three electric railways operating west of the Mississippi River?
Now, or ‘ever’?
Does the Caltrain Peninsula electrification count?
I was going for now, and I didn’t count Caltrain or other mainly transit railroads. My mistake. I guess I was aiming at freight-carrying railroads, but that’s not what I said.
Your turn!