Hey that looks like my layout!! LOL
This is what happens when you don’t have solid/level benchwork…
Michael:
YOUR layout? Wow, it actually looks like someone was in my garage a couple of weeks ago and took some unathorized photographs of the Yuba River Sub, LOL!
Tom [:P]
Any resemblance to the Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo is purely coincidental, I’m sure[(-D]
That side-tank 0-6-0T in the third photo bears a remarkable similarity to TTT #C15 - except for the rack gears and the length of train being handled. C15 is an adhesion loco, and two four-wheelers would have her on the verge of slipping on the 4%.[:-^]
The whole thing is a perfect answer to those who say our grades are too steep and our curves are too tight…[8D]
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in the vertical, with a pretzel for a curve template)
Even though it might not look like it, the industry track on the right sits at least 10->12 feet down from the mainline here. I estimate the grade at 10% or more. Best I can figure is they use one switcher to move one boxcar up the track at a time to the main, where it is attached to the train.
(3D Map from maps.bing.com (Microsoft’s web mapping service))
In one of my forays around these illustrious forums I came across an interesting scenario …
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/192312.aspx?PageIndex=1
Check the map sited herein and you will find a figure 8 track that was apparently used to test rolling stock…
The map in question is this one…
http://ilaerialphotos.com/images/counties/Cook/images/0bwq03025.jpg
lower left hand quadrant…enlarge it and you see what I mean…
The last picture on the right with the tipped boiler is the Cog Railway, run up the side of Mt Washington in northern NH. They mosty run bio diesels these days. One of the many awesome things to do in Norhern NH
Rangerover1944, Thanks for the pictures.[Y]
The last picture on the right with the tipped boiler is the Cog Railway, run up the side of Mt Washington in northern NH. They mosty run bio diesels these days. One of the many awesome things to do in Norhern NH
Glad ya’ll enjoyed them. I have some pictures of interest from the yard in Belington and down in Cass, West Virginia, of some really nice steamers that I have no idea what they are. I saw a 2-4-0 switcher in Belington last weekend all covered with a blue tarp and really rusted up, I hope they restore it, didn’t have my camera with me and it was raining like the devil, it was on the tracks though on a siding. Soon as I get a chance to get back over there I’ll get some pics and post them.
What you were likely looking at were Shays (set of 3 cylinders on the side with a boiler sitting slightly to one side) They also have a Heisler and a Climax last I checked.
Heisler’s piston arrangement looks like a V-2 Engine pumping away on a central shaft.
A Climax has two cylinders (one each side) pushing a wheel around, which in turn, turns a central crank.
The 2-4-0 was likely a road switcher. True yard switchers don’t have lead or trailing trucks. The purpose of the lead trucks was to help the locomotive frame follow the bend of the track at high rates of speed. (In other words, to keep it from derailing)
BTW: Welcome to the forum!