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Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why?
Author: Craig Tambo
Date: 02-18-2018 - 11:03

synonymouse Wrote:
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> [www.google.com]
> on+McArthur+190+series+locomotives&client=firefox-
> b-1&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=XrmRcgUQ0agacM%2
> 53A%252CaKITDJ0dTeKqUM%252C_&usg=__F149qYK0Vpn6Gd3
> 8XPa-6sO2D1U%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLzaXJ_6rZAhVN7WMK
> HUq-AuYQ9QEISzAH#imgrc=I9krf4GGpwwvLM:
>
> The 190 class had 48" drivers and weighed less
> than the 70 class with 44" drivers. I suspect
> less tractive effort and more prone to slip. Just
> a surmise. Definitely the appearance was altered
> in No. Carolina.
>
> The NdeM HR-01 class would have been heavier but I
> have a suspicion that the coupler height off the
> railhead may have been lower on Mexican narrow
> gauge. Unconfirmed.
>
> Does any know if there were ever built any 3'
> gauge articulateds overseas?

In the book "Railways of the Caribbean" by David Rollinson, on page 63 there's a picture of a 30" gauge 2-6-6-2 compound that Baldwin built in 1908 for a sugar company in the Dominican Republic.

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  Outside frame steam engines.... Why? HUTCH 7.62 02-14-2018 - 18:29
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? Agent 99 02-14-2018 - 18:37
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? HUTCH 7.62 02-14-2018 - 18:41
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? synonymouse 02-14-2018 - 19:05
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? Espee99 02-14-2018 - 19:21
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? Kevin Madore 02-15-2018 - 11:56
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? synonymouse 02-15-2018 - 12:45
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? Kevin Madore 02-15-2018 - 14:22
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? synonymouse 02-15-2018 - 18:37
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? HUTCH 7.62 02-16-2018 - 08:21
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? synonymouse 02-16-2018 - 10:02
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? synonymouse 02-16-2018 - 10:14
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? Agent 99 02-16-2018 - 12:43
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? HUTCH 7.62 02-16-2018 - 13:13
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? synonymouse 02-16-2018 - 13:45
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? Craig Tambo 02-18-2018 - 11:03
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? Craig Tambo 02-18-2018 - 11:52
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? Nudge 02-18-2018 - 16:41
  Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why? Bro. 02-18-2018 - 19:42


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