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Re: Outside frame steam engines.... Why?
Author: Craig Tambo
Date: 02-18-2018 - 11:52
Craig Tambo Wrote:
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> synonymouse Wrote:
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> [www.google.com]
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> on+McArthur+190+series+locomotives&client=firefox-
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> b-1&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=XrmRcgUQ0agacM%2
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> >
> 53A%252CaKITDJ0dTeKqUM%252C_&usg=__F149qYK0Vpn6Gd3
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> 8XPa-6sO2D1U%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLzaXJ_6rZAhVN7WMK
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> > HUq-AuYQ9QEISzAH#imgrc=I9krf4GGpwwvLM:
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> > 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.
In the same book (page 14), there's a picture of a 36" gauge 1917-built Baldwin 2-6-6-2 that went to Cuba. There were also articulateds in Puerto Rico, but I'm not sure of the gauge.
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> synonymouse Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >
> [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.
In the same book (page 14), there's a picture of a 36" gauge 1917-built Baldwin 2-6-6-2 that went to Cuba. There were also articulateds in Puerto Rico, but I'm not sure of the gauge.
