Working rail roads and their tracks.

[BravoXray]

Here's a 2-4-4-2 called Skookum, used in logging country. Pretty cool looking old locomotive. Was restored and was running excursions in 2019.

Deep River Logging No. 7 Skookum

 

[the old grind]

I do like those 'articulated' Garratts still in use in South Africa and perhaps still 'down under' (three countries) but is there no love for Shays too? So many of them were special-purpose and NG. (typically 3'?)

Garratts will easily take a smaller radius than any of the Mallets or similar articulateds used in the States into the mid-'50s. (Alleghanies) That has much to do with their survival on old iron. btw, there's no such thing as an ugly train.

 

[bcp]

.... btw, there's no such thing as an ugly train.

Bruce

 

[Hay Dude]

Whew, yeah
Thats ugly alright

 

[5030]

Here's a 2-4-4-2 called Skookum,

What the Canadian cordless tool destroyer refers to as junk... Quit watching him, a bit to vulgar for my taste

 

[BackRoad]

The El Talgo - That is a train which only it's Mother could love!

 

[5030]

The cab reminds me of Groucho Mark's face....lol

 

[ArlyA]

I now wonder if these small articulated locomotives had the same spherical ball connections to move the steam pressure to the drive trucks like the B Boy did? As I understand it, these spherical ball connections were a special feature of them.

 

[MossRoad]

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Bruce

YIKES!

 

[MossRoad]

Another thread got me to remembering compressed air locomotives.