Working rail roads and their tracks.

[bdhsfz6]

Not trying to come across wrong here, but the Challengers were 4-6-6-4 configurations. Union Pacific 3985 is an example.
Challenger No. 3985
Big Boys were 4-8-8-4 and originally slated to be known as Wasatch class, because of their intended route.
Both were built by ALCO.

Sorry. Left out the "&" between Challenger and Big Boy in my post.

Nice catch. I edited the error.

 

[the old grind]

Anybody ever see the Allegheny at/in the Henry Ford museum? It's still there. (2-6-6-6, Lima) Pics at the top of the page here:

Allegheny Steam Locomotive, 1941 - The Henry Ford

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's massive Allegheny, introduced in 1941, represents the peak of steam railroad technology. Among the largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever built, it weighed 1.2 million pounds with its tender and could generate 7,500 horsepower. Just 11 years later, C&O...

www.thehenryford.org

 

[MossRoad]

Anybody ever see the Allegheny at/in the Henry Ford museum? It's still there. (2-6-6-6, Lima) Pics at the top of the page here:

Allegheny Steam Locomotive, 1941 - The Henry Ford

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's massive Allegheny, introduced in 1941, represents the peak of steam railroad technology. Among the largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever built, it weighed 1.2 million pounds with its tender and could generate 7,500 horsepower. Just 11 years later, C&O...

www.thehenryford.org

I was just looking at that on-line a couple hours ago.

 

[ArlyA]

Anybody ever see the Allegheny at/in the Henry Ford museum? It's still there. (2-6-6-6, Lima) Pics at the top of the page here:

Allegheny Steam Locomotive, 1941 - The Henry Ford

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's massive Allegheny, introduced in 1941, represents the peak of steam railroad technology. Among the largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever built, it weighed 1.2 million pounds with its tender and could generate 7,500 horsepower. Just 11 years later, C&O...

www.thehenryford.org

I was at that museum but that was looooong time ago.

 

[ArlyA]

Here is a short video which is a sales video about articulated engines in North America.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[ArlyA]

This video is about the 1875 failure of a new bridge over the Mississippi river during the third train to cross it. No failure was found and it was rebuilt within 3 weeks exactly the same as before.

 

[MossRoad]

Yikes!

 

[kenmbz]

I love their test procedure of just loading up with live engines and conductors and waiting to see if it collapses
Could have just used loaded cars with flats to allow the loco to be fully across?

 

[ArlyA]

I love their test procedure of just loading up with live engines and conductors and waiting to see if it collapses
Could have just used loaded cars with flats to allow the loco to be fully across?

I thought they would have used heavily loaded cars and push them across 1st. Another mystery in my small mind was looking at the "after the collapse photos", how could it have been rebuilt in two weeks?? Among other mysteries....

 

[ArlyA]

Another RR built in Minnesota built around the same time in the river bluff country. This guy makes quite good historical video's.

 

[MossRoad]

Was over in Midway, between Goshen and Elkhart today. Saw my first distributed power train sitting along U.S. 33. It was fortunately broken apart at one of the crossings or it would have been a couple miles long. Here's one of the cars on that train...

 

[BravoXray]

I travel that route a lot, and see DP quite often. I have seen what looked like trains with DP split at crossings, but the car ahead of the locomotive had a telemetry unit hanging on the coupler, seems like they have been parking trains pretty close together. One was within a hundred feet or so, never saw that until recently.
The longest one I've seen along US33 was just a little over 3 miles long.

It's a shame that some of those graffiti artists don't have a better canvas than a rail car. I've seen a few really good landscapes.

I saw one of the GP/slug units in the yard today, but it went behind a line of cars before I could get a picture. Another set is on the storage track near the west end of the yard.

 

[ArlyA]

Historical film about the RR's and towns in western Minnesota working through the bad, bad winter of 1880-81.

 

[Cub 7274]

Sometimes the DP is the beginning of another train so they split them where you see this

 

[MossRoad]

 

[BravoXray]

Apparently, NS had an ooopsie in the Elkhart Yard this week, or this is a new method of underframe inspection.
The car rack on the left side of the first picture appears to have the front of a vehicle sticking out of the end of the car. Probably loaded with a lot of damaged cars and/or trucks.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I have RR experience when I worked for about 5 different car repair shops over the years as a welder. (ak carmen) This thread is about anything associated with RR's.

One of my best friends is a retired Soo Line Rail Master. I imagine many commenting here might know Mr. Munt. Anyway, he is filled with rail stories, as well as being curiously more organized than the rest of us and better at conflict management—although most of that starts out with, "I don't want to piss on your feet, but..."

 

[MossRoad]

Apparently, NS had an ooopsie in the Elkhart Yard this week, or this is a new method of underframe inspection.
The car rack on the left side of the first picture appears to have the front of a vehicle sticking out of the end of the car. Probably loaded with a lot of damaged cars and/or trucks.

Ouch!

 

[yanmars]

I saw a train with about 200 cars recently. Unsure how long that would be.