Well the 2-8-8-2 posts went further than I had ever anticipated when I started it on the HO forum. I think Fitz restarted here where it belonged in the first place. So how about something different---like the ugliest or strangest locomotive you have seen. Since I am a steam fan I would normally just limit it to steam, but I have seen some very ugly diesels out there and want to include them as well. Do I have any takers? What were they thinking?
Wow, that's some camelback! Watash and I tried this some time back--go look at "last year" on this forum. I started with the 9000 (all that stuff hanging on the smokebox.) It only went about 18 messages and very few photos, most posted by Watash and me and repeated on other forums. Great Northern and Northern Pacific were big on clusters hanging on the smokebox. I don't have many photos of uglies, actually.
Fitz, and BNSF, That photo that your looking at and said about it being "some camelback".. Sorry friend, but thats not a camelback!!!! Its a Winans Camel.... They were designed by a guy name Ross Winans... The B&O had one HUGH fleet of those monsters! Most of them were 0-8-0, or 4-6-0 in wheel arangement... The last one was dismantled at Mt. Clare Baltimore in 1899. They were some loco in their time as well... I plan to try one day model an HO scale version of one for the B&O, But thats a design I have to work on and work out being its not going to be as easy as it looks! HA! And the odd looking diesel you posted BNSF is the Abraham Lincoln by the B&O.... It was an 1,800 HP Diesel powered passenger car... I can't remember at the present what company made it but it was all blue with yellow or delux gold stripping.. That would be a nice one to model as well being the B&O only had that one! [ 07 August 2001: Message edited by: 7600EM_1 ]</p>
On the Winans Camel, what is the function of the eccentric crank connected to the driver #3 main rod bearing? It appears to be going backwards towards the tender.
Hank, I believe that back in those days that was their style of reverse mechanisum! Don't quote me though I may be mistaken but i'm pretty sure thats the reverse function as to the years that type loco ran... I can't say what was the year the first one made but I know the very last Winans Camel was dismantled in 1899....
Hank, the rod on the rear driver of the Winans Camel is the water pump for the injector. It was very common until the 1880's to have water pumps connected to the crosshead or rods, requiring the locomotive to be periodically run up and down the track to keep water in the boiler! [ 07 August 2001: Message edited by: Gregg Mahlkov ]</p>
Gregg, Thanks for clearing that up... I wasn't sure exactly what it was and all but it does make sence to be a reverse unit and now that it is in fact a water pump makes even more sence...And being its location I should have known! [ 08 August 2001: Message edited by: 7600EM_1 ]</p>
Here is an 0-4-0. I know nothing about it, it was in the box of old photos and cartoons I got at a garage sale. I am going to guess it is a mining or logging engine.
I have some photos from Europe that would fit your criterion. How do I post the images? Roger Henry Australia[*]null [ 13 August 2001: Message edited by: Roger HENRY ]</p>
