Discrete: "apart or detached from others; separate; distinct." I think that was the right word.
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Discrete: "apart or detached from others; separate; distinct." I think that was the right word.
I took this photo of president's car M-100 (a 1954 Chrysler Imperial) at Pittsfield, Mass. in August 1955. Possibly Alfred Perlman was in the car at the time.
Yes, I thought of looking up builder's photos of the AT&SF 3460 and the ACL 4-8-4s, but didn't take the time to do it (was working after midnight here). But mention was made of L&N second group of Berkshires having BDDs, and (as pointed out by Pneudyne above) those drivers are the web-spoke ...
Strictly a non-expert here, but still fascinated by the whole disc driver question. Regarding smaller power, I have seen a Green Bay & Western 2-8-0 with a disc main driver at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum, and I have seen online images of a Chicago Great Western 4-6-0 with all disc drivers (...
Thanks for those images. So after about 1929, around two years after delivery of the first J-1s, the decision was made to go with the Baker valve gear, and those built up to that time eventually had the Walschaert gear replaced with the Baker. Can anyone shed light on the reason the Walschaert gear ...
Builder’s photos of the NYC’s “pilot” Hudson, J-1a 5200, show it with a Walschaert valve gear. However subsequent classes all had the Baker gear, and 5200 was retrofitted with the same gear. My question is: What led the NYC to change to the Baker gear on all subsequent Hudson orders, and then Mohawk...
I wonder about the attributed 1950 date, since the NYC replaced the Roman lettering with Gothic around 1940.
Also, regarding the the S-1a's 75-inch drivers, as opposed to 79-inch, I was given to understand that it was designed with the smaller drivers so it could pass wartime restrictions as freight power, but the frame was built to permit later retrofitting with the larger drivers (which was eventually do...
Has anyone come across an explanation of why the Wabash had both 4-8-2s and 4-8-4s that were nearly identical in all respects, except for the extra trailing truck axle on the 4-8-4s?
Photos of the Milwaukee Road's F-6 4-8-4s show holes in the driver counterweights. Here's an example: http://www.railarchive.net/randomsteam/milw128.htm I presume this was an attempt to adjust the rotating balancing. Note these were Baldwin locomotives, like the ACL 4-8-4s and NH 4-6-4s. By the way,...
Thanks very much for this information. It seems to validate my assumption that the image I have was taken on the Cincinnati Northern, rather than the Old Road.
I had trouble connecting to his site a few years ago, and it turned out it was a server issue -- my provider's server wasn't seeing his server for some reason. Terry did something from his end (as I recall) and the problem was corrected.
Thanks for the photos. The third photo shows that the 2710 wasn't the only L-2a working in the Elkhart area. But it remains a mystery whether L-2a Mohawks were assigned to the Big Four, but not NYC (ex-LS&MS) in the west. I am still trying to determine if the photo I have of the 2710 at Hudson, ...
Recently I came across an undated online photo of class L-2a Mohawk 2710, said to have been taken at Hudson, Michigan, where the Cincinnati Northern (part of the CCC&StL Ohio Division, I think) crossed the former LS&MS "Old Road." Having lived along the Old Road for a few years as ...
Notice, though, that there was a difference between the Dreyfuss streamlining on the J-3s and that of J-1 5344. The catwalk on the J-3s was straight, but that of the 5344 had two levels.