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Here's some shot of the CP AC4400 let's come inside the CP 8858 AC4400dc Hi Montrealrail Nice pics, thanks for posting. May I comment on the second picture - the virtual monitor Ok, the cab looks decently clean on the picture - B-U-T ! ;-)) - pardon my coming back on an aspect I have commented earl...

I have been collecting articles from several trade publication concerning Alco's ventures into all-welded boiler construction. .... If anyone wants copies of the articles, contact me off list: blwloc AT yahoo.com All are in .PDF format blwloco Hi blwloco That might be interesting. The procedures se...

Quote from the quote of the A1 webside text >> This method of construction did not significantly increase the technical risk << In other words: they would have made it a rivetted copper fireboxed boiler if they could? And they indeed felt there is no significant increse in risk in venturing to buil...

Thank you, Will.
Build late - scrapped the sooner: shouldn't they have saved it?
Maybe .. however there was a general rush to get rid of anything steam in those years.
Well, that's the way of the world!

Merry Chrismas to all of you

= J =

(sorry, please be patient - this 'freight train' may start slow )

You might want to look up my earlier comment on possible improvements in American 4-8-4 types see & scroll to the second posting with my NYC emblem http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=17422&start=15 And - erh - L.D. Porta did not exactly continue André Chapelon's work, no...

Yep, these were grease lubricated bushings - upper photo shows floating bushing. That was adopted from US steam practice.

[quote="Mountcastle"]America has been overtaken by an evil killjoy king who hates trains and who has issued a decree that all remaining steam locomotives in the country must be scrapped at once...saving three. To me that sounds like something that has happened around 1946 .. 49 - no? = J =

Its no worse than NS & CSX losing whole trains during the Conrail breakup. Ah-ok - I see .. Yeah, but wait - erh - with or without train crew? Hopefully they had ceased passenger train service before or could it be that this is an explanation to mystery of forlorn souls allegedly having been se...

My word or two on ‘New Steam’ W hen was the last time a new steam loco class had been designed in China? Not even at the time of designing the QJ class 2-10-2 since that clearly stems from the Russian FD-20 (Felix Dzershinsky) class, of construction started in the 1930s. True, Datong kept on buildi...

Hi everybody SNCF in France and DB in Germany also had bi-directional operation commuter trains with steam: O n the SNCF the system was inaugurated by the NORD railway, operating commuters from Paris to the suburbs and vicinities. Locos were de Caso designed powerful 2-8-2 tank engines equipped wit...

... all that ive found so far is that b&o 7629 destined for mount claire was simply lost in transit :-D Gee - I like that (the idea of a big Emmalley-One just disappearing in transit, not the ideo of the loco scrapped) Next time, I step down from a public transport suddenly realizing that inexp...

Hi, everybody - it's me - I'm back at last :wink: A note on three cylinder engines The regular case - three cylinder simple expansion: A s in most cases cylinders were given common bore and stroke for equal power outputs, cranks were set to give six equally spaced beats per revolution, that is: 3 x...