by chnhrr
This is something I wasn’t familiar with until recently. Apparently in the early 1920’s the NYC purchased some Shay geared steam locomotives for the New York’s West Side line. One thinks of Shays for use only on logging railroads. The locomotive were covered in a shroud to meet the requirements of an obscure city ordinance in which steam locomotives that travelled at street level had to be covered so as not to frighten horses.
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What was the technical advantage of using this locomotive type as essentially a switching unit, especially when oil electrics were being introduced? Were Shays used elsewhere on the system (i.e. Detroit, Cleveland) and did any other major class 1 railroad use this loco type in as similar application?
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What was the technical advantage of using this locomotive type as essentially a switching unit, especially when oil electrics were being introduced? Were Shays used elsewhere on the system (i.e. Detroit, Cleveland) and did any other major class 1 railroad use this loco type in as similar application?