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Discussion of steam locomotives from all manufacturers and railroads

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 #210385  by Centurylover68
 
Everyone talks about the strongest, fastest most beautiful and even the ugliest steam engine. Have you ever talked about the strangest steam engine. The criteria is:
-It must be a US engine otherwise it would be too easy
-It can be a whole engine or a feature on it
-It can be a wheel arrangement or how it looks
-The engine or feature can't have been mass-produced(No Camelbacks)

 #210456  by 2spot
 
I can think of two good ones offhand. The first is Mt Washington Cog Railways #6 (#1 is good too). http://www.thecog.com/images/gallery/fu ... _steam.jpg If a wierd Canadian log hauler could be included then the "Walking Dudley" of McNair Fraser Logging (outside Vancouver) would be my first choice. http://www.westvanlib.org/Historical/Fr ... stumps.htm http://www.westvanlib.org/Historical/Fr ... dudley.htm There were probably other "Walking Dudleys" besides this one. Theres no end of the strangeness in the steam era.

 #211009  by ek2179
 
How's about the Loree compounds of the D&H, or the hinged-boiler 2-6-6-2s of the Santa Foo, or the "streamlined" 4-8-0 switchers of the N&W . . .

ek2179

 #211102  by Centurylover68
 
I've never seen a streamlined 4-8-0 switcher. What does it look like?
One of my choices for strangest would have to be Vulcan's Duplex. A boiler, cab and water and fuel tanks mounted on two 0-4-0 engines facing each other. Or Santa Fe's 2-10-10-2's. I read those weren't too successful.An odd switcher might be those 0-10-2's simply because of the wheel arrangement.

 #213435  by 2spot
 
If you go to: www.gearedsteam.com/ check out the geared engines of Baldwin (5 built), Bell (6 wheel articulated), and the Dunkirk/Gilbert class "B"-it has a wood frame-(Dunkirk built the original Heisler designs). Neat but odd.

 #214666  by Lehigh Valley Railroad
 
Q2's...
 #214799  by TB Diamond
 
The C&O and the N&W steam turbines receive my vote. Possibly their electric traction motors disqualify them, however? Should this be the case, then my vote goes to the Pennsy's S-1 steam turbine.
 #216337  by TB Diamond
 
The Boynton Bicycle RR of Long Island had , I believe, two steam locomotives prior to being electrified. One steamer had a 12' drive wheel and the other a 8'. This operation ran on one rail with an overhead rail to keep the engine and cars upright. This was circa 1890 thru the very early 1900s.
 #220713  by kotaroooo
 
TB Diamond wrote:The Boynton Bicycle RR of Long Island had , I believe, two steam locomotives prior to being electrified. One steamer had a 12' drive wheel and the other a 8'. This operation ran on one rail with an overhead rail to keep the engine and cars upright. This was circa 1890 thru the very early 1900s.
Hellow, I'm a newcommer from Japan.
TB Diamond, "The Boynton Bicycle ", is it?.
http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=11895
http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=11896
http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/odboyn.Html
 #223669  by TB Diamond
 
kotaroooo: That is it. The info I had came from the old "Engineering Gazette". There was a photo of the electric car (wrecked) in a small book of New York state electric railroads by Felix E. Reifschneider published circa 1950.