Steam Shunters

>his """""country""""" literally runs thomas """"""""trains""""""""

babby-tier desu

>>1081314
Not always.

>>1081314
Britbong trains

>>1081328
Yeah and?

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Fireless steam shunter in a power plant in Mannheim

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>>1081529
We've got fireless locomotives here in the UK too, when was that one in your photo made?

It's called a switcher you mouth breathing monarchist.

>>1081538
I won't speak like a burger eating colonialist like yourself. Don't like it? Then start your own thread!

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Shit like this.

porter everywhere

>>1081673
Looks pretty neat though.

>>1081531
1987, in Meiningen, the same facility that made the Tornado's boiler.

>>1082095
That's pretty late, to be honest I didn't think locomotives like that were still being built.

The fireless locomotive in my photo was built in 1925.

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The largest, heaviest and most powerful two- and three-cylinder 0-8-0 switchers were built and operated here in the US.

The largest 3-cylinder 0-8-0's were the Indiana Harbor Belt's U-4a class. Built by the American Locomotive Works' Schenectady Plant in 1927, the locomotives had 72.5 sq ft of grate area, 57" drivers, had two 23.5"x32" and one 23.5"x28" cylinders, used Gresley motion for the inside cylinder, and carried 200 lbs of steam pressure. The engines weighed a massive 294,000 lbs, and developed a starting tractive effort of 75,700 lbs. The engines were equipped with a Franklin booster on the leading tender truck that supplied 13,000 additional lbs of tractive effort at low speed, leading to a combined starting T.E. of 90,700 lbs. For comparison, a British Railways Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 developed a starting tractive effort of 39,667 lbs. The IHB's U-4a's looked for all the world like condensed Lima Super Power locomotives, with below-center smokebox doors, beetle browed Elesco bundle-type feedwater heaters, and bells hung on pedestals off to the left side of the smokebox front. The U-4a's served the IHB until dieselization in 1953; sadly, none were preserved.

>>1083250
It doesn't look like a shunter/switcher.

It more looks like a freight locomotive it's so big!

>>1082135
The fact that the GDR were still building & maintaining steam locomotives is why Meiningen have the skills & equipment to build large boilers.

>>1083311
I see, ergo Tornado's boiler.

>>1083281
She was built to move long cuts of coal cars for the steel plants on the shore of Lake Michigan

>>1083375
Fair enough, thanks for the info

>>1083281
In a manner of speaking, they were. Switchers here in the US were, and are, normally assigned to freight yards. I think a more succinct way of putting it is the engine looks more like a road locomotive than a switcher. The United States has the largest loading gauge and clearance limits in the world, and the largest, heaviest and most powerful steam locomotives overall ever built anywhere were built here in the US (though not the most efficient or most powerful based on weight; that distinction belongs to France). Indeed, the 'small' locomotives here in the states (like the IHB's U-4a 0-8-0's) were quite large by the standards of other countries, and were larger or as large and much more powerful that road engines in those countries. The U-4a's were even more powerful than the largest non-articulated steam locomotives ever built in Europe, the RENFE's (Spanish National Railways) 151.3100 class of 3-cylinder 2-10-2's, which produced 72.050 lbs tractive effort vs. the U-4a's 75,700 lbs tractive effort (90,700 with tender booster in operation), for example.