Unique Locomotives

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Here's an 0-6-4T at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It's an extremely rare wheel arrangement, apparently.

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>>1090051
I see it's still running.

Unlike Gazelle which will forever be a museum piece now.

Anyway, here's Gazelle in her working years.

>>1090041

I saw this bitch on Thomas the tank engine today!

>>1090060
Literally?..

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>>1090041
These were popular express engine on the Camden & Amboy.
I have folders full of stuff like this.

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>>1090041

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

You guy will love link related

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>>1090041
the LNER EE1 2-Co-2, the only large rigid framed electric locomotive built for use in the UK

>>1090072
Aww, it's so goofy looking that it's adorabe.

>>1090136
I have heard about these locomotives before.

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>>1090174
I never knew the LNER had electric locomotives.

I always knew the Southern Railway had electric multiple units.

Such as the Brighton Belle here.

>>1090185
The LNER was probably second behind the SR for electrified routes, but it had the most electric locomotives (The SR operated exclusively EMUs), mostly inherited from the North Eastern Railway

https://www.lner.info/locos/Electric/electric.php

>>1090195
I see and according to the LNER encyclopedia, the majority of them were Bo-Bo's.

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>>1090185
>I never knew the LNER had electric locomotives.

The Woodhead route is a classic. The only 1500VDC electric line in the UK, planned before WW2 but completed afterwards. Then British Railways decided to use 25kVAC for all future electrification, which left Woodhead as a bit of an oddball.

It still lasted into the 80's though (and it's closure is still a short sighted muddle headed scandal, but that's another story)

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>>1090204

> it's closure is still a short sighted muddle headed scandal

it's worse that that. if they hadn't ripped up the Great Central Mainline (Including woodhead) there wouldn't have been a need for HS2. they could have simply upgraded the existing line and had a high speed link between London and Manchester (one of the busiest airports in the UK)

i was in short utterly moronic

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>>1090204
I see that plenty of people have plans for this line in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_line#Proposals_for_the_future

A double tracked preserved railway too I also saw too.

>>1090206
So the GCR I kind of get; there were a bunch of London-North lines, and the GCR didn't pass through many large towns, so it was naturally going to be high on the list when the cull happened.

In retrospect it was short sighted, but you'd have needed a crystal ball to realise it maybe.

>>1090237
There's always plans. That's all they ever amount too. Part of the problem is that idiots keep wanting to build roads on top of the track bed, and there's a high-voltage distribution cable running through the main Woodhead tunnel which the National Grid claim will cost eleventy billion pounds to move.

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>>1090072
More from the C&A

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Cab Forward

>>1090251
That's always true.

>>1090251
Not quite. The GCR was always going to loose out to the Midland route (WCML) just as the GW mainline to Birmingham did. They both were degraded/closed due to "duplication" but nowadays capacity is at a premium.

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>>1090253
Looking at this I am reminded of a locomotive called Derwent.

Although Derwent is not an 0-8-0.

>>1090257
I know of these locomotives indeed.

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>>1090052
Might be smaller than Gazelle?

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>>1090308
The front locomotive is somewhat small yes.

But Gazelle is still quite the small locomotive for Standard Gauge.

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Behold a shay that was rebuilt as a diesel

>>1090317
I'm conflicted for words on that, Anon.

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LVRR

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Have some Brunel Gauge!

>>1090321
Quite the machine there.

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>>1090322
Here's another.

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>>1090324
Here's one in G Scale.

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>>1090328
Here's another Broad Gauge locomotive.

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>>1090136

For what purpose?

>>1090355
The swiss were really advanced with electrification schemes

>>1090372
Where was this taken?

>>1090381
No clue.

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>>1090372
with that cylinder arrangement, it looks like they tried to make a locomotive out of a steam traction engine.
If you know that thing's story, please tell me

>>1090410
Alright then.

I was meant to replied as Nikishika but I neglected to write the name.

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>>1090419
Unfortunately I don't.

It looks quite crude to be honest unlike Blue Circle.

>>1090410
It looks American.

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14 driving wheels that were on a rigid frame. This thing broke switches and track. It was taken out of service after a short tour of Russia.

>>1090581
America doesn't use buffer and link couplers.
It looks euro to me

>>1090583
You're right, I missed that.

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>>1090582
The best thing for it.

The tiny smokebox door makes it look funny too.

Also how heavy was that locomotive anyway?

Obviously heavier or just as heavy as The Great Bear here, which had an extremely limited route avaliability to due it' weight of 142.75 long tons.

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i came across this today, a so called "Telelok", built in '79.

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>>1090625
This to me is reminiscent of a locomotive I know.

A Ford diesel built in 1932.

Which looks somewhat different to this.

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>>1090625

>>1090664

>>1090632

That looks somewhat like the diesel in my photo.

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Can someone explain this to me?

>>1090782
From what I could gather that locomotive ran on the Kahlenberg Railway in Austria.

>>1090786
I meant why it has such a strange design. But knowing where it ran is cool.

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>>1090790
Because it's a cog locomotive, designed for climbing hills and cog locomotives often do look something like the one in your picture.

Yet others are designed different yet have the same principle when climbing hills.

>>1090782
I know nothing about its history.

It appears to have outside mounted stephenson's valve gearing which i have never seen done before.
usually the eccentrics and valve gear linkages are on the axle, hidden by the frame.

It has a gear from the engine axle to the single driver axle, making it a 0-2-2.

the brakes are also something I never seen before.
They make an almost complete circle around the flywheel and contract on the flywheel.

I don't see the benefits of this unconventional design.

>>1090794
>>1090795

Thanks!

>>1090808
No problem.

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>>1090821
I've seen that locomotive too.

I also saw Shannon, the Wantage Tramway 0-4-0 too at the Didcot Railway Centre where the locomotive in your pic is based at too.

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>Unique Loco thread.
>No Double Fairlies.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q8bT3q_oHA

Some footage for you autists.

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Here's a compressed air locomotive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=080iwBKaEMM

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>>1091006
You're right, how did these go unmentioned on this thread, thanks Anon.

Also the GT3 belongs here too.

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SNCF class 160 A 1.

Twelve driving wheels, six cylinders.

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>>1091008
Oh Anon, you have my autism going nuts for that, thanks.

Have William Francis as a reward.

>>1091011
Where is Sid based at?

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>>1091024
Impressive locomotive there.

I find this one here interesting.

>>1091027
Statfold Barn Railway

>>1091047
Ah, thanks.

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EF500. Never made it to production because its operating spec was illegal and they just gave up after not really needing more 6000 kW locos.

>>1091205
Why were the operating specs of this locomotive illegal?

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Because more speed.

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How has no one posted camelbacks?

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>>1091574

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>>1090321

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>>1091586

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>>1091571
Looks quite the wheel arrangement there.

Here is the Q1 for ya.

>>1091574
I can't wrap my head around it desu...

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>>1091580
Because Britbongs like me can make big locomotives.

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>>1091581
Good question.

A lot of the locomotives here have been American on this thread so far though.

>>1091584
Looks sleek.

>>1091594
European designs aren't that crazy. For the most part.

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>>1091596
I see.

The Leader Class locomotive here was a shitty design from the get go.

It was sweltering hot to work in.

Contrary to the diesel look it's actually a steam locomotive.

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Minimum gauge!

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>>1091694
I might know it and I want to say it's in Wales, no?

Here's something else small too.

>>1090136
Why didn't railroads electrify steam locomotives and use electricity to heat the steam?

>>1090321
Steampunk fantasy engine.

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>>1091705

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>>1091887
Another Camelback?

>>1091923
Was it originally built as a tank engine or was it a tender engine that was converted into a tank engine?

I'm curious.

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>>1091944
Just searched it.
It was built that way. It is a 2-6-6 tank.
The Boston and Albany railway also had some 4-6-6 tanks

>>1091954
Ah, I like the design though.

>>1091956
There aren't a lot of big American tank engines.

>>1091589
Bulleid. Q1s are superb locos despite the austerity exterior.

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>>1092182
That I noticed, yet in the UK we have the S100s on a few preserved railways.

Like No65 on the Kent And East Sussex Railway.

>>1092195
Still, they don't win no beauty contests.

>>1091699
Why was this even built?

>>1092283
From what info I could gather it was built for the German military back in 1888 at Hohenzollern.

>>1092381
But can it pull anything? It doesn't seem powerful enough.

>>1092423
Judging from the size I would say one or two wagons tops.

That's just guesswork, I only found this on Pinterest.

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and now for something completely different

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>>1092474
That's some weird Shed 17 esque shit there.

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>>1092486
Rather...

>>1092491
I guess, but bring unique locomotives too.

>>1092486
fucked up

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>>1092683
Including this.

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>>1091694

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>>1091588

>>1092837
I wonder where this ran..

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>>1092838
It looks like it's still being built.

Anyway have a Shefflex Railmotor.

>>1092839
It's not the first time I've seen these on this thread.

>>1090357
Lots of opportunities to build dams.

>>1090355
No coal so, electric heater for the boiler!

>>1092198
I don't know. A super model certainly not, more like the marrying type!

>>1093295
If you like marrying steam locomotives.

>>1093306
This is a no judging zone.
Except when we judge you.

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I saw this setup the other day. Does anyone know anything about that car in front of the locomotive? It's a short track rail system in my area, but I couldn't find any info on the weird looking car. Knoxville and Holston River

>>1093379
Ok then.

>>1093428
It's probably a power supply?

I don't know a great deal about US "railroads" so be kind on me.

>>1093428
It's called a slug. It's just an additional locomotive without a cab for extra power.

>>1093306
It is an ism meaning not pretty but not ugly. Mildly attractive. Not that someone would go marry a loco! Although I am sure there are se that would or could should the opportunity arise.

>>1093428
That's a B-unit, it only contains a gen-set and traction motors

>>1093664
I see, yet people have married weirder things.

>>1093678

B unit has gen-set and traction motors and no regular cab, slug/calf just has the motors and a concrete block on top for added weight to increase adhesion (sometimes semi-permanently coupled).

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well, it's certainly a "unique" locomotive...

>>1094073
I realized soon after

>>1094080
If this were real would there be enough work for it?

>>1094138
if there was enough work to justify a 2-8-0+0-8-2 garratt then I'm sure work would be found for a 2-6-6-4.

it's not that we never needed articulated locomotives it's just that the british loading gauge is really restrictive, which limits how big you can build your locos so we had to make do with 8-coupled frieght locomotives

had it been built it probably would have found work in areas like the woodhead line, Yorkshire coalfields or the tyneside area.

I also feel that it's worth mentioning that when the LMS was designing their 2-6-0+0-6-2 garratts a 2-6-6-0 or 0-6-6-0 mallet was designed as an alternative. someone actually scratch built a model of this behemoth in the 80s and has been kind enough to post pictures of it on the web

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/67706-horwich-mallet-0-6-6-0/

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You guys will love this.

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That is a lot of autism

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>>1094377

>Goldberg the syringe needle engine

>>1094381
>Five Nights at Freddie's crossover with Thomas the Tank Engine
my fucking god
I didn't know such autism was even possible

>>1094374
You're a special breed.

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>>1090317
This rustles me on a level seldom achieved.

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>>1094381

>sandcrawler engine
>'utini pacific'

Sides are gone.

>>1094374
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>>1094379
>>1094380
>>1094381
>>1094382

Did this Thomas faggotry come from Deviantart?

>>1094880
The fact you even need to ask makes me doubt your intelligence.

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>>1094380

>snoop the dogg engine

>>1095014
This Thomas faggotry...Has stained this thread.... More than it needed to be..

>>1095256
I should know where that engine is, but I can't put a name or a location where it is. DAMN!

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>>1095429
I am reminded of this locomotive by looking at this one.

Yet this model is a tank engine.

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>>1095506
Never seen that before.

Yet I know of a mental hospital which was in Hellingly, UK which had an electric railway.

>>1095512
Very Dewitt Clinton like, no?

>>1095555
>quad 5s
>train at a mental institution
quality post

>>1095580
I guess so.

But Hellingly wasn't the only hospital with a railway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hospital_railways_in_the_United_Kingdom

>>1094080
Who drew this?

>>1093925
Not bad.

>>1095562
When was this built?

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>>1095596
>the line from Hellingly Stn to the Hellingly lunatic asylum was known as the Cuckoo Line.

>>1095599
1848

>>1095613
Ah, thanks

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>>1095604
No, the Cuckoo Line was the service which ran from Polgate to Eridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_Line

>>1095615
I'm sure LGB or Bachmann make models of these locomotives.

>>1095725
*Polegate

>>1095725
oh, I see now. still, it was a branch line off of the Cuckoo line. "Take the Cuckoo to see your cuckoo" was a huge missed opportunity to market the service to the asylum, IMO.

>>1095763
Yeah, however a small part of the line is preserved as the Spa Valley Railway from Tonbridge Wells West to Eridge.

>>1095743
I know of that locomotive.

And seen that photo before.

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>>1095761
Nice! Another GWR locomotive.

This thread needed one.

Here's a GWR DeGlehn Atlantic as thanks.

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>>1095761
Erie Railroad broad gauge loco

>>1095776
I heard about this.

>>1095552
Going to have a stab a Wren or one of her sisters at Horwich works.

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>>1095768
There's a couple of Ex GNR (Ex LNER) Atlantic classes still around. Very strange wheel arrangement imo. Any idea why it existed?

Pic is GNR Class C1

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>>1095768
>>1095804
This ones the GNR C2. I've seen them both irl, prefer the look of this one honestly.

>>1095768
Was going to write it was not a GWR loco but proved myself wrong. All three de Glehn locos were ordered from and built in France for the GWR. Would suggest this photo is post reboilering though.

>>1095804
According to Wikipedia it was to pull the fastest and heaviest loads.

If that's an answer you were hoping to from me?..

>>1095805
I've not seen either of them to be honest..

I'm more of a GWR person myself.

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>>1095806
One of the original Atlantics is preserved at the French National Railway Museum.

>>1095815
Fair enough, though I doubt that could compete against say Pacific. I don't know enough about them honestly.
>>1095816
LNER>GWR

>>1096103
Yeah, the Pacifics were bound to replace them anyway.

Ok then

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>>1094381

>Slendimothy the bio-fused monster ghost engine of Shed 17

>>1096157
It has to be.

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>>1096287
There was something like that at the Lavender Line called Yvonne three years ago.

>>1095801
Ah, thanks anyway.

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It has bugged me throughout this thread that no one has posted anything from the Lartigue Monorail.

So I'll stop shrilling about and post this.

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>>1091006
The Ffestiniog is great for uniqueness and while I'm super tempted to post one of the George England's I'm gonna go ahead and post Talyllyn and Dolgoch instead.

I don't think Fletcher Jennings ever built a second one like them.

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Fastech 360. Two sets were built in 2005 as a test to figure out how the new SHinkansen should be designed. They had unique cab designs at either end along with emergency air brakes at the top of each car that earned them the nickname "Cat-eared Shinkansen". After testing they were scrapped in 2008 and the data was used to develop the E5 series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GNTfE6d7VM

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McKeen Motorcar

Really want one in HO

>>1096335
Ah the Ffestiniog Railway.

The combined age of Talyllyn and Dolgoch is over three hundred years old, right?

>>1096340
At least that was the case.

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>>1096459
I read that these things first were unveiled in 1905.

And some were on the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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>>1096482
Reminds me of this.

>>1096572
Interesting, where is this taken?

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>>1096479
304 to be precise. Talyllyn is 153 and Dolgoch is 151.

>>1096627
I thought as much.

>>1096580
It's an early Lehigh Valley Transit trolley.

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>>1096664
I see that this was in Pennsylvania.

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>>1096667
Correct! LVTransit was interesting because it was SEPTA before SEPTA. Express runs, long distance stuff, and freight as well. I recommend a look into it.

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>>1096694
I read that some of the stations still exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_Valley_Transit_Company#Present_day_remnants

Even this car is abandoned.

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An engine very similar to this was built in (I think) 1814 and ran into the 1860's.

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The A1/A1x Terrier. Are they unique on their own? Not really. 50 were built and 10 survived into preservation. But what is unique is that pic related was the oldest locomotive in British Railways service when it was withdrawn in 1964. It was built in 1872, meaning it was 92 years old when it was withdrawn. Even more unique is that it's preserved on the Bluebell Railway.

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>>1097029
In it's own right I guess it is.

However last year I found out about a Kitson built 0-4-0 well tank called Lively Polly which ran on the Liverpool Overhead Railway.

>>1097019
I might know about this locomotive.

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>>1097034
I've heard of Polly. Neat little loco!

Here's a nice forum topic on her and her history.
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/98514-livley-polly-the-elusive-tank/

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>>1097042

>>1097042
Thanks for the info.

I always wanted to know more about Polly.

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>>1097043
So she must of been a shunter then I see.

Probably?

>>1097049
>must of
shiggy diggy

>>1097052
And?..

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>>1097043

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>>1097059

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>>1097947
That's some strange looking locomotive there anon.

Some strange thing there indeed....

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Snowdon Mountain Railway

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>>1097985
I know of this railway.

I'm sure one of the locomotives were made in Switzerland, no?

I doubt it was this one...

>>1097947
What purpose does this even have?

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don"t have much but here's an LSWR 4-4-0 tank engine

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>>1090794

This one goes up Pikes Peak in Colorado (14,115 ft at the top)

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>>1091024

> 12

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Might as well be one.

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>>1092197
Here's another S100.

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>>1097985
>>1098054

>>1098320
Shit, what happened?

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>>1098317
Here's a Yugoslavian copy of the S100 which came to the UK a few years back.

>>1098316
Some fancy traction engine?

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>>1098275
Here's one in 7 1/4 Gauge.

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>>1098270
I'm surprised a Big Boy hasn't made it's way onto this thread until now.

Thanks for sharing anyway.

>>1098265
Nice, I see it predates the Snowdon Mountain Railway.

Yet that's in Wales.

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>>1098259
I can say I've not seen any LSWR 4-4-0 tank engines.

But I have seen this.

>>1098244
I may have seen this in books.

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Steam turbines forever!

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Didn't see one yet, so here's a Fireless engine belonging to the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway.

>>1098270
Big Boys are bit unique though. UP are rebuilding one. There are other, more powerful locos, that have not got the fame

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>>1098455
Oh I've seen that locomotive and been to the Sittingbourne And Kemsley Light Railway.

At one point during the years the railway was part of the Bowaters Paper Mill an articulated 0-4-4-0 tank engine called Monarch used to run on the line until 1966 when it was purchased by the Welshpool And Llanfair Light Railway.

>>1098449
Nah...Not if you're in the UK.

Maybe in the US, go for it.

>>1098550
Reminds me of this.
>>1095562

>>1098411
>The railway was officially opened on Monday 6 April 1896, and two trains were dispatched to the summit. On the first return trip down the mountain, possibly due to the weight of the train, locomotive No. 1 Ladas with two carriages lost the rack and ran out of control. The locomotive derailed and fell down the mountain. A passenger died from loss of blood after jumping from the carriage.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdon_Mountain_Railway#Opening_day_accident

>>1098785
Oh yeah, I remember now.

>>1098419
It's a Steam Log Hauler.

>>1099250
I've never seen one to be honest.

I've only seen traction engines.

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Worst narrow gauge conversion of a locomotive I've ever seen.

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>>1099385
Who the fuck converted that?

It's fucking ridiculous!

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The glorious Amtrak ICE test train!

>>1090822
Is she being restored?

>>1099688
There is a £14,000 appeal that the Didcot Railway Centre have launched so if that money is obtained then Shannon will see restoration.

http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/8967501.Didcot_experts_to_restore_old_engine/

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>>1099687
I assume the US ICE train didn't crash the German ICE then?

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Hey everyone, I have a new unique locomotives thread up and will be ending this one with this image.

New thread: >>1099711

See you there.