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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway Fire-Fighting Tank Car

http://www.dataviewbooks.com/firetank.html

Friday, June 19, 2009

UP 2-10-2

http://www.dataviewbooks.com/upsantafe.html

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Lehigh Valley Camelback

Lehigh Valley Camelback

Friday, May 1, 2009

CSX C40-8W 7329 still in Conrail Quality paint


A decade after its official demise, Conrail lives on!


Tuesday, March 24, 2009

GP30 RDMT Road Slug 2328




CSX GP30 Road Slug 2328 was built as L&N 1029 in the spring of 1963; she's lost her innards, but 40+ years in Class 1 service isn't too bad.


HO RTR GP30 w/DCC, B&O/Capital #6918

CSX (ex D&S, ex SCL) GP38-2 2557



CSX GP38-2 2557 started out life as Durham & Southern #2001 "Bull Durham 2" and later became SCL 2557 before being absorbed into CSX. The former D&S engines are/were the only GP38-s on CSX without dynamic brakes, I believe.


HO RTR GP38-2, CSX by Bachmann Industries



N GP38-2 Loco CSX by Wm. K. Walthers



HO TrainMan GP38-2, CSX/YN3 #2795 by Atlas Model Railroad

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Baldwin Narrow Gauge 4-4-2 Atlantic

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Illustrated Catalogue of Narrow-gauge Locomotives By Baldwin Locomotive Works, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation, Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co

Baldwin Narrow-Gauge 4-4-0 "American"

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Illustrated Catalogue of Narrow-gauge Locomotives By Baldwin Locomotive Works, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation, Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co


Narrow-Gauge Locomotives The Baldwin Catalog of 1877



Colorado's Narrow Gauge Railroad DVD

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Conrail 250-ton Crane at Strasburg PA










Former Erie RR 250-ton Industrial Brownhoist crane on display at the RR Museum of PA

HO RTR 250-Ton Crane w/Tender, CR #45210





Railway Maintenance Equipment: The Men and Machines That Keep the Railroads Running

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co Brill car





Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. #76, a Brill Center-Door car, was built in 1926 and roamed the Philadelphia trackage for fifty years. It currently runs in Scranton PA with the Electric City Trolley Museum



Philadelphia Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail)


History of the J. G. Brill Company (Series: Railroads Past and Present)

Barber Asphalt Company 8,000-gallon tank car




Barber Asphalt Company 8,000-gallon tank car, built in the early 1900s by the German American Car Company; retains arch bar trucks

Walthers - 40' Tank car Gulf - Ready to Run

D&LW converted troop sleeper




Just barely visible is former DL&W 3621, built by Pullman during WWII as a troop sleeper and later acquired by the Lackawanna for use as a work car. Conrail inherited the car, and later donated it to Steamtown.


Walthers - Express Box Car (Rebuilt Troop Sleeper) - Assembled (2-pack) HO - Erie Lackawanna

Long Island RR Rotary Snowplow





Showing its 110 years, former Long Island Rotary Snowplow 193 at Steamtown, with its former PRR steam locomotive tender. Built in 1898, this unit was active until 1965, and is the only known eastern US rotary to survive.


HO Rotary Snowplows

New York Central 4-6-4 Hudson tender




Perhaps the last surviving large relic of the New York Central's fleet of 4-6-4 Hudsons, X5313 went along with its locomotive to the TH&B; the locomotive itself was scrapped in 1954, but the tender was converted to a steam generator car, surviving in that form for decades before being retired to Steamtown.



Sounds of Steam Locomotives, No. 4: The Great New York Central - Hudson, Mohawk, Niagara MP3 download



New York Central, Hudson Type 20x30 poster


HO Hudson

Canadian National 4-6-4T Baltic Tank






Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1914, Canadian National #47 is a 4-6-4T Baltic Tank built for commuter service, with an extended frame for carrtying its own fuel and water; this configuration made for a shorter locomotive that was easier to turn. Original serving with the Grand Trunk, #47 was later absorbed into the CN, where it ran until 1959.

#47 is the only surviving Baltic Tank in the US, as later American-built 4-6-4Ts of the Central of new Jersey and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company were all scrapped. However, two other examples remain in Canada.


Guide to North American Steam Locomotives (Railroad Reference, No 8)

Brooks-Scanlon Corp 2-6-2 Prairie






Brooks-Scanlon Corp #1 is a 2-6-2 built by Baldwin in 1914, and used for logging. This locomotive was an early addition to Steamtown, being purchased in 1962.

In the US, the 2-6-2 Prairie evolved as a more powerful outgrowth of the 2-6-0 Mogul.



HO RTR 2-6-2 Prairie w/Tender & Smoke, UP #1836


HO RTR 2-6-2 Prairie w/Tender & Smoke, NYC #1905

Canadian National 3254 S-1-b Mikado











Canadian National 3254 was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company for the Canadian Government Railway. It quickly became part of the merged Canadian National, where it served hauling freight for forty years.For much of the 1980s, it ran on the Gettysburg Railroad before going to Steamtown.


Canadian National Steam in Color Volume 1: East



HO Spectrum USRA 2-10-2 Light w/DCC, CN #4209

Friday, November 14, 2008

NATX 4753 tank car walk-around













NATX 4753 was built in 1925 as a twin-dome tank car, and is now on display at Steamtown in Scranton.


HO RTR 30K Gal Ethanol Tank, NATX

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Single-Driver Locomotive for the Flint & Pere Marquette



From an original 1894 article, in the public domain

Friday, October 31, 2008

Today's Railfanning - October 31, 2008


All I caught today were e/b CSX AC4400CWs 435 and 257


HO RTR AC4400 UP CSX CPR BNSF

Sunday, October 26, 2008

CSX SD70MAC 4780



HO N 1/29 SD70MAC

PROX & UTLX tankers

UTLX 646397


PROX 69938

CSX AC6000CW locomotive



The AC6000CW was the culmination of GE's efforts in the horsepower race of the 1990s, featuring a GE 7HDL16 prime mover rated at 6,000hp. This made the new locomotives only slightly less powerful than the EMD DDA40X double diesels of two decades previous, but the new powerplants were far from reliable, and some Union Pacific units were built with the less powerful 7FDLs.

CSX bought the first production AC6000CWs, and for a time derated their engines (via software limits) to improve reliability; they have since been brought back up to their original rating, save for a single FDL-engined example. CSX 5012 is seen here leading an earlier 600-series unit eastbound towards Pittsburgh in 2005.


HO RTR AC4400

Friday, October 24, 2008

Manila Railroad 4-8-2 Mountain locomotive

New Mountain Type and Santa Fe Type Locomotives for the Manila Railroad MOUNTAIN 4 8 2 TYPE LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE MANILA RAILROAD AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY BUILDERS The Manila railroad on the island of Luzon the largest island in the Philippine group of islands is having important additions to its locomotive equipment and rolling stock Much of its original equipment has become almost unfit for service and in need of repair The situation however is being much improved by the addition of the new Mountain 4 8 2 type locomotives for passenger service and ten Santa Fe 2 10 2 type locomotives for freight service built by the American Locomotive Company at the Brooks Works In designing the locomotives the also interchangeable except for the modifications required because of the use of lateral motion driving boxes on the forward axle of the 2 10 2 type locomotive rods crank pins driving axles and driving boxes driving box saddles shoes and wedges equalizing arrangement details and spring hangers Both types of locomotives havv 20 in by 28 in cylinders 11 in piston valves with bl 2 in valve travel and an extended wagon top boiler carrying 180 Ibs steam pressure The inside diameter of the first ring of the boiler is 63 in the firebox The Mountain 4 8 2 type locomotives which are capable of exerting a tractive force of 28,600 Ibs have 60 in drivers and weigh 183,000 Ibs 119,000 Ibs being on the drivers 34,000 Ibs on the front truck and 30,000 on the trailing truck The engine wheel base is 34 ft 7 in and driving wheel base 15 ft 9 in The tenders have a capacity of six tons of coal and 5,000 gallons of water The road on which these locomotives run includes 1.5 per cent grade and curves of 492 feet The track gauge is of the 3 ft 6 in type which is the standard on
Railway and Locomotive Engineering A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances

Nothern Pacific Pacific 4-6-2 and Mikado locomotives

Extensive Order of New Locomotives for the Northern Pacific Railway Company The American Locomotive Company filled an order a short time ago for seventy one engines The order consisted of 20 Pacific type locomotives 25 Mikados 20 eight wheeled switchers and б Mallets All of the engines were built at the Brooks works of the company at Dunkirk New York An interesting fea and three extra bolts at the top to fill in the corner formed where the vertical and horizontal rows met Two combustion tubes 2 inches in diameter were expanded in on each side of the fire box just below the brick arch and a little ahead of the center of the fire box Immediately above the arch and following its slope there were Cylinder diameter 26 in piston stroke 28 in wheel base driving 14 ft wheel base total 37 ft 7 in weight in working order 314,000 Ibs weight on drivers 181,000 Ibs weight on trailer truck 64,000 Ibs weight on front truck 69,000 Ibs weight on engine and tender 512,600 Ibs steam pressure 190 Ibs fire box length 120 in fire AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE COMIANY TYPE 4 6 2 LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY BUILDERS
Railway and Locomotive Engineering A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances