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I guessed geared because it looks so short in that picture, which is actually the tender. I may have been thinking camelback. Perhaps this is photographic foreshortening from early telephoto lenses, but ALCo 3605, built in 1917, was a huge locomotive nearly 100 feet long. In the picture I see the cab, then a short blurry area, below the cab, then what could be the cylinders. A bit of smoke is rising from somewhere. Then there’s a low freight car and a boxcar. The locomotive looks 1/3 as long as the tender, when it was actually at least twice as long.
Here’s a picture of one of the two surviving engines of that style
Looks like a switch engine to me. The fuel bunker sides on the Vandebilt tender are slanted inward so the engine crew can have enhanced vision to the rear. It's a lot safer to see that guy on the tender foot board. The engine looks like it could be an 0-8-0 or a 2-8-0 in yard (switching) service. Not sure as to the owner railroad.
A steam engine could use 10k gallons in just a few miles depending on grade and load. Injectors that forced water into the boiler could pump 12k gal an hour. Water was a major factor in diesels replacing steam.
A Shay of some sort?
ReplyDeleteNot a geared engine. SP 3605 should be a Class F-1, 2-10-2 road engine.
DeleteI guessed geared because it looks so short in that picture, which is actually the tender. I may have been thinking camelback. Perhaps this is photographic foreshortening from early telephoto lenses, but ALCo 3605, built in 1917, was a huge locomotive nearly 100 feet long. In the picture I see the cab, then a short blurry area, below the cab, then what could be the cylinders. A bit of smoke is rising from somewhere. Then there’s a low freight car and a boxcar. The locomotive looks 1/3 as long as the tender, when it was actually at least twice as long.
DeleteHere’s a picture of one of the two surviving engines of that style
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/train-restore-steam-locomotive-houston-19768986.php
The other one is here
https://www.instagram.com/p/C87KmMRRkTZ/?img_index=3
The 3rd picture there shows a view of its similar tender.
These engines were huge.
Seven Thousand Gallons!!! Pretty damn big.
ReplyDelete20000-25000 gallon tenders were common in the last days of steam.
DeleteLooks like a switch engine to me. The fuel bunker sides on the Vandebilt tender are slanted inward so the engine crew can have enhanced vision to the rear. It's a lot safer to see that guy on the tender foot board. The engine looks like it could be an 0-8-0 or a 2-8-0 in yard (switching) service. Not sure as to the owner railroad.
ReplyDeleteA steam engine could use 10k gallons in just a few miles depending on grade and load. Injectors that forced water into the boiler could pump 12k gal an hour. Water was a major factor in diesels replacing steam.
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