Yes, that one still runs every weekend. I was thinking of Big Boys, Challengers etc etc (anything from the Rivarossi catalogue :-)
Yes, that one still runs every weekend. I was thinking of Big Boys, Challengers etc etc (anything from the Rivarossi catalogue :-)
Not true, the AC-4 thru AC-12's were used in passenger service as the need would arise for plenty of TE on a passenger train. I have a pic of an AC-11 as I recall on the Overland. It was taken most likely in the Korean conflict as there are Troop sleepers in the consist and the lower part of the cab is painted Silver. I believe in the early 50's and late 40's AC's handled the "Owl" over the Tehach. mtns on a fairly regular basis. Yes the early 4-6-6-2 were for passenger service, but the SP did whatever it wanted with it's power.
Not Mallets in the truest sense, as they are not compound; UP 3985 is still running (a 4-6-6-4), and the N&W 1218 (2-6-6-4) MAY be operational, but is not currently running.
Considering the tiny proportion of the total of Mallet type articulation locos to compound articulateds, the convention is that ALL the Mallet type articulateds are known as Mallets.
Regards, Greg.P.
IIRC, you'll find the the majority of 'Mallets' (by sheer numbers) were compound (at least at some time in their history). Only the later of their kind, mostly those built in the 30's and 40's were simple. A few of the older compounds, those that lasted long enough, were also converted to simple locos during rebuildings. And a few STAYED compound, or were even BUILT compound, in later years (notably the N&W "Y" class).
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Gr670. Every Italian publication I've ever seen that mentions them refers to them as 4-6-0s.
As for other European "cab-forwards", there were a number of locos built for tramways and light railways by Tubize, and others that were designed to run cab-end leading. Their wheel arrangements are usually counted from the firebox end as well, at least in the European literature...
And yet the Italians counted wheels from the front of these locos, just like every other railway.
Yes, you should. I mention them as examples of engines where the front of the loco is not readily defined by the location of the chimney/stack/funnel. :-)
Yes, it does. My convention, and the one apparently used by almost everyone else on the planet, is to count from the *front* of the loco.
The convention in the US is to decribe these locos as "simple articulateds", to differentiate them from Mallet compounds.
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