Steam & Excursion > A Dramatic Demonstration of Size Comparison-Steam!

A friend sent me this great photo this morning and I just had to share it!


Martin



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LoggerHogger Wrote:
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> A friend sent me this great photo this morning and
> I just had to share it!
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> Martin


It's like a Matryoshka doll of locomotives -- love it! But is it real?

What is the reporting mark on that flatcar?

Ray

Ray_Murphy Wrote:

> What is the reporting mark on that flatcar?

P.McK.&Y., the Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny RR. It was a P&LE subsidiary.

pennengineer Wrote:

> It's like a Matryoshka doll of locomotives --

Or a breech-loading 0-4-0T cannon. ;^)

and that, boys and girls, is where new engines come from.

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I wonder if that might be a narrow gauge loco used in one of the steel mills. Many mills had narrow gauge tracks with the plant.

pennengineer Wrote:
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> LoggerHogger Wrote:
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> > A friend sent me this great photo this morning
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> > I just had to share it!
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> > Martin
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> It's like a Matryoshka doll of locomotives -- love
> it! But is it real?

One large articulated engine I think that was built by Alco had a fire box large enough they held a dinner in it for publicity. Think it was an NP engine and ended up being built by another company. Logger Hogger would know the story am sure.

I guess I need to examine my H.O. gauge steam locomotives closely to see if there's a tiny 0-4-0T inside the firebox.

That's a bit...weird.



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But wait, order now and we will include this 0-4-0 at no extra cost, just pay shipping and handling.
The reporting marks on the flatcar are for a NYC subsidiary, Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad.

A steam engine powered steam engine!

Wild pic - wonder who set it up and why.

/Mitch

Mgoldman Wrote:
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> A steam engine powered steam engine!
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> Wild pic - wonder who set it up and why.
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> /Mitch


Thank you Mitch. I'm wondering the same thing too.....

AJ

I am assuming that the photo was taken to capture the enormity of the firebox.

Wasn't it ALCO that staged a banquet table dinner inside one their huge locomotive fireboxes?

Martin

BAB Wrote:
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> One large articulated engine I think that was
> built by Alco had a fire box large enough they
> held a dinner in it for publicity. Think it was an
> NP engine and ended up being built by another
> company. Logger Hogger would know the story am
> sure.

Perhaps you're referring to the Alco-built, NP Z-6 design, 4-6-6-4 SP&S Z-6 #900 which was towed from the factory and set up for service in the NP Parkwater shops in Spokane, Washington prior to its October 22, 1937 maiden voyage westward to Portland, Oregon for official delivery to the SP&S. My father was the fireman departing Spokane and it occurred on his 25th birthday. He told me that a picnic table was disassembled and moved into the firebox for a celebratory meal enjoyed by the appropriate brass. He said that the new loco was taken into every track to check for clearances during his run between Spokane and Pasco and at one time during the trip he counted 26 people in the cab. What a unique coincidence that exactly 65 years later to the day I was running the SP&S 4-8-4 700 from Spokane to Pasco and pulling the whistle cord attached to a whistle that came from one of the SP&S 900s. Sadly that trip was via the ex-NP turkey trail rather than the ex-SP&S fantastic-grade James J. Hill-built line which the Burlington Northern had torn up.



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Is Jim Cameron gonna make a movie out of this? ' Alien-Steamer '

LoggerHogger Wrote:
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> I am assuming that the photo was taken to capture
> the enormity of the firebox.
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> Wasn't it ALCO that staged a banquet table dinner
> inside one their huge locomotive fireboxes?
>
> Martin

That flat bottomed smokebox seems to indicate it's for an ALCo 3 cylinder locomotive.

So... The big 'un carried a spare..???

Now I understand how a booster engine works. I learned some-
thing new today.

Larry

PlymouthJLA Wrote:
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> That flat bottomed smokebox seems to indicate it's
> for an ALCo 3 cylinder locomotive.

Looks more like it would be for an articulated.

HotWater Wrote:
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> > That flat bottomed smokebox seems to indicate
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> > for an ALCo 3 cylinder locomotive.
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> Looks more like it would be for an articulated.

I'd go with PlymouthJLA... There's no provision for a saddle anywhere near the midpoint of the boiler. Neither does the opening at the Smokebox bottom look "appropriate".

-John