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I found this among the Harold K. Vollrath collection, an 0-10-0 switcher, Class M-1e, built by Montreal in 1910 for the Michigan Central. Other than that I have no knowledge of where, why it was used. The Central had very few 0-10-0s.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/17 15:49 by nycman.

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Probably a hump engine? IIRC NYC had a few Mallets that they used as hump engines.

Everybody had very few 0-10-0's. They were a rare breed.

What rare locomotive!
Thanks for sharing this.
Bob

There were three in the class. They were assign to Canada Southern. Humped at Windsor ON

Yankee dog, thanks for the history. I'll have to look up some more about the Canada Southern.

PHall Wrote:
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> Everybody had very few 0-10-0's. They were a rare
> breed.

DM&IR was one of the few. Four were built in 1928 for predecessor DM&N.

91,100 lbs. tractive effort!

-LD

My pick is the 0-10-2 beasts...Bessemer & Union RR...

All power-assist engineer controls — including a neat little pneumatic throttle control..., power reverse, etc..
It’s a strong beast..

W.

wcamp1472 Wrote:
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> My pick is the 0-10-2 beasts...Bessemer & Union
> RR...

No "Bessemer", just Union RR.
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> All power-assist engineer controls — including a
> neat little pneumatic throttle control..., power
> reverse, etc..
> It’s a strong beast..
>
> W.

They also wound up on the DM&IR! But, they had "only" 90,900 lbs. TE, BTW. 200 less than the 0-10-0's.

The D&MN 0-10-0's also had pneumatic throttles, etc.!

David P. Morgan called the DM&IR an appliance salesmans' dream - they'd buy and install ANYTHING. When you're handling 18,000 ton trains on 2.2% (Duluth) and 3% (Two Harbors) grades down to a stub end yard ending over 1000 feet onto Lake Superior, all those "bells and whistles" sometimes come in handy.

-John