Nostalgia & History > Does Anybody Remember The Krauss-Maffei Locomotives?

If Anyone Has Pictuers Of The Krauss-Maffei Locomotives?

Yes, I Know They Were FUGLY!!!

But!!! They're Are My Favorite!!!


Please Post Your Replies/Pics

SPSF_luvr

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You must be in the business of selling hydraulic oil or GreaseSweep. Those beasts were a maintenance nightmare. Glad they're long gone!!!

EMDSW-1 Wrote:
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> You must be in the business of selling hydraulic
> oil or GreaseSweep. Those beasts were a
> maintenance nightmare. Glad they're long gone!!!


Im twelve, never seen one in real life, but I love them, there are really attractive


SPSF_luvr

Anybody have a sound clip of these units in action? I am wondering what their engines sounded like.

the only engine I was in was the SP Camera Car SP 8799 that was used to film the right of way for the simulator. I used to talk to the old heads about these units that they had run over Tehachapi.. they all said the engines were ok on the flat land but on the grades the transmissions would overheat.. thus causing road failure...

I'm not sure but are these the ones that they called "Covered Wagons"

DRGWbaby Wrote:
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> I'm not sure but are these the ones that they
> called "Covered Wagons"

Oh, my, am I ever feeling old. ...No, the EMD F unit series were called the covered wagons.

mdo

When I was stationed at nearby Edwards AFB in the mid to late 60's, I'd frequently head on into Mojave on Saturday mornings. One day in early '67, there were a pair of the KM's with consecutive road numbers along with a pair of covered wagons sitting on a spur waiting for a call to help a Westbound to Bakersfield. I eventually did witness this. Boy what a spectacle leaving town!
Last one I saw active was in May of '68 in Bakersfield.

Tom

What did they sound like?
Ph-Bob has a number of K-M photos on his website, said they had a whistling kinda noise but he also said they always smelled like german sausages as the Technical Support Engineers from K-M traveled with them for a while, not sure which part of that to believe. The SPH&TS had an article on them in the past year, or so.

Nitehostler Wrote:
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> When I was stationed at nearby Edwards AFB in the
> mid to late 60's, I'd frequently head on into
> Mojave on Saturday mornings. One day in early
> '67, there were a pair of the KM's with
> consecutive road numbers along with a pair of
> covered wagons sitting on a spur waiting for a
> call to help a Westbound to Bakersfield. I
> eventually did witness this. Boy what a spectacle
> leaving town!
> Last one I saw active was in May of '68 in
> Bakersfield.
>
> Tom

Saw one or two at Taylor but that was shortly after they arrived. They did spend a lot of time motoring up and down the valley. IIRC, they were really pretty good for that and not much else on the ESPEE. Wonder what they would have done on the plains.

this may help---I have yet scan any others

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1239527,1239527#msg-1239527

I rember seeing them in Salt Lake a few times got a few colors prints of them even got a tour through the units when they were on the pit at Roper yard different type of cab on them. There sound was quite and fast running for a diesel engine. Back in the days when railranning was great something different to see and film.
Ryan Ballard

I was told that as far as being used in the mountain areas they were a total flop. I remember one old head calling them "Hitler's late day revenge." Bud

For a photo of a two-unit helper set in the Tehachapis (probably at Tunnel 2) composed of first and second-generation KMs, go to : http://espee.railfan.net/spml4000.html, part of Richard Percy's SP site.

Another photo of a Krauss-Maffei in Tehachapi helper service out of Bakersfield (this time a first-generation KM in company with a GP9) was the September photo of the Steamscenes 2000 SP calendar.