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| Author: | Bob Yarger [ Sat Dec 07, 2002 5:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Woodward-Walker gas 2-6-0 |
Found this photo on Trainorders: It's a Baldwin 2-6-0 of the Woodward-Walker Lumber Co. in La. that was converted to internal combustion power. Was evidently cut up in the early 1970s. This is the only photo I've seen of it before. http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?f=10&i=4744&t=4744 ryarger@rypn.org |
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| Author: | Alex Huff [ Sun Dec 08, 2002 1:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Woodward-Walker gas 2-6-0 |
Homely it certainly was but it worked for quite a few years. It had a sister 0-6-0 at another location which I saw once. Drive was a truck engine, transmission and rear axle/differential. The engine was in the smokebox, the rear axle in the boiler shell. Holes cut in the boiler enabled the wheel hubs to stick out above the drivers. As the photo shows, a sprocket bolted to the hub powered a roller chain which connected with a sprocket bolted to the driver face. A second sprocket on the center driver connected via roller chain to a sprocket on the rear driver. On the other side the same arrangement connected to the front driver hub. In front of the engineer was a instrument panel which matched a 1941 Oldsmobile. The only coupler was on the front pilot, a fabricated steel staircase led into the cab at the rear. When I watched the locomotive work its assignment was shoving wood chip hoppers under the loading bin. It still had builder's plates and its bell when I saw it. dsrc512@sd.value.net |
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