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| Author: | toot [ Sat Aug 31, 2024 1:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | yard switchers. |
were 040's -060's & 080's,yard switchers ever used on main line's hauling freight & or passenger's? or they only regulated to yard switching only? |
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| Author: | jayrod [ Sun Sep 01, 2024 5:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: yard switchers. |
If they made it out on the main, it was serving close by local industries. The drivers were usually too small for any speed or effective counterbalancing making for a rough ride. The lack of pilot or trailing trucks didn't help in that regard, either. |
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| Author: | toot [ Sun Sep 01, 2024 6:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: yard switchers. |
Eric, thank you for the reply to my question. so I now know that when they were in the yards shunting freight cars, there was no need for pilots or trailing wheels, but they must have been BULLS in the yard? I fully understand what you said. |
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| Author: | EJ Berry [ Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: yard switchers. |
There were jobs called "travelling shifters" that took freight short distaces from the yards to customers. The short wheelbase kept their speed down but they could get into places a bigger engine couldn't go. Phil Mulligan |
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| Author: | toot [ Mon Sep 02, 2024 7:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: yard switchers. |
Phil. thank you so much for the reply to my question on the shunters / yard engines. I have never heard of the ''TRAVELLING SHIFTERS'', I would rely like to see any photos of them on a main line pulling a consist. were any of them ever oil fired or only coal fired,just curious? |
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| Author: | The_Pine29 [ Fri Sep 06, 2024 9:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: yard switchers. |
although this example is outside of the classification ranges you noted the Union Railroad in Pittsburgh, PA had 9 "Union" Class locomotives 0-10-2 technically a switching loco, used all over its 200miles of track, used for haul coke and iron ore for the steel mills |
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| Author: | toot [ Sat Sep 07, 2024 7:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: yard switchers. |
The_Pine29, WOW, great unknown information on the switchers. they rely must have been a sight seeing these BULL'S OF THE ROAD, yard engines in most all of the other RR'S, pulling freight on the 200 miles of the main line? any photoes of them on the main line? thank you. |
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| Author: | EJ Berry [ Sun Sep 08, 2024 12:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: yard switchers. |
Getting back to a travelling shifter, this was more the name of a job than a type of locomotive. They generally used the same type of locomotive that was doing the yard shifting. Phil Mulligan |
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