This one up there is number 15 but since I'm far out of the genre, I wont be able to tell you names or much else

I'd guess option 15, 4-6-4. > : )

Yeah! But what is the NAME given to the wheel configuration? I thought you'd "Ace" this one.

Oh, not a clue. I only know the confugurations. I always studied the mechanics to machines, not the names or non-operational information. :P

off the top of my head here, since im at work and don't rightly remember the system too well...
1: Four-Coupled USRA 0-4-0
3: Eight-Coupled USRA 0-8-0
4: Porter
6: Mogul
7: Consolidation
8: Mikado
10: American Eight-Wheeler
11: non-brit ten wheeler
12: Mastodon 12-wheeler
13: Atlantic
14: Pacific
15: Hudson
17: russian decapod
18: Challenger

's all i can recall from my old books. hope you wanted names, not Whyte classifications

choo choo.

Plus 16; Yellowstone (2-8-8-4)(and for the SP'ers a backward 'Aticulated Consolidation')
19; Big Boy (4-8-8-4)
9; British single drive (4-2-4T) (this I knew but which exactly, that I had to look up: The Bristal & Exeter Railway had this wheel arrangement on their mainline power. Also the drivers were 9ft in dia. on a 7ft gauge rail spread.

P.P.S. The 'T' on the end stands for 'tenderless' as in no attached tender and having a coal bunker built onto the back of the cab and water tanks on the sides of the engine.

Forgot #5; Mallet compound articulated (0-4-4-0)

Well, since others commentators already gave all the answers (right or wrong, I can't tell), I'll just contribute by giving a link about unusual locomotives :
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSE.....O/locoloco.htm

Thanks for linking me to this site. I've already spent several hours this week alone looking up my favourite locomotive types, and discovered a lot about several others.

#19, gadzooks! Can you imagine if these things weren't confined to rails? They'd have taken over the workd a century ago!
...and it might very well be a much better place to live in today.

*braindead*

I just have to say, your knowledge impresses me. I wish I could say I knew the answer to this.

That was fun.

I could answer these but not without going though my Railroad Tycoon manuals, given as all those locomotives were used in all versions of the game.

I know about the classification system, but to assign them names would mean cracking a book. Meanwhile, it looks like *Magnus* has it nailed.

Number 6 is the "Schirm"
Number 7 is the "Taral"
Number 4 is the "Hon. Wm. Rotsler"

#14 is "Pacific" (4-6-2) - so named (according to Wikipedia) because that was the wheel arrangement of the "Q" class locomotive built by the Baldwin works in the USA and shipped across the Pacific to New Zealand Government Railways.

The "Pacifc" wheel arrangement was also that used on the LNER A4 class in the UK, one of which - "Mallard" - holds the world speed record for a steam locomotive at 126mph.

MayFurr, your source of useless rail trivia from Down Under :)

Bah! These are too easy. And #2 is an 0-6-0 Tank loco, hence the T which I don't se anyone caught.

Besides, I really prefer B-B GP7's.

Favorite of all time have to be the SD7's and 9's, but I'll have a spot for the U30C's as well.


Pretty mcuh anything Northern Pacific.

In my yard here I have a Farirmont Railway Motors inspection car or 'speeder' from BC Rail. It's a two axle with the rear one driven. Does that make it a o-O? But it carries its water and fuel on board without a tender, so...

o-OT?

Heh! If I'm ever up your way I'd like to see the "Speeder" you mentioned. It reminds me of a Speeder that's in use over at the Perris Railway Museum. It's powered by a BIG Briggs and Stratton 2 cylinder engine with no reverse, and two speeds. "Fast," and "Too @#%& Fast!"

I think you'd like the engine I have in mine more, Kitfox. Instead of the B&S two cylinder engine (Which is what every speeder nut wants because they are reliable and easy to work on), I've got the old original drive mechanism.

It's a single cylinder hit and miss engine with two huge external flywheels and a big wide pulley on the crank end that drives a *cloth* belt to the rear axle. There's an idler that takes up slack to act as a clutch.

Want to go forward? Handcrank the engine to start it and you're good. Want to go in reverse? Move your timer lever into the reverse position, adjust the throttle plate and hand crank the engine *backwards*. Yes, these engines can run in both clockwise and counter clockwise rotation. Now THAT is funky cool.

The speeder group I've encountered way down here in Florida prefer this type of fly-wheel engine because of the reversiblity.

Nah... being that it is powered by an enternal combustion engine I'd be more inclined to lable it as '1-A'

Wow.

in germany that config would be dubbed, "2'C2 H4". i never heard of any code names for locomotives' wheel configurations around here.

#5 also might be classed under a Vulcan, which was like 2 small 0-4-0's running gear attached to the truck bolsters on a flat car. Looked like a Heisler, but wasn't.

Zytx, another rr nut ;)

Under Whyte's system I believe that one would've been list as '0-4-0+0-4-0'.
But then I'm a steam-geek.

what would a Shay, 80T 3 truck be classed as?

Zytx, the other steam geek.
Videos of the steam gem I work on here in Vermont:

http://download.lavadomefive.com/me.....en/hidden.html

I'm not exactly sure being as the trucks are powered through shafts and bevel gears and not rod connected, I'd be enclined to use diesel/electric terms as in B+B+B but the motive force is external to the truckes.
So calling it a 'Shay' should automatically tell you it is a steam loco with swivel trucks powered by a shaft along one side of the loco from a centrally place vertical steam engine of from two to three cylinders.
Howwed I do?
And thanks for the link, some nice videos there, small question; just north of St. Albans there was a village with a three span covered railroad bridge, is it still standing ?

arsoned in 1989. I remember it well. I built a 1:87th scale model out of balsa wood tho. We've moved the swanton RR station down to its location tho, & that's been fully restored. I live in st. albans, literally right next to he yard. Roundhouse is still standing. Unfortunatly the entire ST. J & LC/LV has been torn up because VAST (the snowmobile folks) wanted a run to NH & NY quicker. So far VAST has ruined what could have been a most excellent scenic railline. & The sate, who paid for the removal of the line, is starting to agree that they screwed up.

Z

Holy cow there are a lot of rail geeks on here! :-D I struggle just to understand what the lights along the railroad mean.

Interesting quest.

FI: I visited a railroad museum on station Gnilowskaya (Rostov-Don, Russia) on August, 4.
Would post photos when my vacation ended.

Ha ha, I'm a railroad fan , I do know all this without any hesitation, the american as well as the european system, for steam as well as diesel and electrics !!! (a steam 4-8-4 in America is a 2-4-2 here...)

Traaaaainzz Hooo! Awesome technical like drawing of the engine. Gives me ideas to try draw a train of my own. ^_^

Naming of wheel arrangments was, I think, a British export like the 2-2-2 was called the 'Jenny Lind' it seems they later went for naming of types, or series, such as 'Kings' and "Castles' both refer to the 4-6-0 wheel arrangment but they are deffinitely different engines. As for American names on the wheel arrangments I believe the 4-8-4 has the most starting with 'Northern' from the Nothern Pacific RR followed by, in no particular order; Grennbrier (C&O), Dixie (?),... there's a couple more I'm sure Ah Yes! I'll just link to a decent source page! http://www.steamlocomotive.com/misc/wheels.shtml

PS the Loco Locos page is wonderfully bizarre.

All I know is if I invert this and look at it backwards, it says "I buried Paul"

What no 2-6-6-6 Allegheny?
You know what is really odd about them?

Well it was just a demonstration. I hadn't heard of an "Allegheny" before, so this looks like a great opportunity to do a web search. Was it like a triplex set up, articulated, or did it need the extra axle trailer bogie in the back to carry the load of an extra large firebox?

The last 6 are for an over sized fire box.

Not sure what show or magazine I got this from, but the Alleghenies are Much heavier then there design weight was to be. Much more than even the Big Boys. The Engineer that did the weight after the first one was built not wanting Lima to be docked for the over weight just penciled in the design weight as the actual weight.

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/allegheny/