Trivia Time. What is the Largest Steam Loco Ever Built?

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Re: Trivia Time. What is the Largest Steam Loco Ever Built?

Unread postby Ericmopar » Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:53 am

mrennie wrote:N&W steam turbine?

Weighed a million pounds, 106ft long (plus a 55ft water tender), 224,000lbf starting tractive effort.

(from "Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive" by J. Parker Lamb)


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Re: Trivia Time. What is the Largest Steam Loco Ever Built?

Unread postby BNSFdude » Mon Nov 24, 2014 1:15 am

DM&IRs Yellowstones were tough pullers as well. Kicked the crap out of the Big Boy.
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Re: Trivia Time. What is the Largest Steam Loco Ever Built?

Unread postby Ericmopar » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:34 am

BNSFdude wrote:DM&IRs Yellowstones were tough pullers as well. Kicked the crap out of the Big Boy.


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I have a book that says they regularly hauled the heaviest trains under steam power, but, the grade was almost entirely downhill... According to the book, they hauled special ore jennies with a dual braking system. When the ore jennies were over half their gross weight, the secondary system came online.
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Re: Trivia Time. What is the Largest Steam Loco Ever Built?

Unread postby The_Garbear » Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:39 pm

DM&IR Yellowstones are incredibly impressive machines
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