Rocky's Mountain Muscle!!

[HemiAdda2d]

Let's see your Great Northern Steamers!!

Helena, MT is where Otto Perry captured this oddball wheel arrangement 2-6-8-0:

http://photoswest.org/photos/00011751/00011868.jpg

[BoxcabE50]

I'd love to hear an audio recording of this engine. Am wondering if it had a special sound...

:D

Boxcab E50

[Flash Blackman]

Looks like a compound engine because the front cylinders are larger than the rear. OTOH, that may just be the appearance. I always considered the compounds types as luggers for the heavy stuff and the simple engines as being faster.

[HemiAdda2d]

You may be correct.. GN rebuilt some if not all of their compound 2-6-8-0's into simple engines during their careers.

[Kurt Moose]

For all out hauling, you coud'nt beat an R-2 2-8-8-2:teeth: They would pull anything!

[HemiAdda2d]

Pretty danged powerful, 153,000#..

The 'Big Boy' UP engines are listed at ONLY 135K... The Virginian engines are just sick... 200K #?!?
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/misc/largest.shtml

[Triplex]

That's what you get with 12 driving axles!

[BoxcabE50]

Looks like a compound engine because the front cylinders are larger than the rear. OTOH, that may just be the appearance. I always considered the compounds types as luggers for the heavy stuff and the simple engines as being faster.

Yes. It's a compound. With those stacked cylinders, isn't this a double compound? The front cylinders could be larger. If it's re-using (lower pressure) steam. Then it needs greater volume.

:D

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[HemiAdda2d]

Here's a classy lady, a 4-8-4 Northern type:
Otto Perry strikes again....

http://photoswest.org/photos/00011876/00011923.jpg

[HemiAdda2d]

Otto Perry bagged a 2-8-8-2 at Marias Pass in 1939...
These monsters outmuscled about 20,000# higher tractive effort than a UP Big Boy!!

http://photoswest.org/photos/00011876/00011890.jpg

[Kurt Moose]

Now, if I could just get one of those R-2's in Z-scale!! :rolleyes:

[BoxcabE50]

Now, if I could just get one of those R-2's in Z-scale!! :rolleyes:

Well, if I had my druthers, make it a Class W electric motor.....

:D

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[Kurt Moose]

That would be a heck of alot easier with two GN painted F7's on the body of a Marklin GG1!:teeth:

[HemiAdda2d]

#5011, eh? They were FT carbdies, as I recall..

[Kurt Moose]

Close enough in Z!:teeth: Clean of the roof fans and put the GG1 pantographs on, and different grills on the sides. And tada, a Y1a!:cool:

[BoxcabE50]

That would be a heck of alot easier with two GN painted F7's on the body of a Marklin GG1!

That would be a Y class. Y-1a? I was thinking of the two big W-1 units. 5018, 5019.

:D

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[Gabriel]

Can we say Yee-Haa???


Otto Perry bagged a 2-8-8-2 at Marias Pass in 1939...
These monsters outmuscled about 20,000# higher tractive effort than a UP Big Boy!!

http://photoswest.org/photos/00011876/00011890.jpg

[Kurt Moose]

You can only imagine what the ground felt like!!!:teeth:

[HemiAdda2d]

I can only imagine what that thunder felt like...

From the largest GN steam, to one of the smallest:

Otto Perry:

http://photoswest.org/photos/00011751/00011796.jpg

[BoxcabE50]

After looking at previous photos, looks like someone stole half an R class engine.....

:D

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[SDP45]

Don't forget the O8 Mikados were the most powerful of their type.

Is there a photo out there?

Those R2 2-8-8-2s were built in Spokane. Too bad the Hillyard shops are long gone!

[swdw]

Anyone have a drawing with dimensions of the R-2? The GN Empire site has drawings of the N-3 and N-2, but no R-2's.

Funny thing is the N-3 is only a couple feet longer than an S-2 w/o the tenders, so I was wondering what the length of the R-2 was with and w/o the tender. Kinda lets you kow how big the Northerns were.

Also, did the Q-2 2-10-2 have a Belpaire firebox?