Show us yer CRITTERS!

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Now at the opposite end of the spectrum, is this rough home built critter. Nothin spiffy here.
Rugged might be one way to describe it.

Scott

 

Literally looks like it was built out of an old tractor, and scrap stuff!

 

Here's the article in Rock Products:

Scott

 

That's a cool backstory on it, thank you!

 

As I was reading it, half-expected to see a mention of duct tape. What a contraption! Cool!

 

Now that's a makeover! From a disheveled waif to a fairy tale princess!

 

Now that's reuse at its best!
Nice graphics as well!

Scott

 

Taken 09/11/1978 at the East Troy Railroad Museum in WI is this mysterious critter METRR3, maybe a 44 Tonner? My notes show only that it was sold in 1980. With this museum having a traction heritage, I am guessing that the MET might be the Modesto & Empire Traction Company, but that's a long way from WI.

 

45 tonner or 50 tonner, given the siderods. Only two traction motors instead of four.

In Ottawa, the Science & Technology Museum (now Ingenium) has a 50 tonner:


Judging from the underframe, yours looks like a 45 tonner or lighter, in the same family as TNVR 10. But not the classic 44-tonner.

And it's still wood-fired, judging by the pile of scrap wood on the walkway in front of the cab...

 

Cowan TN. Late 80's

 

Why I oughtta go and mix up the compostables and recyclables of the lunkhead who left that out to rot like that!

 

Birmingham AL - Late 80's

 

Seeing @BNSF FAN's shot from Birmingham reminded me of this one, taken 11/14/1987 at nearby Ensley, AL. The site is U.S. Steel's once-mighty Ensley Works with two lonely switchers likely ready for scrap. The mill was shut in the late 1970s; a sad sight.

 

That's the same place, "Harold" was on the other side of the bridge. You had better light but had to be very close to when I was there. Here are a few more shots