FitzyB5
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Wiscasset Maine narrow gauge manual turntable. Rode it last weekend.
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Wiscasset Maine narrow gauge manual turntable. Rode it last weekend.
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Same scene, different era. I see the tracks are gone in the bottom picture, the top one must be old. Norfolk & Western has been gone for over forty years, now part of Norfolk Southern.
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A Canadian National SW1200 street-running, Oshawa, 1980
A Canadian National SW1200 street-running, Oshawa, 1980
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Saw my share, fixed a lot of wrecks from derailments over the years.
In this shot, some vehicle transport cars went past the end derail and were pushed right into the parking lot full of newly offloaded brand new vehicles.
In this shot, some vehicle transport cars went past the end derail and were pushed right into the parking lot full of newly offloaded brand new vehicles.
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Not sure if I posted that I worked in a steel mill and saw lots of train wrecks.....and worked on the track that they tore up when working in the labor pool which wasn't that much thank God! What a pain in the bottom end! Lots of 'slow' train tracks out there but seems there was lots of derailments.
load-testing of the harbour bridge when 50 steam locos were run on western side ,february 1932
retired 1961.
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Pretty much every train that you see is running on roller bearing axles. When I started on the railroad in 1978, more than half of the rolling stock still used friction bearings, a large babbit lined brass bearing riding on top of a polished axle journal. These were a chore to take apart when wheels needed changing, so roller bearings wheelsets were great because the wheels just dropped out when you lifted the trucks.
However, at one point someone got the idea to conserve some old equipment and so they decided to convert friction bearing trucks to accept roller bearings. That way they could re-use the two old truck sides. As you can see in this example, the lids have been removed, no longer being needed to keep the oil bath clean and dry.
While this idea worked in practice, it was soon abandoned as the inconvenience of dismantling the whole assembly to change a wheel was still necessary, greatly adding to repair times as compared to the more modern roller bearing trucks.
Note the '6X11' cast into the center bolster, this shows what size axle the truck was designed for. Such a small bearing (6" diameter, 11" length) is seldom seen these days, with 6 1/2 X 12 being a lot more common.
However, at one point someone got the idea to conserve some old equipment and so they decided to convert friction bearing trucks to accept roller bearings. That way they could re-use the two old truck sides. As you can see in this example, the lids have been removed, no longer being needed to keep the oil bath clean and dry.
While this idea worked in practice, it was soon abandoned as the inconvenience of dismantling the whole assembly to change a wheel was still necessary, greatly adding to repair times as compared to the more modern roller bearing trucks.
Note the '6X11' cast into the center bolster, this shows what size axle the truck was designed for. Such a small bearing (6" diameter, 11" length) is seldom seen these days, with 6 1/2 X 12 being a lot more common.
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