Today's edition of Ed's Law

[Iain]

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I don't know the story behind these, but, they recently came to my attention.

[Missaberoad]

Maschinenbau Kiel 800D, a 800hp diesel hydraulic from Germany.
It demonstrated on CP and CN in the late 1950's, but there was no interest and it was returned to Germany.

[CNR5529]

My understanding is that during the testing it was determined that the hydraulic transmission was not suited to our "cooler" climate.

Another interesting diesel hydraulic demonstrator, that ended up becoming a shop switcher at the GMD plant in London is this beasty:

[Iain]

My understanding is that during the testing it was determined that the hydraulic transmission was not suited to our "cooler" climate.

Another interesting diesel hydraulic demonstrator, that ended up becoming a shop switcher at the GMD plant in London is this beasty:

My, that is an interesting looking beast.

It seems to me that railroads in North America as a whole were not interested in European locomotives due to them being rather inferior to their US counterparts.

[peteski]

Maschinenbau Kiel 800D, a 800hp diesel hydraulic from Germany.
It demonstrated on CP and CN in the late 1950's, but there was no interest and it was returned to Germany.

I've seen lots of European Diesel switchers but this is the first time I've seen one with a fairly modern-looking cab but also with trucks consisting of large side-rod-coupled spoked wheels.  I'm more familiar with end-cab Diesel switchers which have smaller side-rod-coupled spoked wheels mounted in solid frame under the loco.

[delamaize]

Copy and pasted from Ian's and my conversation from Facebook earlier today.

It's german for sure.
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/75009.aspx

Looks like the closest German prototype would be a V65
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Class_V_65

And N scale....
https://www.reynaulds.com/products/Arnold/2037.aspx

Thats too odd not to model, Might have to see if I can find one of the Arnold locos to kit bash.

[peteski]

Ah, thanks for the info. So it is a solid-frame loco (not with trucks). The 1:1 photo wasn't very clear.  Even if it is out of production it will probably be available in the 2nd hand market (eBay).