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Re: 4014 in action!
« Reply #45 on: May 11, 2019, 07:15:47 PM »
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Sure worlds largest standard gauge is cool, but I got to see the world largest 24" gauge loco.


Of the two, 4014 or 58, my pick would definitely be the latter.

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Re: 4014 in action!
« Reply #46 on: May 11, 2019, 09:44:43 PM »
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Cool a steam engine with lift rings!!!!!  :lol:

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Re: 4014 in action!
« Reply #47 on: May 11, 2019, 10:39:17 PM »
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Of the two, 4014 or 58, my pick would definitely be the latter.
Food and lodging is much cheaper!  :P

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Re: 4014 in action!
« Reply #48 on: May 11, 2019, 11:23:18 PM »
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Sure worlds largest standard gauge is cool, but I got to see the world largest 24" gauge loco.


Is that loco larger than this one?


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Re: 4014 in action!
« Reply #49 on: May 11, 2019, 11:29:06 PM »
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It is (was) 93000 pounds:
https://locomotive.fandom.com/wiki/Jones_%26_Laughlin_Steel_No._58

Sandy River #23 was only 64000 pounds.

There are different ways to measure "biggest" same for the Big Boy.
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Re: 4014 in action!
« Reply #50 on: May 12, 2019, 01:34:47 AM »
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Using code 80 rail for number 58.

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Re: 4014 in action!
« Reply #51 on: May 12, 2019, 01:53:43 AM »
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Actually, keeping the piston rods from leaking was probably always a major challenge with all steamers, especially ones that use 300 psi pressure like the Big Boys.

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Re: 4014 in action!
« Reply #52 on: May 12, 2019, 02:52:12 AM »
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#58 was a steel mill loco. The guy who owns and rebuilt it runs a steel mill museum. So yeah the rail is over sized. Usually a loco frame is 2 slices of steel spaced apart. This loco is solid steel between the wheels. He nicknamed it the rolling ingot.

Oh and it never had brakes on it. But he is fitting 2 small air cylinders under the steam cylinders to push brake shoes. Currently braking is done by reversing, just like it was done years ago.

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Re: 4014 in action!
« Reply #53 on: May 13, 2019, 02:38:21 AM »
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Not my video, but shows the 58 in action. Before I got there they pulled out a small Brookville nose to nose with 58 and he did a little golden spike ceremony.
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To compare this was 4-1/2 years ago when he first got the locomotive on his property.
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About 50 years ago a man bought 6 of these locomotive from the steel mill. They were sold off after that. None of them ever ran till now. One is in Canada and one is in California. The man who originally bought them was present to see it run.
« Last Edit: May 13, 2019, 03:38:47 AM by Chris333 »