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learmoia

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I learned something today...
« on: September 13, 2020, 04:17:39 PM »
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These 'Day Out with Thomas' Thomas(s) are self propelled?  Or at least one is...

I've always seen them with some form of locomotive at the opposite end and I assumed they were basically cab cars for push pull service.

But watching Strasburg cam, there is a little blue 0-6-0 moving coaches around seemingly without a locomotive.

Never knew.. ~Ian
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Re: I learned something today...
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2020, 04:20:38 PM »
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Only the one that remains at Strasburg is self-powered.  It was built from a former Brooklyn East District Terminal 0-6-0.  It doesn't leave the property.

A number of other Thomas replicas were built by the Strasburg (including a 3-foot narrow gauge one) to travel to other railroads, but none of them are powered.  They have steam and smoke effects, but Hollywood style.
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Re: I learned something today...
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2020, 04:47:53 PM »
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Ahhhh... that makes sense!..

~Ian
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« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2020, 06:51:05 PM »
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The one that used to “run” at the Thomas weekend at the Illinois Railway Museum always had a handful of Rock Island commuter coaches and an SP SD-9 at the other end to push it out and pull it back.   
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Re: I learned something today...
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2020, 07:27:50 PM »
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Quote from: CBQ Fan on September 13, 2020, 06:51:05 PM
The one that used to “run” at the Thomas weekend at the Illinois Railway Museum always had a handful of Rock Island commuter coaches and an SP SD-9 at the other end to push it out and pull it back.

That is the kind of stuff I always saw, I know Brittan has one (several?) 'real' Thomas Locomotives, and Japan had a Japanese 0-6-2 tank loco painted like Thomas with a face, I didn't realize we had one in the US.

Apparently, Strasburg has put a Mavis face on the SW1200 too :)  clever... 

Cool.. ~Ian
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Re: I learned something today...
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2020, 02:21:09 AM »
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Quote from: learmoia on September 13, 2020, 07:27:50 PM
That is the kind of stuff I always saw, I know Brittan has one (several?) 'real' Thomas Locomotives, and Japan had a Japanese 0-6-2 tank loco painted like Thomas with a face, I didn't realize we had one in the US.

Apparently, Strasburg has put a Mavis face on the SW1200 too :)  clever... 

Cool.. ~Ian

Common practice for UK Day Out With Thomas events is to paint an 0-6-0T that the railway owns as Thomas for the event, and put a face on it, as well as putting a face on every other loco and piece of rolling stock the railway owns (within reason), such as what Strasburg does with the SW1200.

In Japan, the Oigawa Railway has a C11 2-6-4T painted as Thomas, with the three driving wheels painted blue for emphasis. I do not have a photo of that C11, but have an in-service JNR one in N Scale:


In addition, the Oigawa Railway has a C56 class 2-6-0 painted as James. I also do not have an image of that loco, but have an in-service JNR model in N:
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