Help Identifying & Valuing Train

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Re: Help Identifying & Valuing Train

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A hydro test is not a big deal??? Well, it's not a big deal if it passes. Otherwise, it is a very, very big deal. If it fails, it will be pretty much useless as a functioning locomotive until it gets the boiler replaced or repaired.

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A while back someone posted a picture of a priest blessing a boiler.
The caption was 'In lieu of hydro'.
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A minor thing, and I hope you'll take it in the spirit in which it is intended, but the correct term for what you have is "locomotive" or "engine." Technically, a train is a locomotive pulling cars. Small thing but noticeable to railroaders.
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Greg_Lewis wrote:A minor thing, and I hope you'll take it in the spirit in which it is intended, but the correct term for what you have is "locomotive" or "engine." Technically, a train is a locomotive pulling cars. Small thing but noticeable to railroaders.
Ah....not so. As a retired locomotive engineer and Road Foreman of engines I can tell you that the definition of a "train" is One or more locomotives coupled, with or without cars and displaying markers. So a single locomotive traveling as a light engine move with it's rear markers illuminated is a train.

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LVRR2095 wrote:
Greg_Lewis wrote:A minor thing, and I hope you'll take it in the spirit in which it is intended, but the correct term for what you have is "locomotive" or "engine." Technically, a train is a locomotive pulling cars. Small thing but noticeable to railroaders.
Ah....not so. As a retired locomotive engineer and Road Foreman of engines I can tell you that the definition of a "train" is One or more locomotives coupled, with or without cars and displaying markers. So a single locomotive traveling as a light engine move with it's rear markers illuminated is a train.

Keith Taylor Lehigh Valley Railroad, Conrail and Amtrak
Ah, you got me! But is the locomotive in question travelling with markers? :D
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Greg_Lewis wrote:
LVRR2095 wrote:
Greg_Lewis wrote:A minor thing, and I hope you'll take it in the spirit in which it is intended, but the correct term for what you have is "locomotive" or "engine." Technically, a train is a locomotive pulling cars. Small thing but noticeable to railroaders.
Ah....not so. As a retired locomotive engineer and Road Foreman of engines I can tell you that the definition of a "train" is One or more locomotives coupled, with or without cars and displaying markers. So a single locomotive traveling as a light engine move with it's rear markers illuminated is a train.

Keith Taylor Lehigh Valley Railroad, Conrail and Amtrak
Ah, you got me! But is the locomotive in question travelling with markers? :D
It would be tough without a tender to hold the markers! :D
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And my locomotive doesn't actually have markers, but regardless, I should probably change that to locomotive.

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I remember Bob Steinberg (LILS) and his son Eric had a Crampton that was 7-1/4" g.
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Did this locomotive sell? I didn't see listed on DLS any more. I'm curious.
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It's not in the "sold" section so maybe he sold it locally and pulled the ad.
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