Help Identifying & Valuing Train
Re: Help Identifying & Valuing Train
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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Re: Help Identifying & Valuing Train
A while back someone posted a picture of a priest blessing a boiler.
The caption was 'In lieu of hydro'.
The caption was 'In lieu of hydro'.
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Re: Help Identifying & Valuing Train
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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Re: Help Identifying & Valuing Train
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.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.
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Ah, you got me! But is the locomotive in question travelling with markers?LVRR2095 wrote: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.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.
Keith Taylor Lehigh Valley Railroad, Conrail and Amtrak
Greg Lewis, Prop.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
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It would be tough without a tender to hold the markers!Greg_Lewis wrote:Ah, you got me! But is the locomotive in question travelling with markers?LVRR2095 wrote: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.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.
Keith Taylor Lehigh Valley Railroad, Conrail and Amtrak
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Re: Help Identifying & Valuing Train
And my locomotive doesn't actually have markers, but regardless, I should probably change that to locomotive.
Thanks,
Thanks,
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Re: Help Identifying & Valuing Train
I remember Bob Steinberg (LILS) and his son Eric had a Crampton that was 7-1/4" g.
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Re: Help Identifying & Valuing Train
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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