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RE: [ihc] Steam Locomotive no IH content, but fun--



This is the largest one I've seen:

125' 8", 770.910 lbs.


http://www.hfmgv.org/collections/Collections/transportation/
railroad/allegheny.html

If you're ever in Detroit - visit the Henry Ford Museum and expect to spend at least one full day.

--
Ted Borck tborck@domain.elided



On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Steven Stegmann wrote:


There's a UP "Big Boy" in the St. Louis County
Transportation Museum.  Hard to imagine something like
that moving.

Steve
--- Greg Hermann <bearbvd@domain.elided> wrote:

At 11:30 PM 10/24/04, John M. Adams wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ihc@domain.elided
[mailto:owner-ihc@domain.elided]On Behalf Of
Greg Hermann
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:42 PM
To: ihc@domain.elided
Subject: [ihc] no IH content, but fun--


Saw a 148 wheeler (highway) rig today !!!!
P.S. If that WAS an E60C or equivalent loco like
their other ones, its
weight is typically between 185 and 195 U.S. tons
(plus or minus a few
pounds... :)
Sorta light compared to, say, one of the UP's old
'Big Boy' steam mallets
!!! Climbed and looked all over one of them once at
the Forney
Transportation Museam once in Denver, before they
moved it. 1,250,000 lbs.
of iron in one of those critters !! :-)

 If you add the weight of the two tractors, the
"jeeps", the
carrier beam... Man, I don't want to think what the
total weight of that rig
was.
Had to be in the neighborhood of 600 K lbs,, maybe
even north of that,
including the ballast on the two tractors.

Must really be a LOT of art involved for the two
tractor drivers to
coordinate their driving!

Greg

How do get a rating to drive something like that?
It's not like there's
much opportunity to practice! Wish I could have
seen it...
Any pictures?

Thanks,

John A.






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