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

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted,

I couldn't get the URL to work.  Would you mind
checking it?

Thanks,

Steve
--- Ted Borck <tborck@domain.elided> wrote:

> 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.