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RE: [ihc] Steam Locomotive no IH content, but fun--
Hey pop, It works here. Just needed to copy & paste
all of it, as it was long enough to be split itnot two
lines.
Mark
--- Steven Stegmann <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Ted,
>
> I couldn't get the URL to work. Would you mind
> checking it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
> --- Ted Borck <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> At 11:30 PM 10/24/04, John M. Adams wrote:
> > >>>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>>> From: [email protected]
> > >> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> > >>>> Greg Hermann
> > >>>> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:42 PM
> > >>>> To: [email protected]
> > >>>> 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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