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I went to the Snoqualmie Railroad Museum today and got some pictures of the rusted locomotives on the sides of it since I've always found them intriguing.
The first one is a blue Plymouth switcher which may be what Tyco based their's off of.
The second one is Shay locomotive from the Eastern Railway Timber Company.
The next one is what appears to be some sort of electrical locomotive since it has a wire sticking out. Looks like something Pacific Electric had.
The next one is a Heisler, which you may recognize from Rivarossi's version of it.
Next one up is an articulated locomotive from the Weyerhauser or whatever Railroad which you may recognize the design from the ones that Mantua made starting in the 1980's.
Next is a 2-8-0 locomotive that I have no idea what railroad it's from. It has a tender from the Union Pacific but it's the wrong tender due to the fact that it has a different loco number on both of them.
And last but not least, we have a curious little 4-6-0 which looks identical to one from a video game I have.
There were a couple of others but I couldn't get to them because they blocked off that area so yeah.
-Steve
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Posted - February 22 2015 : 10:28:00 PM
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That Heisler is pretty unusual. It has a superheater. See the pipe from the top of the smokebox to the cylinder valves. Usually steam lines come from the back of the steam dome and are routed under the catwalks to the valves.
Superheating makes the engine quite a bit more fuel efficient, but more maintenance intensive. Usually Heislers are maintained out in the woods, somewhere and trade away a lot of other advantages for simple maintenance.
Cool find, there.
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Posted - February 22 2015 : 10:31:17 PM
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quote:That Heisler is pretty unusual. It has a superheater. See the pipe from the top of the smokebox to the cylinder valves. Usually steam lines come from the back of the steam dome and are routed under the catwalks to the valves.
Superheating makes the engine quite a bit more fuel efficient, but more maintenance intensive. Usually Heislers are maintained out in the woods, somewhere and trade away a lot of other advantages for simple maintenance.
Cool find, there.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - February 22 2015 : 10:28:00 PM
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 Apparently the museum said they'd eventually get these things up and running, which is probably why they've recently built another shed a while back. Not to mention, it does look like there's less engines rotting there than there were the last time I came.
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Posted - February 22 2015 : 10:33:57 PM
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cool
Well I HOPE none will be scrapped
Tho I'd not mind having the Plymouth diesel & the 2-8-0
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Posted - February 22 2015 : 11:08:10 PM
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quote:cool
Well I HOPE none will be scrapped
Tho I'd not mind having the Plymouth diesel & the 2-8-0
Originally posted by microbusss - February 22 2015 : 10:33:57 PM
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Both are pretty sweet looking locos.
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Posted - February 23 2015 : 08:39:02 AM
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Hi Stephen. Nice photos of those locomotives. The 4-6-0 or ten wheeler is interesting. A practical one to rebuild if the frame is OK. It would be easy to maintain and powerful enough to pull a decent size train. Didn't see a Mogul, 2-6-0 anywhere.
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Posted - February 23 2015 : 09:23:15 AM
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quote: quote:
Hi Stephen. Nice photos of those locomotives. The 4-6-0 or ten wheeler is interesting. A practical one to rebuild if the frame is OK. It would be easy to maintain and powerful enough to pull a decent size train. Didn't see a Mogul, 2-6-0 anywhere.
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Originally posted by toptrain - February 23 2015 : 08:39:02 AM
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Oh, 4-6-0, sorry. But yeah, that thing does look pretty cool, even in it's sad shape.
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Posted - February 23 2015 : 11:48:23 AM
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yeah I meant 4-6-0 I wants too
I'd modernize that loco
with ditch lights, roller bearing wheels, & a new boiler
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Posted - February 23 2015 : 8:05:59 PM
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quote:yeah I meant 4-6-0 I wants too
I'd modernize that loco
with ditch lights, roller bearing wheels, & a new boiler
Originally posted by microbusss - February 23 2015 : 11:48:23 AM
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I can only imagine.I've always found the trains they've had parked here over the years rather cool for some reason. Now I can finally share them.
-Steve
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Posted - February 25 2015 : 12:33:41 AM
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http://www.trainmuseum.blogspot.com/2015/01/924-begins-to-progress-towards-steam.html?m=1
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Posted - February 25 2015 : 12:34:37 AM
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Posted - February 25 2015 : 07:31:55 AM
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It seems that at present a 0-4-0t supplies power for fan trips at the museum. A 0-6-0 switcher is being restored. The ten wheeler is to be done after the 0-6-0. Well good luck to this Railway Museum.
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Posted - February 25 2015 : 09:28:23 AM
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quote:It seems that at present a 0-4-0t supplies power for fan trips at the museum. A 0-6-0 switcher is being restored. The ten wheeler is to be done after the 0-6-0. Well good luck to this Railway Museum.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - February 25 2015 : 07:31:55 AM
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So that's what happened to that 0-6-0.And I'm glad they're planning on bringing back that 4-6-0 cause that thing, even in it's sad shape, looks pretty dang cool. And that 4-6-0 was in service for the railroad it was built for from 1898 to 1960.
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Posted - February 25 2015 : 10:51:50 PM
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| Didn't some of this equipment from the Snoqualmie Museum appear in various episodes of Twin Peaks?
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Posted - February 25 2015 : 11:27:55 PM
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quote:Didn't some of this equipment from the Snoqualmie Museum appear in various episodes of Twin Peaks?
Originally posted by NDW5332Â -Â February 25 2015Â :Â 10:51:50 PM
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I did some research and apparently one of the coaches they use for passenger excursions was in the show.
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Posted - February 25 2015 : 11:57:16 PM
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60+ years of service. You can't say that about many pieces of current machinery. That's impressive! It's good to hear they're working at restoring these engines.
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Posted - February 26 2015 : 09:39:46 AM
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60+ years of service. You can't say that about many pieces of current machinery. That's impressive! It's good to hear they're working at restoring these engines.
Originally posted by DaCheez - February 25 2015 : 11:57:16 PM
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Same with me. As much as I like how strangely beautiful they look like that, I would love to see these locos in action.
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Posted - February 27 2015 : 09:44:45 AM
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I am by no means an official spokesperson for the Northwest Railway Museum and it's plans, policies, or practices, but I am a volunteer there, and may be able to answer some easy questions about the equipment there, if anyone here has them.
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Posted - March 02 2015 : 9:33:05 PM
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quote:60+ years of service. You can't say that about many pieces of current machinery. That's impressive! It's good to hear they're working at restoring these engines.
Originally posted by DaCheez - February 25 2015 : 11:57:16 PM
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Nothing built in the last half century has 60 years of service behind it.
They sure don't build 'em like they used to.
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Posted - March 03 2015 : 09:20:03 AM
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quote: quote:60+ years of service. You can't say that about many pieces of current machinery. That's impressive! It's good to hear they're working at restoring these engines.
Originally posted by DaCheez - February 25 2015 : 11:57:16 PM
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Nothing built in the last half century has 60 years of service behind it.
They sure don't build 'em like they used to.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - March 02 2015 : 9:33:05 PM
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No kidding.
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Posted - April 12 2015 : 4:44:40 PM
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quote:It seems that at present a 0-4-0t supplies power for fan trips at the museum. Well good luck to this Railway Museum.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - February 25 2015 : 07:31:55 AM
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"Chicken". Good story about that locomotive and why it exists today. If you are good boys and girls, I will tell you a bit later.
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Posted - April 12 2015 : 9:45:31 PM
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Apparently the "official" name is "Chiggen", for the place it came from, Chicken Kitchen Restaurant, Pollardville, then Stockton, CA.
Story related to me by "Petunia", who worked to rebuild the boiler (shot), was the (now) owner was driving down the highway, past this chicken restaurant he passed every day, with this Porter 0-4-0 out front, looked over, saw a flatbed truck backed up next to it, and a worker uncoiling 50 feet of oxy-acxetelyne hose.....he nailed the brakes, slid sideways across four lanes, jammed it into first, burned rubber and plowed into the parking lot, jumped out and said..."WHAT ARE YOU DOING?".
Guy said, cutting it up for scrap.
Why?
They want it GONE.
How much did they pay you? I'll give you double if you don't cut it up!
Had to be gone that week, it was, went to Mount Rainier shops at Mineral, where they found the chassis was excellent, boiler was toast...so they rolled a new boiler.
Ran at Mt Rainier Scenic until politics got in the way, the owner yanked the engine out, took it to Snoqualmie, where they set him up as the guy in charge of the steam program, and this is the first. They have started on a second rebuild, hopefully they'll get to the mallet behind the station one of these years.
The museum fought the city of Snoqualmie for years...city wanted the junk gone after Puget Power kicked them out of their old location west of town for "development", so all the stuff sits...and the city wouldn't give them permits to build the shops. I think it was 20 years...they finally got it done. Once they get the Chapel car out (soon, I hear) there will be more indoor room to work.
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Posted - April 12 2015 : 11:24:45 PM
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Story related to me by "Petunia", who worked to rebuild the boiler (shot), was the (now) owner was driving down the highway, past this chicken restaurant he passed every day, with this Porter 0-4-0 out front, looked over, saw a flatbed truck backed up next to it, and a worker uncoiling 50 feet of oxy-acxetelyne hose.....he nailed the brakes, slid sideways across four lanes, jammed it into first, burned rubber and plowed into the parking lot, jumped out and said..."WHAT ARE YOU DOING?".
Guy said, cutting it up for scrap.
Why?
They want it GONE.
How much did they pay you? I'll give you double if you don't cut it up!
Originally posted by ScaleCraft - April 12 2015 : 9:45:31 PM
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A railfan in his finest hour. I would've done the same, as I'm sure many of us would.
Reminds me of a show I went to in Allentown earlier this year:
I was walking along at the very end of the show, as everyone was packing up to head home, when out of the corner of my eye I saw one of the vendors get up and walk over towards a trashcan with an open walthers box containing what looked like a whole locomotive. Ran over three aisles to ask him what on earth he was doing. Turns out he was about to throw out an intact Bachmann Spectrum Union Pacific C40-8W. He said it was ruined, but if I really wanted the piece of junk, I may as well take it. Turns out that the mechanism runs perfectly. The only reason it was doomed was because it had been dropped on its tail end, snapping off the back pilot so badly that the shell needs replacement--a $10 replacement part for an otherwise good $70 locomotive. Needless to say I had a new prize to bring back from the show.
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Posted - April 13 2015 : 8:40:23 PM
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quote: quote:
Story related to me by "Petunia", who worked to rebuild the boiler (shot), was the (now) owner was driving down the highway, past this chicken restaurant he passed every day, with this Porter 0-4-0 out front, looked over, saw a flatbed truck backed up next to it, and a worker uncoiling 50 feet of oxy-acxetelyne hose.....he nailed the brakes, slid sideways across four lanes, jammed it into first, burned rubber and plowed into the parking lot, jumped out and said..."WHAT ARE YOU DOING?".
Guy said, cutting it up for scrap.
Why?
They want it GONE.
How much did they pay you? I'll give you double if you don't cut it up!
Originally posted by ScaleCraft - April 12 2015 : 9:45:31 PM
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A railfan in his finest hour. I would've done the same, as I'm sure many of us would.
Reminds me of a show I went to in Allentown earlier this year:
I was walking along at the very end of the show, as everyone was packing up to head home, when out of the corner of my eye I saw one of the vendors get up and walk over towards a trashcan with an open walthers box containing what looked like a whole locomotive. Ran over three aisles to ask him what on earth he was doing. Turns out he was about to throw out an intact Bachmann Spectrum Union Pacific C40-8W. He said it was ruined, but if I really wanted the piece of junk, I may as well take it. Turns out that the mechanism runs perfectly. The only reason it was doomed was because it had been dropped on its tail end, snapping off the back pilot so badly that the shell needs replacement--a $10 replacement part for an otherwise good $70 locomotive. Needless to say I had a new prize to bring back from the show.
Originally posted by PRR 4800Â -Â April 12 2015Â :Â 11:24:45 PM
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I would, too. Especially with how cute the old bugger is. Can't believe they almost scrapped that helpless little beaut. Hopefully she's in good hands now.
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Posted - April 15 2015 : 8:06:03 PM
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Nothing built in the last half century has 60 years of service behind it.
They sure don't build 'em like they used to.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - March 02 2015 : 9:33:05 PM
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True enough since a half century is ten years shorter than 60 years! However, weekly I drive 65 year old Fords...and a 50-year-old Jag.
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Posted - April 15 2015 : 10:32:10 PM
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Nothing built in the last half century has 60 years of service behind it.
They sure don't build 'em like they used to.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - March 02 2015 : 9:33:05 PM
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True enough since a half century is ten years shorter than 60 years! However, weekly I drive 65 year old Fords...and a 50-year-old Jag.
My 1911 is WWI vintage. My house is 1929...and my computer uses XP!
Originally posted by ScaleCraft - April 15 2015 : 8:06:03 PM
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Yeah, old stuff can be pretty sweet. They sure don't make them the same way, I agree.
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