Steam locomotive
Jul 4, 2017 14:59:18 #
This engine was seen when we took the Potomac Eagle train ride on Fathers Day. They use a diesel engine to pull the train.
Jul 4, 2017 22:08:20 #
Jul 5, 2017 06:10:53 #
Cibafan wrote:
This engine was seen when we took the Potomac Eagle train ride on Fathers Day. They use a diesel engine to pull the train.
Jul 5, 2017 12:31:10 #
1Feathercrest
Loc: NEPA
If the train is being pulled by a diesel, the steam engine is negligible/superfluous. I didn't see a coal car so what is providing the smoke, or is that also a fake? Steam engines were capable of pulling very long trains for more than a century before diesel was introduced. I rode steam engine pulled trains for many years from the Scranton, PA station to NY City (and back), years before the introduction of the Phoebe Snow diesel.
Jul 5, 2017 13:05:56 #
The steam engine is just for show. The sight seeing train is pulled up the Potomac river and pushed back. I am aware coal fired locomotives can pull long trains. I lived for a few years near the Norfolk and Western where in the forties they pulled some very long coal trains from West Virginia to the east.
Jul 6, 2017 00:55:26 #
Jul 6, 2017 10:08:28 #
1Feathercrest wrote:
This engine is what is referred to as a saddle-tank locomotive. It carried its water and fuel (coal or wood) on the locomotive, it didn't use a tender. It was used as a yard switcher or maybe in logging. It wasn't used for long hauls pulling long trains. Most of them didn't have leading or trailing trucks.If the train is being pulled by a diesel, the steam engine is negligible/superfluous. I didn't see a coal car so what is providing the smoke, or is that also a fake? Steam engines were capable of pulling very long trains for more than a century before diesel was introduced. I rode steam engine pulled trains for many years from the Scranton, PA station to NY City (and back), years before the introduction of the Phoebe Snow diesel.
Jul 7, 2017 11:31:38 #
Jul 7, 2017 11:32:15 #
Jul 8, 2017 15:51:33 #
1Feathercrest wrote:
If the train is being pulled by a diesel, the steam engine is negligible/superfluous. I didn't see a coal car so what is providing the smoke, or is that also a fake? Steam engines were capable of pulling very long trains for more than a century before diesel was introduced. I rode steam engine pulled trains for many years from the Scranton, PA station to NY City (and back), years before the introduction of the Phoebe Snow diesel.
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