Train Buff.
Interesting locomotive without a tender !
Then I saw the fuel tank on top in front of the cab !
I knew right away this wasn't THE #3 ! :XD:
Mojave Northern Railroad Switch Engine #3Because fuel and water for this six-wheel switch engine (with no pilot or trailing wheels) are carried in an 800-gallon oil tank and a 2,000-gallon water tank on the locomotives frame ("saddling" the boiler instead of in a tender), it is called an 0-6-OT saddletank engine. Per
http://www.psrm.org/trains/steam/mojave
Nice 0-6-0 Switcher. All pictures :thumbup:
rehess
Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA
Halkeye wrote:
train stop.
These are interesting pictures.
They were all taken in LaMesa?
Is this near San Diego? (I'm expecting to be in your area in March, visiting my daughter, who lives there)
Yes. La Mesa is east of down town SD about 10mi. The trolley stops right there on its way to El ajon.
Halkeye wrote:
Yes. La Mesa is east of down town SD about 10mi. The trolley stops right there on its way to El ajon.
Fix that "El Cajon" San Diego will ya ! :)
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The engine is a switcher that worked in the yards moving cars around.
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