"More USRA 0-8-0 steam locomotives were built than any other locomotive design"

[on30gn15]

"More USRA 0-8-0 steam locomotives were built than any other locomotive design"

Hey Y'all;

Was surprised to find DS searches for 0-8-0 switchers come up empty.

Lots of 0-6-0; and the little B&O 0-4-0 Docksider, which I was hoping to find.
But nothing on 0-8-0, not even the USRA design.

0-8-0 as search term got no results for either description or title.
USRA got 295, but no 0-8-0 unless I overlooked it.

Quite surprising given their commonality. One reference for example,

"More USRA 0-8-0 steam locomotives were built than any other locomotive design, 1375 of them. The large boiler allowed this engine to do much heavier work than the 0-6-0 and it generally superseded the 0-6-0 in larger yards, especially in hump yards. The engine was also used n transfer service between yards. Both USRA switchers used the same sized tender"

From Model Railroader Steam Locomotive Cyclopedia, Edited by Linn H. Westcott, c.1960, Kalmbach Publishing.

Yes, I understand that only what people have wanted to make and share appears in DS.
It just strikes me as highly ironic that the most common loco out there in the oily, greasy, dirty, 3d world is the rarest in here.

Hmm, guess I'll have to find out how you make one of these things from scratch and start learning. Will take several years if ever.

 

[gtasa]

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=54291

payware though.

 

[on30gn15]

Aha.
That N&W beastie is appealing.
Will have to email the good fellow an inquiry.
Thanks

 

[paulhobbs]

Quite surprising given their commonality. One reference for example,
From Model Railroader Steam Locomotive Cyclopedia, Edited by Linn H. Westcott, c.1960, Kalmbach Publishing.

Linn Westcott was another one who thought the world ended at the US borders. He'd obviously never heard of the DRB Class 52 'Kriegslok' with something like 6719 (the actual number is disputed) examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRB_Class_52

Paul

 

[on30gn15]

Could be.

The book, however, is strictly about US locos - it is a collection of plans which were published in various issues of the Model Railroader magazine.

Book also has a couple chapters on the way steamers work, are built, and what all the gizmos and plumbing do.

I do know of 0-8-0 around the world, some tender, some tank, various gauges.
Had found some interesting Turkish ones on Railpictures dot net recently.
That site has something like 90 to 100 photos from around the world; some living and breathing, some forlornly decaying.

Apparently, some folks, like the UK, used them in mainline freight service.
I like the finish and colors on UK locos.

Can't say why but that wheel arrangement really appeals to me, it just does.
Along with 4-4-2, 4-4-0, 2-10-0, 4-6-0, 0-4-0.
And pretty much anything 1890 and before. Or quirky little industrials.

(hmm, wonder if someone has done the Midland 4-2-0, Stirling Single 4-2-0, Johnson Spinner, and others of that type?)

Who knows why some appeal more than other, and I'm not going to expend the time and effort to psychoanalyze myself to find out

I feel kind of guilty having to depend on others to make this stuff, it's kind of mooching in a way.

later,
FSW