Search for: post civil war sg us-steamer

[Cosplay]

Dear friends,
please apologize double.
At the first for my weak English.
At the 2nd I am a greenhorn in US Railroad

I am looking for an old time standard gauge steamer
from the US, which was in service after the civil war.
More thoroughly said, the age between 1870 and 1900.

I know the 4-4-0 wheeler, called "The General",
which was better known as leading personality
in the movie "The General"
It is available at the DLS in different liveries.
I know them.

In my mind was a bit different looking engine:
2-6-0 wheeler (German 1'C), called "Mogul" (?),
or maybe
4-6-0 Wheeler (German 2'C), called "Ten Wheeler" (?)

Does anyone know where I can get this kind of steamers,
preferred as "ready for T:ANE" object?

Edit:
Now, I accidentally found this picture:
pictue of an 2-6-0 wheeler
Can anyone tell me, where I can get this engine(s)
and the coaches of this train?

 

[activerail]

Check out Carsoncarshops.com by Pencil42.

 

[Cosplay]

I am heavily impressed

about your fast kind help.

Thank you so much.

Check out Carsoncarshops.com by Pencil42.

Thank you! That is exactly, what I looked for.

 

[hminky]

These are nice:

http://trainz-forge.com/contact

Harold

 

[Cosplay]

These are nice:
wine red beauty

Dear Harold,
indeed, it is a very good looking engine.

You both, activerail and you, Harold, saved my day.

Today was an extremely unsuccessful day.
Until you helped me. Thank you!

 

[Cosplay]

Dear friend,
according your fantastic hints and links, I downloaded a lot of great stuff.

But unfortunately I ignored a technical "cut" in this era.
There was a change between couplers to the Janney coupler.
So I have steamers with the older coupler, but also coaches and
freight cars with the older and newer coupler.
And I don't know, what to do? To combine them wasn't possible in reality.

My request about it:
When was the exchange of the older (funnel?) couplers to the Janney coupler completed?
Is there a specific year or did they coexist a longer time?
What was about the steamers? Become they modernised?
Or did the rail companies prefer to exchange the whole engine to "more modern" and stronger one?

Many thanks for your answers
Sincerely Udo

 

[activerail]

Janney Coupler

Dear friend,
according your fantastic hints and links, I downloaded a lot of great stuff.

But unfortunately I ignored a technical "cut" in this era.
There was a change between couplers to the Janney coupler.
So I have steamers with the older coupler, but also coaches and
freight cars with the older and newer coupler.
And I don't know, what to do? To combine them wasn't possible in reality.

My request about it:
When was the exchange of the older (funnel?) couplers to the Janney coupler completed?
Is there a specific year or did they coexist a longer time?
What was about the steamers? Become they modernised?
Or did the rail companies prefer to exchange the whole engine to "more modern" and stronger one?

Many thanks for your answers
Sincerely Udo

The Janney Coupler is a semi-automatic railway coupler. The earliest commercially successful version of the knuckle coupler, it was patented by Eli H. Janney in 1873 (U.S. Patent 138,405).[SUP][1][/SUP] (Wikipedia)

 

[JCitron]

There was also a time when locomotives and some railcars (wagons) that had slots in Janney or knuckle couplers to hold the old coupling rods from the link and pin couplers.

 

[Pencil42]

Conversion was around 1900 for rolling stock involved in interchange service, but like others mentioned, the old link-and-pin couplers could connect to the Janney couplers for quite some time.

 

[Cosplay]

Dear friends, thank you for your description. They contain very interesting news to me. Thank you.

In the last time, the historical US-Railway scene becomes more and more interesting to me.