dragonharh
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Can you do better ?
Super Huge Locomotive's
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Can you do better ?
constar261
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Challenge Accepted.
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While my locomotive creation skills are 0, I do know a thing or two about a few. (Hey look, I rhymed.)
While not HUGE in that they where the longest or heave st, I all ways fancy the Triplex as one heck of a huge locomotive. (2-8-8-8-2)
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/triplex/triplex.htm
But thats nothing compared to the Allegheny, which is heavier then the Big Boy. The Allegheny weighs in at 771,000-lbs, or about 38.5 tons vs the Big Boy coming in at 762,000 lb, or 38.1 tons. (Interesting tid bit I found, 1604, one of the two Allegheny's left and on display, was moved to the B&O Railroad Museum in 1990 by none other then Pere Marquette #11. PMR #11 is an SW1 type locomotive and one of my favorite switchers.)
While not HUGE in that they where the longest or heave st, I all ways fancy the Triplex as one heck of a huge locomotive. (2-8-8-8-2)
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/triplex/triplex.htm
But thats nothing compared to the Allegheny, which is heavier then the Big Boy. The Allegheny weighs in at 771,000-lbs, or about 38.5 tons vs the Big Boy coming in at 762,000 lb, or 38.1 tons. (Interesting tid bit I found, 1604, one of the two Allegheny's left and on display, was moved to the B&O Railroad Museum in 1990 by none other then Pere Marquette #11. PMR #11 is an SW1 type locomotive and one of my favorite switchers.)
Try increasing that 10 times! A loaded truck on the highway is 40 tons. Me thinks you mean 385 tons! 38.5 is light as a feather in railroad terms!
64Warhorse
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What *is* the blue diesel in the DPRR livery?
64Warhorse
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So it's fictional, then? Or did someone (EMD?) actually propose such a monster?
Well, if we compare locomotive size by tractive effort, then Great Northern's R-1 and R-2's (2-8-8-2's) take down both the Allegheny and the Big Boy.
| R-1 | 142,165 lbs. |
| R-2 | 162,475 lbs. |
| Allegheny | 110,211 lbs. |
| Big Boy | 135,375 lbs. |
GN was reknowned for being able to make their engines literally better than new when they rebuilt them. It is also cool to me knowing that my favortie railroad built some of their own locomotives.
constar261
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What about N&W power
A Thought...
Don't know about tractive effort (though it had enough to tear up track when misused as a helper) but for length... PRR's BP-1 officially consisted of two Baldwin DR-12-8-3000 "Centipedes" drawbar-connected for a 2-D+D-2+2-D+D-2 configuration. Whole set had the same road number and everything. 91 1/2-ft long ... doubled.
Hmmm... just looked it up and tractive effort was a mere 102,500... but that's for half the official locomotive, so 205,000 the set.
And (though there isn't one for Trainz...yet) mustn't forget Virginian's EL-2Bs - 2(B-B+B-B) - at 260,000 tractive effort the set. They also had one road number per set, but it might be considered cheating to take power from the overhead. Any rules to this competition?
Don't know about tractive effort (though it had enough to tear up track when misused as a helper) but for length... PRR's BP-1 officially consisted of two Baldwin DR-12-8-3000 "Centipedes" drawbar-connected for a 2-D+D-2+2-D+D-2 configuration. Whole set had the same road number and everything. 91 1/2-ft long ... doubled.
Hmmm... just looked it up and tractive effort was a mere 102,500... but that's for half the official locomotive, so 205,000 the set.
And (though there isn't one for Trainz...yet) mustn't forget Virginian's EL-2Bs - 2(B-B+B-B) - at 260,000 tractive effort the set. They also had one road number per set, but it might be considered cheating to take power from the overhead. Any rules to this competition?
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dragonharh
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Pulling 37k tons train is 4 or 5 miles long may be more.
jjanmarine3
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Cool ! go easy on the throttle though ...I can imagine them pulling up the rails and spitting them out the back like a Jack Russel digging for moles...
illinoiscentral
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dragonharh
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Pulling 37k tons train is 4 or 5 miles long may be more.
I was off it is 6.5 miles long
It's only relessed every so often limited time only sorry it wont be out intell the next update of Dragons Pass Very few already has this unit.
I made a Video of it.
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dragonharh
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amtrak2041864
High Speed Rail!!
That is what I call a efficient, if that was the case today man trains would be long. But heavy.