From: chrisjbrady@gmail.com

On Thursday, 3 April 2014 05:19:29 UTC+1, Larry Sheldon  wrote:
> On 4/2/2014 11:07 PM, Glen Labah wrote:
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> > In article <7d7828f9-4ef0-46d1-b9e9-ba81dca40447@googlegroups.com>,
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> >   CJB  wrote:
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> >> Does anyone know what the engine is and where it was built? It would have
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> >> been to the original 3'6" gauge.
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> > To me, it doesn't look like something the major USA builders were
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> > building.
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> > If you look closely, you will see that the cab floor, bottom of the
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> > tender, and running boards that run along the side of the boiler to the
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> > front of the locomotive, and then across the front of the locomotive,
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> > are all at the same level.
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> > At that time, USA locomotive builders tended to build locomotives with
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> > all this on different levels.  Take a look, for example, at a Manchester
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> > Locomotive Works product from 1885:
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> > http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/shortline_steam/NBR.htm
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> > The cab sides and running board are positioned above the top of the
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> > driving wheels, and then come to and end.  To get to the platform across
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> > the front of the locomotive, you have to climb downward.  The tender
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> > platform is at a much different level than the bottom of the cab frame,
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> > and the cab floor is actually dropped between the driving wheels.
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> > Those features of this locomotive from Barbados look a bit to me more
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> > like contemporary British built locomotives built for export.  For
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> > example, a 3 ft 6 inch gauge 1870s era Sharp Stewart built for Indonesia:
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> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcarter/7451766818/
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> > I have seen a few engravings of locomotives built in Canada for export
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> > that looked a bit like a mixture of USA practice and British practice,
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> > and it could be one of those as well.
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> >
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> What do you recon the three tanks are--water, fuel, of molasses?
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> --
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> Idioten aangeboden. Gratis af te halen.
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> h/t Dagelijkse Standaard

More info. here:

http://www.enuii.org/vulcan_foundry/miscellaneous/The%20Barbados%20Railway.pdf

CJB

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