That looks strikingly similar to something the Milwaukee Road build out of an old street car truck to move locomotives around their deer lodge MT shop. Very interesting photo, not something you see every day!
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| Posted by K100DS on September 17, 2008 | |
Neat little critter. Might it qualify as the world's smallest standard gauge locomotive?
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I've seen pictures of something similar that the New York Central had at Collinwood for moving engines, and I believe they had more elsewhere.
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Ron Delevan (now of the RMD used locomtive lot in Pittston) designed this thing while an electrical engineer at Conrail. (I helped!). The shop referred to it as "The Bug".
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| Posted by lumpum on September 17, 2008 | |
Interesting. there are no brake cylinders on the "truck" I wonder how it stops.
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That's awesome! I want one!
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Conrail's now Norfolk Southern's compact helper unit with no room for the engineer or conductor to sit but just to watch. Great Shot!
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