Baby Deltic.. It's been some time since I gave you guys a diesel.

"Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh" (andymcbradleigh)
12/11/2013 at 22:57 • Filed to: None

So here it is... that glorious sound... woourrroourruhmmwrooruuhmwoourr.. uhm.. yeah... Deltic engines = da shit..

DISCUSSION (20)

DocWalt > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/11/2013 at 22:58

So freaking cool.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > DocWalt
12/11/2013 at 23:00

Deltics are cool as.. uhm.. ice?

Kinja'd!!!

Cherry_man1 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/11/2013 at 23:01

That old heap still runs!?

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Cherry_man1
12/11/2013 at 23:04

It did in 2009 at least.. no idea where it is now.

Cherry_man1 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/11/2013 at 23:05

Ah ok I'm assuming you a brittish oppo?

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Cherry_man1
12/11/2013 at 23:08

Nope, I'm Norwegian. But me dad "drives" trains, and I used to work for the railroad here in Norway. I'm a HUGE geek when it comes to engines... Trains, cars, planes, boats... anything..

Cherry_man1 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/11/2013 at 23:10

Well you know here in the US they are restoring a Union Pacific ALCO 4000 "Big Boy" Class Steam Locomotive?

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Cherry_man1
12/11/2013 at 23:11

I know NOW.. damn you :P

Cherry_man1 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/11/2013 at 23:12

UP 4014, 3989 AND 844 all in the Stalls in Cheyenne Wyoming. But its not to Cheyenne yet....last I heard it was still crossing the parking lot at the Museum....

Cherry_man1 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/11/2013 at 23:13

Here is a vid of it

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Cherry_man1
12/11/2013 at 23:16

I'll be spending all day watching stuff like this now.. 4-8-8-4 is a rather unique wheel arrangement.

Cherry_man1 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/11/2013 at 23:17

Ya it is and with like 5000+hp maybe more =~= me gusta

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Cherry_man1
12/11/2013 at 23:34

and 25k gallons of water.. Damn.. I never knew it was THAT huge...

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > Cherry_man1
12/11/2013 at 23:45

I hadn't heard about this before. When I was younger I would go to the train museum in Sacramento CA and just stare at the big boy they had there mesmerized. Thanks for sharing this!

Cherry_man1 > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
12/12/2013 at 00:15

Well its the same Big Boy I believe 4014

Cherry_man1 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/12/2013 at 00:15

YES Thats how it got its name

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > Cherry_man1
12/12/2013 at 00:40

My childhood memory is failing me. It wasn't a big boy. This is the train I was thinking of - still quite large.

http://www.csrmf.org/events-exhibit…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_…

Cherry_man1 > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
12/12/2013 at 08:37

Oh the crazy can-foreword that thing is hella crazy

Slave2anMG > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/12/2013 at 09:12

And fund raising is under way (very successfully I might add) to put this engine back into steam - Norfolk & Western J Class #611, built May 19500 by the railroad itself at its outstanding shops in Roanoke, Virginia. I saw her run in the late 1980s and it's a breathtaking machine.

Slave2anMG > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
12/12/2013 at 09:13

Thanks for sharing this....opposed piston is perhaps the ultimate oppo.