Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 03/06/2020 at 08:28 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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6x6 Pacific ballast tractor ‘Dreadnought’, minus its nameplate, is pictured while hauling a 106 ton North British locomotive from the Festival of Britain site at Battersea London in January 1951.

Svend > ttyymmnn 03/06/2020 at 08:47

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I love these sort of pictures.

1930 65 ton rudder. Darlington to Glasgow.

same year, 82 ton locomotive being sent from Liverpool to India.

1931, 68 ft long, 98.5 tons steel girder from Middlesborough to Marble-Arch, London.

I could spend hours if not days looking at old Pathe news reels. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 03/06/2020 at 08:48

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Gorgeous photo.

Thomas Donohue > ttyymmnn 03/06/2020 at 08:58

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Those tires held a locomotive? It looks like there’s four total in the front, maybe eight.  I’m thinking it needs 36 or 72.

Svend > Thomas Donohue 03/06/2020 at 09:31

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Another perspective of the one above.

Some more here.

https://www.na3t.org/road/search?sort=desc&order=Operator&page=21&catnum=&ident=&subject=&operator=&location=&remarks=&type=

Svend > ttyymmnn 03/06/2020 at 09:31

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More of the images of the same event/job/day/etc...

https://www.na3t.org/road/search?sort=desc&order=Operator&page=21&catnum=&ident=&subject=&operator=&location=&remarks=&type=

Wynn’s ran six of these Pacific’s which were registered for UK road use and given the following names.......

‘Dreadnought’ (Reg No GDW 277),

‘Conqueror’(Reg No HDW 122),

‘Enterprise’(Reg No ADW 228B),

‘Challenger’ (Reg No YDW 356),

‘Helpmate’ (Reg No GDW 585)

‘Valiant’ (Reg No 1570 DW).

A video of Enterprise from 2011, the vehicle is still registered with the DVLC but declared SORN (off road, untaxed. Possibly in a museum).

facw > ttyymmnn 03/06/2020 at 09:38

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So I was reading about installing a locomotive at the Na tional Museum of American H istory recently, and my main takeaway was that transporting by truck really seems like a huge pain:

Apparently took a while to figure out a route where they wouldn’t destroy roads/utilities, and even then they had to put down steel plates in places to distribute the force.

Also I’ve never seen a trailer with tires that go all the way across before, I guess it’s easier than adding axles...

Once at the museum, they laid some track and built a temporary turn-table to get it inside:

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 03/06/2020 at 11:08

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Rusty likes that picture.