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jim currie

02-20-2009, 11:12 PM
here is a Russian rail way locomotive that the word behemoth applies . thats right 14 drivers :o
Jim

Bigsteel

02-20-2009, 11:57 PM
the pic looks wierd,i think it was photoshopped jim,but huge nonetheless--josh

Charlie B

02-21-2009, 05:58 AM
Dear Jim
Thanks for posting this. I never knew this existed. You made me look for some more information.
Surprise, surprise, It didn't work out. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-14-4">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-14-4</a><!-- m -->
Charlie

MasonJar

02-21-2009, 06:13 AM
Bigsteel Wrote:the pic looks wierd,i think it was photoshopped jim,but huge nonetheless--josh

Nope - they really tried it... and it really didn't work out...! Icon_lol

Andrew

Ralph

02-21-2009, 12:03 PM
MasonJar Wrote:Nope - they really tried it... and it really didn't work out...! Icon_lol

Andrew

The result of a failed Five Year Plan? Stalin probably wasn't pleased. Eek
Ralph

Sumpter250

02-21-2009, 01:15 PM
Quote:The result of a failed Five Year Plan? Stalin probably wasn't pleased. Eek
Ralph
Hmmmm. : Failed?, Stalin?, sounds like the only "rolling" stock this loco was capable of pulling.......was the heads of all involved! Eek

eightyeightfan1

02-21-2009, 02:47 PM
If this is the same loco I read about a few years ago, like that was posted, it was a failure as far as a working loco, but great a keeping shops warm and toasty. Befroe she was scrapped, she was plumbed into one of the shops, and the boiler was used to run a shop, and for heating. Later, it was finally sold as scrap.
Too bad. Like here in the states, how many historical steam locos in the Soviet Union, or for that matter, in the world were sold for scrap, and not preserved.
A fact of short sightness.

MountainMan

02-23-2009, 10:23 PM
If this is the one I think it is, it was a failure because it couldn't negotiate any curves at all.

Here are the condensed comments from one site:

Quote:It was clear (though never publicly admitted) that the AA20 was a complete disaster. It spread the track, wrecked every set of points it passed over, and derailed almost every time it moved. Steaming was poor and the locomotive too powerful for existing couplers and too long for the turntables. After 1935, it was stored for 25 years at the Shcherbinka test facility and finally scrapped in 1960.
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