05-12-2009, 08:34 PM
The railways in Britain used 0-6-0 s for just about everything. If you include tanks, it was the most common wheel arrangement (4-6-0 was second).
Use on a mainline over here would depend on how main it was. Not on the Northeast corridor, but maybe on the Strasburg. Those heavy 0-8-0 s on the Indiana Harbor Belt probably took everything over their main line but at slow freight speeds.
A story I've told elsewhere: The LMS ran very heavy coal trains that required 2 0-6-0 s. They built the Beyer Garrats to replace a pair of them. The practice had been that at the Toton hump yard the locos would uncouple, push the previous train over the hump and them follow it. There was a rather sharp peak at the hump that never bothered them, but when the first Beyer Garrat did the same one of the wheels came up through the cab floor.
Use on a mainline over here would depend on how main it was. Not on the Northeast corridor, but maybe on the Strasburg. Those heavy 0-8-0 s on the Indiana Harbor Belt probably took everything over their main line but at slow freight speeds.
A story I've told elsewhere: The LMS ran very heavy coal trains that required 2 0-6-0 s. They built the Beyer Garrats to replace a pair of them. The practice had been that at the Toton hump yard the locos would uncouple, push the previous train over the hump and them follow it. There was a rather sharp peak at the hump that never bothered them, but when the first Beyer Garrat did the same one of the wheels came up through the cab floor.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.