05-12-2010, 04:08 AM
nachoman Wrote:TrainNut Wrote:You see that a lot of these locomotive travel a great distance when sold from company to company. This one started out in Oregon and eventually made it as far as Arizona. Typically, back in the day, how would a locomotive be transported? In modern times, I've seen them transported via flat bed truck and flat car train. Back when the restrictions weren't as tight, did they drive them from the old company to the new company?
If it could fit on a flatcar, it was probably placed on a flatcar. That would work for narrow gauge and other small or derelict locomotives. Larger steam locomotives I have heard were towed on their own wheels with the siderods removed.
That's how a lot of them were towed to the scrap yard to be cut up...
Andrew