Valve Gear
I decided to call this set of pics “valve gear” – close ups of the drivers and valve gear of steam locomotives.
Here is a pic of UP #844, a 4-8-4
This is Milwaukee #261, another 4-8-4
This is C&O #2716, a 2-8-4
This is Hampton & Branchville #44, a 4-6-0
San Luis Central #1, a 2-8-0
SP #4449 – also known as The American Freedom Train – 4-8-4
Oops – that’s an SR-71 being built! (How’d that get in the close-up loco photos? – This pic was actually in a Pinterest gallery surrounded mostly by locomotives!)
Norfolk & Western #1218, a 2-6-6-4
a Chicago & North Western 4-6-2
UP #8444, 4-8-4: (I’m wondering if this is the same loco as the first pic – but someone messed up the engine number by 1 digit (??). I believe this one should be #844 – the UP FEF class, 4-8-4 locos all had 3 digit numbers: 8xx.)
Another probably incorrectly designated UP #8444
East Tennessee & Western North Carolina #208, a 2-8-0
ATSF #3751, a 4-8-4
and a few unidentified ones
Shay gearing
more Shay gearing
Enough for today.
Thx,
Kevin
On pics #1, 10, & 11 about the UP #844 / #8444: George Roos responded and corrected my assumption that someone made a mistake in adding a digit to the loco number. The UP Class FEF locos were originally numbered 8xx. But in the ’50s or ’60s, when the UP was buying GP30s, they numbered the GP30s in the 8xx series. So they added a digit to the remaining excursion train 4-8-4 making it #8444.
Thanks George!