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Published: 2008-07-20 00:21:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1011; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 19
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Looking like a toy, this diminutive Deutsche Bundesbahn 323 class switcher awaits it's next duty outside Erdorf, 1973.photographed one of these still woking in 2004 [link] Take a peek at how small they really are!
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Have Arnold Rapido one in N-Scale. Small but it can pull! Thanks for sharing!
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Damn, I really love your pics from the good old Bundesbahn days 
But out of curiosity, how many pics do you have that were made in Germany?
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I was in Europe for 2 years but didn't take a lot of pictures. I think I've posted all the good Railroad pictures although I'm never 100% sure... just stumbled over this one the same day I posted it!
I was in the US Air Force... did a lot of traveling... more about that in my other devID
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These things may be little, but they're pretty powerful for they're size.
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Very cool! I love little industrial locomotives.
[link]
-YD
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Thanks Don... Me too. Not your average locomotive!
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You're welcome Chris! Here, you might get a kick out of this: [link]
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That Steam Locomotive looked pretty Well Kept and good Running, What is It's wheel Arrangment?
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They have a couple 0-4-0's and a Shay as well as a few gas and diesel industrial locomotives that they got from factories.
-YD
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I take it that the Steam Locomotive Pictured is the Shay?
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No, it's an 0-4-0. The Shay from what I understand is a reproduction, I think it's No. 6, there are some pix of it on the 2006 photos page.
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Okay, It just was hard to Tell...
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They are odd little locomotives.
-YD
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Shays, Heislers and Climaxes are Odd Steam Locomotives, but because they Produce so Much Torque at a Low Speed, they are Absurdly Powerful...
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Yeah, they are odd. They used them a lot for logging here in Pennsylvania, that's how I found out about them. They have a great collection of gear driven locomotives down in West Virginia at the Cass Scenic Railroad. They have the largest Shay ever built, Western Maryland No. 6 [link]
I recently found out that there is a Henderson connection to the Shay Locomotive, Ephraim Shay married Jane Henderson. There was also a license granted to a James Henderson who built the Henderson Style Shay at Michigan Iron Works in Cadillac, Michigan. [link]
-YD
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