From: lfsheldon@gmail.com
On 4/2/2014 11:07 PM, Glen Labah wrote:
> In article <7d7828f9-4ef0-46d1-b9e9-ba81dca40447@googlegroups.com>,
> CJB wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know what the engine is and where it was built? It would have
>> been to the original 3'6" gauge.
>
>
> To me, it doesn't look like something the major USA builders were
> building.
>
> If you look closely, you will see that the cab floor, bottom of the
> tender, and running boards that run along the side of the boiler to the
> front of the locomotive, and then across the front of the locomotive,
> are all at the same level.
>
> At that time, USA locomotive builders tended to build locomotives with
> all this on different levels. Take a look, for example, at a Manchester
> Locomotive Works product from 1885:
>
> http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/shortline_steam/NBR.htm
>
> The cab sides and running board are positioned above the top of the
> driving wheels, and then come to and end. To get to the platform across
> the front of the locomotive, you have to climb downward. The tender
> platform is at a much different level than the bottom of the cab frame,
> and the cab floor is actually dropped between the driving wheels.
>
> Those features of this locomotive from Barbados look a bit to me more
> like contemporary British built locomotives built for export. For
> example, a 3 ft 6 inch gauge 1870s era Sharp Stewart built for Indonesia:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcarter/7451766818/
>
> I have seen a few engravings of locomotives built in Canada for export
> that looked a bit like a mixture of USA practice and British practice,
> and it could be one of those as well.
>
What do you recon the three tanks are--water, fuel, of molasses?
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