From: chrisjbrady@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, 3 April 2014 05:19:29 UTC+1, Larry Sheldon  wrote:   
   > On 4/2/2014 11:07 PM, Glen Labah wrote:   
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   > > In article <7d7828f9-4ef0-46d1-b9e9-ba81dca40447@googlegroups.com>,   
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   > >   CJB  wrote:   
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   > >> Does anyone know what the engine is and where it was built? It would have   
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   > >> been to the original 3'6" gauge.   
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   > > To me, it doesn't look like something the major USA builders were   
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   > > If you look closely, you will see that the cab floor, bottom of the   
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   > > tender, and running boards that run along the side of the boiler to the   
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   > > front of the locomotive, and then across the front of the locomotive,   
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   > > are all at the same level.   
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   > > At that time, USA locomotive builders tended to build locomotives with   
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   > > all this on different levels.  Take a look, for example, at a Manchester   
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   > > Locomotive Works product from 1885:   
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   > > http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/shortline_steam/NBR.htm   
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   > > The cab sides and running board are positioned above the top of the   
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   > > driving wheels, and then come to and end.  To get to the platform across   
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   > > the front of the locomotive, you have to climb downward.  The tender   
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   > > platform is at a much different level than the bottom of the cab frame,   
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   > > and the cab floor is actually dropped between the driving wheels.   
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   > > Those features of this locomotive from Barbados look a bit to me more   
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   > > like contemporary British built locomotives built for export.  For   
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   > > example, a 3 ft 6 inch gauge 1870s era Sharp Stewart built for Indonesia:   
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   > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcarter/7451766818/   
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   > > I have seen a few engravings of locomotives built in Canada for export   
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   > > that looked a bit like a mixture of USA practice and British practice,   
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   > > and it could be one of those as well.   
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   > What do you recon the three tanks are--water, fuel, of molasses?   
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   > Idioten aangeboden. Gratis af te halen.   
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   > h/t Dagelijkse Standaard   
      
   More info. here:   
      
   http://www.enuii.org/vulcan_foundry/miscellaneous/The%20Barbados%20Railway.pdf   
      
   CJB   
      
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