The vertical driving rods activating the horizontal geared shafts look like they are going to fly off the engine. Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society made some progress in the restoration of the Shay relics. She also had the largest cylinders (18x20 inches) and the largest drivers (just over 48 inches) ever applied to a shay. Given that the torque on a Shay's drive shaft varies dramatically four or six times per revolution, there should be plenty of opportunity for the shaft to slide as required unless it's been allowed to dry out completely.. . Numbering note: Sn 6-725 were a mix of Shay and rod loco by Lima. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.246.64.133 (talk) 13:22, 28 February 2014 (UTC), Were all of these built for sub-standard gauge railroads? . Sn-1500-3354 were all Shays. Jim .
1 of the Roaring Camp and Big Trees railroad), the photo label shows a feed pump next to the compressor. The heaviest work done to No. Parts spin, turn, and fly back and forth with a great deal of huffing and puffing. WM number 6 also displayed all the features seen in the earlier 90 ton Pacific Coast-type shays, but also for unknown reasons was not classed as PC-type locomotive. Clark's Bridge and McQuillan's Bridge were probably built in 1896 - 1897. 1 ½" SCALE SHAY CASTINGS CLASS "B" 2-TRUCK or CLASS "C" 3-TRUCK The locomotives were built to the patents of Ephraim Shay, who has been credited with the popularization of the concept of a geared steam locomotive. The next series of photos show the state of those components immediately prior to their restoration by the Munro Tramway Historical Group. Admission is $5.00 a person to go inside the house to see model trains, watch videos, buy things and look at preserved artifacts from the time of Shay Locomotive. This information is all misleading as they (Lima Locomotive Works) listed this shay as a 150 ton Shay class due to it being thee only Shay of its size ever built, so they did not create a "new" Shay class for it as it was so late in the Shay history and Lima was attempting to phase out of the geared locomotive business at the time. LaMassena does not give his sources, so it's hard to say where exactly he got his figures. Bridges 1, 2 and 3 were built on the section of line that connected the mill to the eastern escarpment area - where the incline winder operated. Munro's first log haulage tramway was built about 2 miles to the east of the Cabarlah railway station. Shay expert George Kadelak's scaling of Lima data concerning No. In the field across the street are wood burning model trains and small wooden play trains. 12 weighed 197 tons by Cass shop foreman E.J. All the ones I've ever seen or heard about were for narrow gauges.
. Alley Co. for $1,700 in 1880, with two others being sold that year. Number 12 survived the takeover of the GC&E by Mower Lumber Company and worked until the early 1940's, when she collided with a Western Maryland 2-8-0 and bent her frame. 8, both being Class C 100-3 three-truck shays without ever having been converted. However, information regarding her weight conflicts here, as LaMassena gives a weight of 324,000 pounds, or 162 tons exactly. . 12's original 155 tons. In light of the information that has been found, it is the author of this short piece's conclusion that the heaviest shay ever was Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk/Mower Lumber Company shay number 12 after conversion, and that Kansas City Southern shay number 900 was the largest and heaviest shay to leave Lima's shop, and Western Maryland shay number 6 was the heaviest shay in operating trim and the largest and heaviest shay currently in existence. Look up the Lima Shay roster Shay #SN3354, in conjunction with the Western Maryland 3 truck Shay #6. Welcome to Shay Locomotive. {2,767th Lima Built Shay} Actual built order of just the Shays Lima produced It should be noted that Bagdon's work is the definitive authority on geared motive power at Cass prior to the Cass Scenic Railroad in 1963, and his sources are solid.
From west to east, they were: Clark's Bridge, McQuillan's Bridge, Bridge 1, Bridge 2 and Bridge 3. Both websites and Robert A. LaMassena's Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America (Sundance Books, 1979) confirm this. Many Shay engines ran through the mountains for the American West pulling cars loaded with logs. As a side note, the most powerful shay ever built, as measured by tractive effort, was Kansas City Southern Number 900, with 72,000 lbs of tractive effort. I would imagine that he would use the same standard (operating vs. empty) for weight throughout the book, though, so it's hard to say with any degree of certainty who is right. . the shay geared locomotive at work upon the mount tamalpais railway in california [ From Part 19 of Railway Wonders of the World by Frederick A. Talbot, 1913 ] You can read more on “The Crookedest Railway in the World” , “Rack Rail Locomotives” and “Unconventional Locomotives” on this website.
That pump is actually a twin-piston reciprocating pump used mainly to draw water from creeks and streams to refill the water in the engine's water tank and also to fight small fires, which were common in any logging railroad's operating area in the age of steam. But this presents another conflict, as Kansas City Southern Number 900, also a Class C 150-3 built in 1913 (s/n 2570), left Lima Locomotive Works weighing in at 286,700 pounds, as built, empty, figures provided by Shay Locomotives.com and Geared Steam Locomotive Works.com, making KCS No.
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The 3- truck Shay is 84" long and weighs slightly more than 400 pounds. The Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, has a special treat for visitors.
There is an open house with trains and the replica of the original Shay Locomotive is out for as a display. However, LaMassena gives No. Some time later some of the Munro Shay components - the major ones being the Shay 906 boiler and the Shay 2097 tender - were returned to Ravensbourne. The line was 1/2 mile long with wooden rails on the straight sections and steel rails on the curves.
The contrast between huge activity and little speed is one of things that makes this sort of machine interesting. Munro's main tramway was a 26 km, 2' 6" gauge iron railed network centred on the mill at Palmtree. 13 until they were both scrapped in 1957. Shay #2, a Pacific Coast Shay, was constructed in July of 1928 for the Mayo Lumber Company of Paldi, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It also provided a means of transporting the sawn timber from the mill to the government rail line at Hampton. Sn 726-999 were all Shays. Alot believe and state that the Western Maryland #6 is 150 tons, which is the incorrect segment I speak of. Though she was the heaviest shay built AT Lima, she did not exceed many of the four-truck 150-4 shays in physical size. This locomotive is a proven performer, having pulled nine cars with 27 people, and being in service since 1976. Set of 85 drawings plus 3 pages of color photographs showing various parts of the completed engine,$45.00 plus $6.75 postage. Western Maryland shay Number 6 (s/n 3354), a Class C 150-3 shay and the last shay built (1945, some eight years after s/n 3353), tipped the scales at 269,960 pounds empty, as built, provided by Shay Locomotives.com and Geared Steam Locomotive Works.com.
Weathering, bushfires and reuse of bridge materials took their toll on these structures and almost no "on the ground" evidence of their existence remains. Total price of all castings for 2 truck Shay $969.66.
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