2-6-0 Mogul
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goscrewyourselves
I'm the one
Nice and wish you could get a good 0-6-0 and 0-6-2 n scale model 
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports did they do to that thing?
MikeGTW
Signalman, ESQ
So here's the story
Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 80, p. 428. See also Megan Biesele, "East Texas & Gulf Railway," Handbook of Texas Online ([]), accessed October 17, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association; Railpictures.net has a 9 February 2010 entry by Tom Sink that shows his photo and comments about the gasoline-engine conversion described below; see [], last accessed 17 October 2013. Works number was 60786 in April 1929.
Lodwick Lumber Company's ET&G never was very long, so its motive power requirements could be satisfied by small oil-burning Moguls such as the 53 as well as a couple of castoff 4-6-0s.
Its service began after the Hicksbaugh mill closed in 1928, so it soon moved on to other lines, keeping its road number through it all. Welori Lumber Company in Couchwood, La was the second timber company to own the 53. Its next owner was Gifford Hill, and finally the Woodward Walker Lumber of Ada, La bought the aging engine.
Here's where things get a bit bizarre. Tom Sink's photograph shows that for whatever reason, the shop at Ada decided to modify the 53 by installing a Ford V-8 engine in the smoke box. After removing the rods (main and side), workers mounted a rear axle from a car or truck over the second driving axle. The driver's disk was fitted with a toothed wheel which was turned by the chain that looped around it and the hub of the driveshaft above it. A chain wrapped around a toothed hub on the second driver and a similar hub on the third driver turned the latter. (One possible wheel arrangment description is 2-4-0, another might be 2(+2)-4-0.
Ky.CatFan commented: "Also I nominate this critter for the Rube Goldberg Award ! Tom did not state if this was an automatic or a stick shift but this is a true oddball.". Mark Heidorn asked: "How about an internal combustion designation rather than one from steam? Say a 1-1-B. Or perhaps there is another chain on the other side making it a 1-C?."
Omahadivision added: "We now have an internal combustion steam engine!"
Locobase knows of at least one other such conversion by the Paauhau Sugar Plantation Company, which he documents at Locobase 14752. That locomotive was a much smaller 0-6-0 saddle tank.
Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 80, p. 428. See also Megan Biesele, "East Texas & Gulf Railway," Handbook of Texas Online ([]), accessed October 17, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association; Railpictures.net has a 9 February 2010 entry by Tom Sink that shows his photo and comments about the gasoline-engine conversion described below; see [], last accessed 17 October 2013. Works number was 60786 in April 1929.
Lodwick Lumber Company's ET&G never was very long, so its motive power requirements could be satisfied by small oil-burning Moguls such as the 53 as well as a couple of castoff 4-6-0s.
Its service began after the Hicksbaugh mill closed in 1928, so it soon moved on to other lines, keeping its road number through it all. Welori Lumber Company in Couchwood, La was the second timber company to own the 53. Its next owner was Gifford Hill, and finally the Woodward Walker Lumber of Ada, La bought the aging engine.
Here's where things get a bit bizarre. Tom Sink's photograph shows that for whatever reason, the shop at Ada decided to modify the 53 by installing a Ford V-8 engine in the smoke box. After removing the rods (main and side), workers mounted a rear axle from a car or truck over the second driving axle. The driver's disk was fitted with a toothed wheel which was turned by the chain that looped around it and the hub of the driveshaft above it. A chain wrapped around a toothed hub on the second driver and a similar hub on the third driver turned the latter. (One possible wheel arrangment description is 2-4-0, another might be 2(+2)-4-0.
Ky.CatFan commented: "Also I nominate this critter for the Rube Goldberg Award ! Tom did not state if this was an automatic or a stick shift but this is a true oddball.". Mark Heidorn asked: "How about an internal combustion designation rather than one from steam? Say a 1-1-B. Or perhaps there is another chain on the other side making it a 1-C?."
Omahadivision added: "We now have an internal combustion steam engine!"
Locobase knows of at least one other such conversion by the Paauhau Sugar Plantation Company, which he documents at Locobase 14752. That locomotive was a much smaller 0-6-0 saddle tank.
flyboy2610
Loveably weird
There's a prototype for everything...
It looks like something my brother and I would have built during a long weekend of drinking...
goscrewyourselves
I'm the one
Now that is something I'd almost pay to see
westtexjohn
Well-Known Member
If you could mount rubber tires on this thing it would be "streetable"......maybe.......maybe not. Forgot about steering.
KriegslokBR52
Well-Known Member
Funny you should say that, because i like to read automotive magazines. Seems a lot of decisions on custom car projects are being made in local pubs in front of a jug of beer.
goscrewyourselves
I'm the one
I think lots of decisions are made over a beer or two - some of them, not very good or well thought out
Rico
BN Modeller
Hmmm that might explain the EMD BL2…
“Hey this is a tasty bacon lettuce and tomato samich, what if…”
KriegslokBR52
Well-Known Member
I can visualize couple of guys, loose ties, drawing up some wacky designs after having a few cold ones in the lounge.
goscrewyourselves
I'm the one
Isn't that how 95% of most things come to fruition?
KriegslokBR52
Well-Known Member
Well i try not to have a beer untill after i'm done working on the car, or on the house...but i might be in that missing 5%
