Some more trolleys....C&G, CG&W, H&F, and others....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Over to the P&N........

[rogruth]

That loco just has mre character than a similar diesel.

Why a pantograph and a pole?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That loco just has mre character than a similar diesel.

Why a pantograph and a pole?

Something about triggering signals is what I recall......and maybe also access to areas that were pole only wire...

[rogruth]

I think that's right.
I recall reading about trolley poles used on diesel switchers for that purpose.
Maybe on Sacramento Northern.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I think that's right.
I recall reading about trolley poles used on diesel switchers for that purpose.
Maybe on Sacramento Northern.

Yes. SN did have poles on their diesel equipment.

[mickeydee]

A baby Crocodile! What a neat looking loco, that would be fun to model, especially if the panto and pole were given the wires to run on track and street, something cobbled perhaps a dockyard setting?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A baby Crocodile! What a neat looking loco, that would be fun to model, especially if the panto and pole were given the wires to run on track and street, something cobbled perhaps a dockyard setting?

Better termed a "steeple cab" and a main line engine too for the P&N. Interesting RR that existed as 2 disconnected segments and tried to pretend to be an interurban line..........

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Another interesting line car.......

[rogruth]

Rufus,

What is the origin of your tag line?
Unlike someone above I can't imagine you in a dress.
Wayne will probably show me now.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,

What is the origin of your tag line?

Movie - A Fish Named Wanda

[rogruth]

Thank you. I knew I had heard it somewhere.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

York Rwys #402........Winter is coming,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

My first reaction was to wonder why they put it in a tench. Never saw such a thing.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

My first reaction was to wonder why they put it in a tench. Never saw such a thing.

Tench? Trench?

Really? Same as a cut through on a highway.... Easier to make a cut through and keep level or a reasonable incline vs. up and over, and back.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

My first reaction was to wonder why they put it in a tench. Never saw such a thing.

Tench? Trench?

Really? Same as a cut through on a highway.... Easier to make a cut through and keep level or a reasonable incline vs. up and over, and back.

Oh. Well. That makes sense, if you're going to put it that way.