Posted by CGID on July 29, 2018 at 19:11:11 from (174.27.0.169):
In Reply to: Torque-Long posted by Dean on July 29, 2018 at 15:31:17:
I enjoy your steam-train videos. I was in Two Harbors, MN recently and took a look at the DM&IR 2-8-8-4 Mallet #229 on display there; it's one-hundred & twenty-eight feet long. The tender carried 26 tons of coal and 25,000 gal. of water. The engine and tender, ready to run, weighed nearly 1,000,000 lbs. Six-thousand, two-hundred and fifty hp, 140,000 lb tractive effort. The last run was July 5, 1960. This engine and others like it hauled mile-long trains full of iron-ore to Duluth from the Masabi iron-ore range, about 80 miles NW of Duluth. "Lakers" filled with the ore at Duluth sailed the Great Lakes, taking the ore East to where the coal was. The Mallets were built specifically to haul ore for the war effort. The volume of refined steel from the ore the Mallets carried is one of the big reasons why Germany and Japan never stood a chance. Number 229 is outside, under a roof. Mallet #225 is on display outside at Proctor, MN and #227 is inside at Duluth at the Lake Superior Rail Museum. #227 is suspended a fraction of an inch above the rails. The running gear can be set in motion as when the engine was really moving.
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