[Moved from page 5 on 11 Oct 04 and expanded.]
BW/Baldwin/PRR Class T3 Oil-Fired Cab-Forward.
BW/Baldwin/Virginian 2-4-6-8-10-12 Multiplex.
The ELEGARNT (Elegant Energy-Efficient Elephant-Garratt)
12,000HP SD90MAC2.
ALCo-GE-BW FPA-1.
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 7:
(23 Jan 06)
9,000HP GE-BW Turbine (B-B+B-B)-(B-B+B-B)-T.
(23 Jan 06)
9,000HP UP Turbine (B-B+B-B)-T-(B-B+B-B).
(23 Jan 06)
12,000HP GE-BW Turbine [(A-1-A)-(A-1-A)+(A-1-A)-(A-1-A)]-[(A-1-A)-(A-1-A)+(A-1-A)-(A-1-A)]-T.
(23 Jan 06) and
(25 Jan 06)
16,000HP GE-BW Turbine (C-C+C-C)-(C-C+C-C)-T.
(23 Jan 06)
20,000HP GE-BW Turbine (D-D+D-D)-(D-D+D-D)-T.
(27 Jan 06)
18,000HP GE-BW Turbine (D-D)-(D-D)-T.
(27 Jan 06)
PRR S3 6-10-6 Turbine.
(28 Jan 06)
PRR BH50T 2-D+D-2 Centipede Turbine #5821.
(30 Jan 06)
PRR HH2 1-D+D-1.
(28 Jan 06)
Shay Geared Handcar.
(30 Jan 06)
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 8:
(03 Feb 06)
CP/MLW/BW Super Selkirk 2-10-10-4.
(03 Feb 06)
CP/MLW/BW Super Selkirk 2-10-10-6.
(03 Feb 06)
CP/BW Super Duper Selkirk (Auld Kirk)
2-4-6-8-10-12.
(05 Feb 06)
PRR/Baldwin/BW 8-8-8-8 Duplexii.
(09 Feb 06)
On this Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Page 9:
(10 Feb 06)
Apocryphal Miscellany, including the
ALCo-BW FA/B-0.1 and PA/B-0.1
(11/16 Feb 06)
, the
FM-BW CPAB2.4-5
(17 Feb 06)
, the
EMD-BW FL-0.9
(17 Feb 06)
, the
ALCo-GE-IR MILW OF-5
(18 Feb 06)
, and the
BW-ALCo-Heisler RS-1DPH
(19 Feb 06)
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 10:
(23 Feb 06)
More Apocryphal Miscellany, including the
NPC/BW (4-4)+4 Cab Forward Articulated.
(23 Feb 06)
Because the Apocrypha and Guest Apocrypha indices exceeded the capacity of the
individual pages, they are now presented in full on a separate
Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Index (including the
Guest Apocrypha Index).
(03 Oct 06)
Before I start, I should note that all this started with a secret project that is still unfinished and the next major development of the Berlinerwerke was their fabled DDP45:
For more about her and her family, see my EMD page.
APOCRYPHAL MISCELLANY
(10 Feb 06)
Ira Ersatz had spells when things didn't go well for him at all; it made life
very difficult for his brother, George, indeed. One time, when George
was away on an extended trip, the Pennsy asked if the BW (Berlinerwerke)
could whip up a quick, inexpensive six-coupled grasshopper pusher to move
those big leased Santa Fé locos at Renovo Yard. Imagine George's
dismay to return and find this monstrosity at work:
(10 Feb 06)
(Old postcard doctored 10 Feb 06 by S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
You never knew with Ira!
When the PRR/LIRR/WIRR Z6s 4-2-2, and
another obscure little loco we haven't located yet, were on their last legs, the
Pennsy asked the BW about some really small, high-speed diesels to replace them,
to pull the Piker and Oscar and the
007 hack and similar diminutive cars. Ira got right on it and, with
some help from ALCo, the BW quickly turned out two 150HP V-2 cowl units, the
famed FA-0.1 and PA-0.1:
(11 Feb 06)
[11/17 Feb 2006 images and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after J.
Bélanger (FA-0.1) and S. Lytle (PA-0.1)
on J. Moldover's "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
[These images are based on the outstanding work of Jacques Bélanger and
Stan Lytle on Joshua Moldover's
"The Railroad Paintshop".
There MUST be a limit to how much of this they can stand!]
You haven't lived 'til you've heard a 2-cylinder 244 burbling away (and seen
one smoking it up)! I understand that these were later upgraded to
turbocharged 200HP V-2 251s and may still be in service somewhere.
Well, it didn't take long for the Pennsy to overload these little gems and they
were rather embarrassed; it would have made more sense to just get an FA-2
and a PA-2 but they'd already invested in the silly FA-0.1 and PA-0.1, so they
asked George to consult with Ira and suggest a way out. The obvious
answer was an FB-0.1 and a PB-0.1:
(16/17 Feb 06)
[17 Feb 2006 images and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after J.
Bélanger (FB-0.1) and S. Lytle (PB-0.1)
on J. Moldover's "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
[These images are based on the outstanding work of Jacques Bélanger and
Stan Lytle on Joshua Moldover's
"The Railroad Paintshop".]
Paired up, the FA-0.1 and FB-0.1 and the PA-0.1 and PB-0.1 worked out just
fine:
[17 Feb 2006 images and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after J.
Bélanger (FA/FB-0.1) and S. Lytle (PA/PB-0.1)
on J. Moldover's "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
[These images are based on the outstanding work of Jacques Bélanger and
Stan Lytle on Joshua Moldover's
"The Railroad Paintshop".]
As far as is known, these magnificent little lokeys are still puttering away.
With the success of the FA/FB-0.1 and the PA/PB-0.1, the LIRR wondered if the same
idea wouldn't work just as well with a variant on their Fairbanks-Morse
opposed-piston CPA-20-5 and CPA-24-5 dual power C-Liners. George was
called in to Morris Park and posed the question and he ran it by Ira with the the
now-famed CPA2.4-5 and CPB2.4-5 being the answer:
(17 Feb 06)
[17 Feb 2006 images and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after J. Bélanger
on J. Moldover's "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
(Click on thumbnailed images for larger pictures)
[These images are based on the outstanding work of Jacques Bélanger on Joshua
Moldover's
"The Railroad Paintshop".]
The Long Island, however, never ran either unit alone, buying and operating them in
matched pairs, the CPAB-2.4-5:
[17 Feb 2006 images and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after J. Bélanger
on J. Moldover's "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
[This image is based on the outstanding work of Jacques Bélanger on Joshua
Moldover's
"The Railroad Paintshop".]
Next thing you knew, along came the New Haven with the same idea, this time about
their FL-9 dual powered diesels. Ira came up with these FL-0.9A and B units:
(17 Feb 06)
[17 Feb 2006 images and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after J.
Bélanger (FA/FB-0.1) and S. Lytle (PA/PB-0.1)
on J. Moldover's "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
(Click on thumbnailed images for larger pictures)
[These images are based on the outstanding work of Stan Lytle on Joshua Moldover's
"The Railroad Paintshop".]
The NH, also, bought and operated the FL-0.9s in matched pairs, the FL-0.9AB:
[17 Feb 2006 images and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after S. Lytle
on J. Moldover's "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
[This image is based on the outstanding work of Stan Lytle on Joshua Moldover's
"The Railroad Paintshop".]
Ira was dependable in one way, at least; he never failed to come up with imaginative
solutions to odd problems.
One of the very first really large Ersatz locos was a conversion back in the late-'20s of
a giant ALCo-GE Milwaukee Road class EF-5 semi-permanently-coupled, four-unit
boxcab electric [(2-B+B)+(B+B)+(B+B)+(B+B-2)] from a straight electric to a
dual-powered locomotive by the simple expedient of having GE rearrange the
electricals to make room for two Ingersoll-Rand 300HP oil engines (diesels - right out
of the early ALCo-GE-IR 100-ton boxcabs. The
huge electric body shells had more than enough room for this arrangement and GE
provided generators that produced the same 3,000 volts DC that the pans drew from
the pioneering overhead catenary. GE also provided automatic switching gear
so that the fireman could simply throw a switch to change over from pans to diesel.
Standard ALCo-IR air starting gear kicked over the engines. Two I-Rs in each
of four units gave a 2,400HP rating (as contrasted with the 13,760HP under maximum
catenary power and the speed under diesel power was basically little more than a
crawl. The earliest AGEIR units were already capable of being fitted for MU
operation. The experimental four-unit loco was designated class OF-5
(Oil-Electric / Freight):
(18 Feb 06)
I seem to have outfoxed
myself here -
the drawing is so huge (130Kb) that not much shows at 1-pixel line weight;
for your convenience, I added separate images of the A and B units, following.]
[18 Feb 2006 image and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after J. Moldover
on his "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
(Click on thumbnailed image for MUCH larger picture -
which will require considerable horizontal scrolling)
Here are the A and B units separately:
[18 Feb 2006 images and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after J. Moldover
on his "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
(Click on thumbnailed images, at ~40 and ~30Kb respectively, for larger pictures -
which will require considerably less horizontal scrolling)
Although the loco could start heavy trains and move them at drag speed under diesel
power, the disparity between performance under wire and by diesel was simply too
great to be worth reproducing the loco. As soon as 375HP I-R engines became
available in 1928, they were substituted (3,000HP total), followed by 400HP and then
450HP I-R engines in 1931 and (3,200 and 3,600HP total), but the incremental
increases, however staggering per engine, were nowhere near adequate for full road
service and the project was dropped before 900HP I-R engines came out in 1936 (not
that even they would have been near enough at "only" 7,200HP total).
ALCo was requested to come up with a fully-waterproof RS-1 road switcher that could
run safely in flooded areas. GE's charges to develop fully-waterproof traction
motors was more than ALCo or the customer were willing to bear and they called in
George Ersatz, who was, quite frankly, stumped. Then he remembered ALCo's
interest in the diesel-pneumatic (compressed air)
drive system, but how to fit that into a diesel chassis? Leave it to Ira!
He grafted a big Heisler engine into the RS-1 where the electrical generator had been,
ripped out the steam generator and used the small hood for a huge compressor,
driven by a shaft running under the center-line of the cab directly from the diesel
engine, piped the air to the Heisler cylinders under the seat boxes, and put stock
heavy Heisler gearboxes on the inner axles and side rods outboard of the truck
frames. By using waterproof grease on all moving components below the level
of the walkways, he thus gave the client an RS-1 that could easily and safely ford
several feet of water:
(19 Feb 06)
[18 Feb 2006 image and © 2006 S. Berliner, III, after J. Moldover
on his "Railroad Paint Shop" - all rights reserved.]
(Click on thumbnailed image for larger picture)
This odd contrivance worked well enough but the economy of the weird propulsion
system was no better than the Russian Lomonosoff loco or the German V-32-001 and
it was eventually converted back (with quite some difficulty) to a stock RS-1.
Because the Apocrypha and Guest Apocrypha indices exceeded the capacity of the
individual pages, they are now presented in full on a separate
Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Index (including the
Guest Apocrypha Index).
(03 Oct 06)
I always wondered at the incredibly tight security at the Berlinerwerke during WWII;
now it can be told! See, for starters, the wild site of Sig Case,
Rails to the Stars - Steam in Space, files from the National Aeronautics and
Steam Administration and the tie-in to the Berlinerwerke V1 on
Apocrypha Page 2.
See also the HO (1:87.1) Berlinerwerke saga or the Z (1:220) Berlinerwerke-Z saga
and Berlinerwerke Guest Apocrypha (for taller tales?):
NORTHEAST CORRIDOR FREIGHT ENGINES.
LEWELLEN NORTHERN GARRATTS.
CSXT AC100CBW and NSC CB100W-10 10,000 horsepower locos!
Also, see the fabled BW DDP45 and other EMD engines EMD may never have dreamed of!
If you like this sort of nonsense, take a gander at Jim Wells' incredible 
and at the AW NUTS Magazine site, "A Publication of the A.W. N.U.T.S. Garden Railway Society".
If you are air-minded (take that as you choose), you must see the Lion Air site! I'd be Lion if I didn't warn you to keep your tongue in your cheek on this one!
Take your tongue out of your cheek and visit D. Dickens' The Patiala State Monorail Tramway site; whooie (and it's for real)!
THUMBS UP!
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S. Berliner, III
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