[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.
9,000HP UP Turbine (B-B+B-B)-T-(B-B+B-B).
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.
16,000HP GE-BW Turbine (C-C+C-C)-(C-C+C-C)-T.
20,000HP GE-BW Turbine (D-D+D-D)-(D-D+D-D)-T.
18,000HP GE-BW Turbine (D-D)-(D-D)-T.
PRR S3 6-10-6 Turbine.
PRR BH50T 2-D+D-2 Centipede Turbine #5821.
PRR HH2 1-D+D-1.
Shay Geared Handcar.
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 8:
CP/MLW/BW Super Selkirk 2-10-10-4.
CP/MLW/BW Super Selkirk 2-10-10-6.
CP/BW Super Duper Selkirk (Auld Kirk)
2-4-6-8-10-12.
PRR/Baldwin/BW 8-8-8-8 Duplexii.
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 9:
(10 Feb 06)
Apocryphal Miscellany, including the
ALCo-BW FA/B-0.1 and PA/B-0.1, the
FM-BW CPAB2.4-5, the
EMD-BW FL-0.9, the
ALCo-GE-IR MILW OF-5, and the
BW-ALCo-Heisler RS-1DPH
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 10:
More Apocryphal Miscellany, including the
NPC/BW (4-4)+4 Cab Forward Articulated.
Whiting Track Speeder with JAP engine.
Vulc-Hand Crank-Pneumatic Handcar.
Ruhnian State Railways's 665A-001.
PRR Zippo Hippo.
Poppet Valves and Worse
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 11:
Ruhnian State Railways - con't'd..
(28/30 Apr 06)
ALCo-BW DH-16220 "Big Time" A-B-C-D+E-F+G-H
(28 Apr 06) and
(08 May 06)
ALCo-BW DH-16220 "Big Time II" A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H
(08 May 06)
ALCo-BW DH-18240 "Big Time III" A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I
(08 May 06)
BW 2-4-6-8-10-12 "Shayntipede" 6-TruckLogger
(09 May 06)
On this Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Page 12:
(10 May 06)
BW-Moldover A-B-C-D-E-F-G Scale Test Car
(10 May 06)
BW 6-truck V8 Heisler 2-4-6-8-10-12
(13 May 06)
ALCo-BW Centipede Scale Test Car
(13 May 06)
BW-PRR RT1 Compound
(14 May 06)
BW-Ingalls-GM&O Turret-Cabs
(15 May 06)
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 13:
(05 Jun 06)
Erie #2800 Camelback 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone
(01 Jun 06)
Erie #2900 Camelback 2-10-0-4
(05 Jun 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.
YET MORE APOCRYPHAL MISCELLANY
(10 May 06)
The Berlinerwerke Scale Test Car - far from being upset by what I've done
with drawings from his fabulous The Railroad
Paint Shop, Josh Moldover is egging me on (as is Stan Lytle). I must say I
am truly hono(u)red!
Josh suggested that I might check out a Scale Test Car with an A-B-C-D-E-F-G wheel
arrangement, an arrangement I find of great note (it has a sort of musical ring to it).
Sure enough, in the voluminous BW Engineering files, there it was! I gather
that the idea was to have cars of various weights so that a test weight was always
available for any size scale (I think this one is in the Catatonic Scale!).)
(10 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved
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However, on a sour note, some yo-yo left the hand brake set on the B car, ran the
string, and the wheels were flattened (B Flat) - you'll have to look very carefully:
(10 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved
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Scale test cars have no running brakes; the air pipe just runs through, so that wear
on the brake shoes doesn't mess up the weight calibration, but THIS foul-up was
never anticipated! Although the B car's flat wheels didn't roll, someone's head
sure did! Bet it rang!
Oh, good grief, Charlie Brown! Could THIS be what Josh meant by a B flat?
(10 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved
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Hmmm.
This was a concerted effort. Note that each car has a brake staff.
Please don't drum me out of the RR Paintshop when I'm on a roll or try to horn in on
my act. Where's the conductor when we need him? I'd better make this
the finale lest you think I'm harping on the subject and make me face the music.
Russ Hass, a mutual friend of Karen Parker's and mine, reacted to some of the
foregoing by asking about a V8 Heisler and a centipede scale test car. Well,
the 4-Truck Heisler V8 had already appeared
here back in 2003 (on Apocrypha continuation page 1) but that thought, together
with all the stress on 2-4-6-8-10-12 Multiplexii, kicked off an old memory and off I
went to search the BW files, with this result - Ira Ersatz's 6-truck V8 Heisler
in that very wheel arrangement:
(13 May 06)
(13 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved
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I found no record of construction or disposition on THAT one, but rumor hath it that
she is also still running off in the woods, somewhere.
As to the Centipede Scale Test Car, it seems that when the UP Challengers
and Big Boys were being retired, they had wrought such havoc with track scales that
many scales had to be rebuilt, with a resultant shortage of really heavy scale test
cars. George Ersatz heard of this and had Ira whip up a scale test car, made
up from old centipede tenders, which could overload any scale made (the rumor that
Fairbanks Scale subsidized their construction carries no weight; I heard that
allegation with a very heavy heart):
(13 May 06)
(13 May 06 image, after L. Murchison and B. Johnson on Joshua Moldover's
The Railroad Paint Shop,
by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved
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We really should hunt these down, if any survived; they'd make great canteens for
restored Big Boys and Challengers (and the UP #9000 4-12-2).
The BW-PRR RT1 Compounder - Ira came up with a wing-ding of an idea for
the Pennsy; they had been looking for a way to combine the drag speed capability of
the endemic L1 class 2-8-2 Mikado and I1 class 2-10-0 Decapod with the high-speed
of the famed K4s Pacific. The M1 Mountain class just didn't have what it took at
the far ends of its speed spectrum and the J1 never sat well with Motive Power, not
being a Pennsy design. George brought the problem to brother Ira, who did
just that; he combined the K4s and I1sa! By alternating 52" and 80" drivers
and creating cranked cranks so that the two sets of drive rods cleared each other,
and by having the cross head do double duty, having the heavy, low-speed rodding
connected to the inner face and the lighter, high-speed rodding on the outside, with a
slip coupling between the two halves, the engineer could effortlessly ease from drag
freight speed to blue-ribbon passenger service en route. Stretched Mountain
fireboxes and boilers and 16-wheel tenders served to fire and feed the beast:
(14 May 06)
(14 May 06 Bowserish image, by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
A third cylinder centered in the saddle casting gave enormous boost capacity to the
low-speed drive and prevented steam starvation at extremely high speed.
This compounded the compounding of the Compounder. There were only two
reasons that she didn't make it to production status; Maintenance had a fit when the
loco arrived on the property and, even with generous application of ALCo lateral
motion devices on the outer axles, she was a very stiff engine in turnouts and yard
curves.
In addition, the debate on how to classify the RT1 Compounder under the Whyte
System rages to this very day! The official PRR solution was to call her a
4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4, which is totally misleading, as is Ira's idea that she was a 4-8/6-4
and George's that she was a 4-6/8-4. My own opinion is that she was more
properly a 4-14-4 with multiply-divided divided drive, but who at the BW ever listens
to me?
Here's a response to a challenge laid down by Russ Hass to bug a mutual friend; he
wanted to see what Ira had done with Ingalls Shipbuilding and the Gulf, Mobile &
Ohio for a double-ended Ingalls Turret-Cab. Naturally, I was more
than happy to oblige and a few easy hours in the BW files turned up this real oddity;
the GM&O #1901, a B-B double-ender with dual cabs and a really novel and unusual
conductor's cupola perched amidships atop the cowl:
(15 May 06)
(15 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
That cupola was especially popular with enginemen's children but was often
pre-empted by the road foreman of engines, who had quite a penchant for riding up
there, where he could spy out misdeeds by his people. This eminently-practical
beast was often seen shoving cuts of steel plate and such in the Ingalls interchange
yard and around the shipyard in Pascagoula.
I must admit that I at first misunderstood Russ's inquiry and was searching for a
more powerful version; I found that as well, #9100, a B-C-B
double-ender dual-engined road unit:
(15 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
Looking further, I found a photo of the GM&O #99, which had been built on a
three-axle center truck to provide a small, powerful switcher for the Ingalls yard which
could run out on car floats without swamping them:
(15 May 06)
(15 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
I've always wondered what eventually happened to those units.
Old buddy Dave McConnell asked about the Swedish version (meaning the
immensely-popular rock group, ABBA), so I checked further and, sure enough, there
WAS a lighter-duty A-B-B-A version of the Ingalls unit, GM&O #1909:
(15 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
[Hey, at least I've HEARD of ABBA!]
Ohmigosh! Could Dave have meant ABB (ASEA-Brown-Boveri)?
Chronologically unsound but there WAS an A-B-B unit, GM&O #1910:
(15 May 06)
(15 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
"A, you're Adorable, B - you're so Beautiful, C
- you're a Cutie full of charm - - -
It's fun to wander through - the alphabet with you - - ."
Alphabet? ABC? Oh, no! Oh, YES! GM&O #1911;
an A-B-C unit:
(16 May 06)
(16 May 06 image by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
Well, if THAT doesn't drive friend Frank up the wall, nothing will! That's all she
wrote - for the Ingalls Turret Cabs, at any rate.
[All this is pretty good, considering that Ingalls only sold one exemplar
(Model 4-s, GM&O #1900, in 1946)
of their projected line of five types of Turret Cab locomotives.]
To top all this off, it seems that the BW and Ingalls collaborated to compete with the
ALCO C-415 mid-cab switcher; the clerestory roofline was to have imparted great
visibility (unfortunately, no buyer agreed):
(05 Jun 06)
(05 Jun 06 image, after C. Chamberlain's NE Railfan, by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
There is no evidence that any RR, let alone the GM&O, wanted anything whatsoever
to do with this one! Oh, well; they had to chalk demo #1600 up to experience
(bad).
{Poor Frank!}
As always, you know you can count on the BW to find totally-unbelievable
info.
- Any attempt to inject an element of
reason into this series of pages will be forcibly rejected!
[See also the HO (1:87.1) Berlinerwerke saga or the Z
(1:220) Berlinerwerke-Z saga.]
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!
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)
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)!
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