* - in addition to Karen's wild and wonderful fancies, you might also enjoy Andrea
Luigi Meneghini's fantastic
Da Vinci Rails site (and see my version of his BR 53, the
BR 35.3, below).
(19 May 07)
[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:
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:
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..
ALCo-BW DH-16220 "Big Time" A-B-C-D+E-F+G-H
ALCo-BW DH-16220 "Big Time II" A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H
ALCo-BW DH-18240 "Big Time III" A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I
BW 2-4-6-8-10-12 "Shayntipede" 6-TruckLogger
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 12:
BW-Moldover A-B-C-D-E-F-G Scale Test Car
BW 6-truck V8 Heisler 2-4-6-8-10-12
ALCo-BW Centipede Scale Test Car
BW-PRR RT1 Compound
BW-Ingalls-GM&O Turret-Cabs
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 13:
Erie #2800 Camelback 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone
Erie #2900 Camelback 2-10-10-4
ALCo RS-415 and RSC/RSD-615
ALCo FA-1P with pony trucks.
ALCo-GE-BW FPA-1/PFA-1.
ALCo-GE-BW PFA-1.5.
ALCo-GE-BW PFABC-1.
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 14:
12,0000HP GEVO.
8,800HP GEVO.
Very Early GEVO Boxcab.
8,800HP AC88CW.
12,0000HP AC12CW.
10,0000HP AC10GEVO.
Ruhnian State Rwys 465B Push-Pull.
Ruhnian State Rwys 465C V8.
Milwaukee Tripolar EP-2T.
Ruhnian State Rwys 465W Wankel.
RSR 465H Heisler Beyer-Garratt.
(06 Apr 07)
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 15:
RSR 46.5 Heisler.
BW/EMD Model 40-series.
4-Truck Shays.
On this Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Page 16:
(21 May 07)
BR 35.3.
(19 May 07; moved from page 15 on 21 May 07)
UP Little Boy.
(21 May 07) and
(08 Jun 07)
UP Tiniest Boy.
(08 Jun 07)
BR 35.3FV.
(26 May 07)
RSR 164b 6-Cyl. Compound Beyer-Garratt Express Passenger Loco..
(04 Jun 07)
RSR 815a 10-Cyl. Compound Beyer-Garratt Express Passenger Loco..
(05 Jun 07) and
(06 Jun 07)
AT&SF #8668 2-4-6-8-10 Malllettt
Articklllated Locolocomotive
with Dual-Double Ball-Jernted Berler.
(24 Aug 07)
AT&SF #88 2-2-2-2 Micro-Mallet
and #99 2-2-2-2-2 Micro-Triplex Mallet
Articulated Locomotives with Double Ball-Jointed
Boilers.
(25 Aug 07)
GE-BW 44-ton Cabin (Cab-in?) Switcher
(07 Sep 07)
Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
(12 Sep 07)
On the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 17:
(28 Sep 07)
Some Climax (Anti-Climax?)!
(28 Sep 07)
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).
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 EVEN MORE APOCRYPHAL MISCELLANY
On the main BW APOCRYPHA page, I suggested that you might also enjoy Andrea
Luigi Meneghini's fantastic
Da Vinci Rails site; here is my (rough) version of his BR 53, the
BR 35.3:
(19 May 07; moved here from page 15 on 21 May 07)
(18 May 07 Drawing by SB,III after Andrea Luigi Meneghini's
Da Vinci Rails - all rights reserved {but to whom?},
based on Andrea's German BR 53)
How could I resist?
Andrea also has the UP Tiny Boy, a 4-8-2, which didn't really "do" me, so here instead
is my equally rough version, the UP Little Boy, a 4-4-4-2:
(21 May 07)
(21 May 07 Drawing by SB,III after Andrea Luigi Meneghini's
Da Vinci Rails - all rights reserved {but to whom?},
based on Andrea's UP Tiny Boy)
(08 Jun 07)
Once again, how could I resist? [The revision was to add a stack - nobody
noticed it was missing! - hee, hee, III]
Even the UP Little Boy 4-4-4-2, nice as it is, didn't really "do" me, so I
searched really hard and found the UP Tiniest Boy, a 2-2-2-2:
(08 Jun 07)
(08 Jun 07 Drawing by SB,III after Andrea Luigi Meneghini's
Da Vinci Rails - all rights reserved {but to whom?},
based on Andrea's UP Tiny Boy)
Do NOT even ask how the cranks could operate on such tight spacing!
Well, when e-buddy Russ saw the Little Boy, he shot back about a Cab Forward, in
which I have no interest, but then he explained that what he had in mind was the old
Kemtron conversion (gotta find my old catalog) for the 0-4-0T docksider. Ah,
yes; I remember it well! It was a brass casting designed to fit the Varney and
Mantua Docksiders. Well that DID appeal and I fished around in the
voluminous (and ever-expanding) BW files and, sure enough, there was such, the
BR 35.3FV (F�hrerstand Vorw�rts or Drivercab Forward):
(19 May 07; moved here from page 15 on 21 May 07)
(25 May 07 Drawing by SB,III after Andrea Luigi Meneghini's
Da Vinci Rails - all rights reserved {but to whom?},
again based on Andrea's German BR 53)
And yet again, how could I resist? In fact, I really like this one!
She's oil fired, of course, and has a huge oil tank in the coal bunker, plus oil and water
hoses and the requisite double drawbars.
Ruhnian State Railways Class 164b
6-Cylinder Compound Beyer-Garratt Express Passenger Locomotive, designed by
Jochann Ketterik and built in 1963 by Beyer Peacock & Co., Manchester,
England, as the RSR's Class 164a Express Goods (Freight) 4-10-2+2-10-4 locomotive.
The performance of that loco, with poppet valves and twenty driving wheels, on the
"Back Door Route" between Tormu and Forihv was so outstanding that a passenger
version was commissioned a few years later. Ira Ersatz came out of
semi-retirement to assist Ketterik. In order to assure sufficient steam for
high-speed running over the Gelodre summit at a minimum of 130 kmh, the 164a
smokebox and ashpan were extended rearward and the inner pony trucks changed
from two wheel to four-wheel to bear the added weight and provide better tracking at
speed, making the Whyte classification 4-10-4+4-10-4:
(04 Jun 07)
(04 Jun 07 image by and © 2007 S. Berliner, III after B. Clubb/RSR - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed image for larger picture]
This was certainly the biggest Garratt to date.
The performance of the RSR Class 164b, while more than satisfactory, still left a lot to
be desired as to top speed (130 kmh). Accordingly, in further collaboration
between the Ruhnian State Railways's
Jochann Kettterik and ex-BW Ira Ersatz, the running gear of the RSR's famed
Class 364a 6-Cylinder Doherty 4-6-2 Compound Express Passenger Locomotive was
extended by one extra driver and fitted under each engine of the Class 164b and,
with extra courses fitted to the boiler and a longer firebox and ashpan, resulted in the
RSR's massive Class 815a Doherty 10-Cylinder Superheated Triple-Exansion
Compound 4-8-4+4-8-4 Express Passenger Locomotive:
(05 Jun 07) and
(06 Jun 07)
(05/06 Jun 07 image by and © 2007 S. Berliner, III after B. Clubb/RSR - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed image for larger picture]
The larger diameter drivers, tandem cylindering, poppet valving, and greater steaming
ability allowed the 815a to routinely maintain a top speed of 160 kmh under load,
whil(e)(st) routinely maintaining the ease of routine maintenance expected (and
routinely obtained) during routine maintenance by RSR routine maintenance crews.
(06 Jun 07)
AT&SF #8668 2-4-6-8-10 Malllettt Articklllated Locolocomotive with
Dual-Double Ball-Jernted Berler - the AT&SF, which should have
known better after the fiascos of its bellows and double-ball jointed
flexible boilers on 2-6-6-2 #1159 and #1158 and their ilk, had the BW
and the Ersatzs build this exceedingly-flexible monstrosity:
(24 Aug 07)
(24 Aug 07 image by and © 2007 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed image for larger picture]
We shall not discuss the outcome of extensive testing of this
nightmare (nor George or Ira's proof reading after a Brooklyn (Bronx?)
draftsman lettered the photo).
Well before the Santa F� realized just how bad the flexible boiler
concept really was, they were considering buying up and standard
gauging the Colorado narrow gauge lines. However, in order to do
so and still achieve enough power to haul economical trains on the
wildy-curving roadbeds, they called in George Ersatz of the BW, who
proposed a novel 2-2-2-2 double-ball jointed compound articulated
loco. The Santa F� bought into the idea and Ira Ersatz, again
utilizing his novel single driver side rods hung on the INSIDE of the
crosshead, produced this little gem in the BW shops, AT&SF #88:
(25 Aug 07)
(25 Aug 07 image by and © 2007 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
Concerned that there still wouldn't be enough tractive effort, the
Santa F� elected to try a Micro-Triplex 2-2-2-2-2 with an extended
firebox, their #99:
(25 Aug 07 image by and © 2007 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
As you well know, the Santa F� DID buy the lines but broad gauging
never proceeded and these engines were never put through their paces.
It seems that the New Haven wanted to circumvent the 44-ton rule even
far more than the unions could accept; they had the BW come up with a
GE 44-ton switcher that included a cabin for a conductor and Lionel
even made an O-scale model of it:
(07 Sep 07)
(07 Sep 2007 image by and © 2007 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved;
based on photo of stock Lionel model GE 44-tonner modifed by Ralph Calvino)
How the UTU and the Brotherhood howled!
I picked up a loco at Willis
Hobbies and old buddy Stu Aaron asked me about the One-Hoss Shay;
I thought it sounded awfully familiar (other than Oliver Wendell
Holmes's fabulous poem, The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful
"One-Hoss Shay"), so I hot-footed it home to check the BW files
and, sure enough, there it was, an Ira Ersatz design from World War I
when coal and oil were getting scarce:
(12 Sep 07)
(12 Sep 2007 image by and © 2007 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved;
based on original 3-truck Shay outline by
Brad Johnson and
Jobst Brandt.)
[Click on thumbnailed picture for larger/clearer image]
Water and grain is run from the cistern and tender up to feeding
troughs at the head end of the treadmill stall. A chain drive
runs a right-angle gearbox which then drives a vertical shaft carrying
power down to an offset Hypoid gearbox which operates the main shafts.
Note that there is a discreet hose to capture gaseous effluent to run
the generator turbine and blow the whistle (to alert the ASPCA?).
Note also the small hopper behind the driver's position; that holds
carrots and sugar to reward the horse for a job well done.
Oh, old Ephraim Shay would have been quietly proud (as would Rube
Goldberg)!
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!
{Stay tuned!}
More tales follow on the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Continuation Page 17.
[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).
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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