Little and Large
Sometimes it's hard to imagine how much bigger North American locos are compared to ones built to the British loading gauge.
There is a good picture illustrating this difference here. Scroll down the page to the picture of the day for the 4th October. |
I had to do a double take. I thought the two Canadians were at he head of a train of hopper wagons!
There is certainly a difference. |
John
Those GP 38's pushing those U K loco's are some of our smaller - and older - machines. The SD 70 above that is one of our newer machines - and they are very large. Canada is around 5,000 or so miles wide as is the U S and not as high but still very large. That is why we have such large trains in height and length (and horsepower) in loco's, cars and number of cars per train at times. Vancouver Island is roughly the size of the main U K - England. Scotland and Wales. I do think the U K is slightly larger - but not by a great deal. That is why your vehicles are smaller than ours here - you do not have the room for these massive machines. Norm |
Thanks for that Norm. Although not as pronounced as in your part of the World most of the trains in Mainland Europe are also built to a larger loading gauge than British ones.
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Here's another picture illustrating the difference in size between British and North American locos. It shows a trainload of "Freightliner" 66's being taken to the docks for export to the U.K.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=182329 |
Hi John I wonder just how big british engines would if the broad guage and GWR loading guage had been our standard guage.
Alan Locojoe |
Looks like one has escaped from the far end
Hi John,
Looked at the pioc of the locos being towed but at the back one seems to be reluctant to be taken to the boat. For all their greater size the running boards look the same height so does that mean that couplings etc are very similar in height and style. I still live in the days of hooks and chains. John (G) |
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This might seem like a daft question but why cn't a handful of the 66s haul the train? It seems daft to use another engine.
Adam |
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