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A 1950 Baldwin-built 2-6-6-2

admin — 2010-04-28T10:30:30Z

John West has kindly given us permission to use his photographs on steamlocomotive.info. Below is an August 1972 photo of a meter gauge 2-6-6-2 in Brazil. John's comments about this photo:

It is still early in the morning as EF Dona Teresa Christina (EFDTC) 1950 built Baldwin 2-6-6-2 No. 204 waits for its train to be loaded, while Lauro Mueller Mine 26 4-6-0 Alco 1920 shunts cars on the high line to the gravity loading arrangement. A year or two after this picture was taken a huge flood devastated the area, and although other parts of this meter gauge railroad reopened, this steeply graded branch was never rebuilt, and the 2-6-6-2's where set aside. Note the American style class lights of the front of the 204.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Missing Indonesian Locomotives

admin — 2010-04-26T17:48:07Z

In Daniel Simon's 2006 photo of 0-10-0cog locomotive E1060 in Indonesia shown below:

We see also cog locomotive B2502 and B2503. We don't have entries in our database for these two locomotives. If anyone has enough information (wheel arrangement and such) an email at info@steamlocomotive.info would be appreciated.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Canadian Collieries 2-6-0T No. 17

admin — 2010-04-18T13:04:05Z

For almost as long as I've run this website, I've wondered why none of the visitors to the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie ever submitted a photo of this locomotive. It finally happened: Mike Corpolongo contributed a photo of this locomotive this morning and I'd like to thank Mike, and to call your attention to this little locomotive. Here it is:

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

0-10-0T Kh.101

admin — 2010-04-15T15:24:54Z

Herbert Ortner, noted Austrian railroad photographer released the image below of 0-10-0T Kh.101, a 760mm gauge steam locomotive, under the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2. I found it interesting in that it is the only steam locomotive I've seen where some of the drivers are outside the frame, and one set is inside. Examining the rearmost set of drivers will show how this was done.

Photo by Herbert Ortner, release under GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Minaz 1406

admin — 2010-04-14T14:06:48Z

Thanks to the kind permission of Frank Destouesse, we're able to display this photo of Minaz 2-6-0 No. 1406, a 1905 Baldwin product now refurbished and displayed as a monument at Gregoria Arlee Manalich Sugar Mill in Melena del Sur, Cuba.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

QJ 6638 in Happier Days

admin — 2010-04-12T13:54:56Z

QJ 6638 was reported dumped at Daban in 2005. This photo, by Daniel SIMON, in 2002, brings back happier days.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

New Features for Steamlocomotive.info

admin — 2010-03-08T19:06:05Z

This website is written in a truly superb web development language called Coldfusion from Adobe. We've installed a developmental version of the newest release of this language on one of our servers (Coldfusion MX 9.0) and are preparing a set of new features and capabilities for the website which we'll implement when and if management lets us have enough money to pay for the upgrade on our production servers.

Here's what we're working on:

1. A completely new administration system that'll hopefully allow our editors a much easier time in editing and maintaining the database that underlies this site.
2. A video contribution system using Coldfusion 9's ability to spawn a fully featured video player with playback controls, and a Linux open-source tool called ffmpeg which allows us to convert a contributed video from its native format to FLV on the fly. This code, of course, necessitates changes to the administrative tools so that editors can approve submitted videos.
3. Right now, when you contribute a photo to the system we assume the most restrictive of all licensing; that is: Copyright © Your Name. We also assume your permission to use the image as you contributed it through a clearly marked screen. There are other possible licensing modes: Public Domain, CCAS and the Gnu Free Documentation License. The image submission software will be modified to permit you to select any one of these licenses for your image. The parts of the website that currently display Copyright &copy Whoever will be modified to properly display the licensing mode you've selected.
4. There currently exists no convenient way for a user to submit additional photos for a locomotive, for its photo album, if the locomotive already has a primary image. Plans are afoot to add the capability to submit additional photos for a locomotive beyond its primary photo, and to submit additional photos for inclusion in an existing photo album.

More changes are planned, but that's what's actively being worked on. I'll let y'all know when and if we decide on other features.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Steam Locomotives in Croatia

admin — 2010-02-02T18:02:22Z

11.015
A gentleman named Michal Restnik pointed out that we listed 11.015, a Croatian 4-8-0 in two cities, one of which was clearly erroneous. The duplicate entry was removed.
11.059
Michal Restnik pointed out that JZ 11.059 existed in Knin, Croatia. The locomotive was added to our database
11.062
Ditto for 11.062, said to be derelict in Knin.
62.054 and 62.084
Both locomotives exist and were added to our database.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.