Re: Logging Diseasel . . .

Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> Wayne Hoskin Wrote:
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>
> > Is that 2-8-8-0 Mallet they are using?
>
> Johnson Barr Wrote:
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>
> > Close Wayne, but no cigar – not even
> > a tin of Vegemite.    
> >
> > The tractor is probably a 2-4=4-0 simple non-
> > articulated duplex (I'm using "=" here, as I
> > have no idea how La+Messina would disting-
> > uish a duplex from an articulated or a Garrett.
> > I also have no idea how to describe the
> trailing
> > flat on which the logs are loaded, as it's
> appar-
> > ently missing it's front truck and is resting
> on
> > the rear of the loco's frame.  OTOH, the
> trail-
> > er's not an engine anyway, so the Whyte lo-
> > co classification system probably shouldn't be
> > applied — unless the whole contraption is
> a
> > wood-burner and the logs are its fuel. 
> Then
> > maybe it's a 2-4=4-0+0-8-0T . . .  
>  
>
> Wayne Hoskin Wrote:
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> > I think you are over thinking this Willie! If
> both ax-
> > les on the prime mover, sorry, tractor were
> pow-
> > ered it would be a 2-B plus one loaded skeletal
> > flat, if only one axle is driven it would be a
> 2-A1
> > plus one loaded skeletal flat. Simple! I'm
> going
> > for my late breakfast of Vegemite on toast now!
>
>
> BUT . . .  BUT . . . 
> Wayne –
>
> It was YOU who first called it a 2-8-8-0 Mallet (a
> steam loco, not a diseasel).  If the latter,
> should we count axles or wheels?  If wheels,
> then it's most likely a 2-D plus a one-truck
> skeletal flat, not a 2-B2, as it would need all
> the traction it could get back in the woods.
>    
>
> Or, as noted by Rehunn (below), the "loco" could
> have a powered front axle, which would make it an
> A-D . . .    

Well, it was like this JB, I first assumed it must be steam hauled, this what most of the forum is about, right?
Then I tried to unthink your over thinking
Then I realised I had outthunk my unthinking of your over thinking, I think.
At that stage I had driven myself to drink, Rum is my stipple, no double crude chrome whatever down here, so I just had Rum!
But I did consult my mate Mack and his friend Ken Worth about trucks, they said it's all White and suggested I 'log' off !

Confused Wayne from Oz.