mikerowe Wrote:
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> Trust me, if the #50 and #50 (as they were known
> in their Uintah days) could handle the 7-1/2%
> grade and 88' radius of Moro Castle on the Uintah,
> they could handle anything the Loop threw at them.
> One possible exception might be the cut between
> the pin truss and turntable bridges. Locomotive
> weights, however, is a different matter, and that
> would require some research into the weight of the
> locomotives (in their side-tanker configuration)
> and the capacities of the Loop's bridges.
>
> I honestly can't tell you if it was even the
> Ashbys intent to use the locomotives on the Loop;
> they may have had something else in mind.
>
> Mike
>
> Otto Perry photos, DPL collection.
>
> Baxter Pass; Moro Castle curve at the left center
> of picture:
>
> Climbing the 7% grade with a Shay at the head
> end:
>
> One of the articulateds entering Moro Castle
> curve:
>
> Unreconstituted Baldwin narrow-gauge articulated
> locomotive:
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Mike:
Thanks for posting those photos. As have probably many others on this Forum, I've driven the Moro Castle curve in both directions. Stand at the upper end of the curve and look down at the lower end, which definitely is not very far away at all. It looks like a wider jeep road. But a railroad? Ye Gods!
Gives a fresh appreciation of just how well those articulateds were engineered by Baldwin!
Best regards, Hart Corbett