Unusual steam

[ReeceEmmitt]

Bulleid’s Leader and CC1 aside is anyone aware of any unusual design of steam loco that didn’t resemble the usual planform - ie Tender > cab > boiler.

Thanks!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

What about the Sentinel class Y1 design?

 

[AndrewE]

Or steam locos with the cab at the front?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pacific_4294

The cab forward design was useful in the long tunnels and snow sheds of Donner Pass and other mountainous regions where it kept smoke, heat, and soot away from the operating crew, allowing them to breathe clean air in such enclosed spaces.

 

[randyrippley]

the twin Fairlies?
the Garratts?
how about the Gresley W1 with the watertube boiler?

but then you have the various vertical boiler designs used on narrow gauge / industrial lines, this wiki entry lists a few
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_boiler#Railway_locomotives

and you could argue that anything prior to "The Rocket" - including the other trials locos, would answer your question

 

[Cowley]

There’s some fantastic stuff on the Douglas Self website:
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

There’s stuff on there that’ll make you go cross eyed just looking at the pictures...

 

[Taunton]

I hear there was a design somewhere for the steam boiler to be a hundred miles from the train, connected to it just by a copper wire put over the tracks.

I'm sure it'll never catch on ...

 

[Jagdpanther]

I hear there was a design somewhere for the steam boiler to be a hundred miles from the train, connected to it just by a copper wire put over the tracks.

I'm sure it'll never catch on ...

Unlikely to work. It would blow down in the wind and collect ice in the snow. And on a hot day it would expand and cause chaos. Terrible idea.

 

[Altfish]

Crosti Boiler 9Fs

 

[AndrewE]

Crosti Boiler 9Fs

They still fitted in with the boiler/cab/tender layout though.

 

[Journeyman]

They still fitted in with the boiler/cab/tender layout though.

True, but the chimney stuck out the middle and they looked quite different to the standard design.

 

[Calthrop]

There’s some fantastic stuff on the Douglas Self website:
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

There’s stuff on there that’ll make you go cross eyed just looking at the pictures...

A fairly minor variation on the UP's "usual form" which does not seem to have been mentioned yet -- including, not among the monstrosities in the above link -- is the type of steam tram locomotive with controls for the driver at each end of the loco, presumably intended to facilitate much reversal of running directions. This led also, to a cab (including of course, footing for the driver) or equivalent, at each end. This arrangement could involve either the fully-covered-in "dummy" version; or the variety more like a conventional tank loco (with wheels either concealed by a "skirt" arrangement, or not), but with a cab at the chimney end as well as the firebox end, cabs "facing each respective way".

My computer skills are less than wonderful: for the "dummy" variety, I can manage to offer only a rather poorly illustrative link --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GER_Class_C53

For the other kind, I can only suggest Googling "Dublin & Blessington Steam Tramway", which will yield many pictures of that line's 2-4-2Ts of that variety.