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Entry Deutsche Bahn Museum

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14 Jun 2006, 00:05

From races cars to steam locomotives each will get you where you want to go. Only one allows you to appreciate the scenery though ...

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To see more pictures from a recent visit to the Deutsche Bahn Museum in Nurnburg, Germany go here.

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Dennis David

Entry The Last Steam Railroad in America

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9 Jun 2006, 02:02

Just picked up this book in which O. Link Winston documents over a 5 year period what was seen as the last railroad to abandon steam, the Norfolk & Western Railway. His most spectacular and famous photographs were made at night.

"I can't move the sun — and it's always in the wrong place — and I can't even move the tracks, so I had to create my own environment through lighting."

After studying the site, Link would spend hours in the darkness strategically placing flashbulbs to illuminate every relevant detail. With such elaborate setups, he usually could make only one shot.

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Entry Baureihe 23

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19 Apr 2006, 05:12

Baureihe 23 During WWII the German railway network and the locomotives that ran on it were a prime military target. After the hostilities ended major reconstruction was necessary. Rather than build all new trains it was decided to take current designs and to update them. Efforts focused on reducing maintenance costs and making them more energy efficient. One of the first locomotive types to be designed were the class or baureihe (sometimes called builder’s number) 23 2-6-2 of which there were 105 made. An additional 113 modified models were made for the East German Railways. As a replacement for the famous Prussian P8 and designed for mixed traffic this locomotive would prove to be a workhouse for the post-war Deutsche Bundesbahn. The 2-6-2 axle arrangement was not often used, but here was selected to enable the locomotive to work well in both directions. In the United States, in 1900 the Brooks Locomotive Company created locomotives of this arrangement for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for use on the Midwestern prairies. The type was thus nicknamed the Prairie in North America. The shape of the locomotive’s tender allowed the engineer to see while going in reverse. Power figures for this locomotive show that it could produce an estimated 1,785 h.p. and travel at a top speed of 68 mph.

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