4-8-0 Mastodons

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  • February 5, 2019 at 2:55 pm #6213
    anonymous

      Hello!

      I am looking for data on the Iron Mountain Mastodons. I a bid to create a reasonably accurate model of them, I need some basic dimensions. I know the driver diameter, but I need length, height, boiler diameter, and so forth. Can anyone please point me to a source? I can’t seem to find what I need on the web.

      Thank you,
      Steve Allen
      Frisco, MoPac, and T&P near Rolla, MO

      February 6, 2019 at 12:30 am #9280
      David Boeschen
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        There are four pages on this class (1801-1819) in Collias’ Mopac Power. For others who might be curious, they were built as hill power for the Tip Top grade in 1901-03 but ended up in various other places where there were grades but not that much need for speed. Atchison and the grade up out of the Missouri River valley is one.

        There exists a set of MoPac steam locomotive diagrams somewhere, but I don’t know if it has ever been widely published.

        RG7

        February 6, 2019 at 2:58 pm #9281
        anonymous

          @mopacfirst wrote:

          There are four pages on this class (1801-1819) in Collias’ Mopac Power. For others who might be curious, they were built as hill power for the Tip Top grade in 1901-03 but ended up in various other places where there were grades but not that much need for speed. Atchison and the grade up out of the Missouri River valley is one.

          There exists a set of MoPac steam locomotive diagrams somewhere, but I don’t know if it has ever been widely published.

          RG7

          Thank for that. I have MoPac Power, but the info is awful sketchy on dimensions and so forth. The diagrams would be the cat’s pajamas if could find a set.

          February 6, 2019 at 4:29 pm #9283
          Charles Duckworth
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            Steve
            I looked through my steam and diesel diagrams and unfortunately they only covered the last years of steam, 2-8-0’s. 0-6-0’s, 0-8-0’s, Mikes, Pacific’s Mountain types and the Northerns. The 4-8-0’s must have been retired when the book was issued. Sorry

            February 6, 2019 at 10:55 pm #9284
            anonymous

              I appreciate your looking, Charlie!

              February 7, 2019 at 3:01 pm #9285
              anonymous

                David Huelsing at the archives came through for me in a big way with copies of the diagrams and stats; BIG thanks to him!

                If anyone has anything related, however, I’d still love to see it.

                Now, to the workbench!

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