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Published: 2019-01-23 00:50:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 465; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 0
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A rainy day in a workshop somewhere in Fantasy Land reveals plenty of activity going on in the workshop, with people, anthros and even a few feral canines were working together to build a locomotive that had never seen the light of day. The men and women were using all the tools they had, placing parts here and there, welding and fabricating. This was their latest build and they couldn't wait to show the whole world the newest machine to work on the FL&HPRR. It took them a couple of months to complete this and tonight was the night it'd be steamed up for the first time ever. Finishing touches later and a storm coming, the doors opened and then came the beast. Rolling slowly out the door came a large articulated engine. It was a 2-6-6-4 that looked sorta similar to the Norfolk and Western Class A's that operate on the railroad, except this was no N&W engine at all. The engine had a cast steal pilot with folding coupler, a keystone number plate, the headlight raised up with a bell hung underneath, a PRR 3 Chime whistle with a whistle shield, a belpaire firebox, a squared cab with larger round windows and a welded coast to coast tender, making it look like a Pennsy engine. Thunder struck around the locomotive, revealing to anyone photographing or filming the beast's first movements that the engine was something the world never thought they'd ever see; a PRR FG-1 prototype.Game used: Trainz: A New Era.
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amazing.... this almost sounds real even though the FG-1 never happened but it excites me to think what would've happened had the PRR built one.
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When the 2nd world war was at its peak, the Pennsylvania Railroad struggled for a need of a larger locomotive to haul the ever-growing wartime freight traffic.
But having unable to allocate any money towards research and development of a new locomotive on account of wartime restrictions, they decided to lease a Chesapeake & Ohio 2-10-4 'T-1' class and an Norfolk & Western class 'A' 2-6-6-4 before copying one of their designs.
After some thorough testing, the PRR made its decision to go with the C&O 'Texas' as a basis for the new engine design.
This resulted in what became the Pennsy's 'J-1' War-Baby type locomotive.
If it wasn't for the 2-10-4 however, then the PRR would have gone with the N&W 'A' class basis for a completely different locomotive.
This info about the articulated engine of the Pennsylvania Railroad is only an alternative choice if the Pennsy went with the altered basis idea instead of the 'Texas' kind.
Here's how it would have been:
After thorough testing, the Pennsylvania Railroad struck a idea of using the N&W class 'A' as a basis for a great locomotive design.
Some of the elements had been taken from the J-1 and the future-planned Q-2 and crafted into a cast steel pilot with a folding coupler, a keystone number plate, a headlight hoisted high with a bell underneath, a belpaire firebox for additional combustion, a square cab with larger rounded windows and a welded coast-to-coast tender for the engine's coal.
The hooter whistle was swapped for a more traditional Pennsylvania Railroad 3-chime steam whistle with a shield to go with it.
Once the design was completed, the PRR began to develop an interesting method of classifying their newly-built mallet locomotives.
They combined the classifications of the multi-wheel sets used in the wheel arrangement, and finally A-1 since they were the first of its class.
For example, the 0-8-8-0 was basically a extended version of a 0-8-0 'C' class locomotive with two sets of eight driving wheels, thus classified as a 'CC-1' class.
The Pennsy's 2-8-8-0 was basically a extended version of 'H' class 2-8-0 consolidation and a 'C' class 0-8-0 mixed together into a 'HC-1' class.
But the newly-built articulated was basically a extended version of a 'F' class 2-6-0 mogul and a reversed 'G' class 4-6-0 ten-wheeler, thus this classification was given the name; the 'FG-1' class.
It has a boiler pressure of 300 psi, two sets of six 70 inch driving wheels, and a massive belpaire firebox which enables 125,000 Ibs. of tractive effort.
It also sports a PRR 3-chime whistle from a future-planned class 'Q-2' and a welded coast-to-coast tender which carries 27 tons of coal and 21,000 gallons of water.
After the first 'FG-1' was built, forty-nine more were manufactured before they were assigned to mainline freight service.
Though not as popular as the road's iconic locomotives, the FG-1's kept at a very good quality in fast-freight and coal drags in good time.
Years onward and by the time the steam era on the PRR was drawing to a close, the FG-1's went to other assignments as helpers since 1956.
They were also the last articulateds to operate until late 1962, eventually replaced by diesel engines on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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