Name That Locomotive Game

[kevin2083]

another SW-9?

[Paul M.]

I guess I'll post another challenge:


Anybody?

[Guilford Guy]

another SW-9?

SW1200 I think.

Paul, that may take awhile. Is it Asian?

[RAM]

P&S sw9 or sw12

[Paul M.]

another SW-9?

SW1200 I think.

Paul, that may take awhile. Is it Asian?

Not Asian

[scottychaos]

I guess I'll post another challenge:


Anybody?

hmmmm..
I have never seen that loco before in my life!
seriously..
but just to take a wild guess, purely off the top of my head,
im going to guess its in Argentina..around 1951 or so? 
but unfortunately my amazing guessing ability does not seem to extend to the actual name of the loco this time.. 

Scot

[scottychaos]

hold on!
another wild, totally random guess is coming to me!

some strange words and terms are forming randomly in my mind..
I dont quite understand what they all mean..

6LDA25?
Saccaggio?
Do-Do+Do-Do? (what is that? some song lyrics from the 1950's??..weird..)
hmm..nope, sorry, I cant guite formulate exactly what it is..
someone else will have to guess!

great find Paul!
very unique..(seriously, that wasnt sarcasm..)


Scot

[ASIANLIFE]

Hey Scotty well Googled, sorry I mean guessed. Yes, unique loco, Argentine State Railway 5' 6'' gauge, using Sulzer engines.

[scottychaos]

Hey Scotty well Googled, sorry I mean guessed. Yes, unique loco, Argentine State Railway 5' 6'' gauge, using Sulzer engines.

thanks! 
but actually, google played no role whatsoever in my guessing..
or yahoo, or any search engine of any kind..
the photo itself gave me all the info I needed!   
(the dangers of hotlinking..)

Scot

[scottychaos]

Since its been guessed, I can give away my trade secrets..and its a really interesting webpage too! 

First, right-click on the photo, that gives us:

http://www.derbysulzers.com/argentinaloco1951.jpg

That gives us Argentina and 1951.
IT also gives us Sulzer, but at the time I didnt know that was relevant.
(I honestly had no clue what this engine was!)

paste http://www.derbysulzers.com/argentinaloco1951.jpg into your browser, opening the photo..backspace to the main page, being:

http://www.derbysulzers.com/

click on main menu.
do a ctrl-F (find) for Argentina, we arrive here:

http://www.derbysulzers.com/argentinadmu1935.html

If the photo hadnt given itself away, I wouldnt have had the remotest clue..

very interesting page! 
thanks Paul.


Scot

[Paul M.]

Well, that took a while!

[Paul M.]

They're correct. New challenge, anybody?

[PRRThomas11]

OK, we all know who this is but what was thins operating locomotive be for it became Thomas the Tank engine?

[Dr EMD]

Brooklyn (NY)
Eastern
District
Terminal
#15

[PRRThomas11]

Right! Next loco?