Guess what this is?

Post by **Niner** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:11 pm

Airplane guys can do this, why not arty guys? And don't just say some kind of artillery.

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Tom-May · Post by **Tom-May** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:34 am

It looks like some kind of narrow gauge (60 cm?) saddle tank engine of the kind used in the Great War to haul ammunition and stores....

Oh, sorry, you meant the lumpy howitzer in the foreground?

Sorry, no idea.

Post by **Niner Delta** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:09 am

The lumpy howitzer is a German Schwere Field Haubitz Model 1901. It was a 150mm heavy artillery piece used by the Germans in WWI.

Or it could be an 8" self-propelled howitzer, but I doubt it.

Vern.

Post by **Niner** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:52 am

You would be correct...except the sign said it was a model 1902..... but what do they know?

Post by **Niner Delta** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:11 pm

My bad, I don't think the Model 1901 had a recoil mechanism and was used mostly as a fortress gun and not so much in the field.

Vern.

Aughnanure · Post by **Aughnanure** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:33 pm

More loco pictures please, and what is the machine in the right background?

Next to Lee-Enfields I love trains

Eoin.

Post by **Niner** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:34 pm

I was on this tour and once we got to an interesting place we were running late and didn't get half a chance to look it over.

Post by **Niner Delta** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:14 pm

It is a US WWI Field Sterilizer.

"The care and condition of the troops has always been an important factor for the U.S. Army. The field sterilizer was designed for the decontamination of clothing, bedding, uniforms and similar textile goods and served to protect the men from lice and other insects. Throughout history many campaigns and wars have been waged and lice have always been present to accompany the troops. This field sterilizer was manufactured by the American Sterilizer Company, Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1917."

Vern.

Post by **Niner** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:56 pm

We missed you on the chat tonight.

Post by **Niner Delta** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:12 pm

I will call this a war machine because it hauled logs for the war effort in WW II. (Yes, quite a stretch

) Posted this once before, but got lost with ezboard problems. It is a Baldwin Mallet 2-6-6-2 built in 1928, and weighed in at 289,000 lbs. The engineer in the window is my grandfather and namesake, Vernon Dibb. He drove it on a logging railroad in NW Washington state from 1937 to 1951. It was retired in 1962 and scrapped in 1968.

Vern.

Guess what this is?

Guess what this is?

Could be..........

Niner Delta

Oops..........

Eoin I wish I had time to look at it

Eoin.........

Vern thanks.

For Eoin, a train lover.