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Guess what this is?
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:11 pm
by Niner
Airplane guys can do this, why not arty guys? And don't just say some kind of artillery.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:34 am
by Tom-May
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.
Could be..........
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:09 am
by Niner Delta
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.
Niner Delta
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:52 am
by Niner
You would be correct...except the sign said it was a model 1902..... but what do they know?
Oops..........
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:11 pm
by Niner Delta
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.
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:33 pm
by Aughnanure
More loco pictures please, and what is the machine in the right background?
Next to Lee-Enfields I love trains
Eoin.
Eoin I wish I had time to look at it
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:34 pm
by Niner
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.
Eoin.........
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:14 pm
by Niner Delta
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.
Vern thanks.
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:56 pm
by Niner
We missed you on the chat tonight.
For Eoin, a train lover.
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:12 pm
by Niner Delta
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.
