North American Wild Card Tag-O-Rama

Hamlet doesn't seem to have anything close
Checked even at the NC transportation museum. It looks like the best there other than some diesel electrics is a 2-8-0-steam. then coal tender is 4-4.
In Charlotte at Freedom Park is a 2-8-0 and then Great Smokey Mtns railway has a 2-8-0 and Tweetsie is 2-8-0

Diesel /electric I couldn't find anything on display beyond 6-6.

So I am thinking NC is out of the hunt for this one.

NCS

Even talked to two friends at the RR, to ask if they knew of any.



That said, large and 8 axles, you didn't say what scale.




(I did email a buddy of mine with a scooter in Brazil. They still run and have a lot of the new 8 axle GE ones down there according to wiki near him, so might be lucky there. :) )
It did make me look up and read a lot about modern engines, etc etc. Including seeing some old turbine ones on wiki etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Pacific_experimental_steam_turbine_engines_1939.JPG
That's a 10 axle.

hmmm really big to a small scale

I would consider a model train grab to be a cheat. Let's say nothing smaller than a narrow gauge. But let's go ahead and include tenders as part of steam locomotives. That oughta make it pretty simple.

Wonder if my kid's Thomas The Tank Engine stuff is still around here from 15-20 years ago....

Actually it would be creative. It would take some skill to find a model of such size as it really wouldn't work so well on O gauge or N. Perhaps there might be some HO. But then you would have to find a store that has one and convince them to get it out of the box so you could take it outside to take a picture of it.

Rugby thinks outside the box and that is always fresh.

NCS

So they do exist in that world.

It ain't that creative. It's been done in this very thread.

So Mr D.
I am involved in other tags but haven't been so involved in this one. A point of etiquette please.

When I was placing a tag, I tried to make it so that someone most anywhere in NA might have a possibility. So instead of doing an old tobacco barn ( I wouldn't think many of those would be outside the southeast) the theme would be an old unused farm building or instead of a bike on a city greenway trail, a bike in a park. That would allow for a lot of large and small places, north/south/east/west, Canahdah and points south as well. Am I being too open here? So historically has the smaller more regionally isolated and rarer objects/theme tags been the major flavor or the more general ones the flavor?

Thanks man
NCS

There have been some very specific items to tag in this thread, and they have been grabbed successfully. One tough one that I recall was some sort of European armored car. Another was a drive-in movie theater. So it would seem that the specific items were in vogue. But now if seems like the people who are playing are totally different people, and maybe the game has evolved. Anyway, I have broadened the idea of what I am looking for to any locomotive with eight axles, be they on a steam engine plus tender or just a diesel electric. I think static displays may be your best hope. Those would be fairly easy to locate, I think.

European armored car isn't to bad.
Seen a few MB s floating around

Drive ins are cake

Someone will grab it. Just not me.

(and amusingly I thought this was the global game, not just NA. )

Aggreed Someone will grab it.

As for the game. Well when you play as many as we have been lately it gets hard to keep the straight.

You are Active in what??? 12 TAG games? I am in 10 and watch the other 2 at times.


Ray

Just go sit down town fayetteville, nc. they drive through regularly.

« Something yellow this way comes »

Not the big boys.

Probably by me!

In reference to the UP 8 axle motor;

Union Pacific Railroad DDA40X 'Centennial' diesel locomotive #6938. The Centennials were the largest diesel-electric locomotives ever built, all for Union Pacific. Of the 47 DDA40Xs built, 12 survive, with #6936 (based in Cheyenne, Wyoming) still operational.

Good to know that there is still one in service. Since there are only 12 left, it looks like a steam engine is y'alls' best bet. If nothing is found today, starting tomorrow any locomotive will do, providing it is not a model. I don't want to hold the game up.

I'd like to see more pics of the big guys. Did you take anymore when you rode by?

Nope. Security came out there to run me off pretty quickly.

Well that sucks.

The same CSX line runs past my neighborhood. There is a crossing @1mile down the road. hear them everyday and see them almost as much. 4 and 6 axle are the normal. Now I have seen some service/repair equipment that have more but I wouldn't call them a locomotive.

It will get TAGGED. The steam engine I grabbed in Sanford for the NC ABC game, had 8 or more axles if anyone wants to grab that one.

Ray