Smallest & Tallest

Smallest Electric Locomotives:



Mancha Trammer Type "B" 1.5-Tons



An older Mancha trammer at a tourist mine in Bisbee, Arizona. Type "A" model; 18-inch gauge.

Now, here are the Tallest electric locomotives:



Coke Quencher locomotives are probably the tallest of all types of electric industrial locomotives. They are used at by-products coke plants to haul a quenching car (car carrying baked coal=Coke) from the bank of ovens to the quenching tower and from there to the coke wharf where the car is unloaded. These odd locomoitives are usually about 14-20 ft high for the operator can have an unrestricted view of the entire area, While operating the locomotive, the operator has to reach the water valve as well as to open and close the car quencher doors when coke is unloading onto the wharf and spot the car at the ovens when unloading.

This view of four General Electric 20-Tonner coke quencher locomotives was taken @ a Utah steel mill. Not the postive and negative shoes on the side of each locomotives. They are used to collect 250VDC from "hot rails, or power rails.

Ray

i see you made it to lenig tunnel.......

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Like the stuff I got???
Heh.

I can't keep up with all the pics.
BTW, did anyone ever figure out what the serial numbers/letters stand for?
I'm getting lost in the threads...

~S

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yea for the most part, theres a few holes in the story yet so to speak. ray is checking into it more for us, but you gotta follow it back a few pages. plus theres a photo there i know youll recognize.

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I made it to Lenig Tunnel about four years ago, when he was still operating.

Need an ID on this one:

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John

That is a small Mancha storage battery but was converted to trolley in latter years. . . the notch in the end bumpers and the cast frame are the give away.

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Now this is one is in a park not a 100% sure what it is but narrowed down to a EARLY Jeffrey or Goodman (the brake wheel dates it)

It is equipped with Jeffrey headlights & controller but it may still be a Goodman

24" gauge

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Are you 100% sure thats a jeffrey controller? That looks like the westinghouse controller on a motor I hold near and dear to my heart.

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Well the locking nuts on the side of the controller, the top is the same & there are no ribs on the controller cover (all characteristics of Jeffrey)

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I noticed the locking nuts now that I look closer, The westinghouse cover is also cut at a little bit of a radius at the bottom back corners if I'm not mistaken.

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Good eye & you are correct about the radius cut on the cover on a Westinghouse controller

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Pete and Mike: do you guys know the model of that mancha? the guy who owns it would like to know.

thanks!

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John, It looks like a Mancha TITAN "BN" Model.

Ray

thanks Ray.

anyone have any pictures of this model when it was new (or complete)? catalog page, etc?

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