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GE E10B Steeple Cab Locos and rolling stock
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MRH Author 5,507 posts Bernd MRH Author 5,507 posts
Bernd

I'm going to try and build 2 of these steeple cabs for me and a friend. Now I've searched the net and found every thing that has been put out there on these electric engines.

There were 7 of them built for the Niagara Junction Rwy., numbers 14 through 20. Pictures can be found here: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?mid=1200

I have my own pictures of a couple of these engines. Plus I had the privilege of riding in #15 while switching the Hooker Chemical Plant in Niagara Falls.

Here's what a GE E10B steeple cab looks like for those not familiar with electric engines of the by gone area. Unfortunatley it's fuzzy, the result of using a Kodak Instamatic 126 back in May 1970.

 

Here's what it looks like riding inside one of these engines.

 

 

My question is. Does anybody know of a drawing other than the one that is on http://sbiii.com/rr-elocs.html (S. Berliner web site) ?

Bernd

New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds - NCSWIC
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Ghost Train Regular poster 228 posts
Ghost Train

You will find many Steeple Cabs . . .

with different road names if you Google "GE E10B Steeple Cab locomotive".   I'm not sure they are all the same model, but there are lots.

G.T.
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Bernd MRH Author 5,507 posts
Bernd

As I said

I googled with all sorts of different words. I found about as much as I could. Thanks anyway.

Someday I'll run across the info.

Bernd

New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds - NCSWIC
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DKRickman Prolific poster 3,069 posts
DKRickman

Standard design?

What's the likelihood that GE used standard components, such as cabs, trucks, hoods, etc. for different models?  Perhaps you could use components from a 44 tonner, or other GE models.  I have not compared any dimensions, but the photos definitely show a family resemblance.

Ken Rickman

Danville & Western HO modeler and web historian

http://southern-railway.railfan.net/dw/
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Bernd MRH Author 5,507 posts
Bernd

GE Design

Ken,

I read in one of the places I landed on during research on the internet that the E10B steeple cab is close to an 80 tonner design such as used by the Army. Trouble is nobody makes an 80 tonner.

As I said in an e-mail to you, this is going to be a total scratch built project, including a gearless drive, if what I plan works out on the drive. If not then I'm going the way Hollywood foundry has done with their drive, the Diablo Power unit. LINK: http://www.hollywoodfoundry.com/diablo.htm?id=188

Further research is on going .

Bernd

 

New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds - NCSWIC
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green_elite_cab Active Member 51 posts
green_elite_cab

This looks straight forward

I would just use styrene to extend the hood and cab of a 44 tonner.     The critical question is if the wheel base is the same (or acceptable) between units. 

 

 

Christian Brown,
New Jersey Under Wire June 1979
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Bernd MRH Author 5,507 posts
Bernd

Building more than one

g_e_c,

Appreciate the insight on using the 44 tonner. Hopefully my answer will clarify what I plan on doing.

I want to build more than one. I've changed my mind about how many I want to build. There were 7 engines and I plan on building all 7 of them.  So with that in mind I'm looking at making a master and then making a mold to do resin castings. I'm also looking at employing a gear less drive that I'm working on. I'm not in favor of using Bachman drives since they also exhibit split gears. It will be a total scratch build project come this winter.

As to the truck spacing, the 44 tonner is 18' 9" versus the steeple cabs 17' 2". Yet the 44 tonner measures 33' 5" over coupling faces and the steeple cab 40'. Also the steeple cabs cab is larger than the 44 tonner. I plan on doing a full write of the build when I get to it.

Here's a link to the only plans I have found on the internet. http://sbiii.com/rr-elocs.html#ge-e10b

I see you are into heavy electrics. Great engines besides the steamers.

New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds - NCSWIC
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