Southern RR steam

[propmeup1]

I thought I stumbled across a photo while looking at Southern's steam roster, a locomotive that was not an articulate but something like a 2-8-0 with another drive unit under the tender much like the triplex engines had but only two engines rather then three .   I seen it very briefly and lost the photo on line due to a pop up.   Does this ring a bell, was I imagining it ?  Anyone, anyone ?

[davefoxx]

Here you go.  It appears there may have been at least two: Nos. 4537 and 4576:

http://southern.railfan.net/images/archive/southern/steam/282/sou4537.html

http://southern.railfan.net/images/archive/southern/steam/282/sou4576.html

Hope this helps,
DFF

P.S. Anything you can do to reduce the size of the photo in your signature in each post?  While it is a nice photo, it's huge and can be distracting in the midst of other posts.

[Point353]

Southern 5046 was a duplex 2-10-2 with a 2-6-2 mechanism under the tender:

[propmeup1]

Thanks guys, i knew i wasn't going nuty when i just seen one of them in a flash. I see there were two different type as well. Be a good kit bash project.

BTW, I too been wondering how to reduce the photo with each of my post but haven't had any luck at it. Yes it is annoying to me too, sorry.

[Iain]

Don't paint the cab roof or tender deck red.

[nkalanaga]

One way to reduce the size of the picture would be to use a photo editor, create a smaller version, upload that to Railwire's Gallery, then edit your profile to link to the new image.

I don't know what operating system you have, but Windows XP, and probably newer versions, came with a photo editor that should work, and I'm sure that MS Paint, also a Windows utility, would do the job.

[MK]

Here's one I did, shrunk about 50% along the width while preserving the aspect ratio.  You can probably grab it off the screen by doing a "Save Image As".

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[MK]

Better yet, here's one with a little judicious cropping on my part.

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[davefoxx]

@propmeup1@verizon.net,

This may help.  Back before the Photobucket debacle, links from Photobucket seemed to be the wrong size, and I figured out how to fix them.  You can adjust the size of a photo merely by typing certain information into the "img" link.  Please note that I replaced the brackets [ ] with { }, so the links would show:

For example, I took this photo from @MK's post above and used the Gallery to upload the photo.  Now, {img}https://www.therailwire.net/forum/gallery/13/1292-151119101448.jpeg{/img} shows as this:



But, if you add "width=175 height=131" to the link as follows:

{img width=175 height=131}https://www.therailwire.net/forum/gallery/13/1292-151119101448.jpeg{/img}

 . . . you get this:



Now, I guessed at those pixel numbers of 175 and 131.  You can pick any size you want.  I kept it on a ratio of 1 unit of width to 0.75 units of height.

Hope this helps,
DFF

[C855B]

You only need to use width= OR height= to adjust the size. It maintains the aspect ratio and better yet, you don't need to do any math to get there.

[propmeup1]

Thank you, I can do or make almost anything but PCs are not my thing.

[MK]

Hey, it's still large!    

[Tristan Ashcroft]

Whoah, those things look goofy.  Were they really, really slippery, especially when low on water?

[Mark5]

Southern 5046 was a duplex 2-10-2 with a 2-6-2 mechanism under the tender:

Looks like a poorly executed kitbash - if a modeler raised the tender that much he'd be laughed outta the room.

Here's a sister unit - I think these are really good looking steamers:

https://www.steamlocomotive.com/whyte/2-10-2/USA/photos/sou5047-laws.jpg

Mark

[learmoia]

So there were 2-8-2+2-8-0 and  2-10-2+2-6-2

That's wild...
Never knew such things existed..

~Ian