Showing posts with label train. Show all posts
Showing posts with label train. Show all posts

Friday, 28 January 2011

Sunday, 2 January 2011

Russian locomotive graveyard

For the whole gallery see http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/10/15/old-locomotives-from-a-storage-facility/#more-19715

What would you make a former diesel locomotive put onto a missile launcher chassis for? Mobile KW power plant?

from the great finds in English Russia http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/11/16/fantasy-of-russian-engineers/#more-24746

Logging trucks, trains, and look at the size of those logs!

Above via http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/ Driving the model T cars onto the tree trunk is wild, but a team of horses? Did they think about how they were going to get those horses to back up the whole way off that tree trunk? that train on top of the bridge is cool... but what the freak! How long did it take them to make that bridge? And they had to have it pretty level for

why do trains have to stop at ever station.. what if this way of switching cars could let the train roll on, not stop, saving energy and riders time?

Just skip to the 35 second mark and watch it to the 50 second mark, you'll get the idea without ever listening to a word of it, or wasting any timefound on http://www.bookofjoe.com/2010/12/26/index.html

Friday, 31 December 2010

The Camelback locomotive design, used in conjunction with the exceptionally wide Wooten firebox, not safe though

The "Camelback" design, which straddled the cab over the center of the boiler, allowed the exceptional width of the Wooten firebox, which burned lower BTU anthracite coal from Eastern Pennsylvania.The Locomotives in the picture were also called "Mother Hubbards" among other names. They were discontinued from freight service because if a side rod broke, it would wipe out the cab and if on the

Friday, 24 December 2010

Happy holidays, and merry chistmas everyone

I believe the above image was taken by Scooter McRad http://scootermcrad.blogspot.com/ last year, and is one of the best hot rod Xmas photos I've come across images from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=750

Sunday, 19 December 2010

GM Aerotrain

one has been preserved and is at the at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, and Car Nut commented to say that one is rusting away at the National Railway Museum in Greenbay WisconsinThese photos are from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477

great railcars (why a bus was made into a rail car is a mystery) found on the HAMB

I've never heard of a school bus being made into a railcar... I'd love to hear why this happened http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477

It's been a while since I had train photos to post

from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477

Everybody looks at train wrecks, only some train wrecks make us wonder how they happened!

Wonder how these two happened! from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477 the most famous was the French train that plowed out of the 2nd story of a building to the street below http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-of-most-impressive-photos-ive-seen.html

Trains delivering cars in the early 70's, packed, racked, and stacked.

those cars appear to be Chevy Vega's I've never seen this sort of thing, it's visually interestingfrom http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477