The biggest and most unusual train model I ever saw--with pic

[n2mopac]

Back in January I was traveling home from visiting family in Springfield, MO. Traveling north on US HWY 65 just south of Warsaw, MO (Lake of the Ozarks/Truman Lake area) I saw the "hay train" pictured below. Obviously I had to turn around and get some pics of it. Its a 4-10-0 with tender made entirely of hay. The farmer who built it was using it to advertise hay for sale. It must have worked as when I traveled throught the area again in March the loco was gone.



Just for fun, here is one of my pics of UP 3985 when it traveled through my small town in January on its way to Houston for the Super Bowl. The original looked pretty good, but it didn't scan that well. Anyway, hope you enjoy these.



Ron

[Anonymous]

AWESOME PIC DUDE!!!

[Anonymous]

mmmmmmmmmm always like to see a pic of the train in it's hay day.

LOL!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by t3488g

mmmmmmmmmm always like to see a pic of the train in it's hay day.

LOL!!

Bad, real bad but funny

Jeremy

[Fergmiester]

If it could only pull real passenger cars...... Anyone for a hayride?

I know that was the last straw!

BTW Nice pics

[Anonymous]

Looks like some of that hay was getting a little moldy.

[Anonymous]

The whole train looks like one big "cow-catcher."

When I lived down in the southern part of NY, a firewood dealer built a train out of cord wood including a 4-4-0 & tender. Sorry, no picture.

Wayne

[leighant]

The biggest and most unusual train model I ever saw...well I only saw it in a picture, but it was big and it was unusual. It was a very realistic model of a steam locomotive built entirely to scale mostly out of wood. Not operating of course. Some people will question whether this was a "model" but some some definitions it was. It was a model in 110% scale. Ten percent BIGGER than the real thing!!!
Thats probably even more unusual than the full-size wooden model of the unburied portion of the Daylight locomotive used in the movie "Tough Guys". I understand John Frankenheimer used full-size wood models of trains to be wrecked by anti-Nazi French underground in movie "The Train." But the 110% scale model is probably both largest and most unusual.

[n2mopac]

QUOTE: Originally posted by NorthernStudio

The whole train looks like one big "cow-catcher."

When I lived down in the southern part of NY, a firewood dealer built a train out of cord wood including a 4-4-0 & tender. Sorry, no picture.

Wayne

Too bad aboout the pics. I would have loved to see that one.
Ron

[Anonymous]

great man