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Steam doodelbugs were anything but exotic on European railroads. A possibility to efficiently serve branch-lines with little patronage in the era before DMUs took over. You needed only 1 or 2 railroaders to operate the "train", insted of 3 to 4 on a conventional train.
The German engineer Kruckenberg designed a ligthweight diesel-motor-car running on railroad tracks, powered by one propeller on the back. The dmc established a world-speed-record, but it was only intended for technical purposes. No commercial service. I wonder whether such a design would work today for high-speed-trains. At least, you have only very little unsprung weight, which reduces wear on tracks. Pictures on the Wikipedia-Site Search Kruckenberg Schienenzeppelin
I saw the foto of the "Tornado". I did not recognize any trucks under the tender. Does it really have four axles in a rigid frame. I know the former LMS had passenger-train steam-engines with tenders with three axles in a rigid frame. Thank you in advance for the answer
AFAIK, the former IC had an electric commuter operation which is now run by Metra and recently got new EMUs
If you carefully look at pictures of old electric enginges or first oder second generation diesels, you'll see they were equipped for poling, too. The pracise was not limited to steam-days
[quote user="tomikawaTT"]m not sure that the wheels riding the ordinary rails are powered - they wouldn't deliver much traction on the line's maximum 37% grade.[/quote] AFAIK, the ordinary wheels are not powered. Of course, the railroad needs a pusher on the flat-rails in the engine-house, or a rack there, too.
Rebuildung the Erie would improve competition in the North-East. Good idea, IMHO
Kerb seems to be a borough of Essen. Essen is a town in Western Germany, in the heavily industrialized Ruhr-Area. Note the trolley-bus: it has doors on it's left side to be able to serve the island-platform (and of course on the right side). In Continental Europe, most buses have doors only on the right side. It must be a modified or specially designed car.
How long did the VGN and the Erie respectively keep their Triplexes in service? this would provide some information as to whether the operating departments considered them useful or a failure.
I know the Traxx-familiy is running with AC-drive. Nevertheless, you can order a version able to run under 1,5 and/or 3 kv DC. My hypothesis is, Bombardier will use as many existing components as possible to reduce costs. But I cannot exclude they will use trucks of the Swedish-Norwegian electric engine (C-C) or trucks of an existing US-freight-engine.