Very strange things

[Miningman]

Not everyday you get to show off a V-2 rocket ready to be shipped.

 

2)  Get off my lawn!  No one touches my tank cars!

 

3)  I can't see, I can't see! 

 

4)  Ottawa Streetcar System  ( it's the capital of Canada eh! )

The Beginning

... 80 years later

The End

 

5)  Happy, Safe and Healthy Easter Everyone 

 

[Flintlock76]

Oooo, some good stuff today!

Photo 1.  Man, it looks like those British Tommies got themselves one hell of a souvenir!  But here's the rest of the story...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWFFzL65dEQ  

Photo 2.  Weren't those Stuart tanks the cutest things?

Photo 3.  Had me going "What the hell?" for a minute, but it looks like a "Grand Opening Breaking-Through-A-Wall"  thing.

Photo 4.  The "alpha and omega" of a streetcar system.  Why build a mountain just to tear it down?

Photo 5.  Wow, Maestro  Leonardo really was a genius!  He even invented social distancing!

[Trainguy0524]

it might be a combination inspection and speedy freight. or it could be some bigwig taking the train in his private coach along the freight route

[Miningman]

1). Strange things to us now edition.

Rush hour in NYC 1885

2). 1933 Blowers in Subway cars provide ventilation with windows closed. Cane sears too!

 

3).  Pot Bellied Stove at the elevated station. 

 

4). Need a Flin Flam Lawyer?  I got one for you!

 

5). Whose on top and whose on bottom? I think I know the bottom but staying silent in case I'm wrong yet again!

 

6)   "I was just trying to make a phone call!" ( nah, that's a lousy caption)

Someone please do better!

 

[rcdrye]

Nobody seems to have noticed that the Ottawa horsecar wasn't on wheels.  Ottawa and Winnipeg both had horsecars that could be fitted with runners for winter use.  Must have been a nice jolt over the snowbank...  Anyone know of other cities that set up their cars that way?

[M636C]

 

 

See Trains Magazine December 1963 page 30

Caption reads:

"North Portal: 2-8-0 on the Tracy Branch looks down on the emerging bullet nose of a J3 carrying white flags."

The photo is taken on the main line of the Nashville  Chattanooga and St Louis from Nashville to Atlanta, the tunnel is known as Cumberland Tunnel. The branch line and the 2-8-0 are also NC&StL.

Peter

 

[Miningman]

Thanks to rcdrye for pointing out Ottawa horse drawn Streetcars on runners! 

... and Kudos to M636C for remembering Dec. 1963 Trains Magazine!

Both win a fine Cuban cigar!

[Miningman]

Mike has pointed that the photo of West St. looking north also contains the (Jersey) Central Building at 143 Liberty St. Has much to add! 

https://ia800702.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/17/items/kingsphotographi00kingrich/kingsphotographi00kingrich_jp2.zip&file=kingsphotographi00kingrich_jp2/kingsphotographi00kingrich_0238.jp2&scale=2&rotate=0

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http://dcmny.org/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&svc_id=info%3Alanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&rft_id=http%3A//dcmny.org/islandora/object/photosnycbeyond%253A26781/datastream/JP2/view%3Ftoken%3D9840d98defb83ab0ae68201ed57b50cf8ece9e836220cfba5c495c4e0180a38b&svc.region=0%2C0%2C2295%2C3775

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/DINNER_%28held_by%29_CENTRAL_RESTAURANT_%28at%29_%22143_LIBERTY_STREET%2C_NY%22_%28REST%3B%29_%28NYPL_Hades-273877-467292%29.jpg

[Flintlock76]

Man, that is one hell of a dinner!

Amazing how far fifty cents went back then!  

Now, fifty cents won't even get you a McDonalds hamburger.  Or a cup of coffee for that matter.

Yeah, I know what the average workin' stiff was making back in those days, but you know what I mean.

 

[Overmod]

Flintlock76

Amazing how far fifty cents went back then!  

That was a fair amount of money then, more (perhaps considerably more in effective purchasing power) than $15 in pre-COVID-19 today's money.  Specialty restaurants today can offer prime rib for that cost ... Golden Corral featured it 'at no extra charge' during Christmas season last winter, for all you could eat, and it was pretty good.

Some of the factor price in meal ingredients were much cheaper; some might have been radically more expensive.  

Yeah, I know what the average workin' stiff was making back in those days, but you know what I mean.

But this wasn't for 'them' -- it was a draw for people going through the station, like the restaurants at department stores were for shoppers, with the idea that some might become 'regulars' and increase patronage.  Imagine Amtrak doing this at some of its  lounges now!

[Penny Trains]

Miningman

6) "I was just trying to make a phone call!" ( nah, that's a lousy caption) Someone please do better!

"The flimsy said my wife just had a baby!  I gotta get to the hospital!"

[Miningman]

Thanks Penny.. a lot better than mine.

Overmod--  Absolutely yes to CNR (and GTW) 6400 class Northern's . 

More from Mike on West St. Incredible 

West Street 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Detroit_Photographic_Company_%280620%29.jpg  

http://dcmny.org/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&svc_id=info%3Alanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&rft_id=http%3A//dcmny.org/islandora/object/photosnycbeyond%253A29231/datastream/JP2/view%3Ftoken%3D893d114a6675bed6898914e19bbfb7b9f7d92c9465015a02751fd17e9644fdab&svc.region=0%2C0%2C2401%2C3896                            http://dcmny.org/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&svc_id=it=image/jpeg&nfo%3Alanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajpeg2000&svc.formarft_id=http%3A//dcmny.org/islandora/object/photosnycbeyond%253A28414/datastream/JP2/view%3Ftoken%3De1c1419f71027059cbce6c06a82b3978a976758112c62376791e48acb32167ca&svc.region=0%2C0%2C2131%2C3642                                  

http://dcmny.org/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&svc_id=info%3Alanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&rft_id=http%3A//dcmny.org/islandora/object/photosnycbeyond%253A29960/datastream/JP2/view%3Ftoken%3D95b07f9636123ba3a0da0e734b138673ac5c687438325235f060f2ca0a4e1d92&svc.region=0%2C0%2C2121%2C3583                              

http://dcmny.org/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&svc_id=info%3Alanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&rft_id=http%3A//dcmny.org/islandora/object/photosnycbeyond%253A25147/datastream/JP2/view%3Ftoken%3D58029aba8937eda2db7efb64f94168c683a0de5158da22c2751553bdcd16bb77&svc.region=0%2C0%2C2114%2C3560                         

[NDG]

 Great Data and photos, once again!

 

Thank You.

[Miningman]

Different times... and within a lifetime , wonder what it will look like in another hundred years? 

[Flintlock76]

Love those West Street shots, especially the colorized one.

Normally I'm not a big fan of colorization, but whoever did that one did a superb job, it's like you're there!  

[Miningman]

St. Pat's twin spires 

 

Interesting view across , you can see the twin spires  dominating the then skyline .

http://dcmny.org/islandora/object/nyhs%3A1681/datastream/OBJ/view

http://dcmny.org/islandora/object/nyhs%3A1681

[Jones1945]

Miningman

2). 1933 Blowers in Subway cars provide ventilation with windows closed. Cane sears too!

A secret of me about ventilation: My mother is a loyal Catholic who never lies. According to what she told me, the first word I learned when I was a baby wasn't mommy and daddy, but "Electric fan." When she was holding me close to a fan in our old house, I pointed my finger to the fan and said, "Electric fan." She didn't find it creepy when she told me about that after I grew up, but I did. I do love installing different kinds of antique style fans in my homes, even though they are completely air-conditioned. 

[jhoaan355]

Interesting do you know if there was more than the basic works?

[Overmod]

Now, periodically the question arises "What if [famous company known for something] were to build a locomotive?"

Imagine, for example, that the Porsche that gave us the 356 were to produce a streamlined locomotive.  What might it be like?

Wonder no more.

[Jones1945]

Overmod

Now, periodically the question arises "What if [famous company known for something] were to build a locomotive?"

Imagine, for example, that the Porsche that gave us the 356 were to produce a streamlined locomotive.  What might it be like?

Wonder no more.

 

Not the same car, nor the same park, but something similar:

[Flintlock76]

Wow.  I don't know what to think about those Porsche "locomotives."

This guy says it all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krD4hdGvGHM  

[Penny Trains]

Reminds me of the Molentary Express.

[Flintlock76]

Penny Trains

Reminds me of the Molentary Express.

 

Wow!  That's a new one on me!

I don't get out enough...

[Deggesty]

Flintlock76

Wow.  I don't know what to think about those Porsche "locomotives."

This guy says it all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krD4hdGvGHM  

 

Well, it is not as bad as what I saw in a park in New Orleans 58 years ago. It was, apparently, supposed to look like a steam locomotive, but the designer did a horrible job. I thought of it as "a gaudy doodad."

[Penny Trains]

Flintlock76

 

 

Penny Trains

Reminds me of the Molentary Express.

 

 

 

 

Wow!  That's a new one on me!

I don't get out enough...

 

It's from a Japanese video game: Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (or Pandora's Box if you've got the British version).

[Flintlock76]

Ah, that would explain it Becky, I'm not into video games at all.

I probably still don't get out enough.  Especially lately.  

Wayne

[Miningman]

Time for some fun.

1) The Pride of the Union Pacific Fleet!  It's amazing what can be accomplished when Management and the Union put their heads together.

 

2) All I know is that this is in Cuba on a sugar cane plantation.

 

3)  Now optional on GE models 'the suntanning deck'

 

4)  " Hey Come On! Where's the Steam!" 

 

5)  Can you get streamers? A hand squeeze horn? Actually not a bad idea.

 

6) Train Art. Steampunk 1:1

 

[Overmod]

Miningman

Time for some fun.

Always a welcome prospect.

[quote]1) The Pride of the Union Pacific Fleet!  It's amazing what can be accomplished when Management and the Union put their heads together.

Not sure it was their heads that were the primary thing they pulled this idea out of.  On the other hand, it has most of the good aspects of Loup Logistics intermodal planning -- the temptation to provide a purpose-built facility, for example, has been resisted in the (valid!) interests of providing sealed security for the container contents during transfer for subsequent handling.  The white flag for 'extra movement' was a nice warning touch.

I wonder what PTC stands for?  "Privy Transport Conveyance"?  "Positive Turd Control"?  (What it ought to be, of course, is the Porta-Potty company's own 'container' number... and if this site's pictures are any guide, that's exactly what it is.)

(I actually have the awful suspicion that something like this might actually need a transponder for track occupancy, and that the black box contains thousands of dollars of SDR-enabled communications gear.  Can inward-facing cab cameras be next?)

3)  Now optional on GE models 'the suntanning deck'

New options on what?  The closest thing to General Electric on that locomotive is the unit passing on the adjacent track.

This is adaptive reuse of what, I believe, was a Cotton Belt tunnel motor, I suspect with the larger fuel-tank option.  Interestingly part of the 'difference' over an 'ordinary' SD40-2 is that the "porch" at the other end is absent, perhaps by retaining the original SD45-T2 cab location and connections ... and I too am amazed that the weight distribution worked out.  

Sure wish they'd put a nice normal railroad bell in that bracket, though!

[quote]4)  " Hey Come On! Where's the Steam!" 

Every bit as much steam as a MTH GS-4 blowing its whistle ... and about the same visual fidelity.  

Oh, for the good old days when railfans could just ignore locomotives with PRR keystones passing on the Curve.  On the other hand ... what a perfect metaphor for the Penn Central early Seventies?

It would sure get a lot more visually interesting for railfans after 1976!

 

5)  Can you get streamers? A hand squeeze horn? Actually not a bad idea.

OK, now show me what the Rockers on MOW crews would drive.

6) Train Art. Steampunk 1:1

 

If this doesn't get Jones1945's juices flowing, I can't imagine what would.  Everything that is right about the T1, the S2, the DD1, the Swedish turbine 2-8-0s, the prospective streamlining for ATSF 3765, the Russian P36 and opposed-cylinder locomotives, the Raketa lake hydrofoils ... all rolled up in one.

[Flintlock76]

Fascinating assortment today!  Let's take 'em one-by one.

Photo 1)  Talk about practicality!  Hook it up to a track speeder and you're saved a trip into the bushes when you're out in the boonies, 'cause who knows what in those bushes?     

Photo 2)  A tank on rails! I'd assume to maintain order on the sugar plantations.  So much for Fidel's "Workers Paradise."

Photo 3)  Now talk about practicality!  There you are, a VERY slow day out on the line, so what do you do?  Stop on a bridge over a nice trout stream, set up the chairs, coolers, and fishing tackle and have some fun!  However, only short-lines could get away with this!

Photo 4)  "Where's the steam?"  You suppose that's the guy who famously tore the all-diesel issue of "Trains" in half and sent the same to David P. Morgan?   An act of lese majeste'  if ever there was one!

Photo 5)  The scooter's cool, but can you imagine a Harley modified to run on rails?

Photo 6)  Good Lord.  And I thought this  thing was weird!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjRoELN-tQ  

[Miningman]

Thanks for the input guys... great comments .