Very strange things

[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).

[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."

[Flintlock76]

Penny Trains

Reminds me of the Molentary Express.

 

Wow!  That's a new one on me!

I don't get out enough...

[Penny Trains]

Reminds me of the Molentary Express.

[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  

[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:

[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.

[jhoaan355]

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

[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. 

[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

[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]

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

[NDG]

 Great Data and photos, once again!

 

Thank You.

[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  

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[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!"

[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!

[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.

 

[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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[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!

[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

 

[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?

[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!

 

[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

[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!

[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 

 

[MidlandMike]

I guess that poster was before 1949 since they refer to both Canada and Newfoundland.  The NH at one time controlled B&M and MEC.  I wonder if the train went thru Vanceboro or along the Fundy shore?

[Flintlock76]

Strange things all right.

Photo 3.  All gone, except for the hill?  That whole neighborhood and railroad infrastructure?  Without a trace?  You said it Vince, what the Luftwaffe wanted to do to us during WW2 but couldn't we ended up doing to ourselves.

Photo 6.  Man, those RSD1 rebuilds are ug-leeeeee!  

Photo 7.  Ah, Newfoundland!  "Come for the sights, stay for the seafood!"  Best lobster anywhere!  The cod tongues are pretty tasty too!

A bit of trivia, Lady Firestorm's mother was a Newfoundlander, and she and other Newfoundlanders who grew up pre-Confederation never  called themselves Canadians, it was always Newfoundlanders!  Lady F's Newfoundland cousins, all born post-Confederation, call themselves Canadians. 

Photo 8.  "Be you wise..."  Wow, it's like that ad was written by Charles Dickens!  19th Century English may be archaic, but it's still pretty cool!

[Deggesty]

I never knew about International Car, either; I knew about International Harvester, which made farm equipment, trucks, cars, and carryalls (station wagons).

[Penny Trains]

Miningman

6) Alaska Railroad 1050A & 1050B, prototypes for ARR RF1 Alco's. Rebulit from surplus RSD1 locos USA 840 and 854. Delivered in Oct. 1947. Rebuilds by International Car Co. Kenton, Ohio.

Huh!  I knew about the Kenton toy company but I never knew about International car.

[rcdrye]

That's the arriving D&H Laurentian with the NYC Observation on the rear.  If the picture was taken before 1953 a car or two from the Rutland/B&M Green Mountain Flyer will get cut in before the train heads for New York probably behind an NYC RS3 or GP7.