Penny Trains "Think tanks" are also handy for wiring... and filing...
"Think tanks" are also handy for wiring...
and filing...
Lovely! It reminds me of the Star War AT-AT walker, but much smaller, and probably smarter. I want to pick up 3D modeling again, to create some fantasy train stuff and spare parts, detail parts that I can 3D print them for my train models.
Jones 3D Modeling Club https://www.youtube.com/Jones3DModelingClub
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
I love that "Dreyf-O-Rail!"
That tank. Wow. That would have given General Patton nightmares, and that's saying something! He usually gave other people like Nazis nightmares!
Well once upon a time I drew up a Dreyf-O-Rail:
And a tank:
Miningman 3) waste not want not, but stack smoke? Lot of cleaning, no?
3) waste not want not, but stack smoke? Lot of cleaning, no?
This reminds me of another daydream in the classroom when I was young(er), a gigantic vacuums cleaner that can "remove" and collect all the pollutants in the sky. But of course, those folks in the planes and those friendly fluffy birds that sing-song to me every morning would be removed by this 1-mile tall vacuum cleaner as well.
I didn't notice the owner of douglas-self is still updating his/her amazing website with amazing content. I wonder if there was any steam locomotive built without a smokestack on purpose. Streamlined steam engine like the Loewy K4s and PRR S1 had a very short smokestack blend into the streamline shrouding, how about those un-streamlined?
Miningman 4) Now those are some driving wheels and some far fetched ideas Also 4 b & c ...an aero drive monorail express, well why not? .. the second seems like a good way to cross a desert.
4) Now those are some driving wheels and some far fetched ideas
Also 4 b & c ...an aero drive monorail express, well why not? .. the second seems like a good way to cross a desert.
So, this is probably the train that runs between L.A, Chicago and New York in the sci-fiction movie. If L.A is not far enough, let's extend the route to Guam, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong...... The price of the train ticket is freedom, the cost of freedom and liberty is......
I was thinking about a PRR S1 with 90" or larger drivers, and a booster engine that gear connected to all the wheels on that 6-wheel truck, for a sci-fiction cartoon...
The trainset would be 20-car long, consist of 85ft long streamlined coaches and sleepers, with a unique streamlined shrouding cover the 6-wheel truck, like the CB&Q EMD E5, every "truck-cover" has 3 light bulbs which lit up the white wall wheels. There will be a library-lounge car for the guest to drink, and read the poems about drinking; a lecturer will amuse the passenger with his wisdom and free lecture will be arranged for our passengers learning about bargaining tips in 156 different foreign countries.
The 70-foot long ball pit pool on the double-deck recreation car, the largest in America, will let the children have fun all day long! The only thing their parent would worry about will be limited to how to get them off the pool, and this amazing train as well. While the child is screaming at 90dB in the ball pit, their parents can have a Turkish Bath on the upper deck or put their hands into the Jones patented, steam-powered "Automatic Nail Technician Machine" for the ladies...........to be continued
Whew, those "Modern Mechanix" and "Modern Boy" covers!
It used to be said decades ago that to be a good journalist you needed three things...
1) Writing skills.
2) A good typewriter.
3) A bottle of bourbon or scotch (Depending on your preference) in your desk drawer.
But for cover artists, maybe something a little stronger than the above, considering those covers!
Oh, yeah, I'd prefer a mini-Shay for Christmas to a pony! At least you can turn the Shay off, in a manner of speaking. The pony you can only put in "neutral," it's still turning over and generating "exhaust" even if you're not using it.
1) I figure 64 tires. That's a heck of a trailer. On the highway too!, think we are in Australia. Maybe fake? How do you strap this down? I see chains.
2) Small flat car, small Shay, too perfect! Perhaps if you had an uber rich Uncle you could have received this for your tenth birthday ( in lieu of and much better than a pony).
6) If you squint a bit you can see what a CN Centipede would look like
OvermodWe need to get some of the people from the Model Railroader list involved to re-create an appropriate version of this: PSR Wars, with Hunter playing the Emperor Palpatine character... as well as the Ed Khil Thomas face in place of the Trollio face Mike provided, dancing in the big musical number "A Pageant of Overlength Trains in the Blast Zone"
PSR Wars, with Hunter playing the Emperor Palpatine character... as well as the Ed Khil Thomas face in place of the Trollio face Mike provided, dancing in the big musical number "A Pageant of Overlength Trains in the Blast Zone"
Great to see Ready Kilowatt in a cameo role in Hardware Wars, even though the movie seems to have a culinary taste to it!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Flintlock76But I don't know about the "Model Railroader" folks doing an update, those HO guys are wrapped a little too tight, if you know what I mean.
I don't know what I was thinking. We have the Mistress of All Things Possible with us on this site already... and Christmas season is coming up.
Well done Overmod, I haven't thought about "Hardware Wars" in years!
But I don't know about the "Model Railroader" folks doing an update, those HO guys are wrapped a little too tight, if you know what I mean. Ever read their "Forum?" Wow. Some of those boys need to chill a little bit!
Now the "Classic Toy Trains" people are the real anything for a laugh crowd!
Same with N gaugers. Ever see the amount of gag cars those guys put out, like "Burppo Beer?"
There's supposed to be an N gauge gag car for "Fartzenhow Bean Company." I've been looking for one for years to give to my brother-in-law "Big B."
Overmod We need to get some of the people from the Model Railroader list involved to re-create an appropriate version of this: PSR Wars, with Hunter playing the Emperor Palpatine character... as well as the Ed Khil Thomas face in place of the Trollio face Mike provided, dancing in the big musical number "A Pageant of Overlength Trains in the Blast Zone"
We need to get some of the people from the Model Railroader list involved to re-create an appropriate version of this:
Miningman Put on a Happy Face : From Mike! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeFlhi131iQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdXUNViOj0Y
Put on a Happy Face : From Mike!
I wonder if that thing could pass a fire hydrant without doing a boiler blow-down?
Or something else?
Considering the "Happy face," maybe it just did?
It appears that only the G5d class had the Elesco heater.
Apart from the Worthington heater on the prototypes, the remainder had exhaust steam injectors on the right hand side of the firebox.
Peter
That's some pretty impressive detective work Peter. Knew I could count on you guys for some answers and insights.
The boiler appears to be that of a Canadian Pacific class G5 Pacific. G5d 1301 had the coil type Elesco feedwater heater shown in this photo. The "casing" below the boiler is an enlargement of the same boiler itself (note the shadow from the cab on both).
I don't know the locomotive that provided the forward cab, nor the source of the driving wheels although they could be from the G5.
The "knee joints" are probably the leading truck wheels from the G5.
Nah, I've had plenty of coffee this morning.
Coffee's kind of like a bra. Two cups are usually all that's needed.
SD70Dude Miningman I'm certain someone out there knows what this is all about. The enemy countered these by using E and F-wing fighters to wrap strings of welded rail around their legs.
Miningman I'm certain someone out there knows what this is all about.
I'm certain someone out there knows what this is all about.
The enemy countered these by using E and F-wing fighters to wrap strings of welded rail around their legs.
That's E- and F-nose fighters; the wings are the derivation from smoke deflectors.
And I almost hate to do this, with Wayne perhaps still needing coffee ... but how could you have forgotten the TIE fighters...
Overmod Miningman I thought perhaps a good project for my newly arrived featherless gosling Mine Engineers but ... Try 'em on this as a bully pulpit --
Miningman I thought perhaps a good project for my newly arrived featherless gosling Mine Engineers but ...
Try 'em on this as a bully pulpit --
Wow. I just knew Teddy, the Rough Riders, and those 10th Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers" had a little more help at San Juan Hill than Lt. Parker's Gatling gun battery.
Whatever he was, I'm sure he was more than welcome!
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
MiningmanI thought perhaps a good project for my newly arrived featherless gosling Mine Engineers but ...
What an inspirational day. Let's bring in more randomness for this beautiful planet:
Some organs are missing, but grandma said no one is perfect......
I thought perhaps a good project for my newly arrived featherless gosling Mine Engineers but ...., naw.
Problem is that the 'technical details' don't go much beyond what a typical Star Wars fan would do with Photoshop, although there is some clever use of the various pieces. What I wish someone would do is to 'channel' Dr. Lovelace, or the folks who did Boilerplate, to come up with "better" steam-driven SF tech... that invokes more mainstream SF tropes.
Overmod GraceMoore1947 I'm certain someone out there knows what this is all about. Star Wars, Return of the J1d. Steampunk edition of the AT-AT, don't you know?
GraceMoore1947 I'm certain someone out there knows what this is all about.
Star Wars, Return of the J1d.
Steampunk edition of the AT-AT, don't you know?
Oh, my dear Prof. Overmod, how could I possibly don't know? We can find tons of search results of it on Google photo search, but I want something that the "G" site cannot offer, thus my previous reply and that new meme pic I made.
Jones1945I'm certain someone out there knows what this is all about.
Steampunk edition of the AT-AT, you know, but with elementary armament? Regrettably I don't recognize the person you added, unless it's Jimmy Stewart, so the extraordinary goodness of what you were doing was lost on me.
Revenge of a duplex?
Return of a friend?
Must be another mystery that never solved,
the truth that nobody wants to handle.
He can duplicate a whole universe,
including all the pleasure and pain;
like that printing machine, printing fake news all night long.
It never bothers me, because he can trick me with sweet dreams.
Constant and variable? I have no say in it, why bother?
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