Academy of Weird Locomotives

[gmcrail]

O.K yall like the strange try this,

 

 

Guess what this steamer is. (heads up, don't count on seeing this on U.S.A rails)

It's an LNER Class A4 Mallard (4-6-2).  And actually, there is one on USA rails - in the National Railroad Museum, in Green Bay, WI.   An interesting, though compared to some of the oddball streamlining jobs done on American locomotives hardly weird, locomotive.  It's a three-cylinder loco, with the center cylinder driving a crank on one of the driver axles.  Gresley-designed valve gear linkage.

[Flashwave]

O.K yall like the strange try this,

 

 

Guess what this steamer is. (heads up, don't count on seeing this on U.S.A rails)

It's an LNER Class A4 Mallard (4-6-2).  And actually, there is one on USA rails - in the National Railroad Museum, in Green Bay, WI.   An interesting, though compared to some of the oddball streamlining jobs done on American locomotives hardly weird, locomotive.  It's a three-cylinder loco, with the center cylinder driving a crank on one of the driver axles.  Gresley-designed valve gear linkage.

Like I said. though that's a lot of data

[tomikawaTT]

they aren't kiddin 14 drivers were does that sucker run?

It RAN in Russia. Those guys were crazzzzy...

Would you believe the Russians TRIED to run it.  After it destroyed every turnout it encountered, they figured out that it wasn't a really good idea.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

[steinjr]

 A couple of fairly (IMO) "weird looking" ones from over here in Norway:

Electric engine type El2:
http://www.jernbane.net/norge/el/el2/2-2024_04.jpg

 

Diesel switcher tyoe 202 "Little Ola" at the NSB workshops in Trondheim
http://www.jernbane.net/norge/skd/skd202/litj-ola_01.jpg  

 

And here are some shots of various pieces of modelgenic MOW equipment:

Rotary Snow Plow:
http://www.jernbane.net/uploadb/9656Bengtsson246xradera.jpg  

LKAB (Swedish-Norwegian Ore transport RR) wing plow:
http://www.jernbane.net/upload6/IMG_0126_1.JPG

Levahn MOW work tractor:
http://www.jernbane.net/uploadb/Levahn5098RDSCF6377.JPG

MOW Speeder:
http://www.jernbane.net/upload5/DSCN1752.JPG

Photo gallery of Norwegian engines and cars of various kinds: http://www.jernbane.net/norge/

Enjoy :-) 

Smile,
Stein

 

[teen steam fan]

O.K yall like the strange try this,

 

 

Guess what this steamer is. (heads up, don't count on seeing this on U.S.A rails)

It's an LNER Class A4 Mallard (4-6-2).  And actually, there is one on USA rails - in the National Railroad Museum, in Green Bay, WI.   An interesting, though compared to some of the oddball streamlining jobs done on American locomotives hardly weird, locomotive.  It's a three-cylinder loco, with the center cylinder driving a crank on one of the driver axles.  Gresley-designed valve gear linkage.

 

 

 

 

 

I posted that photo and I learnt something

[Tjsingle]

Ah, weird locomotives. One of my favorite subjects of railroading history.

My favorite has got to be the locomotive notorious for destroying the Whyte System...the 0-6-2+2-4-2-4-2+2-6-0 Franco-Crosti, no. 2096:

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/francocrosti/francocrosti.htm

I've dabled in weird locomotives myself...

Original Steasel Concept

Could that be a Fairbanks Morse T-Liner? That's right, an FM Turbine Experiment.

A modern day MoW truck, The Pack Mule.

And some other train drawings HERE.

Steasel!

[SteamFreak]

I think this may be one of Scott's drawings.

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/fictional/fictional.htm

 

Ok VSmith, you win!!! That is quite a collection you have there. Can I ask, what is the big blue horseshoe shapped thing on the top of the boiler in the third pic?

Would you believe the water tank?  That's why the prototype has to stop for water eight times on a run of less than a hundred miles!  (The Darjeeling-Himalayan also uses a crew of SEVEN to operate this little kettle - including two men who stand on the pilot beam and hand-sprinkle sand on the rails.)

Let's not forget the guy who sits in the coal bunker and breaks the coal into small enough chunks with a hammer.

[Flashwave]

I think this may be one of Scott's drawings.

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/fictional/fictional.htm

 

Ok VSmith, you win!!! That is quite a collection you have there. Can I ask, what is the big blue horseshoe shapped thing on the top of the boiler in the third pic?

Would you believe the water tank?  That's why the prototype has to stop for water eight times on a run of less than a hundred miles!  (The Darjeeling-Himalayan also uses a crew of SEVEN to operate this little kettle - including two men who stand on the pilot beam and hand-sprinkle sand on the rails.)

Let's not forget the guy who sits in the coal bunker and breaks the coal into small enough chunks with a hammer.

No, I believe that one belongs to a Mr. R Goldberg.

[teen steam fan]

Who built that Whyte system locomotive?

[dknelson]

And then there's the Zepplin Locomotive:

 

Dave Nelson

[Flashwave]

And then there's the Zepplin Locomotive:

 

Dave Nelson

I didn;t realize it was so small. I found a good DCC Sound ready model, almost got it,

[tomikawaTT]

And then there's the Zepplin Locomotive:

 

Dave Nelson

Guaranteed to slice and dice anyone who failed to stay behind the yellow line!

OSHA, where are you???

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

[teen steam fan]

And then there's the Zepplin Locomotive:

 

Dave Nelson

 

 What is that?

[Flashwave]

And then there's the Zepplin Locomotive:

 

Dave Nelson

 

 What is that?

German (?) attempt at turbine powered High Speed. It's a self propelled unit, and as I recall, fast.

[V&AL]

Heres one of my favorite oddball locos, the Soviet AA20, a monster 4-14-4 locomotive known as the "Great Straightener of Curves"

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/russ/russrefr.htm

 

 

"In (unsuccessful) attempts to get the AA-20 round curves, the middle three axles had flangeless wheels, and universal joints were include in the coupling rods between first and second, and sixth and seventh, axles. "

 

There's a prototype for everything!!

[SteamFreak]

O.K yall like the strange try this,

Oh, there's weirder than that...

 

http://www.nothingtoseehere.net/2006/08/david_machs_train_darlington.html

[markpierce]

With a name like SteamFreak, you are particularly welcome at this thread.

Mark, President, Academy of Weird Locomotives

[SteamFreak]

Thanks. I feel right at home.

The thing that gets me about that sculpture is the brick smoke plume. I would have built a fireplace inside the smokebox, so that the chimney could pour real smoke, assuming I were nutty enough to build something like that in the first place.

[alco49]

And then there's the Zepplin Locomotive:

 

Dave Nelson

 

 What is that?

German (?) attempt at turbine powered High Speed. It's a self propelled unit, and as I recall, fast.

Yes, german. I think they called it (or something like it) The Flying Hamburger.

[Gromitt]

And then there's the Zepplin Locomotive:

 

Dave Nelson

 

 What is that?

German (?) attempt at turbine powered High Speed. It's a self propelled unit, and as I recall, fast.

Yes, german. I think they called it (or something like it) The Flying Hamburger.

 

No, this is the "Schienenzeppelin" (Rail Zeppelin), an experimental railcar made in Germany in 1929.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheinenzeppelin

The "Fliegende Hamburger" (Flying Hamburger) is something completly different (sorry bout the Monty Phyton thingy ) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_SVT_877 

 

And the "hamburger" in the name is in reference to the city of Hamburg and not some sort of foodstuff

 

/stefan 

[alco49]

D'oh! Dang railroad book. Must read more closely next time...

[Flashwave]

And then there's the Zepplin Locomotive:

 

Dave Nelson

 

 What is that?

German (?) attempt at turbine powered High Speed. It's a self propelled unit, and as I recall, fast.

Yes, german. I think they called it (or something like it) The Flying Hamburger.

 

No, this is the "Schienenzeppelin" (Rail Zeppelin), an experimental railcar made in Germany in 1929.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheinenzeppelin

The "Fliegende Hamburger" (Flying Hamburger) is something completly different (sorry bout the Monty Phyton thingy ) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_SVT_877 

And the "hamburger" in the name is in reference to the city of Hamburg and not some sort of foodstuff

 

/stefan 

I always thought it reffered to the layered paintscheme. Huh.

[steemtrayn]

And then there's the Zepplin Locomotive:

 

Dave Nelson

 

 What is that?

German (?) attempt at turbine powered High Speed. It's a self propelled unit, and as I recall, fast.

Yes, german. I think they called it (or something like it) The Flying Hamburger.

 

No, this is the "Schienenzeppelin" (Rail Zeppelin), an experimental railcar made in Germany in 1929.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheinenzeppelin

The "Fliegende Hamburger" (Flying Hamburger) is something completly different (sorry bout the Monty Phyton thingy ) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_SVT_877 

And the "hamburger" in the name is in reference to the city of Hamburg and not some sort of foodstuff

 

/stefan 

Is there a similar train that runs out of Frankfurt?

[n2mopac]

Here's one--the latest in NS's high-nose crew safety cabs--the SD70MH.

"Hey, Fred. Did you see that grade crossing back there?"

Ron

[Tjsingle]

Here's one--the latest in NS's high-nose crew safety cabs--the SD70MH.

"Hey, Fred. Did you see that grade crossing back there?"

Ron

cough photoshoped cough

:D

[Flashwave]

Here's one--the latest in NS's high-nose crew safety cabs--the SD70MH.

"Hey, Fred. Did you see that grade crossing back there?"

Ron

cough photoshoped cough

:D

Yeah. You can tell it's so fake. Why, there's probably 100 combines there, and yet, traffic on the street is sdtill moving. LOL

[TrainFreak409]

Some of them combines probably came down my way. I see enough of them, and there's always a high-and-wide train like that coming into the yard from Enola.

If the SD70 had a standard cab with a high hood instead of the wide cab, it'd be more believable.