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Some real freaks of the train world...
Posted by chad s thomas on Saturday, November 16, 2013 11:49 AM

Found this on utube.....

watch?v=iajwyx02Hqw

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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:19 PM

Well, wasn't THAT interesting!  Some old friends, some new aquaintances.

Love that "Talgo", looks like a happy dinosaur.   Lady Firestorm took a look at the "Talgo"  and said "Oh my God!  I didn't think ANYTHING could could be uglier than the "Tomato Worm!"  You know, the Illinois Central's "Green Diamond" from the Thirties?

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Posted by chad s thomas on Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:41 PM

LaughLaughLaugh Yea, It sure isn't going to win any beauty contests!!!

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Posted by Deggesty on Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:51 PM

I really enjoyed seeing it. I'm glad that some of the oddities were named; I did recognize a few of those that were not named.

I wonder who thought that water is fuel (the description of a PRR locomotive taking water on on the fly).

Altogether, it is excellent!

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:07 PM

Sure, you can get the jet powered NYC passenger train to go 186 MPH, but how do you stop it at the next station?

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:17 PM

Murphy Siding

Sure, you can get the jet powered NYC passenger train to go 186 MPH, but how do you stop it at the next station?

Reverse thrusters - just like on airliners...

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Posted by chad s thomas on Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:31 PM

Or you could just use the dynamics Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by BaltACD on Saturday, November 16, 2013 3:37 PM

Just remember - the designers of each thing that was pictured - was sure they had the next 'Great Idea'.   The beat goes on!

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Saturday, November 16, 2013 3:59 PM

All I see is a big white rectangle with a tiny slashed circle in the upper left corner... can someone provide the actual link to the video or the name so I can search for it?  Thanks.

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Posted by BaltACD on Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:09 PM

Semper Vaporo

All I see is a big white rectangle with a tiny slashed circle in the upper left corner... can someone provide the actual link to the video or the name so I can search for it?  Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iajwyx02Hqw&feature=player_embedded

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Posted by chad s thomas on Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:11 PM

Semper Vaporo

All I see is a big white rectangle with a tiny slashed circle in the upper left corner... can someone provide the actual link to the video or the name so I can search for it?  Thanks.

try this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iajwyx02Hqw

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:56 PM

Thanks!

 

Gotta love some of man's "engenuity"!  :-)

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Posted by Convicted One on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 7:47 PM

Thanks for sharing Chad,

Some of those were mind boggling!

The C&O coal fired steam/electric has always fascinated me.

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:00 PM

Some years ago, "Railroad Modeller" ran a feature entitled "Horrible Heffalumps" which dealt mostly with the results of re-enginning Diesels.  Some of them were rather "interesting."

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Posted by NorthWest on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:10 PM

So now we know where the SR71 cockpit design came from...Smile

I believe the steam engine with pantograph is from when Switzerland had coal shortages in WWII, and that was a temporary solution until more electrics could be constructed.

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Posted by Firelock76 on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:57 PM

NorthWest

So now we know where the SR71 cockpit design came from...Smile

I believe the steam engine with pantograph is from when Switzerland had coal shortages in WWII, and that was a temporary solution until more electrics could be constructed.

That's exactly what it is.  Juniatha posted some pictures of Swiss "Steam-Electrics" ( or should it be "Electric-Steamers"?)  about a year or two ago. 

In an odd sense, the concept's still around today.  I went to a "World's Greatest Hobby On Tour"  train show about three years ago and saw a demonstration of a line of O Gauge live steamers.  These little engines ran on conventional O Gauge track and picked up power from the same to heat the water in the boilers.  Pretty cool, but they were VERY expensive.  No, I don't remember who made them but I think it was a European outfit.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Thursday, November 21, 2013 1:49 AM

Those Swiss 'electro-steamers' were a response to the non-availability of coal during WWII.  They were used to switch un-electrified freight and industrial trackage 'fireless cooker' style.  When the steam pressure dropped to unacceptable levels they would scoot back to the catenary and 'recharge.'

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Posted by oltmannd on Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:00 AM

Murphy Siding

Sure, you can get the jet powered NYC passenger train to go 186 MPH, but how do you stop it at the next station?

Throw out the ballast anchor, of course!

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Posted by Kyle on Friday, November 22, 2013 6:42 PM

tree68

Murphy Siding

Sure, you can get the jet powered NYC passenger train to go 186 MPH, but how do you stop it at the next station?

Reverse thrusters - just like on airliners...

I remember reading in another magnize that there is an idea to have a vacuum tube and a train that can go over 5,000 mph, the problem is that the G-forces from rapidly accelerating and decelerating make it impossible for a passanger train to rapidly accelerate ad decelerate  so they would have to slowly accelerate and decelerate.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Friday, November 22, 2013 7:25 PM

"Reverse thrusters - just like on airliners..."

Won't work well. Runways are kept clean to prevent debris from being kicked up by reverse thrust and ingested into the engines. It's powerful enough to move rather heavy objects. Imagine a small chunk of ballast entering an engine and destroying the compressor fan. Not cheap to repair.

Norm


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