From the beginning of railway travel, people have tried to make trains bigger, better, faster, more efficient, or just plain different. Here are some of the strange ideas they came up with along the way. 1. PROPELLERTRIEBWAGEN SCHIENENZEPPELIN (Image credit: Franz Jansen)German engineer Franz Kruckenberg had an idea: why not build a train that worked like a blimp? It was the late 1920s and he was a zeppelin designer by training, but he’d recently turned his attention to the rails. He’d tri...
36" gauge to be exact. Details: Stored at "E end of Drake St. on former Expo '86 site, Vancouver, BC." //
From 1883 to 1919, residents, mining investors, tourists, and freight traveled between Boulder and several of the mountain towns by narrow gauge railroad. A few years after the trains started running, a stray bulldog often jumped on board. The locals called him “Grover Cleveland,” for the popular U.S. president then in office. “He’d get off […]
High quality photograph of Untitled G 2/2 # none at Chamby, Switzerland.
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Stevenson's Rocket Replica
High quality photograph of Illinois Central Railroad EMD SD40-2 # IC 6106 at Jesup, Iowa, USA.
While we all know about the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union to invent a superior rocket ship during the Cold War, a competition
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It seems like every time I do some more research, I run across another really cool locomotive that I inevitably want to add to my collection, but unfortunately it's too odd or obscure for the major manufacturers to produce. Case in point: one of the seven Baldwin-built 2-6-6-4's for the Pittsburgh & West Virginia. Seriously, these things are really cool. They've got some very interesting details, like the Belpaire firebox, the booster engine on the rear tender truck with counterweights...
High quality photograph of BNSF Railway GE ES44DC # BNSF 7687 at Cicero, Illinois, USA.
Old Time Trains
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Wonder how these two happened! from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477 the most famous was the French tr...
