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Showing posts with label train. Show all posts
Showing posts with label train. Show all posts
Sunday, January 2, 2011
why do trains have to stop at ever station.. what if this way of switching cars could let the train roll on, not stop, saving energy and riders time?
Just skip to the 35 second mark and watch it to the 50 second mark, you'll get the idea without ever listening to a word of it, or wasting any time
found on http://www.bookofjoe.com/2010/12/26/index.html
Friday, December 31, 2010
The Camelback locomotive design, used in conjunction with the exceptionally wide Wooten firebox, not safe though
The "Camelback" design, which straddled the cab over the center of the boiler, allowed the exceptional width of the Wooten firebox, which burned lower BTU anthracite coal from Eastern Pennsylvania.The Locomotives in the picture were also called "Mother Hubbards" among other names. They were discontinued from freight service because if a side rod broke, it would wipe out the cab and if on the engineer's side, the engineer also. In yard service they were much safer because of the lower speed which was not so likely to break a rod and sling it through the cab.
photo from http://www.shorpy.com/node/9335?size=_original
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Happy holidays, and merry chistmas everyone
I believe the above image was taken by Scooter McRad http://scootermcrad.blogspot.com/ last year, and is one of the best hot rod Xmas photos I've come across
Monday, December 20, 2010
Wow, lowering a train body down onto the chassis. Amazing, just one of those things I've never given a moments thought to how it was made
Does that just blow your mind and make you wish you could hang around and watch while that happens?
Sunday, December 19, 2010
GM Aerotrain
above ad found on http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com/
one has been preserved and is at the at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, and Car Nut commented to say that one is rusting away at the National Railway Museum in Greenbay WisconsinThese photos are from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477
great railcars (why a bus was made into a rail car is a mystery) found on the HAMB
I've never heard of a school bus being made into a railcar... I'd love to hear why this happened
Everybody looks at train wrecks, only some train wrecks make us wonder how they happened!
Wonder how these two happened!
the most famous was the French train that plowed out of the 2nd story of a building to the street below http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-of-most-impressive-photos-ive-seen.html
Trains delivering cars in the early 70's, packed, racked, and stacked.
those cars appear to be Chevy Vega's
I've never seen this sort of thing, it's visually interestingfrom http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Train - plane, art of Jeff de Boer
It doesn't have to make sense when it combines two cool things, old trains and old airplanesFound at http://mhsteampunk.tumblr.com
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
the Olympian Hiawatha railroad observation cars
the above is from http://www.coffeedrome.com/dayhi.html and they have a couple more interior photos
Above image via http://cruiselinehistory.com/?p=233
Above image via http://dummidumbwit.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/twin-cities-olympian-hiawathas-milwaukee-road/
not exactly the interior view of the top two photos, but close enough
The 10 Skytops, created by industrial designer Brooks Stevens http://wisconsinology.blogspot.com/2009/02/brooks-stevensthe-designer-of-20.html in 1948, were probably the most distinctive cars ever built. Milwaukee Road built the 4 parlor cars in their own shops (1 drawing room and 24 parlor seats) and had Pullman Standard build 6 sleepers, each with 8 bedrooms and a lounge. The observation ends on the Milwaukee built cars are more of a bullet than the Pullman built cars, with the rear couch about 4 inches narrower.
The lounges served on the Chicago - Minneapolis "Hiawatha Service" until 1970, and the sleepers were on the "Olympian Hiawatha" until 1964, then were sold to CN.
CN renamed them "Skyview" cars, and used them mainly on their Halifax-Montreal trains, the 'Ocean Limited' and the 'Scotian', from 1965 to 1969. They saw brief service on Montreal-Toronto corridor trains in 1969, then moved to the Gaspé-Montreal and Jasper-Prince Rupert routes until their withdrawal from service in September 1971.
Due to fire regulations (no rear door - only one access), the cars found no further use and 2 were scrapped in Canada and the other 4 sold back into the US.
The lounges served on the Chicago - Minneapolis "Hiawatha Service" until 1970, and the sleepers were on the "Olympian Hiawatha" until 1964, then were sold to CN.
CN renamed them "Skyview" cars, and used them mainly on their Halifax-Montreal trains, the 'Ocean Limited' and the 'Scotian', from 1965 to 1969. They saw brief service on Montreal-Toronto corridor trains in 1969, then moved to the Gaspé-Montreal and Jasper-Prince Rupert routes until their withdrawal from service in September 1971.
Due to fire regulations (no rear door - only one access), the cars found no further use and 2 were scrapped in Canada and the other 4 sold back into the US.
One is on display in Glenview Illinois, another is permanent display at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach, Fla. http://moas.org/collections.html
Thursday, July 29, 2010
restored tourist attraction steam locomotive was heavily damaged by derailing and falling on it's side because thieves removed the railroad ties
The locomotive – which dedicated volunteers spent many years restoring to working order – was substantially damaged.The railroad ties are wood planks about 8 inches tall by 12 inches wide and “tie” the rails to the trackbed. Without sleepers, the rails would spread and topple under the weight of a train – which is what happened (interesting to me for the breadth of information about the variety of railroad ties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie and for an intriguing photo and information about railroad ties being baked in creosote http://www.shorpy.com/node/7900?size=_original )
The stolen ties were made from hard Australian yarra wood, and are highly prized for making furniture – and sometimes for firewood – and in recent years, railway lines all over South Africa have been targeted by sleeper thieves. Some lines have lost so many sleepers that they have been closed since the cost of replacement has been deemed uneconomic.
Yesterday’s derailment happened on a line that sees many tourist trains during the year. The thieves don’t really care about the consequences, either for innocent passengers or for tourism as a whole. The cost of repairing the locomotive will be a heavy burden for the club which receives no funding other than what it earns from running tourist trains. The cost of repairing the damaged track will run into many thousands of rand – and Transnet is not keen to spend money looking after lines that are not part of its core network.
http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/wanderer/2010/06/21/thieves-derail-train-and-give-sa-tourism-a-kick-in-the-head/
via http://tukkers.blogspot.com/ which is NSFW (not safe for work)
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