Spot on. Lil Griff went to college with a girl from Yorkshire who gave them a whirlwind tour. Beautiful country.

Is the guy in the picture an alien, it says probes on his hat? :lol:

Dude's hat says 'Padres'.

A real good article about the Mercury trains.

Brilliant trains.
The Madison Avenue white supremacy is pretty mainstream...

Those are some badass whitewalls.

I was wondering:

What, ya couldn't find no big train wheels?

Spats.

The bigger the wheel, the bigger the contact patch, the more traction.

Um, yeah. And less rolling resistance...

I was going for the humor involved when asking for big train wheels, whilst being presented with big goddamned train wheels.

Fuckin' mansplainers, man.

If you put a question mark on it expect an answer. http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

It's been said many times by many people many times smarter than myself:

We need a sarcasm font. Or a rhetorical font.

But, yeah, what you said.

This looks like fun, early version of lane discipline cars. But I don't think that front fender will help very much. ;)

Salute the peoples superior prowess...

I like the look of the jet train, but it must've been hell to stop.

Stop? Only capitalist running dogs stop, in Soviet Union we don't recognize the word stop. :apistola:

It's 2AM, you're on the way home from an evening of revelry.
You're stopped at a railroad crossing, and the weed burner goes by all alight.

Call out the National Guard. I swear, it was a monster, breathing fire, and prowling the countryside. I'm so lucky it didn't spot me.
What does my blood alcohol level have to do with it, I know what I saw!!

[Thread drift]:

One night about a hunnert years ago, me and my buddy were sitting on the square at about 3-4 in the morning. No traffic. I mean nothing for over an hour. We hear a car coming and we both look toward the sound. I SHIT YOU NOT, a 71 El Dorado convertible pulling a car trailer comes by the town square, at 3-ish in the damn morning, pulling a ten foot-tall pink elephant wearing horn-rimmed glasses and holding an eight-foot martini glass w/an olive the size of three pregnant watermelons in it.

I'm still looking the direction it went when my buddy looks back the other direction and says, to no one in particular, "I didn't see a damned thing."

[/Thread drift]

That's when you do a mental inventory of your awake/asleep state, your eye sight, your dope, and your mental health. :lol:

Any chance it was this one in Indiana?
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/461

hmm...appears to be a "thing", here's one in Illinois...
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/42871

Even better than my imagination!

I love it that you backed up grav's story.

They're in cahoots I tells ya, cahoots. :lol2:

Never underestimate the power of the wind...

Stripped...

It looked more like the one in Illinois. Very close. The glasses on mine looked better.

Anybody know what this is about? Looks like part of a switch but there's no track to switch to??

If it were a switch, wouldn't the track split happen just below where the image cuts off?

Maybe, but a switch needs to move two tracks. Looking through Google images of track switches I don't see anything remotely like that.

It's the front of a railroad canoe.

I think that this might be the answer, but will stand corrected.

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Perhaps a better example...

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By jove, I believe you've solved the mystery. Possibly the photograph was taken from a bridge structure. :notworthy

Nailed it, good find C.

That's so cool! I've seen those before and wondered about them but never realized that it had to do with the bridge.

Speedy...

I didn't know they labeled steam engine with day and night signals as to whether the were going forward pulling the train, or running backward pushing the train.
The pulling engine was also marked as to whether there was one pushing or not.

I can understand if an engineer suddenly sees another engine on the same track facing him, it's nice to have signals to tell him if it's pushing a trrain or to bail out. But I don't see why the pulling engine would be labeled that there's a pusher at the other end?

Now this shows four engines pushing a big plow but they're all facing forward.

Oh, and the boilers are designed for the type of coal available, Anthracite being high-test and preferable, with more heat for the weight so better mileage and less shoveling. Places like India where the coal is very low grade they might have there own designs.

Drag race, rollin' coal...

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The filename says bridgewashedout...I make no guarantees as to the veracity of the description of the water-spanning device.

Looks like a scene from Culverts Travels.

Thermite welding...

The muscle memory in those guys. They just keep working, with no wasted movements that I can see.

That oughta hold 'er.
Looks like about ten specialized tools.

I freaked out a bit with the face-level blowtorch, but I expect the perspective made it look much closer to the other guy's head than it actually was.

Thermite welding

Interesting read.

No hand pumping...

So, where do you your penis in?

And, do I have to go down to the depot, or can I get one o'those for the home?

:jig:

Ireland... freight was so hard to balance they only made money in the summer hauling people to the beach.

is that a monorail?

Looks like one to me.

Looks like a giant money hole.

:laugh:

Yes, out loud

Hey, it ran for 36 years. Probably because there was no alternative. :yesnod:

Also only half the rail stock to maintain...

...and all the laughing stock.

"What should we do with all these leftover sawhorses, Boss?"

"Take 'em. Start a railroad with 'em, I don't give a shit!!"

When British railroads gave up on steam, in favor of diesel-electric locomotives.

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That. Rotten. Bastard.

Who, the locomotive?