So would this...

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Better yet stay inside...

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Can you imagine Jack and Rose in the prow at 100 MPH?
Is there currently a train in the Western Hemisphere that does a hundred?

I love cutaways.

There are a number of trains which could do 100 if the were allowed and had the track to do it.

Remember, the United States Has the Most-Advanced Rail System in the World.

U.S. freight railroads will get $23 billion worth of upgrades this year.

Far more freight moves in the US by rail (vs. truck) than almost any other country in the world.

We had one a couple years back that was doing 78 mph.

Through the curve rated for 35 mph.

Not actually through the curve, more like through the guardrail and down onto the freeway. Oops.

See the IOtD 8-7-19. I'd embiggen it.

Video made this very morning. I can vouch for references to 40mph gusts as they've been battering us all day as well.

The electric multiple unit nearly spoils the day!



Interestingly, there wasn't a diesel loco in tow.

One is usually tagged on at the back, to assist in the event of the steam loco suffering a problem.

www.clan-line.org.uk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Mer...5028_Clan_Line

Good for it!

This looks like a UK locomotive, could be Scotland, Wales, or India though.

From the scenery I'd have said India at first glance.

A bit of inspired internet ferreting says it's Italy!

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Google Translation...

Good ferreting, thank you Sir. :thumb:

Dead Indian...

Nuclear Locomotive...

What could go wrong?

Camelbacks... hope the boiler blows down. :eyebrow:

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A couple Soda Locomotives were imported for use in NY, but the only ones built here were by Baldwin in Philly for use in Michigan.

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Two out of three so train thread...

Historic Union Pacific 'Big Boy' Rolls Through Oklahoma for 150th Transcontinental Railroad Anniversary

Below is a screen grab from video at the link, it is not a video player:

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Da's a bigga boy!

I'd like to have a penny for every picture/video that's been taken of 4014 since it was restored.

British Rail in the snow...

Long journey with no facilities, so passengers cook...

If there were passengers on that train, they probably did.

Cook, that is.

Kind of "gas stove" not detailed, must be all flammable materials inside, fanned by high speed for 20 minutes before it stopped, most fatalities from jumping off.
Holy crap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWc84XG9V2E

It said gas cylinder so probably LPG or propane.

Nope...

Kitteh Choo Choo.

It's unfortunate to say the least, but these things happen and nobody was hurt...




Some better views in happier circumstances...

That is one hardworking engine.

Snowdrift at Bleath Gill...



Everyone in the film looks old beyond their years.

Given that it was only ten years after the end of WW2, many of those featured will have been in the armed forces or served on the railways during those years.

Coupled with the fact that food rationing didn't finally end until July 1954 and the country was still pretty much worn out, it's not surprising that time took its toll on people.

The line closed in 1962 but left its mark on the landscape.

This is the section of the track in the video.

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This Street View link shows the track as it is today viewed from the bridge at the RHS of the above screen shot.

There's an interesting, if somewhat long, blog post about the area here:

Bleath Gill: Whatever Happened to the Heroes?

Incidentally, the rescued locomotive is preserved in operational order at the Great Central Railway.

That was really cool, worth a watch.

When British Railways phased out steam traction in the 1960s, most of the locomotives ended in up in Woodham's scrapyard in Barry, South Wales.

Over the years, many engines were bought by preservation groups and, after lengthy, extensive and costly work, returned to service on various lines around the country.

A great many are still providing sterling service but they won't last for ever and there are no more in the scrap yard to resurrect so what do you do?

Well, build a new one from scratch, obviously!



When you've built one you might as well build another....



...and James May lent a hand.



https://www.a1steam.com/

The 'locomotives graveyard' where hundreds of old engines were saved from the scrapheap

Wonderful stuff and not a metric measurement in sight.;)

If they built it to look like a modern streamlined locomotive the public would ignore it, worse not even notice it. Hard to build a fan club that way.

The Steam Horse was used in a couple locations where heavy loads had to be pushed up an incline.
Brunton tried to get more customers but during a demonstration the boiler blew up recording the first death by boiler in rail history.

This is a shame, if I was climbing on it and fell I'd get a slap upside the head and told to wipe up the blood.
Now everybody and their lawyer is looking for that golden ticket.

That's to bad. I would love to climb on that engine.

Now if city kids want to climb on stuff, they need to join a climbing gym, pay $150 a month and have their parents sign hold harmless waivers.

This is what we've become.

When a corn car springs a leak...

A nice, neat mess.

Suspiciously neat, with nothing outside the rails. :eyebrow:

It's possible. Corn hauled in a hopper car that had one of the hatches underneath open just a little as the train is moving along would be a lot like a good dump truck driver spreading gravel.

Yeah, anything is possible but it looks more like a dirty carpet. :haha:

The headline is a little sharp, but:
http://www.citypages.com/restaurants...real/566781161

Years ago a semi with a bladder full of plywood glue sprung a leak on Hwy 101 north of San Francisco.
The trail of fast drying goo went from Marin County nearly to Humboldt and was easily visible for a year or more, an instant landmark.
I have always wondered about the scene when it got to its destination, empty.

Good find Jim.
Awhile back we had picture of a truckload of molten Aluminum that got dumped on a highway. That got everyone's attention. :lol:

I still have trouble with the idea of mobile molten aluminum.

The hottest hot tub in town. :thepain:

This is an extract from my post here: Post #1966 (Interesting Graphs and Charts).

Which prompted Bruce to post this:

This is what happens.

I remember that. Now you have renewed my uneasiness with the process. :)

I bet this looks spooky under a full moon...

Canada was a big train booster...

Speaking of Canadian trains...

Highballin'...

Now I gotta go listen to Roy Acuff...



ETA: That's a pretty still day.

Yeah, the headlight shows the mist isn't moving as well as the steam and smoke.

Wow. Nice shot.

We climb every mountain, sail every sea, as nature permits, only as nature permits. :haha:
I was reading yesterday, up in Ottawa 1942, it took them five days to chop the ice off the tracks to get the street cars moving.

Pedal to the metal...

Choo choo choo, looks like the third engine is burning some real nasty low quality soft coal. :eyebrow:

Future Locomotives...