Trains... Choo Choo, not the dirty kind.
 

We've discussed before, somewhere in the Cellar, this head on collision in 1896 at 'Crush', Texas. But I just ran across this picture of the moment of impact.

Wow.

This is the non-porno dirty kind.

I heard VW is doing a environmental recall on some of their models.

Yeah, just a few million of them. :rolleyes:

My 2014 VW Jetta Sport Wagon TDI, is one of them. And I am pissed.

MURDERER!!!!!!!

Chicago

Look at those bad boys.

They look like something off Metropolis

I lurves me some, Art Deco.

:)

:lol:

Their whisks were stolen too!

Some from the York Railway Museum

travel in style...
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Queen Victoria's "sink"
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and some machinery
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Wow, nice pictures. How many trains/cars do they have there?
The posh interiors are a safety feature, even low-life train robbers would be loath to shoot up that décor. ;)

It's fairly big, presumably the biggest of its kind in the UK. You can easily spend half a day or more there. Or on their website: www.nrm.org.uk

resembling a horse-drawn carriage, I think:
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A posh horse drawn carriage, but I suppose all horse draw carriages were posh, the hoi polloi rode in wagons. :haha:
Nice engines.

Excellent pics.

Germans were into streamlining too.

So, what IS the dirty kind? Do you mean when a group of men line up and take turns having relations with one woman? Like on a pool table or something?

Uh... I would have no knowledge of those things, but I've heard references to unspeakable perversions of some sort which are collectively coded by the shorthand term trains, among people who have knowledge of that culture.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it...



as long as I can keep a straight face.

From "The Shawshank Redemption":

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New York Central called their design Mercury, when they threw their hat in the streamlined ring.

Banff Boo Boo

Trans Siberian

Back when men were men and sheep were nervous, the US was carved up into fiefdoms by the major railroads. They grew by building tracks, stealing land, bribing politicians and swallowing small companies. Once it reached a point where there were only a handful of systems to big to mess with, they had to look inward for opportunities to jack profits.

Union Pacific decided there was money in short haul passengers on existing infrastructure, except the locomotives and cars were too costly. So they designed a smaller unit, with a gasoline engine for small groups of passengers. Streamlined, in 70' and 55' sizes, with the front 12' for the engine/mechanicals. The 70' had a mail compartment, and two passenger compartments, one for 50 Whites divided into smoking/nonsmoking, and one for 10 Colored, which I suppose included Indians, Chinese, and Mexicans.

The 200hp, 6 cyl, reversible, gasoline engine sat on the front truck, chain driving the axels. The cars operated in either direction at 50 to 60 mph, with 75 max. The engines proved unreliable and ultimately killed the project.

Union Pacific built the first 4 then subcontracted McKeen to build them in UP's shops. They were bringing cheap help back then, too.

I have never heard of a Reversible gasoline engine. I must research this.

My quick google search, brought me back to the same article. There are many reversible diesel engines, Atlas Imperial, and B-W diesel marine engines.
To reverse an engine, you stop the engine, line up the timing marks, rotate the cam shaft 180 degrees, and re-start it the opposite direction. Since most magnetos don't like turning backwards, you would need a mag. for reverse operation. This would be a complex engine to operate, but would put out the same power in reverse as well as forward.
One way of doing this is with two camshafts making for a complicated valve train. I'm gonna look into this engine, and see what I learn.

Something tells me the engine is a Klamath. They made gasoline marine engines in the same power range as described in the article. And direct reversing was quite popular at the time.

fargon, like any quiet gentleman, becomes lucid and wordy when you finally figure out his fascination. :D

I lurves me some antique engines.

I found an article on Wikipedia that says that the biggest problems with the McKeen cars was reliability of the engines. I think that they had too many moving parts. Here is the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKeen...ny#Motor_truck
The biggest problem they were having was trying to adapt marine engines for rail use. Also the lack of a clutch hampered operation. Internal combustion electric drive was in it infancy, and used successfully by other makers. The Denver and Rio Grande railroads Galloping Goose used a Pierce Arrow automotive power plant with success. The problem with the McKeen cars was an unreliable power plant.

Good grief. :smack:

With no clutch at the time that could handle the output of that engine. Direct drive scary.

I found an article on the McKeen Motor Cars; http://www.shiawasseehistory.com/mckeen.html

I never did find out much about direct reversible gasoline engines. Only that they existed for a time and went away with out a wimper.

William McKeen was the Union Pacific Railroad’s Superintendent of Motive Power when he, and/or staff, came up with this design. The Railroad built the first four cars, and subsequent units were constructed by McKeen in leased space at Union Pacific’s Omaha Shops. So McKeen started a company to build this design.

I wonder if that was Union Pacific didn't want to risk liability?
Couldn't convince stockholders this was a geed investment?
Up's charter wouldn't allow to selling to other railroads?
McKeen's name was on the patents, unlikely if he was working for UP?
It was a sweetheart deal between McKeen and the UP brass?

I also wonder what engines were used in the first four?
FOUND IT!
They whole concept of an unassailable giant like Union Pacific, trying to carry the public on the cheap, is kind of scary. I mean if you try to raise corn or rabbits and fail, then it's too bad. Carrying 80 people and fail, is much more serious. But in those days, Union Pacific might refund the price of the ticket... to the next of kin. Think how little White Star paid to Titanic victims. http://cellar.org/2015/shades.gif

OK, after the first four cars built by UP, they started using an engine of McKeen's design, except 3 Rottis, 1 Samet, and 1 Sterling.
The cars McKeen built for other railroads had his engine or Hall-Scott, or Winton engines.

Here's a Stover from that era.

And winter in the Rockies...

1943 menus with the highest priced item on each.

Burlington
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New York Central
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Frisco and Dixie
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Wiki says...
I'm guessing there's some track under that water. :unsure:

I wonder when that baby went out of service...

Apparently two more years hauling wood. This picture shows how 12 wheels were driven, including the tender's wheels, for maximum traction.
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You can read the "stories" here.

Santa Fe Locomotive... I guess if take a mile to stop, it doesn't matter that you can't see. :rolleyes:

That thing could have used a periscope.

Old school puffer.

That looks like a Shay.

That would make one awesome bong.

Yes it would.

The Kleven green tunnel. :thumb:

...and now I know it has a name.

:D

Town of Kleven in the Ukraine, it's semi-famous.

Choo choo, bigada choo choo...

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The Flying Scotsman Back On The Tracks After £4 Million Restoration

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You beat me to it Mr G!

Given that the restoration took ten years and cost well in excess of £4 million ($5.6m+) you can only speculate as to how much of the original engine is left.
I think that they must go by the principle that if the name plate is original, then it doesn't matter what else you weld, bolt, rivet or otherwise attach to it.

I mustn't be churlish; it's great to see it under steam again.

I stumbled onto this from Central PA. East Broad Top RR is the oldest surviving narrow gage RR in the country but they're in some financial distress.

The locomotives were built by Baldwin a PA company as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Locomotive_Works