Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?

[MikeysZ06]

In today’s newspaper. I might skip the High River show/shine and go to this instead. I’m long overdue for a visit here.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Mikey drive this one up to rail days...

 

[MikeysZ06]

Mikey drive this one up to rail days...
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That would be an arrival ! No question

 

[YFCvii]

Trains ... Vettes ... Mountains
(Three Sisters)

Actually getting a Three Sisters Photo and a darn train came by.

 

[MikeysZ06]

Trains ... Vettes ... Mountains
(Three Sisters)

Actually getting a Three Sisters Photo and a darn train came by.

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What a perfect shot ruined by that train. And the noise as it went by ! The mountains are supposed to be quiet.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

How the h#*l did I get this job!

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Credit to LA's 57 Corvette Bob...This is pretty cool I think

 

[Black 03 Z06]

 

[Black 03 Z06]

It's coming folks...

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Gear drive locomotive being shipped tracks and all...

 

[Black 03 Z06]

"Conceived and built in 1930 by the German rail company Deutsche Reichsbahn, the Schienenzeppelin was a design alternative to the streamlined steam locomotives of its day. It was a slick and relatively lightweight at 20 tons, running on but two axles and powered by a 46-liter BMW V-12.

The same engine was later used to power the light bombers of the Luftwaffe. The engine sent 600 horsepower to a massive ash propeller, tilted seven degrees to produce downforce. It was one of those designs that would shock and delight even in these times, when aluminum is used not for Bauhaus trains but for high-revving V-8s and computers from the near future."

 

[nascar03]

That thing had both a cow catcher and ‘slicer’. All in one!!
and maybe it even makes julienne fries!

graham

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Over the ice lake they head...First episode in the Ice Track Engineers series...

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Nice CP Track Inspection car...Front end inspired the IROC Air Dam

 

[MikeysZ06]

Nice CP Track Inspection car...Front end inspired the IROC Air Dam

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Or the CP rail head honcho’s “Private Coach.” Look at the shine on that puppy !

 

[vintageracer]

Or the CP rail head honcho’s “Private Coach.” Look at the shine on that puppy !

Aha!
When I showed this pic to our "rail buff" son, he recognized it immediately as a probable colour pic, converted to black and white. He took almost the same shot when he visited the railway museum in Montreal a few years ago.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Great post Vintage. Love the colour.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Another track inspection car...like how they moved the bumpers

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Another gear drive locomotive...

 

[Cariboocreek]