Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?

[Dave91TM]

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The word "Contraption" comes to mind.
Take it to the yard and tell the mechanic, "I don't know where , but its making a funny noise"

 

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[Dave91TM]

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I guess the little engine that could....couldn't.
Or...Now from the railway school of flimsy structural design we give you... "It may flex a bit, but don't let it bother you, its only 75 feet high."

 

[OL Yeller]

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All that weight, ballancing atop of toothpicks. And no safety railings to boot.

 

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Notice that the two locomotives do not appear to be connected in the normal fashion. It looks like they are using a draw bar possibly to keep the weight of the engines a little more spread out on the bridge. Notice the engineer standing on the side thinking perhaps it might be less painful to just jump!

 

[OL Yeller]

Notice that the two locomotives do not appear to be connected in the normal fashion. It looks like they are using a draw bar possibly to keep the weight of the engines a little more spread out on the bridge. Notice the engineer standing on the side thinking perhaps it might be less painful to just jump!

LOL i didn't notice that. I was trying to keep my stomach down and just look at the foundations.

 

[Rruuff Day]

The old spider web design... Totally functional... right up to the day it collapses .....

 

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[Dave91TM]

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Always something I do not know, what are these things. I cane see they are locomotives but beyond that? Its fairly certain they were not autonomous, but they look like they have passenger areas, which doesn't make sense, unless tickets for seats right over top of a steam engine were really really cheap. Anybody ?

 

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Amtrak and Via Passenger equipment designed by committee?

They are indeed odd, can't imagine the heat these things would generate.

 

[Rruuff Day]

No steam. Each seat had a set of pedals.

 

[OL Yeller]

Always something I do not know, what are these things. I cane see they are locomotives but beyond that? Its fairly certain they were not autonomous, but they look like they have passenger areas, which doesn't make sense, unless tickets for seats right over top of a steam engine were really really cheap. Anybody ?

Maybe the first street cars operated by the TTC

 

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That is an interesting locomotive. According to Wiki...

"A 4-4-6-4, in the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, is one that has four leading wheels followed by four coupled driving wheels, a second set of six coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Q2 class were the only locomotives ever to use this arrangement. These were duplex locomotives, in which both sets of driving wheels were mounted in a common, rigid locomotive frame."

 

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[Music]

I have some engineering books from the turn of the 1900`s that detail alot of the theory behind steam engines & turbines, which is now a lost science outside of power generation. Next came the trolley and by 1915 mass production of the electric vehicle.

 

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Love to see what is hiding behind the first locomotive