Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?

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Looks like railway version of Tail of the Dragon.

 

[Rruuff Day]

That's a derailment that doesn't need to look for a place to happen. Engineered enough track layouts to know that one isn't going to work.

 

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This picture just does not look real to me...

 

[Dave91TM]

That's a derailment that doesn't need to look for a place to happen. Engineered enough track layouts to know that one isn't going to work.

My guess is the designer had more experience with roads and highways.

 

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My guess is the designer had more experience with roads and highways.

I know you guys are kidding and pulling my leg .......but the original map depiction was for real. Here is Wiki's explanation of the Spiral Tunnels.

"The Big Hill on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line in British Columbia, Canada, was the most difficult piece of railway track on the Canadian Pacific Railway's route. It was situated in the rugged Canadian Rockies west of the Continental Divide of the Americas and Kicking Horse Pass. Even though the Big Hill was replaced by the Spiral Tunnels in 1909, the area has long been a challenge to the operation of trains and remains so to this day.

The essential problem was that the railway had to ascend 1,070 feet (330 m) along a distance of 10 miles (16 km) from Field at 4,267 feet (1,301 m) climbing to the top of the Continental Divide at 5,340 feet (1,630 m). The narrow valleys and high mountains limited the space where the railway could stretch out and limit the grade (hence the later decisions to bore extra mileage under the mountains and lower the grades). "

To put a final nail in this coffin here is a better visual explanation.

 

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Original design being copied for Gordie Howe cable stayed bridge now being built to cross the Detroit River in Windsor. However Gordie himself could rotate just like this device unlike his namesake bridge.

 

[Dave91TM]

I know you guys are kidding and pulling my leg .......but the original map depiction was for real. Here is Wiki's explanation of the Spiral Tunnels.

"The Big Hill on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line in British Columbia, Canada, was the most difficult piece of railway track on the Canadian Pacific Railway's route. It was situated in the rugged Canadian Rockies west of the Continental Divide of the Americas and Kicking Horse Pass. Even though the Big Hill was replaced by the Spiral Tunnels in 1909, the area has long been a challenge to the operation of trains and remains so to this day.

The essential problem was that the railway had to ascend 1,070 feet (330 m) along a distance of 10 miles (16 km) from Field at 4,267 feet (1,301 m) climbing to the top of the Continental Divide at 5,340 feet (1,630 m). The narrow valleys and high mountains limited the space where the railway could stretch out and limit the grade (hence the later decisions to bore extra mileage under the mountains and lower the grades). "

To put a final nail in this coffin here is a better visual explanation.

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Actually I figured gradient was the reason behind the design, but of course we were kidding, isn't that what makes this from tick?

 

[Rruuff Day]

My guess is the designer had more experience with roads and highways.

Agreed....Look at the length of the locomotive above the tunnel. Unless they have articulated steering in the engine and each of the cars, there's no way in hell they can make those radius corners. My Corvette...yes... A locomotive.... No chance... An 18 wheeler on a two lane highway wouldn't even make those turns.

 

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I know real trains have decent flanges on their wheels but if I tried this with my model railroad the cars would all fall off the tracks when going in a circle like this. Must be a railroad wizard !!! I would be nervous if i were car number 50 or thereabouts.

 

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[Dave91TM]

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Why build there? The lot was cheap and its right next to the beer store...location, location!

 

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Why build there? The lot was cheap and its right next to the beer store...location, location!

You are correct, however I think Hamm's beer wanted the upper hand over lower level Schmidt. See picture ........lol How did I get so far off topic......????

 

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Is this the only known railway photo of our administrator? Who knows for sure?

 

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