Favorite Odd-ball train

Don't try this at home, especially if your home is on a commuter line.

http://youtu.be/yvwwp2941yE

 

In the spirit of the air cooled motor fabricator in us all, I pulled this "oddball in a train" out of a known malicious site! So if you see it again, maybe avoid the image host site. Scans clear, and is a partial snip of the original, zoomed. It looks like a Baldwin, but I want to call it a F-EZ unit soo bad. I admit being jealous of the #1515 engineer too.... What?.... Secret like a !?!?... 

 

  

Here, this is pretty cool, skip to 3:11.

 

 

Cool video Madison, but skipping any of that means missing out on a lot of fun!

Especially when the "Lost in Space" shows theme music kicks in.

So much for classification lights, and sidings, Eh?

I want a flying boat too....

 

After seeing this picture in a couple of different places over the years (including the Lance Phillips book "Yonder Comes the Train), and being a fan of early, small steam locos, I was pleasantly surprised - nah, that isn't correct - I was THRILLED when I turned a corner on a visit to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry and discovered that it still exists!  The cab is gone and a few details have changed, but the basic locomotive is still intact:

 

 

While doing image searches, I come across random interesting images, I often just grab a "snip" of the screen at zoom percentage Im using, in case a modeling bug bites. I was searching geared timber trains, Climax, Stearns-Heisler, Shay, etc. but don't have a clue as to builders here. The boiler with the extra flywheel motor on front, that set up was used fairly often, to power logging equipment with long leather belts. Set up has a specific name that I cant remember right now. I think the MOW is one of Fords. 1930?. 

Cute, if not oddball....by Whitcomb, Rochelle, IL.

 

 

Is "Joy" short for "Lionel"?   After all, it is orange.

 

 

Just ran across this on Wikimedia.  It's a C11 on the Oigawa Railway (Japan), and it is NOT Photoshopped!

 

Well, from Antique Automobile magazine we have the reverse situation - a car that someone wanted to look like a locomotive.  The Buick was purchased new in 1907 by the head of the Erie Railroad repair shop and was sent directly to the shops with the orders to make it look like a locomotive.  The shop forces made flanged, cast aluminum fenders to resemble locomotive tires. They removed the wooden floorboards and replaced them with cast aluminum diamond tread, made a cast aluminum radiator shell to look like the front of a steam engine - this complete with brass ring trim.  The car sports brass foot rests, brass handrails, a special two impeller water pump with one that can be controlled with a dash mounted control lever, a dash mounted air intake control for the carburetor, a rear view mirror, oil pressure gauge, oil level gauge, and an oil flow gauge.  It also has a propane lamp, complete with seat mounted shut off valves, located in the center just below the seats for night driving and a gas gauge which is a glass boiler gauge like those on a high pressure boiler.  The car was purchase from the Erie exec in the mid-1930's and was stored until being purchased and restored in the 1990's.

Here are a few more...

 

 

Man oh man, Madison.  Where do you dig these up?  They just keep getting funnier and funnier!  Thanks!

Here's a really ugly Hungarian Pacific:

 

 

 

 

 

And for when Porter, Plymouth, and Davenport switchers just aren't small enough:

 

 

Found this about it online,

"That's a car "pusher" that ran on a narrow gauge track to push loaded hoppers at the Cleveland ore pier. It had "arms" that extended out to the side. It was narrow because it fit between two standard guage tracks. It never had a keystone or fancy paint job, though. But it was definitely used by the PRR"

Some other atlas "pushers"

 

 

Meanwhile in Soviet Russia;

http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.co...CO/russ/russrefr.htm

 

Has this one been posted yet ? What is it ?

 

         

 "The Rocket of China" ...

 

In 1881 the ten kilometer Kaiping Tramway was built from Tangshan to Xugezhuang in China, connecting coal mines at Tangshan with Xugezhuang, where a canal connected it to the river network. It was built to the standard gauge of 4 ft 8.5in. The original plan was to use mules to haul wagons, but the loads proved to be too heavy. This one-cylinder engine was secretly (because of Chinese politics) improvised by the English engineer Claude W Kinder, who had organized the track-laying. It was called "The Rocket of China".

It allegedly combined the boiler of a steam crane with a frame of old iron and discarded wheels, though no sign of its crane heritage can be seen. It looks much more like a converted traction engine. It made its first test run on 9th June 1881. Presumably the problems of starting on a dead center (and it looks like it's on one now) were solved by hauling on the flywheel. Later it was rebuilt into a working three axle tank locomotive.

It is believed to be the first steam locomotive constructed in China.¹

 

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¹from the ultimate source of Unusual Locomotives...

 

http://www.douglas-self.com/MU...OCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

 

 There were lots of 4 truck passenger cars.  Lincoln's car was just one of many.  The theory was that it would make for a smoother ride - it didn't.

Also cute, if not an oddball...I photographed this near Tarentum, PA.

 

if you follow that LOCOLOCO link i posted, under The Nielson One-Cylinder Loco you'll find the rest of the story on this locomotive, though as you will see, it's fate seems unsure.

No. Looked for an hour or so but I couldn't find another. I suspect foreign RR with those old style passenger cars behind a "newer" engine. Cool loco for a bash.   

This is the most entertaining thread I've seen in a long time.  I'm lovin' it!

 

 

 

Is the coupling really that close?

 

I love this Westinghouse gas-turbine.

 

 

All of these wierd and wacky trains make me wonder: has any railroad, anywhere in the world, ever recieved complaints from passengers or the general public about the ugliness of some locomotives or rolling stock?

yes...with only the fireman in the rear cab and most of the engineer's control hardware moved to the center cab, there was really little sense in designing a large rear cab area.  less steps for the fireman to shovel fuel, too.  the Wootton firebox was so large, i've seen a few with a pair of side-by-side firebox doors.

Here are some Lima Loco's...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More than one I would bet.

I was really just pointing it out, but a double door box itself would be cool. Id never seen one before.

I think that was the last loco to come out of Lima.

Glad I bumped into this thread.  Very entertaining, guys.  Thanks for posting.

 

LIRR VW highrailer, 1960's

Scotie

 

Air cooled VWs were a second hobby, injury keeps me from wrenching anymore.

Toast any one? (the "square" VW vans are known as toasters in the VW community)

 

 

Here are a few more...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a few more I found...

  Yes this next one is a steam engine

 

 

 

 

 

This is how someone thought they should convert from narrow gauge to standard...

Now this locomotive has quite a story...

 

C E Swinterton specifed that each driving wheel should actually be a polygon with 118 sides, each segment being about 2 inches long. The theory behind this quite daft arrangement was that the line contact at the intersection of each segment would have better rail adhesion than a circular wheel, which was supposed to have only a point contact; this is not of course actually the case as even steel deforms under enough pressure, so there is on fact a contact area even with a circular wheel.

 

 

 

 

 This one is cool

 

 I think it could be modeled easy.

"Favorite Odd-ball Train Item"

 

Does that include some of the people on this forum? 

 

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

Larry

 

       


     



The engine above this one is also a steam locomotive!  It's a Southern Railway Leader Class, another one of Oliver Bulleid's creations.

For me I think this baby takes the cake...Gee probably hauled Hippies up and down the coast

118 2" flat spots. Now that had to sound horrendous coming down the track.

 

Not a loco but how about the first "dome" car?

 

 

Sorry never mind..it appears that I can no longer access the photo easily by hoopla. I cant figure out how to load a video here any longer either. Some pictures have just become too hard to find again with that stupid composing tool. I have made no changes to my system personally. I give up for today, and while not "premium" am again seriously considering dropping OGF as a pastime, composition is often just too frustrating on a 1.5 inch tool screen. 

 

With all those tin roofs in the background behind that "toaster". it must have run

south of the border, if not south of Panama.