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There are clubs for the real MOW putt-putt speeders. I always wanted to do that or velocipede around for a bit.

  I used to put weedwacker motors as friction drive cruising motors on my old bicycles; Solex style. About 25-30mph & about 70mpg.

...and a guy I rent a room to has 3-70mph mini-bikes (a few original "slow" ones) and a half dozen hopped up motors kicking around 3hp B&S to 6hp-Honda's with headwork, race clutch, race carbs/exhuast, etc 

  ....I'll be needing a railcart with wheelie bars too as my choice of air cooled motors would be a 1200 to 1500cc "Beetle-ee" engine from VW   

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Adriatic posted:
TheRWBYRailfan posted:

I'll just leave this here.

Why not bring it here? Ol' Casey Jr would be a very welcome extra.

Where did you find that shot? 

@p51 I figured that one was comin' 😐 

 So I added more yellows under it's jacket to get it to pop some more  😳

...🤣

Some friends of mine found it on the Casey Jr page on the Disney Fandom wiki. They're not the clearest pictures but until the movie hits DVD/Blu-Ray this is th best we got of Tim Burton's take on our childhood anthropomorphic steamer.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Casey_Junior

Steam_locomotiveKuThis bizarre Russian "mallet" locomotive is actually a good idea. After high-pressure steam turns the driving wheels, some of it is still not liquefied. This re-cycled steam is then used to drive a second set of drive wheels. The second set could be in front of or behind the main drive wheels. Sometimes, the second set was on the tender.

After WW2, trying to compete with diesel, some US railroads built powerful mallet locomotives.

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Vincent Massi posted:

In my opinion, Lionel's 1957 decision to issue a girls' train set was an intelligent risk that didn't work out.

Made with excellent quality, the set was an attempt to get more girls (more customers) into model trains. And Lionel learned from its failure: girls who like trains like realistic trains.

Unsold sets were repainted, cutting Lionel's losses. The original sets are collectors' items.

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Remember  well a local "bicycle shop" that also carried Lionel Trains had one of these. My father took me in to look at this for possible gift from "Santa" needless to say I pitched a fit and Santa delivered a 2046 freight set instead!!  I have wondered more than once as to who ended up with it as it was gone after Christmas that year!

Vincent Massi posted:

I might. But only if it did not include the four action figures.    The Seddonville Railroad opened in New Zealand in 1893 for the sole purpose of transporting coal to a nearby harbor. The railroad survived about 100 years.seddonville

I think those New Zealand tramways had some interesting Frankenstein lokeys running! They would make some eyecatcher models.

 

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