Strange Train Prototypes

[Klinger]

This monster was built by the Russians in the 1930's. Apparently the AA20 4-14-4 rigid wheelbase didn't like the curves and either straightened them or fell off!!

Read more here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-14-4

Such a unique locomotive. Following my usual pattern of rolling stock and equipment.....

In the end the Russian's tried to fix it. As you can see on my model, the center 3 drivers were all blind, the first and second, and the sixth and seventh had hinged rods. Even with these changes, nothing could prevent the derailments, the constant destroyed switch points. She lasted until the mid 50's in storage, when it is believed to be scrapped, but no one knows for sure what the final fate was, the Soviet Union kept her under wraps because of how unsuccessful she was.

How would you like to find it in a barn somewhere?

 

[Midland]

How would you like to find it in a barn somewhere?

Well yes, that would be fun but how on earth would you get the jolly thing home?




Cheers

Nix

 

[SantaFebuff]

Same fate as the last surviving RF-16s...

Strange locomotives, neat though. I was surprised by how many people questioned the double ended plow, those are very common.

Here's a single sided version:

They operate like cabooses. Here are a few in action, and one getting stuck!:hehe: :
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QenN5DVuLtw -Gliding along.
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2ZPRmocs4 -Getting stuck.

Cheers,
Joshua

 

[transitguard]

Nice idea there, Klinger. I can hardly wait for that locomotive. Another to add to my collection of historical locomotives in trainz.

 

[Dap]

Interesting........

Jordan snow speader

Actually, it is a Jordon Spreader that at times was used for snow service. The Jordan Spreader was originally built as a grader for grading the sides of the roadbed and leveling ballast. It also had an attachment that made it a "ditcher" to create or enlarge drainage ditches along side the roadbed.

Before we had heavy earth moving equipment, trestles were used extensively on new railroads because they were cheaper than creating a fill. As the railroad became profitable, they would fill in many of the trestles and this piece of equipment was used for this purpose. Center and side dump cars would drop the fill material and the Jordan spreader was "indispensible for the expeditious leveling of loose materials which have been unloaded for widening banks, raising tracks or as waste. . . ." From the 1926 Railway Engineering and Maintenance Cyclopedia.

 

[airtime]

Just three from me...

Joe Airtime

 

[Midland]

I recognise that first one; it's an LNER Gresley A1/4... :hehe:

Or maybe that should be .25 for all you new maths kids...



Cheers

25% of Nix

 

[whistlehead]

The first looks to me like a run-of-the-mill experimental streamlined loco, the second one is a narrow gauge steam loco, temporarily adapted for Standard gauge rails, and the third is probably a steam railmotor.

 

[Thomas_The_Tank100]

Its a Japanese Steam loco.
The rail gauge is spaced close together (i.e. 3'6" gauge)
The coach behind the loco is of Japanese origin.
I'm not so sure how successful it was, as I can't find the loco's class number.
I've also seen a picture of a scale model in the Railway Museum at Omiya, Japan.
~TTT_100~

 

[bendorsey]

The Dora and Gustav were 80 cm - not mm (80 mm is only 3.15 inches). 80 cm is roughly 32 inches. There was a third but it never made it out of the Krupp Iron Works before it was bombed. One was used at the siege of Sevastpol in the Crimea. The other at the siege of Lenningrad (or was it Stalingrad. I always get the two mixed up). Took a month to erect on parallel curving tracks (for lateral aiming). Rate of fire was two rounds per hour. Not very efficient but if you were on the receiving end of one of its 9 ton shells it wouldn't matter much. Plans are available tho I can't offhand remember where. Its been a while and I think the link was on the DLS before the great server crash. Be an interesting (and challenging) thing to model.

I have a few railguns on the DLS and have plans for several more German and American ones but all are World War 1 vintage. I make one every once in a while (when I get tired of making bridges, lol).

Ben

 

[magickmaker]

I think amazingmike has the diesel locomotives used with the railgun somewhere.

 

[teddytoot]

Airtime's third loco is the 600hp Armstrong Whitworth 1-C-1 diesel hydraulic locomotive supplied to the 5ft 6in gauge Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway in 1929.

 

[UP5521]

That first picture of a steam engine looks really odd,in fact I don't really know if I can call that a steam locomotive or something else!

 

[UP5521]

Now this keeps getting weirder and weirder by the minute I stare at that second picture!

 

[simulatortrain]

Oh, wow Klinger! Since people have been discussing this before and nothing had ever come of it, I was considering making this one somewhere down the road. Will I be texturing it, or are you going to learn? (By the way, I'm sending my computer back this weekend so I should get it back by the end of the month hopefully. Sorry for the delay on 537 and 21.)

 

[burbri45]

A Utah-Idaho Central boxcar...with a headlight!
here
Why on earth would it have one?

 

[Ronayne]

It's threads like this that make comin here worth while! Love your idea!

Heres a good one. No joke and apperantly I worked too!
Gives me an idea to build something like this for trainz, just for fun.

I do believe that is a "monorail". I read about it in a book. That must be a work car.

 

[teddytoot]

That is the Brennan monorail car built in England in 1909. A generator driven by a Wolseley 80hp engine was used to power two gyroscopes (referred to as gyrostats) which gave it its stability. It was technically successful but did not progress further because of limitations such as you could not have trailers (how would they balance ). A similar but smaller gyro car was the Scheil gyro-car demonstrated at the Berlin zoo.

Wolseley also built a two wheeled gyro car on the same principle for a Russian Count for his narrow paths on his estate. World War 1 prevented delivery and it was eventually buried.

An interesting and slightly disturbing point about these gyro vehicles. Because of the way a gyroscope reacts, if you step onto the vehicle it will rise up slightly rather than dip down as you would expect.

EDIT I see looking back I have actually answered this before when the original appeared. I am definitely getting senile!

 

[simulatortrain]

A Utah-Idaho Central boxcar...with a headlight!
here
Why on earth would it have one?

Well it also has a trolley pole and a smokestack, so it could have another purpose. Probably not powered, but it could be some kind of MOW car using electricity to power something.

Or it could have been used as the lead car for something, hence the headlight, and the trolley pole to trip grade crossing sensors. Pacific Electric had some diesel switchers with trolley poles on for that reason.

 

[UP5521]

Hmm,that really is strange unless they really wanted them to have such equipment on them!