Strange Train Prototypes

simulatortrain said:
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.
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It appears to have un motored bogeys. I can't see any fittings you would find on a motored bogey.
 
Ronayne said:
It appears to have un motored bogeys. I can't see any fittings you would find on a motored bogey.
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I didn't think so either. The other thought I had was some sort of push-pull operation. Don't know how that would work, but maybe it just lit the track for reverse running.

EDIT: http://utahrails.net/gallery2/v/int...-lake-city_13-may-1946_lavorgna-coll.jpg.html This appears to be the same or a similar car behind these two interurbans. It may have been a boxcar used with them and had a light for running with it in the lead. The trolley pole was probably to trip grade crossing sensors as I said, and the smokejack was probably from a stove to keep things from freezing. Interesting car!
 
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http://home.comcast.net/~steelmanjules/clinuse_pr_page.html

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Strange enough?

See here for more: http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?p=520783#post520783

Chris
 
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I bet I know what that boxcar is. Looking at it I see it also has a pretty good sized stove pipe coming out of its roof, as well as an end door.

That's a caboose. According to some research, as well as poking around on a traction site, I've come to the conclusion that the light is electric, and that pole is to power it. It seems, though I have no facts to back this up, that it would have been used primarily in the interchange system, to allow the train to back up without having to run the locomotive around to the other end. So to say it's Push/Pull is probably accurate.
 
cascaderailroad said:
What a beauty !
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That is a rubber tired switcher. The Pennsylvania Railroad preferably used them for street switching in the towns along the North East Corridor. The only problem was they needed a paved interchange so they could bring cars to the locomotive which could then take them to the yard for switching into a freight train.
 
Gyro Spyro

Hi all - I have been following all the strange pictures and inovations here and when I got to the Gyro "work train" (?) I suddenly remembered that in my books somewhere I had a picture of a Wolesley Gyro car. The car was built to a design concept of a Russian Count Tsarkovski - a member of the Russian royal family at about 1910 -ish.

I was going to scan and post a picture of the car and then decided that perhaps I could find something on the internet. Wow! loads of info including an experimantal train that ran between (now) St Petersburg and Pushkin. I have copied the link here...http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/gyrocars/schilovs.htm and it is really worth having a look. Schematic diagrams and pictures. A lot of detail.
Enjoy.................
Regards Doug
 
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Thomas_The_Tank100 said:
Its a Japanese Steam loco...
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You just had to make me dig through my back issues, didn't you? :D
The Japanese built a few experimental streamlined locomotives in the 1930s. This looks like the C53 43 4-6-2 type locomotive. If I'm reading the magazine right, it may have been used in the "Tsubame" service between Kobe and Nagoya.
It was streamlined about 1934.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/EF57/engines/C53.htm
http://www.skyrocket.de/locomotive/data/jnr_c53.htm

:cool:Claude
 
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It's a truck which has been made into a locomotive.

It's used to push locomotives over the wheel grinder at the remains of Enola Yard.
 
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simulatortrain said:
I didn't think so either. The other thought I had was some sort of push-pull operation. Don't know how that would work, but maybe it just lit the track for reverse running.

EDIT: http://utahrails.net/gallery2/v/int...-lake-city_13-may-1946_lavorgna-coll.jpg.html This appears to be the same or a similar car behind these two interurbans. It may have been a boxcar used with them and had a light for running with it in the lead. The trolley pole was probably to trip grade crossing sensors as I said, and the smokejack was probably from a stove to keep things from freezing. Interesting car!
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This is exactly what the trolley pole was used for. I read that in a book somewhere. The Souther Pacific had these on the early GP9s when they ran freight along the interurban lines.

John
 
JCitron said:
This is exactly what the trolley pole was used for. I read that in a book somewhere. The Souther Pacific had these on the early GP9s when they ran freight along the interurban lines.

John
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Those, and also some Alcos and Baldwins and probably other stuff, owned by both SP and PE.
 
Dora and Gustav(the Railgiants)

sethmcs said:
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Dreddman's next project?:hehe:
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Actually thats the 80-cm Gun dora(Perhaps the Schwere gustav since they both are the same)the Main part of the Railgun is being put on.The 80-cmEisenbahngeschuetze were so large,they had to be transported in pieces and had to be Re-assembled at their firing station!the two (and only actually service taking)Railguns had to be Self destructed to prevent Russian and USA capture.
 
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