Strange Trains

Well,I don't know if placing a conventional 4-4-0 american on the rollers was a good idea but at the same time,the company who is responsible for this had something to do with the stock swindle and/or was this another bone-headed idea of their's to give railroad companies a bad name!:eek:
 
The guys who designed those kettles must be sheep! I've seen snakes doing better designed locos! I mean a garratt with four sets of Driving wheels??!! I must be having a nightmare or something...
 
http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/2/7/9/9279.1265777124.jpg


Ok, this one is...well odd. It's an old 2-6-0, minus the tender, with holes cut in the smokebox. Why you ask? Because inside the remnant of the boiler we find a V8 Ford engine, connected to a truck (tractor trailer) transmission and chain drive to the second "drive" axle of the locomotive.

Suppose this is a 2-2-4 now. Have to wonder how old it is, though the picture was taken in 1972.

Some of the reasearch I've done suggests that YES, the locomotive is still in use. It was used (note no rear coupler) to move cars around for loading wood chips. Oddly, there may or may not have been an old 0-6-0 on the property that suffered the same fate.
 
Will this thread ever seize to amaze me? I've seen stranger things on TV that wouldn't compare to this!
 
'Cause they were too lazy to put connecting rods over the wheels.:hehe: Or they preferred to use hydraulic wheels, or something like that.:o:hehe::o:hehe:
 
Nah, there are no rods because it's only showing one side. Talking with a friend of mine online, he said that there were connecting rods on the other side. It's chain driven to the middle axle, power take off to the rear through the second chain, and through a connecting rod to the front. Supposedly the thing is geared really low, and can only move at a few miles an hour, maybe ten at the max.
 
OK, I get it now, I think.

Right- MY turn. Check this.
kl3b.jpg

Thanks, Whistlehead for showing me the site this was on. Who thinks this one is crazy?
 
I do,I still don't know if I should call that a steam engine or something similar to the holman horror!:eek:
 
The link Whistlehead gave me looked like it was from the same site as the Holman Horror stuff. Look in the Feldbahn Brigadelok WIP thread at Whistlehead's third to last post at this time.
 
Well whisthlehead, looks like ya found my supplier so I will have to find a new one. It's ok it would of happened eventually.

by the way i posted individual because it is easier to reply to different things one at a time. That and i wanted to post my favorites first.
 
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