Favorite Odd-ball train

Odd they didn't make the Mt. Wash. cab level with the boiler...makes you wonder if the cab floor is level or are the fireman and engineer wearing suction cups on their shoe soles to keep from sliding out the back of the cab?

 

Introducing "CLICO", the dyslexic locomotive!

Do its boiler tubes double back at the front? That seems a big waste of heat if not.   

 

Here are some more photos I have found.....

Stokes Railway Crane

A Steam engine crane

Turret FlatCars

Just Wow.

 

"Tank Train" The new game?

And last, this huge thing...

 

 

 

 

The derrick engine is cool enough to raise my interest, and lift my spirits.

 

War... Good God yall! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, but strange trains, now say it again....

  

Vietnam-

 

Then there is this engine that should have been the star of "The Little Engine that Could."  Although this is pretty cool, on the back of the postcard it said this was the first locomotive on any part of the Illinois Central System. 

                          

Almost looks like a Photoshop job, doesn't it? It's a Brooks-built engine for the Chicago Locomotive Improvement Co. Probably had a return set of tubes. The pipe on the outside of the boiler probably took exhaust steam back to the stack. Obviously, this experiment was likely a failure, since it never caught on.

And absolutely, the height and proximity of the stack to the cab would have been beneficial to the crew, but it was probably an experimental boiler design that just happened to place the stack there.

I cant believe I for got about this one:

 

The Bavarian PtL 2/2: essentially a camelback tank loco.  Also, it's firebox is gravity-fed by the coal bunker.

 

 

 

Aaron

How did those European couplers WORK?  And did they have to be manually coupled

with the brakeman standing there, maybe protected by the buffers? And did they

create slack between cars?

 

Not much slack really as you can see now. This lighter duty coupling system can be used because of the lighter max. weights of the European railroad cars.

Here's a short video that I made of a locomotive being coupled to a train. 

 

This is a great video for unusual train enthusiasts: http://youtu.be/iajwyx02Hqw

 

Okay, time for some more Japanese trains!

 

The Nankai Series 50000 was already covered earlier in the thread (the one that looks like a Dreyfuss Hudson that collided with Sonic the Hedgehog).

 

 

Here's the JR Hokkaido KiHa 283 (Express DMU):

 

 

JR East Series 251 (Express EMU). The two windows on top allow passengers to see forward:

 

 

JR East Series 255 (Express EMU):

 

 

JR West Series 281 (Express EMU):

 

 

JR Freight Series M250--that's right, a 16-car freight EMU!

 

 

 

JR West Series 500 Shinkansen:

 

 

 

JR East Series E4 Shinkansen:

 

 

 

JR East Series E5 Shinkansen:

 

 

Nothing particularly odd about this D51.  I just thought it looked surprisingly modern with that pilot, smoke filter over the smokestack, and those uniquely stylish smoke deflectors:

 

 

This C53 Pacific, on the other hand, is definitely all kinds of odd:

 

 

Is it just me, or does it not look surprisingly similar to this Series 700 Shinkansen?

 

 

 

 

 

This video can top it off.

 

 

Aaron

Weird, wacky, unusual... http://youtu.be/-rtAoBKKd1Q

 

 

There was a crooked man, who walked a crooked mile?...Sure he didn't take a train? 

 

This is a shay.  It's typical for shays to have boilers off center.

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