I can't prove that it's true, but I recall reading that one reason why smaller (16 ton) freight cars lasted so long in Britain was because it was the maximum a horse could pull, and as noted horse 'shunters' lasted into the mid-20th century in some areas of the U.K.
wjstix posted:I can't prove that it's true, but I recall reading that one reason why smaller (16 ton) freight cars lasted so long in Britain was because it was the maximum a horse could pull, and as noted horse 'shunters' lasted into the mid-20th century in some areas of the U.K.
If you check the video links on the first page, I think it's mentioned there.
16 tons, and what do you get?
Watch this horse on a switchback, waiting for the bumper rebound.
rattler21 posted:Someone with far greater modeling skills than I could model this using magnets beneath the layout to 'guide' the horse. John
If you look around on Youtube, you'll find an HO horse-car with "walking" horses.
Express passenger train visible in the background....
The horse cars ran up until 1914.
Horse teams replace broken-down locomotive - Popular Mechanics, July 1917.
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Great thread, thanks to all who posted. Enjoyed and learned things.
And to continue this dog-and-pony show....the Alaskan dogmobile:
WW1 narrow gauge cars pressed into horse-drawn ambulance service:
A horse switching demonstration in Britain in 2003, along with a diesel locomotive named after its hard-working predecessors:
https://www.martinbray-ukloco.com/railwayhorse.htm
A small revival of this thread with some Welsh slate quarry trains - a 2 horse-power unit train I guess. Note the axle coming adrift at 00:54
John Allen used a dino on railroad. However, it was on an HO railroad.
Now, was thee a situation during the Civil War that a carload of Union Troops was transported across Baltimore using a team of horses.?
