Here is something I had never come across inasmuch as I always thought that push pull operation with a control cab in the passenger car was a diesel era innovation. Apparently not so. I thought others might enjoy this video.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/no..._8302000/8302635.stm
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In America, ALCO made the Steam Motor, a steam driven coach as well!
For a while after a bridge was knocked out of service between Jersey City and Newark on the Jersey Central, NJ, that road made up a double-ended steam powered shuttle train consisting of a camelback 4-6-0 at each end of a pair of coaches.
EdB
For a while after a bridge was knocked out of service between Jersey City and Newark on the Jersey Central, NJ, that road made up a double-ended steam powered shuttle train consisting of a camelback 4-6-0 at each end of a pair of coaches.
EdB
Ed, you just keep coming up with more and more interesting information, Ed. Hats off to you.
Can't you imagine the two grouchy old Engineers, each crabbing about the way the Engineer on the other end ran his engine?
Actually there was only one engineer and fireman for both locos. The run wasn't all that long, only a few miles to bring shift workers to and from the factories and industries east of the Passaic River where the bridge was out. Trim the fire on the trailing loco, reset the controls and drag it along!
Here's that heavy-duty, dual-power two coach train departing Jersey City in the 1940s. It was replaced with bus service after a few months or so.
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