The Japanese classics are a unique bit of N. Amer. & Euro flavor combo I've always liked. 

Japan's D50 series were manufactured from 1923 to 1931. Of the 380 made, many were sold to China and were seized and then re-seized in WW2. Communist China retired the last one in 1955.

No! Unless there were some abandoned tracks near my house where the police couldn't see me. Then I'd buy a real one. 

There are clubs for the real MOW putt-putt speeders. I always wanted to do that or velocipede around for a bit.

  I used to put weedwacker motors as friction drive cruising motors on my old bicycles; Solex style. About 25-30mph & about 70mpg.

...and a guy I rent a room to has 3-70mph mini-bikes (a few original "slow" ones) and a half dozen hopped up motors kicking around 3hp B&S to 6hp-Honda's with headwork, race clutch, race carbs/exhuast, etc 

  ....I'll be needing a railcart with wheelie bars too as my choice of air cooled motors would be a 1200 to 1500cc "Beetle-ee" engine from VW   

It doesn't need a tender or a lot of workers, but I still don't think so.

 

I like the old Detroit interurbans a little better.. but a billboard wagon would work for me.  Certainly easier to bash as well

Vincent Massi posted:

It doesn't need a tender or a lot of workers, but I still don't think so.

Oh, yes it does...

Rusty

I don't think so.

Ok, you got me. Too "stealthy" 😝

...and not enough people😐

..on the roof 🤣

Then again.. it would make a great head end on a train of milk cars.🤔

"Got Any?"

Rusty Traque posted:

Vincent Massi posted:

It doesn't need a tender or a lot of workers, but I still don't think so.

Oh, yes it does...

Rusty

The only happy face here doesn't have a poop-scoop in hand 💩 🤣

I'll just leave this here.

Adriatic posted:

... This is your train on drugs.

Any questions?

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

I'll just leave this here.

Well...

Rusty

Why, this is getting silly.

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

I'll just leave this here.

Why not bring it here? Ol' Casey Jr would be a very welcome extra.

Where did you find that shot? 

@p51 I figured that one was comin' 😐 

 So I added more yellows under it's jacket to get it to pop some more  😳

...🤣

Rusty Traque posted:

Well...

Rusty

"The Earl-y Train"?

( Squid-billy.... Anyone? )

Adriatic posted:

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

I'll just leave this here.

Why not bring it here? Ol' Casey Jr would be a very welcome extra.

Where did you find that shot? 

@p51 I figured that one was comin' 😐 

 So I added more yellows under it's jacket to get it to pop some more  😳

...🤣

Some friends of mine found it on the Casey Jr page on the Disney Fandom wiki. They're not the clearest pictures but until the movie hits DVD/Blu-Ray this is th best we got of Tim Burton's take on our childhood anthropomorphic steamer.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Casey_Junior

Yes. After all, it is interesting.

Hit with the sudden increase in railway volume due to the war, Australia built 12 of these magnificent locomotives themselves. Production went from 1943 to 1947, with the last ones retired in the early 1960's.

Any preserved?

Kent Loudon posted:

Any preserved?

Kent, this photo was taken in 1984. https://commons.wikimedia.org/...h_Australia-1984.jpg

Locomotive.wiki reports that both this and another one still exist but are not running: https://locomotive.fandom.com/...n_Railways_520_Class

So what is it's current status?

Kent Loudon posted:

So what is it's current status?

Kent, after it spent years in storage, a group started working on restoring it. The other one is a permanent static display at a museum.

Yes, but only one.

Not a fan of the style, but of what's below the running boards. 😎 The look "Down Under" seems more appealing. I think the boiler lines accent better in lighter colors.

Doctors Who's arch enemy the Dereliks...derlocks...

Dalek me thinks.

der something... funny looking things

This bizarre Russian "mallet" locomotive is actually a good idea. After high-pressure steam turns the driving wheels, some of it is still not liquefied. This re-cycled steam is then used to drive a second set of drive wheels. The second set could be in front of or behind the main drive wheels. Sometimes, the second set was on the tender.

After WW2, trying to compete with diesel, some US railroads built powerful mallet locomotives.

Yes.

Yes! This magnificent mallet engine was thundering across Arizona a century ago.

Vincent Massi posted:

Yes! This magnificent mallet engine was thundering across Arizona a century ago.

And Lionel made a model of one back in 2010.

Rusty

Since Lionel and MTH troll for our dollars with fantasy locomotives......... 

Quick Casey posted:

Since Lionel and MTH troll for our dollars with fantasy locomotives......... 

Love it!

Stuart

 

Vincent Massi posted:

In my opinion, Lionel's 1957 decision to issue a girls' train set was an intelligent risk that didn't work out.

Made with excellent quality, the set was an attempt to get more girls (more customers) into model trains. And Lionel learned from its failure: girls who like trains like realistic trains.

Unsold sets were repainted, cutting Lionel's losses. The original sets are collectors' items.

 

Remember  well a local "bicycle shop" that also carried Lionel Trains had one of these. My father took me in to look at this for possible gift from "Santa" needless to say I pitched a fit and Santa delivered a 2046 freight set instead!!  I have wondered more than once as to who ended up with it as it was gone after Christmas that year!

Rusty Traque posted:

Vincent Massi posted:

Yes! This magnificent mallet engine was thundering across Arizona a century ago.

And Lionel made a model of one back in 2010.

Rusty

And here is the Lionel version of the above train. $2500 from the catalog.

Czarist Russia. (No wonder their government fell).

No idea where this is, but an Americanized version would look at home on a whimsical layout:

p51 posted:

No idea where this is, but an Americanized version would look at home on a whimsical layout:

That beast is a Kitson-Meyer articulated, once popular in South America. FOTC is a Peruvian railroad, and forum member David Argent has built an O gauge version of this type. 

Vincent Massi posted:

I might. But only if it did not include the four action figures.    The Seddonville Railroad opened in New Zealand in 1893 for the sole purpose of transporting coal to a nearby harbor. The railroad survived about 100 years.

I think those New Zealand tramways had some interesting Frankenstein lokeys running! They would make some eyecatcher models.

 

Firewood, that is an excellent video of a fantastic locomotive! I was also impressed by the interesting layout.

The first photo is a model of Russia's first successful locomotive--but it was still rejected in favor of horses. The next two are successful pre-Soviet Russian locomotives.