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Old Train Thursday, Cog Trains

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Achenseebahn Cog Railways, Austria

Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway, 1890
Mt Washington Cog Railways.
Pikes Peak Cog Railway
First Cog Railways, Middleton Railway, West Yorkshire UK, 1812. Used to haul coal trains.
Sylvester Marsh built first Cog Railway in America on Mount Washington, NH in 1869
Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn Railways on Mount Rigi, Switzerland started 1871.
Mt Pilatus, Pilatus Cog Railways. 7000ft and a 48% grade
Eduard Locher, designed a whole new rack rail system due to the steepness. In the Locher system, there are none of the usual switches or points on the line, but rotary switches instead.
Another view of the Pilatus Cog.

Roman Abt, engineer developed the Abt Cog System in Germany in 1885.
Locomotive from the cog railway in Puchberg/Schneeberg in Austria.
The Schynige Platte Railway or Schynige Platte Bahn is another cog railway in Switzerland near Interlaken
The Schafbergbahn cog railway in Upper Austria
Invented by Emil Strub, 1896. Riggenbach Cog System.
Snowdon locomotive making its way up the mountain.

Old Train Thursday… Armored Trains

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Czechoslovakian Armored Train in Siberia, 1918.
Russian Depiction of air assault from the Luftwaffe
Russian.
Union Railway Battery to protect workers, 1861.
British Railway transporting British troops in Egypt, with a Hardenfeldt machine gun, 1882.
Russian Zaamurets with 57 mm cannons during WW1
Russian Zaamurets.
Russian MBV-2, Antiaircraft, WW2
Russian MBV-2, 1942
Russian MBV-2 Tank Killer Version.
Russian, MBV-2, Howitzers Version
German captured MBV-2
Polish Book of Russian Armored Trains from 1930s to WW2
Russian BP35, 1942
Russian Railgun TM-3-12
Russian TM-3-12
TM-3-12 on display outside Moscow.
TM-3-12a, displayed outside St. Petersburg.
Russian Anti-aircraft and a TM-3-12
Russian Zheleznyakov, used to defend Sevastopol in WW2, lettering states ” Death to Fascism.”
Polish Armored Trains after German invasion.
Polish Drasines, used to escort trains.
Captured from Germans, Panzertriebwagon, used by Polish forces in 1942.
German Railgun and a BP42
BP42 Command Car and Rail Cruisers.
Slovakian Resistance Hurban Trains, 1942.

Old Train Thursday. Readers Contribution Day

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Phil sent me this substack, courtesy of Uncle Clif of the above four pictures https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/around-the-world-in-4-hours
Both above pics sent in by FeralFerret. Looks like he took them from his cell phone.
Looking West. Two lane Highway 70 near Quincy, CA is directly above this tunnel.
Looking East.  The Union Pacific track on the right continues up the Feather River Canyon and goes over Beckwourth Pass. The track on the left heads north to Bieber, a major junction between the Great Northern and Western Pacific railroads for north-south traffic, now owned by BNSF Railway.
If you ever want to go on a train watching vacation the Quincy area is the place to go. Just east of Quincy is the one-mile-long Williams Loop, where if you’re lucky you might see a freight train passing over/under itself. I was lucky enough to haul logs in the canyon for a couple of summers. It sure was fun. It’s kind of lucky I didn’t run off the road while watching the trains! The three above pics, sent in by Elmo, the Log Truck Driver.
 
Another Phil sent in.
Something is wrong, no graffiti.