Category Archives: Old Trucks, Old Trains

Old Truck Tuesday

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From Grog, oh, and he wants to remind us he hates Budd wheels on trucks…
Both pics are from Large Marge.  I also include a snap of our only home, our 1996 Ford CF8000 commercial truck we converted to our concept of an Expedition Vehicle in 2003. Two decades full-time live-aboard.
Attached, please find a snap of our latest Expedition Vehicle build on a 2006 Autocar firetruck foundation… stripped of its apparatus. I also fabricated our toy-hauler on a similar commercial chassis.
What Igor needs to convert his Beaver Motor Home too… Call her Ethel.
Almost included this in the Camping Saturday…

Old Train Thursday.

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Wyoming’s Big Boy 4014 Locomotive Rescues Freight Train Stuck In Nebraska

Still Has The Muscle
The rescue was captured on video by YouTuber Otto the Railfan, and in just over 12 minutes you can watch Big Boy 4014 creep up behind the freight train, hook on, then power up as it begins to push.
Gleaming black and looking sleek, Big Boy was actually working for the first time in more than six decades, and it appears the engineers were having as much fun as those looking on.
The video then cuts to a railroad crossing, where an eclectic mix of rusted railcars, some with colorful graffiti, trundle by until Big Boy 4014 comes into view, it’s telltale 1940s steam engine chug-a-chugging unlike any that have likely crossed those tracks for decades, a strong white plume of steam spouting from the back of the locomotive.
After about 20 minutes, the freight train was able to pull away and finish the route on its own and Big Boy 4014 resumed its trip back to its home base in Cheyenne, UP says, adding that, “Big Boy was in the right place at the right time to help keep our network open.” https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/07/10/wyomings-big-boy-4014-locomotive-rescues-freight-train-stuck-in-nebraska/
Tracks North of Mountain Home, Idaho.
H/T to Phil.
Phil spied this car hauler on the other side of the fence from his work.
Bennie Monorail, Glasgow, Scotland.
One of last weeks cog railways picture of a cog track maintenance cars derailing in Switzerland.
Tracks in Siberia, Russia. Railway has a reputation as a bad luck railway.

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.