1954 GE Locomotive designed to traverse radiated areas.
Diesel Locomotive Engine.
21 thoughts on “Old Train Thursday”
#9 looks like a model train diorama.
Yes, I was going to say the same. HO scale by the looks of it.
Yes but it should have been a Norfolk Southern train.
Cederq do you have data on that sleeper car interior. It looks to make for a nice trip.
No I don’t. Bear, must pictures I find don’t have descriptions or tags with them. A shame really. If I was to take a trip, that is what I would like it.
Orient Express circa 1970’s?
It could be, the section of the web page I found that on was heavy on Orient Express railroad engines and cars, it just didn’t have a description for that picture.
Fuck that, you get murdered on that train.
heh
It is Fred. Model trains are still trains and when I see a nice picture I will include it.
Nice GE engine in pic 7. I prefer the FM OP, but that has more to do with being more interested in FM products from a historical perspective.
What is the yellow “Cat” looking thing and what are the extra outside wheels for?
I was thinking that it could be a pony engine to sight cars, but I went with track maintenance. I lose $400 bucks.
Love the train images. Steamtown was one of my favorite places to visit in Scranton. That and the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Museum. HIGHLY recommend both places if you’re ever there!
Moored in Louisiana, we were investigating an off-shore supply vessel of about 300′ long.
Asking price — us$600,000.
It was powered by a pair of railroad-style engines built by EMD, the Electro Motive Division of General Motors.
According to the literature, that series is extremely dependable and extremely frugal.
Modular, apparently a cylinder can be re-built — new rods, bearings, jugs, plugs — while the engine is running.
.
Each engine was sixteen cylinders, each cylinder a displacement of around sixty cubic inches with a bore of nearly ten inches.
Around three thousand horsepower… but the torque — an astonishing 17,000 #ft.
Red-line is 850rpm; manufacturer tests of 900rpm suggested a significant degradation in longevity (950 was said to be ‘spectacular!’).
Throttle is controlled by a lever with steps of notches… hence the phrase ‘kick it up a notch’.
.
We planned on an indestructible live-aboard Expedition Vessel for about sixty of our closest friends.
After conversion to a water-based home, we calculated a duration — time without touching land for fuel or food — of a year or so with multiple restaurant-style walk-in freezers, etcetera.
We estimated our range would be approximately twice around this particular planet, again without re-fuelling.
.
The afternoon of the morning we contacted the owners, they informed us of its sale to a ship-breaker (recycler) in India…
… for us$450,000.
.
Built without any steel, the ship we almost scored was solid aluminum stacks-to-keel, with hull plating of four inches (4″) thick.
What’s with the gold-colored 4-8-4? (Pic #15)
Love the stagecoach conversion to a railcar (#8).
The 4-8-4 is a Brass HO-Scale Model.
Stagecoaches were used as passenger cars on early Railroads because they were readily available and very suitable for that – but what we got from that was the too-narrow for real Industrial Use “British Standard Gauge” due to Carbuilders just slapping Flange-Wheels onto small Carriages. Now the existing Infrastructure is too entrenched to consider going to a Gauge, say 2 Meters, that would increase the Stability and Safety of Rail Transport.
Finally! Someone figured it out! Yes it is HO scale. I was wondering who would figure it out.
As for #1 the Shielded Locomotive, I have a strong suspicion that it was built for some of the Testing of Nuclear Rocket Engines in the early ’60s. Some articles about those programs mentioned that once an Atomic Engine had been “Fired” it became so Stupidly Radioactive that moving it became an exercise in Robotics and Remote-Handling of ‘stuff’.
Ah yes, the NERVA-K engines. Not a bad idea, really, but the exhaust will kill everything and make it glow in the dark.
#9 looks like a model train diorama.
Yes, I was going to say the same. HO scale by the looks of it.
Yes but it should have been a Norfolk Southern train.
Cederq do you have data on that sleeper car interior. It looks to make for a nice trip.
No I don’t. Bear, must pictures I find don’t have descriptions or tags with them. A shame really. If I was to take a trip, that is what I would like it.
Orient Express circa 1970’s?
It could be, the section of the web page I found that on was heavy on Orient Express railroad engines and cars, it just didn’t have a description for that picture.
Fuck that, you get murdered on that train.
heh
It is Fred. Model trains are still trains and when I see a nice picture I will include it.
Nice GE engine in pic 7. I prefer the FM OP, but that has more to do with being more interested in FM products from a historical perspective.
What is the yellow “Cat” looking thing and what are the extra outside wheels for?
Some kind of track maintenance equipment.
https://www.gordonrussell.com/products-101-trackmobile-railcar-movers
I was thinking that it could be a pony engine to sight cars, but I went with track maintenance. I lose $400 bucks.
Love the train images. Steamtown was one of my favorite places to visit in Scranton. That and the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Museum. HIGHLY recommend both places if you’re ever there!
Moored in Louisiana, we were investigating an off-shore supply vessel of about 300′ long.
Asking price — us$600,000.
It was powered by a pair of railroad-style engines built by EMD, the Electro Motive Division of General Motors.
According to the literature, that series is extremely dependable and extremely frugal.
Modular, apparently a cylinder can be re-built — new rods, bearings, jugs, plugs — while the engine is running.
.
Each engine was sixteen cylinders, each cylinder a displacement of around sixty cubic inches with a bore of nearly ten inches.
Around three thousand horsepower… but the torque — an astonishing 17,000 #ft.
Red-line is 850rpm; manufacturer tests of 900rpm suggested a significant degradation in longevity (950 was said to be ‘spectacular!’).
Throttle is controlled by a lever with steps of notches… hence the phrase ‘kick it up a notch’.
.
We planned on an indestructible live-aboard Expedition Vessel for about sixty of our closest friends.
After conversion to a water-based home, we calculated a duration — time without touching land for fuel or food — of a year or so with multiple restaurant-style walk-in freezers, etcetera.
We estimated our range would be approximately twice around this particular planet, again without re-fuelling.
.
The afternoon of the morning we contacted the owners, they informed us of its sale to a ship-breaker (recycler) in India…
… for us$450,000.
.
Built without any steel, the ship we almost scored was solid aluminum stacks-to-keel, with hull plating of four inches (4″) thick.
What’s with the gold-colored 4-8-4? (Pic #15)
Love the stagecoach conversion to a railcar (#8).
The 4-8-4 is a Brass HO-Scale Model.
Stagecoaches were used as passenger cars on early Railroads because they were readily available and very suitable for that – but what we got from that was the too-narrow for real Industrial Use “British Standard Gauge” due to Carbuilders just slapping Flange-Wheels onto small Carriages. Now the existing Infrastructure is too entrenched to consider going to a Gauge, say 2 Meters, that would increase the Stability and Safety of Rail Transport.
Finally! Someone figured it out! Yes it is HO scale. I was wondering who would figure it out.
As for #1 the Shielded Locomotive, I have a strong suspicion that it was built for some of the Testing of Nuclear Rocket Engines in the early ’60s. Some articles about those programs mentioned that once an Atomic Engine had been “Fired” it became so Stupidly Radioactive that moving it became an exercise in Robotics and Remote-Handling of ‘stuff’.
Ah yes, the NERVA-K engines. Not a bad idea, really, but the exhaust will kill everything and make it glow in the dark.