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Cliff;
In this year’s MIK, Jim Cunningham’s Mad Max themed Diesel locomotive sported a crane with a wrecking ball. (Perhaps for enlarging tunnels?)
Best, David Meashey
The panoramic railcars used on the Livradois-Forez railway are classic French SNCF X 4200 “Panoramique” autorails, built in the late 1950s for scenic mountain routes.
Their most distinctive feature is the elevated glass-roof observation compartment, giving passengers sweeping views over forests, valleys, and viaducts much like a dome car.
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Bill;
Regarding sight-seeing cars, I had an HO electrified-style self-propelled car by ROCO, that they called “The Glass Box”. It was a neat little car and even came with painted figures in the seats. Unfortunately, I never took a photo of it before I sold it to finance my large scale habit.
Best, David Meashey
Hard to get a good picture in a barn with a narrow walkway, but this Little Joe locomotive was something I have never seeen before. Illinois Railroad Museum , Union.
Illinois
Lovely Wife, 5’3” for size comparison
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Pete, excellent thoughtful choice of scale referencing!
How many lovely wife long is the loco? 
Can’t say about the length. But, though it’s hard to be precise with the camera perspective, it looks like the loco is 3.6 LW’s tall.
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Didn’t discover Little Joe till my early teens and was fascinated.
I had to rethink what you just said. Ah ha! Little Joe the loco… I missed that part of Pete’s post.
When you posted about your fascination with Little Joe, I immediately thought you meant “Little Joe” Cartwright from Bonanza. That too made sense, but couldn’t imagine you sharing it with us.
Now I’m feeling a bit naive, like the middle son, Hoss.
Come to think of it, I do own a 10 gallon hat…
IIRC the Little Joe’s were originally intended for export to the soviet union but for some reason, deal fell through. The factory nicknamed them after Stalin. Without a customer they were reguaged and marketed around to US carriers, with Milwaukee Road taking a few to test on their electrified western stretches. They were impressed and ordered more.
You are right , I remember reading that somewhere on the locomotive, another plate maybe
It was the second time a locomotive deal with Russia went south and left the builder in a lurch with locomotives but no customer. The first was when 200 ordered for Imperial Russia ran smack into the October Revolution stranding them at home. They too were shopped around and almost all of them ended on smaller lines where they worked very well on the lighter built lines and served for decades.
Cliff, That bottom picture looks like it is straight out of an Stephen King novel 
Gee Cliff;
The Nottoway resembles a roving bathtub!
Best, David Meashey
P. S. I prefer roving stills.
Rooster wants to build this one.
Arizona Railway museum, before and after of an compressed air locomotive, like the one Devon is/ was/ still thinking about building or built
Nope,
Kinda like this one…
