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.
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.
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.
Nope,
Kinda like this one…
Back to the Future
Some designs look better in different settings. I think this would an absolutely normal loco be on the Brandywine railway. (But maybe with more skewers.)
On the other hand. It looks equally suitable in the future as a cab forward.
Bill;
Looking at the orientation of the drive rods, I can’t help but wonder if that was some kind of steam turbine mechanical drive experimental locomotive. If so, it would have needed a separate steam turbine to reverse.
Yours, David Meashey
The Lartigue monorail railway was an unusual Irish railway system designed as a cheap way to build light railways in remote areas.
Bill;
I have read that a BIG problem with the Lartigue monorail system was maintaining balance for freight vehicles. A farmer who wanted to ship a cow was obliged ro also send two calves along so they could balance the car’s load on the return trip!
Not overly practical, Davd Meashey
P. S. A similar system was tried in Texas (USA) and got nicknamed “The Pegleg Railroad”,
If it’s monorails you want here is an interesting one.
