🚟 STRANGE LOCOMOTIVES (Post your favourite in 2024 here)

[Hines (Bill)]

seemed like a good idea at the time…

• track on beach
• under water at high tide
• prone to North Sea storms
• ELECTRIC

Excerpt: “ The 19th century was an age of science and industry, and one where individual inventors could transform the world. These enterprising pioneers are still ritually recalled alongside their inventions: Marconi and radio, Bell and the telephone, Benz and the motorcar. Although far less famous, Brighton’s Magnus Volk also personifies this spirit of technological endeavour.”

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There truely is a prototype for everything! I wonder where the motor was located.

[Cliff_Jennings]

Wow Bill, I think that takes the cake! And yeah, what could possibly go wrong?

[Ray_Dunakin]

Looks really cool but also looks like a maintenance nightmare.

[Ray_Dunakin]

Wow, that is truly unique, and crazy!

[Hines (Bill)]

What an interesting time to be alive. Today we might get a little surprised with the appearance of new technology, but back then people were being continuously amazed.

I’m gobsmacked that they got 4 years of intermittent service out of it.

[Hines (Bill)]

Eureka! I’ve struck gold! From diesels to gas turbine to electric to pneumatic and pedal power; there’s something for everyone. (See link below )

But Wait! There’s More! Act Now and Get not 1, not 2 but 5 more pages! Including this Pennsylvanian shunting tractor.

Favorite Odd-ball train

[Rooster]

Old hat Bill …dig in an enjoy yourself

[Cliff_Jennings]

I hear Bachmann’s coming up with a new model of an old 10-wheeler:

[Eric_Mueller]

@Cliff_Jennings

Bachmann’s coming up with a new model of an old 10-wheeler

Yes, and to make it a real curiosity, the gears will last more than 20 minutes!

[Dave_Meashey (David Meashey)]

Decades ago, Bachmann introduced a single truck trolly with metal gears, and it really “sounded off.” One reviewer (in Classic Toy Trains, I think) said he kept looking for a place to put the coffee beans into.

Guess what goes around comes around.

Best, David Meashey

[Dave_Meashey (David Meashey)]

Oh, don’t forget N&W’s ill-fated coal-fired steam turbine/electric, the Jawn Henry!

Regards, David Meashey

P. S. The irony is that the locomotive would probably run very well today, because all the bugs have now been worked out of traction motors and generating systems for locomotives.

[David_Marconi_FOGCH (David Marconi CHHNNG)]

Ran across this oddity early today while doing a B.Hines search engine:
A wiki sourced info page.

[Korm (Korm Kormsen)]

this inventor was a genius!
yes, trackbuilding would have been much more costly and level crossings impossible, but…

train collisions would have been impossible! (save on switches/turnouts)

[Dave_Meashey (David Meashey)]

Trouble was the slot in the pneumatic pipe was gasketed with greased leather, and the rats thought it was a buffet! With rubber and a synthetic grease it might have worked.

Regards, David Meashey

[Hines (Bill)]

Fascinating that the technology is still being developed

Aeromovel APM at Salgado Filho International Airport

[David_Marconi_FOGCH (David Marconi CHHNNG)]

The first steam-electric locomotive ?

Heilmann locomotive

[Rooster]

[Hines (Bill)]

At first I thought it was broken. The Jull.

[Cliff_Jennings]

A scary machine! There was a model build article in… the Gazette? Maybe… a couple years ago? But yeah, bad-a$$, would be an awesome factor in a James Bond movie.

[Cliff_Jennings]

I’ve been on that boat! It, or its sister, is at the National Capital Trolley Museum about a half hour south of us.

Last may, we had almost all our kids (missing 1) and all our grandkids (4) with us to ride it.

Thanks David!