Not your usual Micro Bus
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Somewhere in Holland.
COOL!
Split windshield? About 35 horses… might move one truck. Should have added catenary!
OK that is one of the most interesting pieces of RR equipment ever. I was not expecting that.
Just shows to go you that there is a prototype for almost anything you can imagine.
Dan Padova said:
Just shows to go you that there is a prototype for almost anything you can imagine.
Dan
I had to laugh at your comment. Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction. I wonder if any model rail nut ever thought hey I should take my die cast VW bus and make a rail bus out of it. I have a secret project coming up very soon and this gives me inspiration that anything is plausable.
Please tell me that is real and not Photoshop, its just way too cool to be real.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Vic
The caption to that picture reads:
Hilversum, November 19, 2011. A special vehicle on the passing on track 4. This is the only existing railcar based on the Volkswagen T1 diesel, known splitbus. Recently, this prototype found in Germany in 1965 and completely restored to its original condition. Photo Henk Koster.
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Slightly more than 20 miles from Amsterdam.
I doubt if the VW is real, but I believe this one is…
Thank you Joe. It was a pity that this idea did not develop. In the UK many railroad stations were often a mile or so from the village they purported to serve. This vehicle ran on steel rail or roadways eneabling smaller places to be served. The alternative, for most folk was a long walk. All very well in good weather but grim in winter or snow! The better off financially could afford taxis.
I always thought these Bugatti Railcars were interesting, but I dont quite now how the driver ever judged where he was from the conning tower, but my favorite is still the Rail Zeppelin:
Speaks for itself.