Odd Rebuilds and Experimental Locomotive Designs

[JOHNtheREDNECK]

I thought it would be fun to create a thread dedicated to the strange train designs out there whether they were successful or not.


This thing could supposedly handle up to 350psi. The rear truck of the tender was turned into a booster unit (essentially a small steam engine was buried within the tender truck and fed from the main boiler)


RSD15 + EMD 567 = CRSD20? Apparently these things ran the hump at Barstow for a while


rs3 short hood and cab + rs11 long hood = ?????????????

[PNWR1854]

[GERUNIMO625]

Good Halloween topic, some of these engines look like Frankstein's monster.
IT'S ALIVE!!!

young_frankenstein_704_6.jpg

[ZekTheKid]

Not your average steam locomotive:

[EngineerJohn]

This old thing still holds the train speed record for North America at 183mph.
It's jet engines were purchased from a company who originally designed them to power a nuclear bomber aircraft.

Afterward the brief life the locomotive had. The jets were re-used to make the world's loudest snowblower and at the same time, the world's most powerful hair dryer.

[Caffeine]

Locomotives with jet engines?
This is cool.
I like this.
Thank you for share.

[hobo1960]

Can't forget the Mighty Atomic-Powered Locomotive

[hobo1960]

...in amazing Technicolor!

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

"ThunderTrains are Go !!"

Seeing my signature pic, Chessie will fit right in this category, LOL

Caption from that advert: "for we are going to need railroads more than ever in the boom years ahead"?

If only they knew what the US citizen of the Fifties really wanted, wishful thinking by some naive marketeers?

[gtrtroger]

Congress helped the truckers kill the railroads.....

[EngineerJohn]

How about the coal turbines?

[GERUNIMO625]

If only they knew what the US citizen of the Fifties really wanted, wishful thinking by some naive marketeers?

Well, it is the AAR that made the advertisement, so one would think they are alittle bias towards railroading.

Cool pictures by the way.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Dis the AAR research office really studied atomic powered locomotives?

If so, there must be an archive??

That add clearly shows UP’s colours and wings, so one supposes UP participated. Is there anything inUP’s archives then?

[EngineerJohn]

Dis the AAR research office really studied atomic powered locomotives?

If so, there must be an archive??

That add clearly shows UP’s colours and wings, so one supposes UP participated. Is there anything inUP’s archives then?

Not sure, but definitely something to look into out of curiosity alone.

[hobo1960]

My information said that the 1.2 million per engine cost put the end of UP's interest in the project.

KevinB

Dis the AAR research office really studied atomic powered locomotives?

If so, there must be an archive??

That add clearly shows UP’s colours and wings, so one supposes UP participated. Is there anything inUP’s archives then?

Not sure, but definitely something to look into out of curiosity alone.