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Sunday, October 16, 2011

one bad train head on collision with another, caused by a bus driver. Really.

Its easiest to make out the start at the 46 second mark

found on
http://pensandolabronca.blogspot.com/2011/09/accidente-de-tren.html

Thursday, August 11, 2011

2 samples of cigarette cards of the predesessor to the stage coach, and the passenger train

See a whole gallery of similar cig cards of early 1800's trains at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?num=140&word=Railroads&s=3&notword=&d=&c=&f=2&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&imgs=20&pNum=

The Lucin cut-off across the Great Salt Lake

found in http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

Monday, August 8, 2011

The great John Bull. The oldest (made in 1831) operable steam locomotive in the world

Read about it's amazing history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull_(locomotive)

it was steamed up for the Centennial Exposition in 1876, and was the first major industrial exhibit purchased by the Smithsonian

Thursday, August 4, 2011

the big Rob Roy get derailed in 1868, some lucky guy had a camera to capture the effort to get it back on the rails

found on Historical Indulgences http://tuesday-johnson.tumblr.com/

It was one of the Gooch Waverly class, that were used mostly in South Wales. Read more and see more of them at http://spellerweb.net/rhindex/UKRH/GreatWestern/Broadgauge/BGLocos/Waverley.html

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The Golden Gate Special (1888)

these are just a couple of the pages, the ones I think are best representatives of the booklet you can see complete here: http://www.archive.org/stream/goldengatespecia00uniorich#page/n3/mode/2up

Thursday, July 28, 2011

More great stuff from 21Studs.tumblr.com

Ever think about all the hemi's used as industrial pumps? Air raid sirens too.

Lincoln Futura from the movie "It Started With A Kiss" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052934/

Vespa sidecar? Hmmm, never heard of one before

All of these from Nik's cool Tumblr, http://21studs.tumblr.com/

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Great variety of old advertising from QuestionableAdvice.tumblr.com (Centuries of Advertisements and Advice)

It's like Shorpy for advertisements! Very cool collection, enjoy more at http://questionableadvice.tumblr.com/

Union Pacific advertising and brochure covers

Found on Centuries of Advice and Advertisements : http://questionableadvice.tumblr.com/

Saturday, July 16, 2011

the Pullman Railplane of 1933, self propelled, designed by Stout (of the Stout Scarab)

Feeling the effects of the Depression and declining business, America's railroads (in the 1930s) were looking for ways to reinvigorate passenger travel. As Ralph Budd, president of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy, later explained, railroads had to continue running trains on short routes to handle mail and baggage "whether or not anyone rides the trains." After seeing GM's powerful diesel engines, Budd concluded that what the railroads needed was a new kind of train that was fast, convenient, ultramodern and luxurious enough to fire the public imagination. The Union Pacific Railroad also saw the two exhibits and came to similar conclusions. A race was on to see which of the two railroads would be the first to develop an ultramodern railcar

1934 Century of Progress Fair in Chicago The Union Pacific selected the University of Michigan to find the best aerodynamic shape while CB&Q turned to M.I.T.. The new designs looked like nothing else that had ridden the rails. They looked more like Buck Rogers's space ship than a train. People were tired of living in the Depression and they were ready for a change.

the Pullman-Standard wondertrain powered by 600 HP Winton petrol engine

Union Pacific М-10000 City of Salina weighed 20 per cent as much as a conventional railroad car, but using only two minuscule (by railroad standards) 320-hp six-cylinder truck engines, was able to hit 100 miles per hour, while delivering 5 miles per gallon. By comparison to conventional railcars, the ride was superb, engine noise and fumes were all but eliminated and the seating arrangement - using aircraft-type seats as fitted to the Scarab automobile - made the Railplane quite luxurious

It is Pullman-Standard Railplane

In 1933, the Pullman Car & Manufacturing Company constructed the Railplane to Stout's design (some improvements were later patented by the company, see the positives below). This was merely Stout's familiar triangulated space-frame aircraft fuselage, this time adapted to railroad use. Here too, he was able to preserve his all-time important triumvirate: simplicity, practicality and comfort. The self-propelled car had an aluminum body, 60' in length. It was exhibited at the Chicago World's fair 1934 and then leased to the Gulf, Mobile & Northern in 1935 for service between Tylertown and Jackson, Mississippi. From the railroad point of view, all running gear could be easily serviced from outside, tracks and roadbed lasted longer and operating costs were significantly less. Despite proven advantages, there were no buyers. Union Pacific ordered a three-car version (future City of Salina) , but that's as far as it went.

from http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/sunday-streamline-12-pullman and http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/flying-americans

Saturday, July 9, 2011

1954 VW-Porsche Escher Kleinbahn Prototyp

vw / porsche engine A 1954 VW-Porsche Escher Kleinbahn Prototyp Prototyp in the in Hamburg. These Were Little trains built from 1954 to 1971 and were used in parks and botanical gardens. It pulled three cars which had space for 90 passengers. Its not a accident that the design of the locomotive looks like a cross between the legendary TEE train and the Porsche 356. This locomotive was powered by a VW industrial engine and was the prototype of the VW-Porsche trains.
Found on http://www.cardesign.ru/forum/diskussii/obschenie/1352/page28/