I've always thought this one looked like they hacked the top off a 58 Chevy modified it and stuck it on top.
Yall like trains? You're gonna love this...
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I've always thought this one looked like they hacked the top off a 58 Chevy modified it and stuck it on top.
Ddaddy
I'm changing the World... one pixel at a time!
That's awesome. lol
You won't ever see designs like that again because none of them are worth a crap. lol
Ddaddy
I'm changing the World... one pixel at a time!
BWHAHAHAHAHA
Ddaddy
I'm changing the World... one pixel at a time!
Do you think the tail fins are too much?
LOL!
LOL!
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I think the whole thing is badass. I love it. They shouldda done it.
adriver
Blazing Apostle
Put a penny on the track.
I'm not getting on a train.
No telling what will happen.
I'm not getting on a train.
No telling what will happen.
Ddaddy
I'm changing the World... one pixel at a time!
Well then, I might as well go whole hog and finish it off with wheel opening molding, chrome belt molding and bright wall wheels!
Oh yeah, and I fixed the windshield too. Should be one piece.
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Ddaddy
I'm changing the World... one pixel at a time!
C’mon everybody, ride on the Peace train! (Cat Stevens)
Mopar-Mitch
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I love the old steam but I love the diesels too, here's the rail yard in Lebanon KY. Were I grew up. The little alco s2 switcher ran from Lebanon to greensburg, the track's ran beside our farm in Calvary KY. Were I grew up just outside Lebanon, The Emd GP 35 ran the Lebanon local and the GE u25b's were coal drags pulled coal cars from Corbin KY to Lebanon junction KY. When CSX took over they abandoned the Lebanon branch in 1987, they took the tracks up, makes me sad. I now live close to Cave city KY. Were the main line still runs, CSX, I go over there and rail fan, and sometimes to Somerset KY and watch the Norfolk Southern trains come through.
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adriver
Blazing Apostle
Mopar-Mitch
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These are current pictures of what I see today. I've turned a couple of my grand boy's into train lover's.
We've got a short line that runs those CF-7 locomotives.
Those are 1950's era F7 cab units rebuilt by the SF into "hood" units like the GP series.
The short line serves an industrial park and an ethanol plant.
It interchanges with CSX at the passenger station.
(Yes, we still have passenger stations in FL)
Those are 1950's era F7 cab units rebuilt by the SF into "hood" units like the GP series.
The short line serves an industrial park and an ethanol plant.
It interchanges with CSX at the passenger station.
(Yes, we still have passenger stations in FL)
adriver
Blazing Apostle
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nm9stheham
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I think someone mentioned steam powered turbines..... C&O and N&W both ran experimental coal fired, steam turbine engines. The turbines ran steam generators and had electric drive motors like diesel-electrics. They were huge machines... and the diesel won out over the steam turbine, though 2 of the the modern diesel electrics are about as huge.
Class M-1 Steam Turbines
Class M-1 Steam Turbines
nm9stheham
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Hey M-M.. how close are you to Cave City? We do a LOT of work out there for Bluegrass cellular. (We are their only contractor for a certain type of equipment.) We've put in a system in part of the Mammoth Cave NP and in some factories in Glasgow. So if I'm in the area, I might have to stop in and say 'hi'.These are current pictures of what I see today. I've turned a couple of my grand boy's into train lover's.
spl440
Everybody's Fool
Plymouth Locomotives
I know, not Chrysler but still........
Plymouth center cab locomotive at Riverdale Acme steel mill,
South Chicago. (Photo- Dr. Raymond Boothe Collection)
Since I have described Whitcomb Locomotives, it is only fair that I describe another manufacturer of "critters" (locomotives with 300-1000 HP) --- Plymouth Locomotive Works.
Richard Mead Fate-Root-Heath in Plymouth, OH, built this propane-electric switcher in 1936 for the Joplin-Pittsburgh shortline. The company specialised in building small industrial engines and later changed its name to the Plymouth Locomotive Works. From 1910 to the late 1970s, it produced seven thousand, five hundred locomotives.
#2003 weighs 140,000 lb, has four 110 hp Westinghouse motors and a top speed of 35 mph. It moved to the Kansas City Public Service Freight Operation as #1 at some time, who donated it to the museum in 1964.
As heavy industry left the country and those plants that were left switched from rail service to trucks, the need for plant switchers became obsolete. Those industries that did need a plant switcher could buy an old diesel engine. Or they can use a Trackmobile or road-rail vehicle by adding guide wheel attachments such as Hy-Rail. Thus the demise of traditional critter manufaturers.
Plymouth Locomotive Works
The Plymouth Locomotive Works was an historic builder of small gasoline and diesel-electric switchers. Its most popular models weighed 25 tons or less although it produced variants as large as 120 tons. According to the book, "Critters, Dinkys & Centercabs" by author Jay Reed, Plymouth was the most successful manufacturer of these industrial switchers, producing some 7,500 during a production run which spanned nearly a century. Its heritage can be traced back to 1882 when a small factory was set up in Plymouth, Ohio to produce clay-making machinery. In 1892, one of the original promoters, J.D. Fate, bought out his partner and formed the J.D. Fate Company. The business persisted for nearly two decades in this fashion when he, and a group of investors from Toledo, Ohio, incorporated the Plymouth Truck Company to manufacture trucks. At first, they were built in Toledo but production later moved back to Plymouth. In 1912 it built its first experimental vehicle for rail service when the Bigelow Clay Company requested a type of hy-rail truck, or one one which could be operated on steel rails. It then manufactured a number of experimental locomotives before introducing its first cataloged variant, the Model AL Type 1, in 1914 for the National Fire Proofing Company of Haydenville, Ohio. In 1919, J.D. Fate merged with Root-Heath Manufacturing to form Fate-Root-Heath Company.
During the late 1950's the Fate family sold their interest in the company at which point the railroad division became known as Plymouth Locomotive Works (it was ideally situated for this market with its plant based near both the Baltimore & Ohio and Akron, Canton & Youngstown). Interestingly, while enthusiasts may remember it best for locomotives, Plymouth marketed a wide range of products including cars (briefly), trucks, sightseeing buses, tractors, fork lifts, farming hand tools, and shoe repair kits. Its locomotive catalog was fascinatingly diverse with various types produced for either mining operations, carrying mechanical transmissions, or utilizing hydraulic transmissions. As the years passed, they became ever-larger; the heaviest type ever-offered was the CR-8XT model, which could be ordered up to 120 tons. In the 1970's another name change occurred as Plymouth Industries and in 1997 it was purchased by Ohio Locomotive Crane. In 1999 the plant was closed and production moved to Bucyrus, Ohio. Shortly thereafter all operations ceased. Today, one can still find hundreds of Plymouth locomotives at work in either industrial settings or pulling excursion trains. For more about the Plymouth Locomotive Works please click here.
I know, not Chrysler but still........
Plymouth center cab locomotive at Riverdale Acme steel mill,
South Chicago. (Photo- Dr. Raymond Boothe Collection)
Since I have described Whitcomb Locomotives, it is only fair that I describe another manufacturer of "critters" (locomotives with 300-1000 HP) --- Plymouth Locomotive Works.
Richard Mead Fate-Root-Heath in Plymouth, OH, built this propane-electric switcher in 1936 for the Joplin-Pittsburgh shortline. The company specialised in building small industrial engines and later changed its name to the Plymouth Locomotive Works. From 1910 to the late 1970s, it produced seven thousand, five hundred locomotives.
#2003 weighs 140,000 lb, has four 110 hp Westinghouse motors and a top speed of 35 mph. It moved to the Kansas City Public Service Freight Operation as #1 at some time, who donated it to the museum in 1964.
As heavy industry left the country and those plants that were left switched from rail service to trucks, the need for plant switchers became obsolete. Those industries that did need a plant switcher could buy an old diesel engine. Or they can use a Trackmobile or road-rail vehicle by adding guide wheel attachments such as Hy-Rail. Thus the demise of traditional critter manufaturers.
Plymouth Locomotive Works
The Plymouth Locomotive Works was an historic builder of small gasoline and diesel-electric switchers. Its most popular models weighed 25 tons or less although it produced variants as large as 120 tons. According to the book, "Critters, Dinkys & Centercabs" by author Jay Reed, Plymouth was the most successful manufacturer of these industrial switchers, producing some 7,500 during a production run which spanned nearly a century. Its heritage can be traced back to 1882 when a small factory was set up in Plymouth, Ohio to produce clay-making machinery. In 1892, one of the original promoters, J.D. Fate, bought out his partner and formed the J.D. Fate Company. The business persisted for nearly two decades in this fashion when he, and a group of investors from Toledo, Ohio, incorporated the Plymouth Truck Company to manufacture trucks. At first, they were built in Toledo but production later moved back to Plymouth. In 1912 it built its first experimental vehicle for rail service when the Bigelow Clay Company requested a type of hy-rail truck, or one one which could be operated on steel rails. It then manufactured a number of experimental locomotives before introducing its first cataloged variant, the Model AL Type 1, in 1914 for the National Fire Proofing Company of Haydenville, Ohio. In 1919, J.D. Fate merged with Root-Heath Manufacturing to form Fate-Root-Heath Company.
During the late 1950's the Fate family sold their interest in the company at which point the railroad division became known as Plymouth Locomotive Works (it was ideally situated for this market with its plant based near both the Baltimore & Ohio and Akron, Canton & Youngstown). Interestingly, while enthusiasts may remember it best for locomotives, Plymouth marketed a wide range of products including cars (briefly), trucks, sightseeing buses, tractors, fork lifts, farming hand tools, and shoe repair kits. Its locomotive catalog was fascinatingly diverse with various types produced for either mining operations, carrying mechanical transmissions, or utilizing hydraulic transmissions. As the years passed, they became ever-larger; the heaviest type ever-offered was the CR-8XT model, which could be ordered up to 120 tons. In the 1970's another name change occurred as Plymouth Industries and in 1997 it was purchased by Ohio Locomotive Crane. In 1999 the plant was closed and production moved to Bucyrus, Ohio. Shortly thereafter all operations ceased. Today, one can still find hundreds of Plymouth locomotives at work in either industrial settings or pulling excursion trains. For more about the Plymouth Locomotive Works please click here.
Mopar-Mitch
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I'm in Edmonton, 20 miles from Glasgow. I bet you've seen all the Mopar stuff just outside Cave City, that's my wife's cousin. Next time your coming through PM me and I'll give you Direction's.
Frankie
Member #9641
1/1000th scale
smaller than "Z"
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smaller than "Z"
smallest z scale model railroad layout in the world - Yahoo Video Search Results
Very cool seeing the old steam engines restored. The wife and I just went on a short 50 minute ride on Osceola WI's train. Unfortunately they don't run the steam 328 Locomotive anymore for insurance purposes (according to a guy I asked that worked there) but it was still cool being in all the old A11 rail car.
Unconventional
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LocuMob
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Bummer, I was hoping to get a ride on a steamer, I guess it's been a few years since I asked, and they still ran it then.
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