Steam locomotive machinery porn

Photo by Ian Shive : détail, steam museum. Pennsylvania

Found on https://www.facebook.com/marc.tudeau?fref=photo

very old, but very interesting how innovative the movie makers were with portable tracks, and using stage coaches for train cars? Very cool

Post by Mark Dalton.

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the driver got out of the semi, and then the train drover right through it, Mer Rouge Louisianna,Oct 5th 2014. One traincar of pressurized Argon leaked out

image from http://www.knoe.com/story/26708389/train-derails-in-mer-rouge




KNOE 8 News; KNOE-TV;  KNOE.com |
http://www.knoe.com/story/26708389/train-derails-in-mer-rouge

The engineer and conductor were injured when a freight train hit a truck Sunday at a crossing in Mer Rouge, derailing two engines and 17 cars of the 87-car train, state police said.

Crews worked throughout the night and could have line open later Monday, troopers said.

Union Pacific Railroad Co. officials said the conductor's injuries weren't considered life-threatening. He was being treated at a hospital in Shreveport. They say the engineer suffered minor injuries.

Mer Rouge Police Chief Mitch Stephens said about 50 houses were evacuated for about two hours due to concerns that a tank car of pressurized argon gas might explode. Another tank of argon, an inert gas used to fill light bulbs and in arc welding, leaked until it was empty, he said.

Stephens said the trailer got stuck on the tracks crossing Highway 165, the trucker Daniel Shackleford, of Freedom, Missouri, was unhurt. Shackleford was hauling a rig owned by Taylor Truck Line of Northfield, Minnesota.

"He saw the train coming and he jumped out of the truck," Stephens said.

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Keep your cameras handy, there is always something happening, and always record any thing the police do.

loading a logging train in 1926

pretty bare bones rail cars... 

crowd funding a train restoration

In 1903 the North Eastern Railway developed a train that challenged steam, and is the forerunner of modern trains.They are engineering to make it environmentally friendly in terms of economy, emissions and noise thanks to a new Cummins engine that has been adapted to run the old motors.

 Called the ‘autocar’ it was powered by a petrol engine supplying electricity to electric motors. In 1930 it was withdrawn from service and the body became a holiday home in Yorkshire. Rescued ten years ago, restoration is well underway thanks to the support of Heritage Lottery Fund and other grants.

Found on http://www.electricautocar.co.uk/  and  http://www.getnews.info/turn-of-century-british-traincar-to-roll-again-with-help-from-crowdsourced-funding_6170.html

Unusual locomotive design

A rare picture of the second Fontaine, shown here arriving at St Thomas, Ontario, Canada, in July 1881, for trails on the Canada Southern Railroad. Engineer Ike Deyell stands in the gangway, whileFireman George Westfall is leaning from the cab.
 From A Locomotive Engineer's Album
 George B Abdill 1965

The cylinders were 17 x 24 in, the wheelbase was 23 ft 4 in, and the total heating surface (firebox + tubes) was 1033.5 sq ft. Total weight was 82,000 lb.
 (Info from Scientific American Supplement, 5th November 1881

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