For all of You Train Lovers

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1819- Heisler

1820- Climax

Alternative geared designs to the Shay.

 

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Ugh...there were things I hated about those hopper cars. Back when we had to do 48 month overhauls on the air brakes and those friction bearing trucks had everything coated in a quarter inch of black crud...

 

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In 1950, Westinghouse came up with this 4,000 horsepower jet powered locomotive concept nicknamed 'The Blue Goose'. Using two 2,000 hp. gas turbines, it did well in both freight and passenger testing and was geared for 100 mph. But nobody ordered it, so it was scrapped in 1953.

 

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[Mopar Hunter]

Can you @polywideblock post the names of these trains like @Photon440 has done?

 

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A New York Central Mercury train is dwarfed by Cleveland’s Union Station, November 1936

 

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Some of the engines that drove the 20th Century Limited, USA’s super trains of the 30s, 40s

 

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The Mercury Train

 

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Ten J2s were given streamlined skins designed by Henry Dreyfuss and ran on the New York – Chicago run starting in 1938

 

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4-6-4 #5702 (K-5-a) and 4-6-2 #5607 (P-4) pause at Guelph, Ontario in July of 1957.

 

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New York Central 4-6-4 #5305 (J-1)

 

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That's the PRR S1.

The Dreyfus Hudsons are in your other posts 1833 and 1837.
Good looking engines.