I love Trains!

[Lasonic TRC-920]

I have always loved trains....since a kid I have had model trains have gone to train yards to see vintage steam trains all over California, Arizona, Nevada and other places in the US. I also enjoy check out youtube video's for vintage trains...below are some favs...

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[mmcodomino]

Cool .
If you ever come to Germany, you have to check out the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg Biggest model train set up in the world

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Cool .
If you ever come to Germany, you have to check out the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg Biggest model train set up in the world

I have seen that on youtube, amazing....I have ridden the trains in Germany, beautiful, clean trains....

 

[gsbadbmr]

Me too, i love trains. One of my good friends works for CP Rail...and gets to ride/drive trains daily, they are amazing machines!

 

[Terry]

>>>>>>Bopeechee Video

Speaking as an Australian: OMG that's a long way from anywhere Chris.

It's slightly North East of where the Brits tested nuclear weapons in the 50's in the Australia outback, also coincidently near Roxby Downs, a Uranium mine.

 

[THAFUZZ]

Steam trains are the coolest of them all. My Father-in-law was an Engineer and drove for Norfolk Southern R/R for 19 yrs.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Me too, i love trains. One of my good friends works for CP Rail...and gets to ride/drive trains daily, they are amazing machines!

Our own Melly is an engineer!

>>>>>>Bopeechee Video

Speaking as an Australian: OMG that's a long way from anywhere Chris.

It's slightly North East of where the Brits tested nuclear weapons in the 50's in the Australia outback, also coincidently near Roxby Downs, a Uranium mine.

Wild man....Your island is SOOOOO frigen big! I just thought that video was crazy, the machine is pulling up it's own roadway.... weird and sad at the same time. It's like watching a robot commit suicide!

Steam trains are the coolest of them all. My Father-in-law was an Engineer and drove for Norfolk Southern R/R for 19 yrs.

Yeah, steam locomotives are amazing. A great book to read is "Scalded to death by the steam". It's a bunch of real stories from the turn of the century of horrific steam train accidents. Those engineer's had ball of titanium.

 

[goodman]

This is very interesting topic. I love trains too.
I have seen Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg on youtube.
This is one of the places I want to visit...
Here is a videos of one small model train layout:
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[Northerner]

If you like trains you should try our national railway museum in York, it houses loads of amazing trains from all over the world. Free to get in too, though obviously its bit far Been there loads of times when the kids were younger as its not far from me.

http://www.nrm.org.uk/OurCollection/most_popular.aspx

 

[RadioRaheem]

i like trains too, especially painted (that one's from my good friend "NUKE") trainrockers 4 life!!

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

This is very interesting topic. I love trains too.
I have seen Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg on youtube.
This is one of the places I want to visit...
Here is a videos of one small model train layout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTh6X6mLyGY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARtOWhaibjw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sbqquG9unA

Totally dig model railroads as well. Some people go NUTZ. One day I would like to build a model system. I have a few different gauges. I still have the set my grandmother gave me for christmas when I was about 6-7. Always goes under the tree!

I spend hours watching youtube at night (when not on Boomboxery of course) looking at video's of peoples set up's.

If you like trains you should try our national railway museum in York, it houses loads of amazing trains from all over the world. Free to get in too, though obviously its bit far Been there loads of times when the kids were younger as its not far from me.

http://www.nrm.org.uk/OurCollection/most_popular.aspx

That would be something to see! I have been to quite a few train museums around the US. I think it would be cool to see the trains in York

 

[ClaretBadger]

When we Brits made the worlds railways we made some bonkers hardware


A company called English Electric decided to construct a locomotive powered by TWO 1750bhp 2 stroke engines with triangular 18 cylinder formations called DELTIC (which were originaly designed for minesweeper boats!)

They ran from the 50's until the early 1980's and sounded like nothing else

When they did their final runs in the UK they attracted crowds like Beatlemania across the land in 1982

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[THAFUZZ]

When we Brits made the worlds railways we made some bonkers hardware


A company called English Electric decided to construct a locomotive powered by 1750bhp TWO 2 stroke engines with triangular 18 cylinder formations called DELTIC (which were originaly designed for minesweeper boats!)

They ran from the 50's until the early 1980's and sounded like nothing else

When they did their final runs in the UK they attracted crowds like Beatlemania across the land in 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xSbmBhFnQk

What a fascinating engine and cool story.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

When we Brits made the worlds railways we made some bonkers hardware


A company called English Electric decided to construct a locomotive powered by TWO 1750bhp 2 stroke engines with triangular 18 cylinder formations called DELTIC (which were originaly designed for minesweeper boats!)

They ran from the 50's until the early 1980's and sounded like nothing else

When they did their final runs in the UK they attracted crowds like Beatlemania across the land in 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xSbmBhFnQk

I love this statement...."Their wonderful, their uncomfortable and terribly noisy".

Amazing machines!

 

[ClaretBadger]

The crazy thing is that the engine isn't a four stroke - and isn't a conventional "Vee" design

so it revved realy high to achieve maximum power:

"The Napier designed and built Deltic engine, originally developed for post war motor torpedo boats, is unique in terms of cylinder configuration as it has its cylinders arranged in triangular banks of 3. These banks have a crankshaft in each of the triangle corner points, which in turn connect to pairs of opposed pistons. Each bank has 3 cylinders, 6 pistons and 3 crankshafts."

as a motorhead - I found these things fascinating

http://royalscotsgrey.com/deltics.htm

check out the gif here how the thing works - they still run these on special passenger services in the UK now and again - as they saved six from the scrap heap

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

The crazy thing is that the engine isn't a four stroke - and isn't a conventional "Vee" design

so it revved realy high to achieve maximum power:

"The Napier designed and built Deltic engine, originally developed for post war motor torpedo boats, is unique in terms of cylinder configuration as it has its cylinders arranged in triangular banks of 3. These banks have a crankshaft in each of the triangle corner points, which in turn connect to pairs of opposed pistons. Each bank has 3 cylinders, 6 pistons and 3 crankshafts."

as a motorhead - I found these things fascinating

http://royalscotsgrey.com/deltics.htm

check out the gif here how the thing works - they still run these on special passenger services in the UK now and again - as they saved six from the scrap heap

WHAAA THE FUUUUU?????

OK, I have NEVER seen that before!

Last week I spent a few hours reading and wrapping my head around the "W6", W8" and W16" engine configurations and this is really out there....I will have to get some more info on those for sure....

Absolutely mind bending!

The gear head in me just eats this stuff up!

Thanks for sharing.

 

[goodman]

It's winter now:

 

[chevyman-uy]

Im too love trains! , My grandfather, father and uncle worked first in the CURR(central uruguay railway) later AFE(state administration railway).
In the 90 I was in a club restoring a steam locomotive and make Tourist trains with USA and UK fans. http://www.traintrips.biz/index.html
Our Railway like a alive musseum since much of the material is old, but continue to serve.
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old video from 1997 ,i appears at 4:11 ,oscure tshirt whit stripes,stand on the cab loco
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my favorite diesel locomotive Alco General&Electric 1500 Shaved Nose ,arrived 47 in the 50 and 8 still work today !!! .is a double cab model ,the one cab model ride in alaska in the Yukon pass.
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German "ferrobus" Uerdingen
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1937 Brill motor car USA ,in service
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[Lasonic TRC-920]

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One day I'm gonna build me a cool lay out....it's on the LIST

Im too love trains! , My grandfather, father and uncle worked first in the CURR(central uruguay railway) later AFE(state administration railway).
In the 90 I was in a club restoring a steam locomotive and make Tourist trains with USA and UK fans. http://www.traintrips.biz/index.html
Our Railway like a alive musseum since much of the material is old, but continue to serve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDfeGqaFGig
old video from 1997 ,i appears at 4:11 ,oscure tshirt whit stripes,stand on the cab loco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_GULJ_xtA
my favorite diesel locomotive Alco General&Electric 1500 Shaved Nose ,arrived 47 in the 50 and 8 still work today !!! .is a double cab model ,the one cab model ride in alaska in the Yukon pass.
[youtube]tayRXEUkIaE[/youtube
German "ferrobus" Uerdingen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcJ1yk9iX7w
1937 Brill motor car USA ,in service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktbru1Trnq0

This is something I have always wanted to do, volunteer at a local vintage train yard and work on steam trains! GREAT video's....I love it. Not to far from where I live is the town of FILMORE and they have a nice collection of trains and run them regularly. They recently got a steam train running at great expense. In the summer they have "Dinner Trains" and for a reasonable price you get a ride on the train, have dinner and a murder mystery show by actors. They use a push pull set up with a diesel electric and the steam engine, one at each end.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

BIG TRAIN NEWS!

At the end of last year Union Pacific Railroad announced they were looking to refurbish the biggest locomotive ever built. The 4-8-8-4 Big Boy. In the last few months, negotiations have been going on to acquire #4014, one of only 8 remaining Big Boy's of the original 25 built. #4014 is currently in Pomona California on display at the Fairplex Rail Museum. Thanks to information from our very own mellymelsr (who is a train engineer) it sounds like this is going to happen! Below is the first story regarding this.

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More Info:
Big Boy was the name of the Union Pacific Railroad's 4000-class 4-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives, built between 1941 and 1944 by American Locomotive Company (Alco). The 25 Big Boys were the only locomotives to have the 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement, with two sets of eight driving wheels, a four-wheel leading truck for stability entering curves and a four-wheel trailing truck to support the large firebox.

Here is a picture of #4014 in Pomona, Ca