Get on board the Train, rail, locomotive and train modelling thread

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The mouth of Sainte-Catherine tunnel, Sotteville-lés-Rouen, 1931-1932.

 

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SPRR No.3625 2-10-2 and trainmen, Saugus, California, 1948.


Hamburg-Altona, 1958.


December 1935


3rd Avenue El, New York, 1952.

 

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November 1942. “Track crews repairing tracks in the roundhouse at the Illinois Central rail yard, Chicago.” Photo by Jack Delano for the OWI.






December 1942. “Chicago, Illinois. Repair and overhauling in the Chicago & North Western Railroad locomotive shops.”


Elevated Train, 9th Avenue, City of New York, 1940.


Circa 1899. “Near Lewiston, Minnesota

 

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The largest train engine in the world, The Chicago and Alton Railroad, 1907.

 

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March 1943. “Baring, Missouri. A flagman returning to a train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad about to start, after having taken on coal and water.”

 

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20th-Century Limited, New York to Chicago: 16 Hours, 1938 - Postcard published in the United States by the New York Central Railroad


Streamline Moderne: The General Motors 10-coach Aerotrain, Designed and Built by the Electro-Motive Division, 1956
Forty passengers per coach travel in air-conditioned comfort at sustained speeds of 100 miles an hour.

 

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The Schienenzeppelin (rail zeppelin) Berlin, June 1931. Photographer: Georg Pahl - an aluminum bodied experimental railcar with a streamlined zeppelin airship look. Designed and developed by the German aircraft engineer Franz Kruckenberg in 1929. A rear propeller provided the propulsion for the Schienenzeppelin. On 21 June 1931, it set a world railway speed record of 230.2 km/h (143.0 mph) - the railcar still holds the land speed record for a petrol powered rail vehicle. Only a single example was ever built - due to safety concerns it remained out of service and was finally dismantled in 1939.

 

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Union Pacific City of Las Vegas Aerotrain, December 1956/September 1957

 

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ALWEG monorail test track, Germany 1952 - ALWEG would go on to produce the original Disneyland Monorail System, which opened in 1959, as well as the Seattle Center Monorail, built for the 1962 Worlds Fair.

The original DISNEYLAND-ALWEG MONORAIL SYSTEM, 1959 - Disneyland had two monorail vehicles at the time - one red and chrome, and one blue and chrome.

 

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Ad from 1960.

 

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Dramatic Railway Cable Repair Action: Post-Stalin era photo from the Soviet magazine ‘SMENA’

 

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The futuristic Dreyfuss Streamliner Train, unveiled at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York

 

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Chicago & North Western passenger train with a class E-4 Hudson 4-6-4 steam locomotive

 

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“Tamasopo River Canyon”, San Luis Potosi, Mexique, ca. Années 1890