A twin supercharged GTO for 1600 hp. Crazy. youtube clip
Friday, September 27, 2013
E units in Dallas, Texas, 1950s
A Santa Fe E6 and a Chicago Burlington and Quincy E8 with passenger trains in Dallas. Both railroads were predecessor components of today's BNSF.
Golden Pears + Union Pacific streamliner, 1930s
Presumably the UP train was just there to make the label look good, although the grower may have shipped their produce with the railroad. After being out of refrigerated fruit haulage for a while, UP returned to it a few years ago - details on their website
Thursday, September 26, 2013
an Oregon big stick
In other words a very big log on a flat car. The trees were likewise big and could grow upwards of 300 ft (90 metres).
Southern Pacific's 'Shasta Daylight' passes Lake Odell, Oregon, 1957
This train ran between San Francisco (Oakland Pier) and Portland, Oregon, from 1949 to 1966.
steam loco on the Carrara marble quarry line, Italy
This standard gauge railway was opened in 1876 and reached a maximum extent of 33 km. The maximum gradient was 5.8%. It was predominately steam worked until the last few years and lasted to 1964 when it was replaced by road transport. Many of the civil engineering works that were built for the the railway still exist today, some of which are used by the road
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