5 axle diesel? How about a three wheel locomotive?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Yep, thats right, 3 wheeler. Somewhere in my surfing, I found a site that showed a three wheeled loco and cars running on two rails. To throw a little more intrigue into this, only one rail was on the ground, the other was mounted on poles above it. Loco had two wheels on the ground and the third wheel on the above rail to keep everything upright. This was back in the 1800’s. Where, I can’t recall. Needles to say it didn’t work too well. Can any of you historians help me find this again? Talk about a prototype to model!!! Ken

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Is this close enough?

Or are you talking about this?

Or how about a single rail train?

Or a 3 rail train (but not like you think).

Or a 3 rail powered by the wind!

Or some rather curious locomotive design?

Or a portable railway?

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Yep!!! Thats it. Thanks

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I added some more oddballs. Check them out!

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Did I start something? Weird loco weekend?

As soon as I read this thread’s title I thought of two rail systems.

  1. Can’t recall the name… occurred in a remote part of India (as in the Raj). The system was a monorail laid beside a road with 3 drivers under the locos which sat almost over the rail but offset slightly toward the road on which a large (spoked) metal wheel ran on the end of an outrigger. Like a lot of monorails this system depended on more than one line of supported.

Switching was done with stub points… I assume that the road wheel made a “grade crossing” of the rail.

  1. The Lartique system. Strictly a tri-rail this French system actually produced a “reguler” railway in Ireland- the Listowel and Ballybunion which has been modelled in both 4mm and (IIRC) 16mm (16mm = 1’ gives 2’ gauge on 0 Gauge track). The system used an A frame to carry the supporting track on the top with two lesser rails as guides each side about a foot from the ground. Both L&B loco types were 3 wheelers IIRC. One had two conventional loco boilers the other had two vertical boilers. Why two boilers? One each side of the track.

Lartique switching was done using curved turntables.

Or were these 9 wheelers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lartigue_Monorail

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/lartigue/lartigue.htm#top

2nd site even includes a US example!

[:P]

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I’ve seen those three wheel scooters. Even a couple motorized ones. But I would hardly call them locomotives.

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The EMD FL9 had 5 axles. Two on the front truck, three on the rear. Fairbanks Morse had a C-Liner type loco that had 5 axles.

The steam loco on the monorail in India was kind of a 1-1-1T engine.

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FM also had a cab unit that had a two axle truck in front and a three axle at the rear. Don’t ask me which class at this point though!

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I meant not he scooter, but the website listed, Ken

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http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/brennan/brennan.htm

How about some monorail boys [:P]

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google the listowel and ballybunion lartigue railway.

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Check out this oddball. One of the items listed on my forum.

http://www.trainweb.org/railworld/Trip%202001/PSMT/psmt_1.jpg

http://www.trainweb.org/railworld/Trip%202001/PSMT/

http://www.irfca.org/members/ddickens/PSMTMain.html

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lthought the original post described something like this:

http://www.scripophily.net/bobiracowevi.html

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Let’s activate this link.

That definately belongs in the odd-ball catagory. That site would be better if it didn’t have all that text overlaid on the pics.

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The velocipede was kind of a joke.

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Thats the one in the first link in my original post. Definately an oddball!

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That’s what I call narrow gauge!! I wonder if they made regular “Training Wheels” for that bicycle locomotive…

Good thing that Harley Davidson and Baldwin Locomotive works never merged…