Found this photo of a frame, running gear, boiler, supposedly built by Baldwin. Add your own options. I see a steam line running up to the cylinders. Try to model this and hide the motor.
Rich
Looks like the running gear to a steam dummy - i.e. a small steam locomotive dressed up like a horsecar. Interesting picture.
- Erik
Wow! interesting find. I think it looks like a cross of the 0-6-0T And the Best Friend of Charleston. Cool! Maby 1820’s eara? IDK. Cool though![:)]
I found this follow up article where I found the photo.
it has more horses than a speeder would require. I MHO, I think it’s a
power unit to turn an old passenger car into a self propelled unit.<
Here’s something similar being built in England as part of a project
to restore an early 20th century steam rail motor (steam railcar).
http://www.railmotor93.org/railmotorpower.html
http://www.railmotor93.org/railmotor.html
Interesting reading.
Rich
Wow! Those are some really weired locomotives! Cool. Sure don’t look anything like the modern ES44AC now do thay?
Rich - Thanks for the photo, research, and links.
Simply amazing - astounding. And almost seems like a weird dream - never even heard of or saw a “Railmotor” befoire this.
Now since this can be done, can Jurassic Park be far behind ? [swg]
Congrats to the Brits !
- PDN.
Steam-powered coaches date from early in railroad history. In the book “Self-Propelled Cars of the CNR” by Anthony Clegg, he mentions that the Concord Railway in New Hampshire had one as early as 1850. The Grand Trunk Railway (in the pre-CN era) had three steam cars, one of which came second hand from the L&N. They were built in the 1907-1912 period, when internal combustion engines were still quite primitive and not very reliable. The picture of one of the cars indicates that only one of the two axles on one truck was powered, and I assume the boiler was likely mounted as part of the truck. The body was that of an equivalent conventional passenger car.
John