Trains... Choo Choo, not the dirty kind.

Griff · 01-01-2018, 08:43 AM

Long strange trip...

xoxoxoBruce · 02-10-2018, 02:55 PM

53 pictures of the London Underground...

Carruthers · 02-11-2018, 04:08 AM

You can't stand in the way of progress and in 1922/23 the Metropolitan-Vickers electric loco was introduced.

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Dad commuted into London in the late fifties to early sixties during the last days of steam and remembers these machines.
Trains from Aylesbury and points north would pause to uncouple the steam engine at Rickmansworth and continue, electric hauled, to Baker Street and beyond.
Out of the twenty built two remain. One is in the London Transport museum and another, Sarah Siddons, is preserved in running order for special occasions, enthusiast trips, etc.

As a bonus, there's a steam loco on the other end.

Carruthers · 02-11-2018, 04:27 AM

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Drivers Stephen and Chris prepare for the first day of operations after the winter closure at the Kirklees Light Railway in West Yorkshire.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-16-2018, 10:19 PM

First wreck of a streamliner...

xoxoxoBruce · 03-12-2018, 10:35 PM

Kellogg lumber company...

glatt · 03-13-2018, 07:22 AM

I wonder how effective those skis at the front are for steering that massive thing. I'd imagine skid steering would work better.

01-01-2018, 08:43 AM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Long strange trip... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

02-10-2018, 02:55 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	53 pictures of the London Underground... Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-11-2018, 04:08 AM	#3
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	You can't stand in the way of progress and in 1922/23 the Metropolitan-Vickers electric loco was introduced. Dad commuted into London in the late fifties to early sixties during the last days of steam and remembers these machines. Trains from Aylesbury and points north would pause to uncouple the steam engine at Rickmansworth and continue, electric hauled, to Baker Street and beyond. Out of the twenty built two remain. One is in the London Transport museum and another, Sarah Siddons, is preserved in running order for special occasions, enthusiast trips, etc. As a bonus, there's a steam loco on the other end. __________________

02-11-2018, 04:27 AM	#4
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	Drivers Stephen and Chris prepare for the first day of operations after the winter closure at the Kirklees Light Railway in West Yorkshire. __________________

02-16-2018, 10:19 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	First wreck of a streamliner... __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-12-2018, 10:35 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Kellogg lumber company... Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-13-2018, 07:22 AM	#7
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I wonder how effective those skis at the front are for steering that massive thing. I'd imagine skid steering would work better.

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