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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Land => Topic started by: ysi_maniac on May 30, 2022, 08:36:41 PM

Title: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on May 30, 2022, 08:36:41 PM

Toying with Big Boy and Southern Pacific class GS-4 4449 type aka Golden State

1st and 2nd are the real things

3th is 4449 with  Big Boy config, a huge locomotive

4th is Big Boy lightly steam lined

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/GoldenState-BigBoy.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/2ec0db88-af70-4852-a640-13d02c5e8cdf)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: GTX_Admin on May 31, 2022, 01:19:47 AM

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/e68/GTwiner/8EAE5105-0B51-44F1-8A8F-3369E534994B.jpeg)(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/e68/GTwiner/93438A63-F15C-4F91-8361-1CD7F020C91C.jpeg)

CFBV

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: finsrin on May 31, 2022, 05:06:55 AM

 Just what railroads need or perhaps not.

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: The Big Gimper on May 31, 2022, 06:12:21 AM

Questions:

1. Only 9 traction wheels?
2. What is the turning radius?

Otherwise I want one.

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: Buzzbomb on May 31, 2022, 06:29:22 AM

Snowpiercer ?
(https://koomzmixer.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/snowpiercerconceptart.jpg)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on May 31, 2022, 09:20:48 PM

Blue Train 8) :-\

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/Bentley-Blue-Train_alt(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/546d1801-5c22-4da8-99b1-814bb855fa22)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on May 31, 2022, 09:23:04 PM

Talgo truck

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/j340/ysi_maniac/draw trains/.highres/TalgoTruck.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/76cf14b3-e813-4e81-b403-1a2c074c5788)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on May 31, 2022, 09:27:26 PM

Non electrical alternatives to TGV locomotives.

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/j340/ysi_maniac/draw trains/LGV-01.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/4b99016f-ddd2-4e7c-badd-5f12b80ac6ad)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: GTX_Admin on June 01, 2022, 01:38:19 AM

Train from Man in the High Castle series:

(https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/039/183/096/large/kris-bergthorson-4.jpg?1625163864)
(https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/039/183/098/large/kris-bergthorson-5.jpg?1625163869)
(https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/039/183/092/large/kris-bergthorson-3a.jpg?1625163837)

CFBVs

And video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ih8G8N7e6g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ih8G8N7e6g)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: apophenia on June 03, 2022, 10:31:21 AM

Quote from: GTX_Admin on June 01, 2022, 01:38:19 AM

Train from Man in the High Castle series: ...

I don't know the series but I like the look of that train. Less sure about the armament ... so decided to 'deNazify' it.

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: Old Wombat on June 03, 2022, 10:53:35 PM

The only sensible guns on it were the turrets, the forward firing guns would be next to useless.

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on June 08, 2022, 01:31:29 AM

Short versions of known SNCF electric locomotives , that apear on top of each image.

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/sncf_cc6510_short.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/45509ee6-494f-4f9c-8ef9-50d75b53ec8e)

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/SNCF-CC7100_short.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/082d6509-7324-4b19-8788-d01d4d4e0e17)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: GTX_Admin on June 08, 2022, 02:50:13 AM

How about racing locomotives:

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n3RbJbRyiPg/UwpNMQhgEcI/AAAAAAAC15U/uPgi29y1y3o/s1600/Untitledrqebe.jpg)

More here (http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/02/racing-trains-incredibly-cool-steam.html)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: finsrin on June 08, 2022, 04:51:18 AM

Nifty  :smiley:

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on June 13, 2022, 09:46:08 PM

Grosser Junge

What if Big Boy config applied to german BR42?

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/GrosserJunge.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/1f0d619e-e2a4-431a-955f-f1c2ca7aa805)

Top, BigBoy; center, Grosser Junge; and bottom, BR-42

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on June 16, 2022, 06:06:44 PM

One vision of Soviet Atomic Train. See track gauge :o :blink:

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/locomotive03.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/421f9501-14b6-406f-ba33-c9728c621a35)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: GTX_Admin on June 17, 2022, 01:32:42 AM

Wow!

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: raafif on June 17, 2022, 08:36:02 AM

They must have captured Hitler's plans for a train on super-wide track. :-\

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on June 17, 2022, 03:56:04 PM

This different design is marked as Soviet Atomic Train too. Track gauge looks huge, only two floors, ... but those rods connecting wheels looks steam. ???

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/locomotive02.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/2bb62db1-0000-4f93-a6fa-1a183752e5ec)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: aerospacer on June 19, 2022, 05:56:54 AM

Supertain, anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertrain

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: The Big Gimper on June 19, 2022, 07:54:57 PM

Quote from: aerospacer on June 19, 2022, 05:56:54 AM

Supertain, anyone? [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertrain[/url] ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertrain[/url])

Cool. Lots of information here:  http://nbc_supertrain.tripod.com/index.html (http://nbc_supertrain.tripod.com/index.html)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on June 29, 2022, 01:40:55 AM

Comparing X12 with Big Boy

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/X12_BigBoy_cmp.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/a876d46f-1804-4d81-a6d6-69d8cc82d27c)

Perhaps some of you can help me:

1. I assume X12 is an articulated locomotive. In this drawing I see just an articulation between main locomotive and the cooling car.

2. Is it possible for head piece to be supported by three bogies? Should it be another articulation? Where? ahead control area? Between control area and the reactor?

3. What is the steam generator in control area? Is it the generator to heat the train (mentioned in text)?

Thank you in advance.

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: ysi_maniac on June 30, 2022, 08:32:23 PM

Santa Fe atomic locomotive, compared with X12 design.  :smiley:

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/santaFeAtomicLoco.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/3b51211d-59b0-4ebc-8283-6cac6ea80414/p/6c9bf52d-e6cb-49da-b5d4-b33d8409fa7d)

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: elmayerle on June 13, 2023, 06:18:41 AM

I acquired a reference book on the varied trubine locomotives used by the Union Pacific.  The front of those atomic-powered locomotives resembles the Steam Turbine locomotive that GE produced in the 1945-46 timeframe and which were tested by at least the Union Pacific and the Great Northern but not purchased by either or by any other tester.

Title: Re: Locomotives
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 23, 2024, 01:59:43 AM

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Einschienerp.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Brennan_monorail.png/2880px-Brennan_monorail.png)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail