Posts Tagged ‘Locomotives’

Minecraft Mods – TRAINS Mod! Build Locomotives, High Speed Trains & Track Layouts!

GameChap and Bertie inspect the spiffing Trains modification! A glorious show of steam, trains, railways and the like! TO DOWNLOAD: Visit the Released Mods section at MinecraftForum! The topic name is [1.7.3]Trains and Zeppelin mod[1.21].

Train Pictures New Zealand Locomotives

New Zealand Locomotives by Train Pictures. Take a ride back in time to the 1960s and view the transition from steam to diesel power on the New Zealand Government Railways. Noted railway photographer Ron Harris takes us through this period with rare footage, audio recordings and photographs he produced when working as an engine driver for the railway. You can purchase this DVD at www.trainpictures.com.au

Steam locomotives 3016 & 3112 hard at work.

Steam locomotives 3016 & 3112 storm through Bargo with a NSW Rail Transport Museum tour to Moss Vale on Sunday October 15th, 2006.

N Scale Steam Locomotives

Various N Scale Steam Locomotives running by and dubbed with sound.

German steam locomotives 01 1066 and 41 018 on 2.5% Schiefe Ebene grade, 1st run

Rebuilt in the 1950s by the German Federal Railway (DB), 01 1066 and 41 018 are among the most modern and successful German steam locomotives. Both are equipped with oil burners. Whilst express train locomotive 01 1066 is a 3 cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific cleared for 140 km/h (87 mph), fast freight engine 41 018 is a 2 cylinder 2-8-2 Mikado cleared for 90 km/h (56 mph). On October 21, 2006 at 2:10h pm and 4:48h pm the two engines battled gravity with 12 coaches in tow on the famous 2.5 percent Schiefe Ebene grade (Neuenmarkt – Marktschorgast) North of the town of Bayreuth not far from the German-Czech border. Both runs were recorded from different perspectives at the reverse curves near to kilometer post 80 – this video shows the 2:10h pm run. The tour was organized by IGE Bahntouristik, www.bahntouristik.de See and hear the tremendous effort of the two engines, ejecting their exhaust perpendicularly from the stack, clouds of white steam passing off the open cylinder cocks, and their steady, booming, thunderous voices echoing through the mountains. Watch the big 3 cylinder Pacific steadily blasting up grade through the reverse curves followed by the coaches and listen to the 2 cylinder beat of 41 018 shoving with everything she’s got. Long before they appeared and for minutes after they had passed by, the forest reverberated with the sound of the engines. Enjoy! © T. Sohns, Germany

Route of the 20th Century Limited featuring classic NYC streamlined steam locomotives

The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train operated by the New York Central Railroad from 1902 to 1967. The train travelled between Grand Central Terminal in New York City and LaSalle Street Station in Chicago, Illinois along the railroad’s famed “Water Level Route”. The NYC inaugurated this train as direct competition to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Broadway Limited, both lines intended for upper class as well as business travellers between the two cities. Making few station stops along the way and utilizing track pans along the route to take water at speed, the train completed the 960.7 miles (1546 km) journey in 16 hours, departing New York City westbound at 6:00 PM Eastern Time and arriving at Chicago’s LaSalle St. Station the following morning at 9:00 AM Central Time., averaging 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). This collection of clips shows The 20th Century Limited in it’s heyday being hauled by classic NYC streamlined steam locomotives including the famous Hudson’s.

Pennsylvania Steam Locomotives – 1950′s Historic American Trains & Railroading

Various scenes from the 1950′s filmed on the lines of the Pennysylvannia Railroad (PRR). A variety of freight, coal, and passenger services are seen.