My grandfather designed streetcars for the Chicago Surface Lines from the 1920's until he retired in the 1950's. Before he left he designed the round CTA logo.
The steam locomotive 🚂🚂🚂🚂 in question, is it in the same steam locomotive family as the "Big Boy", was that type of train built at the Alco Company? Thank-you for your response ahead.
Could pull 735 fully loaded freight cars at a speed of 12mph was a super train .the Only down fall was as you can see the massive fuel tank burning 35 gallons a fuel a minute
They weren’t, by a long shot. At least not on the inside. In the late nineties, an SF train museum (at the recently defunct naval shipyard at Hunters Point) assembled the better part of a nearly full consist of a Daylight train. I got to see them. While interesting, I’d have to stop well short of beautiful. Lots of linoleum in sunny colors, and vinyl upholstery in the same. More bright Formica. But nothing else, really. They were cheerful, and like a lot of deco spaces, managed to look at once modern (or at least contemporary) AND dowdy. Frumpy. The interiors did not carry the exterior theme inside
Excuse me ladies and gentlemen, may I be allowed to use the footage of the C855 (ONLY) to colourize it? (I saw RU-vidr OttoMatic could use it too so I figured I may have a go at recolouring it due to it's rarity. Worst case I colour it, send it over to you and you upload it if necassary.)
That thumbnail, it's literally called the "Big Boy", so why in the world would you refer to it as a she, although all inanimate objects are genderless.
Oh wow... Thanks for the clip... That looks like two Power Packs (American) we call them Slave Units, here in NZ... What a beast... ❤ Pure power man... Before i die, i gotta get to the States, to see this shit for real, feel the ground move...
I am from Brazil, so I didn't have much information on the GT. In recent vídeos we can see trains running with some box cars with GT livery still living on. Its B-B locomotives ran fast and strongly! The early 90's were great for rail fans. Now everything looks so oligopolized.
