Road Steam Locomotive PC&O. Run By With Stack Talk 

Why can't this be street legal?

@@majorchungus if you put lights on it and decent brakes why not it just like any other rat Rider Hot Rod street rod

Wow this thing was for sale what was the price and where can a person see more specification and information about this rig. I thought it was completely homemade I had no idea that this thing was supposedly restored and from what year?

@@majorchungus 😏

Really what were they call this is not a traction engine tractor but rather a high-speed work truck Road locomotive:-) you have any more information? Thank you

@@markeverson5849 I've always just heard them referred to as "Road-Locomotives" since the first one I saw in the early 1970s. . . Back-in-the-day, if a farmer had an old Traction Engine that had worn out the gearing or busted an axle or had other issues making them little more than a Stationary Engine, they would find an old Truck Chassis in the junk yard and mount their old boiler/engine on it making themselves a "Road Locomotive" that could travel from farm to farm quicker than a regular Traction Engine to keep the "Threshing Rings" operating a few more years and over wider distances. . . There were enough of them built that they actually Raced Them on Dirt Tracks in the 1940s & early 50s in what (if I remember right) were called Road Locomotive Rodeo's. which while i HAVE SEEN Pictures of the races I have yet to find any video footage of them. . . I shot this video while riding on one them several years ago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--X5k3IFAuwk.html

@@oldSawyer thank you very much for filling me in on that information I pictured the whole thing in my mind yes those Road locomotives are awesome! I wonder if anybody ever put a 4-speed transmission behind it to reach higher speeds in more gears on the road locomotives :-) I'm sure they did! Imagine traveling at 50 60 miles an hour back in the day I wonder how many of them took them across the country headed for California Oregon :-) with their family and friends behind to go pick fruit and work or whatever?

@@markeverson5849 I believe Most of them, or at least the ones I've seen in person over the years, used the standard truck transmission with however many gears it had depending on the make & model, though with the shear power of Steam, you would likely leave it in High Gear for Road Travel, then drop it down to a lower gear if you were pulling wagons across a rough field or driving it in a Parade. . . Figure the Stanley Steamer and Doble Steam Cars had around a 1.5:1 or 1.6:1 rear gear ratio and NO Transmission with a Much Smaller Engine than these have, you could pretty much gear it for whatever speed you wanted (within reason) and still not have to shift gears.

@@oldSawyer okay thanks for the insight in the memory and experience on the whole thing yeah I would like a a road locomotive scale down to about the size of a pickup truck with the capability of pulling a trailer behind me but I would definitely want gears for the Super Highway to get out and cruise at 70 miles an hour or whatever she would take but I would definitely keep her looking like a locomotive that's the whole beauty of the whole thing:-) awesome where can I get a steam whistle to run out my truck with air do they make any aftermarket I bet you a guy could make his own steam whistle if he had a pattern of a good sounding one from the steam era? Any clues

trainguy111 yea it does