Post trains that are just a bit weird or different from the norm. All trains welcome, passenger, freight, locomotive, rolling stock, etc.Saw this one in the Netherlands and it's a bit odd.>EMU>Only one motor car>Which has three bogies and one level>Every other coach is a normal bilevel
Houston airport subway, it's the only example of a WEDway people mover built by Disney outside of the parks.
>>1992917The DDZ is still looking good... Quite aesthetic solution hiding the loco under the upper passenger deck.I (mildly autistic) am to this day bothered by the design of Stadler GTWs due to that fucking engine/electrics compartment. It's like putting a small freight wagon into a passenger consist just because.Inb4: they need to put the engine or electrical components somewhereSo does Alstom, Siemens and Bombardier, yet they don't need a fucking freight car for it.
>>1993631But they need to put the engine or electrical components somewhere cheap.But putting it in the middle they can keep the other components mostly the same, no matter if the final product is an EMU or DMU.
>>1993631Seems fine, keeps the mechanical components separated from the passenger cabins and makes them easier to access for maintenance crews>yet they don't need a fucking freight car for itIt's more akin to a locomotive than a freight car
>>1993631It's not just Stadler, Materfer in Argentina also make a DMU like that.Except this one is laid out like a tram and has a bogie directly under the engine compartment
The Nova 3s, simply because of how they came about.> Be TransPennine Express> You want to off-lease half of your existing, uniform fleet> Order some iets but they won't be ready for a while> Order an EMU and some loco-hauled stock based off those planned for the Caledonian Sleeper from CAF, so they arrive before the iets> You ordered your trains from CAF, so they arrive late and are riddled with faults to the point that their introduction is so close to the iets, you may as well have not bothered> The lateness of the CAF trains cause you to extend your lease on the legacy fleet> You can now improve capacity because you have more of the legacy fleet than planned> Covid hits and you now have more trains than you know what to do with> As a result, your loco hauled trains become niche and basically stuck to 1 route> Eventually realise that they don't really fit within your fleet and decided to send them off-lease and keep your legacy fleet alongside the other 2 trainsThey sounded cool though, and that's all that matters (Class 68 my beloved)
Rotary snow plough. When a normal blade won't cut it.>>1993959Didn't the Nova 3 carriage sets also have problems with cracking? I heard that it's happened with the other CAF Mk 5 carriages (Caledonian sleeper).This is along with unreliability and noise complaints from the class 68s, which is all why they're being withdrawn so soon. It's a shame but I wonder if Chiltern will take them. They're looking for new stock and this might be able to fill gaps in their roster.
>>1993893Reminds me of the Lego monorail system, which I guess belongs in this thread as an unusual toy train system. Nobody else used a single-sided horizontal gear and flat road surface, did they?I can't understand the logic behind this on real trains though, and I've seen it too on the Twin Cities light rail (Siemens S70, I think?) you've put the part that's most likely to fail in between two long, half-supported frames so reaching it is a hassle, and in a head-on collision it's a nice solid lump of metal to crush your passengers against.
Metro transfer with dynamometer car A17 serving as a brake van.Dv12 numbers are slowly decreasing :(
Brazilian mining concern Vale operates a handful of railways and ordered locomotives with 8 axles instead of 6. I believe they're also narrow gauge
>>1992917Early bilevel EMUs from the 80s had a hard time fitting all the mechanical components. In Switzerland the first such "EMUs" were pseudo-EMUs consisting of three bilevel cars and a matching locomotive, all coupled together into a fixed set. Then they couple those sets together, up to three per train.
>>1993631>I (mildly autistic) am to this day bothered by the design of Stadler GTWs due to that fucking engine/electrics compartment. It's like putting a small freight wagon into a passenger consist just because.>Inb4: they need to put the engine or electrical components somewhere>So does Alstom, Siemens and Bombardier, yet they don't need a fucking freight car for it.I understand your autism, but it's actually not a bad solution. The advantage is that except the far ends of the cars theyhave completely level floor at platform height, while other EMUs have a much more irregular floor height with ramps and protrusions hidden below the seats and whatnot. From that perspective I actually find them superior, although I think by now this is an obsolete model.
>>1994794>The advantage is that except the far ends of the cars theyhave completely level floor at platform height, while other EMUs have a much more irregular floor height with ramps and protrusions hidden below the seats and whatnot. From that perspective I actually find them superior, although I think by now this is an obsolete model.The new TGV-M have a little "wagon" named greffon just behind the two loco, it have several advantages, first, until now due to design the TGV must have been two types of coachs now all the coach are the same and shorten by 1m and it reduce cost increase fexibility and also shorten the loco by 4 meters so no space lost, second, technical equipments are moved in those greffon and above all they are equiped with big batteries allowing autonomous of the train for few hours in case of powerline shutdown and the ability for the train to move at low speed to a station or a functional power line. This capacity can also be used in case of overloading of the electric network to smooth consumption.
>>1995131U N INIMOGGED
>>1994793Ackchyually it's not a locomotive but a "motor carriage with luggage compartment".I do wonder if the compartments with the yellow (now blue) doors have ever seen any revenue cargo.
>>1995143That is no Unimog.That's a 'Mittelschwerer Frontlenker', built from 1965 to 1975
>>1995152>Ackchyually it's not a locomotive but a "motor carriage with luggage compartment".Wouldn't "motor CARRIAGE" imply that it carries passengers?>I do wonder if the compartments with the yellow (now blue) doors have ever seen any revenue cargo.I highly doubt it. At most I'd think some internal stuff that would have to be moved around.
>>1992940Nowadays, you can't even find a WEDway people mover INSIDE the park.
Torpedo wagon for molten steel.
>>1995426Ouch, it hurts, but it's true...at least Florida has theirs
>>1992917Was on a weekend trip from Germany to Amsterdam last weekend and had the pleasure to ride on a DDZ unit for my first time (and generally using a "classic" Dutch train), even on the upper level of the power unit. Despite being quite simple compared to other train sets, I really liked it. It's not a pretty face, but I kind of fell in love with the design of its characteristic head that just screams "I'm Dutch". Might have to plan another short trip to NL some time since I heard the NS is planning to replace them in the next coming years by new CAF mixed single deck/double deck units.Now I also feel kind of tempted to get one of those rare 4 car sets as a model (as the unmodernized DD-AR version tbf, dunno if the DDZ also exists), although I have put myself on a break from model RRing.
>>1995474is this a tungsten alloy? how does the molten steel not melt the torpedo? it's rusting, so there's ferrous metal in it, I don't get it
>>1995911The inside of torpedos is lined with bricks to avoid melt-through and also keep the temperature even to avoid a solidification of the material during transport.
>>1996053Here in Europe, they tend to use insulation bricks made of Grog, a clay type material with high content of Aluminum and Silica.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grog_(clay)
In Hungary we have a lot of "unusual" trains because the company does not have enough IC coaches so they just throw in whatever into IC trainsBonus point for the fact that even the same type of coaches can have several revisions, different paint job, some of them are more renovated inside, some of them have automatic door, etc. it is really all overhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KQptMqsk10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmKoLoB0N9AThis train has coaches from 4 countries (Hungary, Romania, Austria, Ukraine)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33CzxDbZSE
>>1996342>This train has coaches from 4 countries (Hungary, Romania, Austria, Ukraine)That's just SOUL through carriage operation though.
Funicular train that has rotating compartments to compensate for the steep gradient. It's from the Stoosbahn in Switzerland.
>>1995289This seems pretty useless.By the time you know there's a fire, you get this thing out of storage and get it running, you find someone certified to operate it on both road and rail, and you drive it to a point where you can switch to rail operation, and you run it up the track to the point of the blaze, you could have flown a helicopter or crop duster over the fire already.And if the fire is close to road or existing buildings, you can just use a regular big ladder truck to put it out.
>>1996481Did a quick search and there's a two kilometer long rail tunnel pretty close to the town of Zams. If you don't have a dedicated rescue train on standby, I'd imagine that a fire engine that can use the rails is the next best thing in case of a tunnel fire.
Swiss steam shunter converted to electic heating due to coal shortage in WWII.
>>1996486That's probaly why there is a big IR camera on top
>>1995131You're thinking of this.Also a very unusual train.
I love derelict small factory trains.
Love choppers me but it is odd have a pair of locos like this.
>>1996835Also the Class 13 shunter with a master and slave loco. Our old trains really were soulful.
A shortline that is still running with electric locos.
>>1996973this happened too
>yfw you sneeze while cumming
>>1996836I'm not interested in most British stuff but I really like the 13's. Never knew they had any B units.
>>1992917why are dutch trains so dirty.and filthy outside?
Small and comfy, with a bunch of backpackers playing guitar while crawling to the most remote village you've ever heard...
How about this abomination?
>>1998747And before you say anything, this is the renovated version. They were originally from Romania, they gave it round windows, seats from old trolleybuses and then pretended it was a tram so it could actually be allowed to run on the rails.
A 2-6-8-0. Non-matching sets of drivers are pretty unusual right?
>>1998747>>1998749Did they repurpose the base frame of a ferry for this or something?
>>1998822Not really, they used to look relatively normal. Also ranodm fact, the engine was so poorly isolated from the passenger cab that it earned a nickname "hashishbox" because it smelled so bad
>>1998819cursed
>http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htmFun read.
>>1998819>>1999165Got another one>Narrow gauge (metre)>0-8-6-0T>Rack locomotiveThe cogs for the rack were only on the front engine. The small cylinders under the smokebox powered it.They were used on the Transandine Railway between Chile & Argentina
Japanese freight multiple unit M250
