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Note that in the interwar era in Europe things were the other way around. You had electric trains for low speed operations like freight and local passenger traffic, and steam power for high speed passenger lines. Here you got an electric coal train from 43: 
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jadebullet posted:In reference to electric freight operations, I have blueprints for a proposed 3 part steeple cab locomotive designed for the Reading railroad for the purpose of pushing coal loads up the steep Mahanoy Grade. Doesn't it look just like the original Krokodil, just with some extra wheel under the cab?
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Last page someone promised drawings of a proposed oversized steeplecar. Now in Europe those design is called Krokodil-style, after the famous swiss heavy fright steeplecar. I was at the libary today and picked up a book about those, and there are a few drawings of unrealized designs. The Swiss boilt a lot of articulated fright locomotives to get those heavy fright trains around the tight corners of the Gotthardbahn. Here are three steam based steeplecars:   Remember we are talking about people who seriously built this: 
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That steam thing is a steam locomotive that was "cost effectively" refitted for electric power when Switzerland was low on coals during the war. Here are two more fun drawings:  A design from 1931 by Maschienenfabrik Oerlikon with C+C+C drive. Each 3-axle-group is coupled by a rod and driven by 4 motors. Here is the one that I actually remembered. Turns out I remembered wrong, it is a diesel-electric not an electric lok.  1934 designed by Sulzer. The frame has five units (the motor-blocks are separate units as with a classic Krokodil ). In the floating cabs are diesel motors. Each of the wheel-cabs has a single e-motor driving the wheel group with rods, like in the classic.
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Elukka posted:Maximum speed: 230 km/h (140 mph)
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Mental Hospitality posted:This was a lengthy video, but it held my interest the entire time. Very fascinating stuff to someone that knows the basics of steam locomotives, or even someone that doesn't. https://youtu.be/ttMN2iQCH1o
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~Coxy posted:Hopefully they will invent an engine that uses linear motors to drive pistons so we can get proper reciprocal locomotion instead of boring DC motors. 
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Noosphere posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYUIaebzNLs There was someone else doing this more extreme from 2001-2018. She bought two E94 units, built in '45 and '55. And ran them for almost 20 years, while making a profit. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_4U
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If by "just" you mean after filing enough paperwork even scare most Germans. Found a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ3MGgk0Jk4
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I don't live in an English speaking country so things might be different, but there is also a difference between the final stop of a line and the last stop for a train. Thought they are the same most of the time in which case both get announced.
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In "German". Pretty funny that the main narrator seems to speak the most swiss German of all the people in the video. Pretty cool video though. Don't miss out on the poo poo burning toilet.
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drunkill posted:Nigerian rail stays winning That's the kind of seating you see here on the regional trains near the entrance, for people who only ride for a short distance.  Bafflingly hard to find a picture of that part though. The cursed thing are those minimal baggage racks. They are unusable for more then a summer jacket. The train feels totally full after half the seats have passengers, with their bags on the other half. e: found one of my pics 
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