Yeah, that ought to work!

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The McKeen 0-4-2 locomotive. The thing on top? Radiator for McKeen's 8,553 cubic inch, 300 horsepower, in-line 6, air start, gasoline engine.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The McKeen 0-4-2 locomotive. [/img]

McKeen made a lot of very "interesting" pieces of equipment - some really funky freight cars....

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McKeen made a bus with hard rubber truck tires on it. The ride was so harsh they had to support each passenger on individual springs.

The McKeen Chair Car


Inside View showing chairs and 24 inch windows in summer position (sometimes the windows would fall on passenger's heads.)


Another view plus image of boing-boing chair.


History of McKeen:=> http://www.alaskarails.org/pix/former-l ... story.html

[Rufus T. Firefly]

McKeen made a bus with hard rubber truck tires on it. The ride was so harsh they had to support each passenger on individual springs.

From which we get the phase, "bouncing on your spring",

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Ship by Rail

[MurphOnMillerAve]

McKeen made a bus with hard rubber truck tires on it. The ride was so harsh they had to support each passenger on individual springs.

From which we get the phase, "bouncing on your spring",

Never heard it. What's it supposed to mean, other than as expressed by the hapless riders in that torture-bus?

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[MurphOnMillerAve]

For some unknown reason, my first reaction when I saw the above unique locomotive was that it was of German design. Also, in my imagination, there seems something of a tea-kettle look to that front.

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And your second reaction?

Photo was taken at Gare de Lyon Station, Paris, 1937.
The engine belonged to the Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean Railway.
Reference: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/peclegg/sncf ... 07_12.html

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And your second reaction?

Photo was taken at Gare de Lyon Station, Paris, 1937.
The engine belonged to the Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean Railway.
Reference: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/peclegg/sncf ... 07_12.html

Honestly, the French were my close-second first choice. Honest.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Almost had to be French.............but it could have been Belgian,

[p51]

Seriously, what class is that and what country did it run in? I thought I knew most of the more odd European steam designs but this one has me stumped...

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Seriously, what class is that and what country did it run in? I thought I knew most of the more odd European steam designs but this one has me stumped...

It is UIC class 2′C h4 (Whyte class 4-6-0) and it ran in France as an experiment.

Reference: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/peclegg/sncf ... 03_10.html

[rex desilets]

Seriously, what class is that and what country did it run in? I thought I knew most of the more odd European steam designs but this one has me stumped...

What a great project idea for Lionel. Would be a best seller!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Not to be argumentative, Rex, but I think that schnoz is too weird for a whole lotta folks.