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altitude10200 (7 posts)
Jun-04-02, 03:16 PM (EDT) "unknown locomotive" I took a picture of this locomotive while I was at the transportation museum a couple of months ago and I can't remember what it was I think it was built by GM but I can't be sure. I was thinking of modeling it after I finish with the Zephyr and J. any help would be appericated! I know it looks like someone stuck a 50's caddy ontop of a passenger car, but I thought it was different so I took a picture to maybe use as a template Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: unknown locomotive goldenpig Jun-04-02 1 RE: unknown locomotive bdcef Jun-04-02 2 RE: unknown locomotive kevarc Jun-04-02 3 RE: unknown locomotive MKT1972 Jun-04-02 4 RE: unknown locomotive Lone_Gunman_SG Jun-04-02 5 RE: unknown locomotive ge44tonner Jun-04-02 6 RE: unknown locomotive chuckzeiler Jun-04-02 7

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goldenpig (56 posts)
Jun-04-02, 04:26 PM (EDT) 1. "RE: unknown locomotive" >giggle< Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
bdcef (3 posts)
Jun-04-02, 04:32 PM (EDT) 2. "RE: unknown locomotive" wow that looks upgly .
r u sure its not an airplane.GOD BLESS THE AMERICAN RAILROAD Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
kevarc (934 posts)
Jun-04-02, 04:38 PM (EDT) 3. "RE: unknown locomotive" LAST EDITED ON Jun-04-02 AT 04:43 PM (EDT)Streamlined Aero-Train. Three were built but never went into production.http://www.museumoftransport.org/rails-2.htmKevin Arceneaux Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
MKT1972 (135 posts)
Jun-04-02, 04:52 PM (EDT) 4. "RE: unknown locomotive" http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/photos/dieselpassengeraction/colv02.shtmlhttp://www.uprr.com/aboutup/photos/dieselpassengeraction/colv01.shtmlHeres some links to UPs City of Las Vegas Aerotrain.MKT1972 Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Lone_Gunman_SG (241 posts)
Jun-04-02, 05:24 PM (EDT) 5. "RE: unknown locomotive" It looks sort of like Lionel's Phantom loco. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ge44tonner (139 posts)
Jun-04-02, 05:47 PM (EDT) 6. "RE: unknown locomotive" That's a General Motors EMD 'Aerotrain', with the engine carrying the model number LWT-12. Only the front truck carried traction motors, so the wheel arrangement was B-1. As another poster noted, there were only three built. They were built in the middle 1950's as a lightweight articulated passenger train, with the cars resembling low-slung bus bodies on single-axle bogies. Two were built as demonstration sets and briefly tested in long-distance service on the Union Pacific, New York Central, Pennsylvania and probably other railroads. It was found very quickly that the train ride was extremely rough, with passengers complaining any time that the speed got above 40 mph.The two demonstrator sets were sold to the Rock Island railroad, who placed them in commuter train service in Chicago. Rock Island ordered the third set, and the trains became Rock Island #1 through #3. The trains stayed in service quite a while, finally being retired in the 1970's. I'm told that a whole generation of Chicago commuter passengers came to hate the poor ride, cramped seats and noise inside the cars. Rock Island donated two sets to museums, one at Green Bay WI and one at St. Louis.
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chuckzeiler (242 posts)
Jun-04-02, 06:32 PM (EDT) 7. "RE: unknown locomotive" Here's Rock Island #2 at the 47th Street engine house (Chicago) on March 28, 1965
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