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 Posted - March 01 2014 : 03:15:29 AM
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| The Russians built their own version of the jet powered RDC car and I recently saw some pictures of it on the internet that showed in sitting intact more or less in a Russian junkyard.
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Posted - March 02 2014 : 12:57:17 PM
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Like this one ?
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Posted - March 02 2014 : 4:07:22 PM
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| They copied the same basic principle but I don't think the Russian one was as srteamlined in the nose section.
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Posted - March 29 2014 : 12:38:08 PM
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There is a prototype for everything. 
This is the Schienenzeppelin (Rail Zeppelin) built in 1930. The early ones had twin BMW 6-cylinder engines driving a fixed pitch two-bade propeller. Later it had a single 12-cylinder engine driving a four-blade propeller. On June 21 1931, it set a new world railway speed record of 143.0 mph. The drive shaft had a 7 degree up angle to create downward thrust to help keep it on the rails.
It was 84.8 ft long and had just two axles, with a wheelbase of 64 ft. The height was 9 ft 2 in. It carried 40 passengers.
It died a slow death because of dangers of using an open propeller in crowded railway stations and fierce competition to build high-speed railcars. It was sold to the German Railways in 1934 and in 1939 is was scrapped to support the German war effort.
Märklin made a model Rail Zeppelin in Z, HO, O and 1 scales. One true-to-original version is the Z scale model, produced as a limited production run in 1982 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Z scale.
Kato/Hobbytrain created an N scale version of the Schienenzeppelin in 2005; which includes a PAL format DVD, with original footage of the prototype train.
Rare footage of the Rail Zeppelin in action...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ID_ktSoLY#t=11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY7PIIV0nIs
And the Marklin 3077 Rail Zeppelin...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVJWyayFds
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Posted - March 29 2014 : 1:43:26 PM
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if it runs on track and now where else its train or a tram,unlike this loco ken
after
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Posted - March 29 2014 : 1:51:06 PM
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quote:if it runs on track and now where else its train or a tram,unlike this loco ken
Originally posted by catfordken - March 29 2014 : 1:43:26 PM
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Did the Russians or whoever made it really use that thing?
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - March 29 2014 : 1:56:15 PM
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this may give you the answer ken
http://bashny.net/t/en/17774
Edited by - catfordken on March 29 2014 2:05:22 PM
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Posted - March 29 2014 : 2:15:06 PM
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Sifting through the 'interesting' translation of the Russian, it sounds like the Russian military attempted to construct a mobile power station out of a railroad locomotive - among other things. Seems like they had issues with the drivetrain
What a wild machine. I like it 
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - March 29 2014 : 2:48:32 PM
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quote:Sifting through the 'interesting' translation of the Russian, it sounds like the Russian military attempted to construct a mobile power station out of a railroad locomotive - among other things. Seems like they had issues with the drivetrain
What a wild machine. I like it
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â March 29 2014Â :Â 2:15:06 PM
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Who needs armored trucks when you can have trains with tires?
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - March 31 2014 : 12:20:54 AM
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| I remember a story from Canada a couple of years back when there was a severe power shortage due to heavy snow. The CP or CN (I forget which one) drove a locomotive down the street of a city in Canada without the use of tracks. I believe they used chains to steer. The destination was the local power generating station where they hooked up cables to the locomotive and used it as a power plant to generate electricity for the town to get them through the crisis.
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Posted - March 31 2014 : 09:23:25 AM
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quote:I remember a story from Canada a couple of years back when there was a severe power shortage due to heavy snow. The CP or CN (I forget which one) drove a locomotive down the street of a city in Canada without the use of tracks. I believe they used chains to steer. The destination was the local power generating station where they hooked up cables to the locomotive and used it as a power plant to generate electricity for the town to get them through the crisis.
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â March 31 2014Â :Â 12:20:54 AM
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Yeah I saw the pix of that Plus the weight of loco broke the streets too 
It was CN btw
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Posted - March 31 2014 : 09:53:15 AM
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quote:I remember a story from Canada a couple of years back when there was a severe power shortage due to heavy snow. The CP or CN (I forget which one) drove a locomotive down the street of a city in Canada without the use of tracks. I believe they used chains to steer. The destination was the local power generating station where they hooked up cables to the locomotive and used it as a power plant to generate electricity for the town to get them through the crisis.
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â March 31 2014Â :Â 12:20:54 AM
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That's pretty crazy if you ask me.
-Steve
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Posted - August 20 2014 : 12:21:13 AM
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The thread that just keeps coming back. I found an image of the Russian Jet powered RDC car on Pinetrest, here she is.
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Posted - August 20 2014 : 12:33:46 AM
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quote:The thread that just keeps coming back. I found an image of the Russian Jet powered RDC car on Pinetrest, here she is.
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â August 20 2014Â :Â 12:21:13 AM
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The Russians made one too?
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - August 20 2014 : 01:19:37 AM
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quote:I remember a story from Canada a couple of years back when there was a severe power shortage due to heavy snow. The CP or CN (I forget which one) drove a locomotive down the street of a city in Canada without the use of tracks. I believe they used chains to steer. The destination was the local power generating station where they hooked up cables to the locomotive and used it as a power plant to generate electricity for the town to get them through the crisis.
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â March 31 2014Â :Â 12:20:54 AM
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It was a CN M420W, as it happens I was just looking at the picture of that in an old Trains magazine the other day but I'm to lazy to go find which one 
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Posted - August 27 2014 : 6:45:14 PM
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WELL In my latest aquisition aquired one of the athearn rail props mine is white w red propeller
one blade off though could be in box
LOTS TO GO THROUGH
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