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 Posted - January 10 2015 : 6:06:12 PM
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H.R. MacMillan's ride.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._MacMillan
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Posted - January 10 2015 : 7:01:28 PM
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Nice ride! Looks like he let the paint go to hell, though. Overall a very quality car.
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Posted - January 10 2015 : 8:05:24 PM
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Inreresting! What is the back story about why he had such a rail car?
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Posted - January 10 2015 : 8:39:00 PM
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Hey, no reason you can't be stylin' while inspecting your line. The steering wheel frightens me a little, tho...
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Posted - January 10 2015 : 10:51:04 PM
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 That looks pretty fun to drive. 
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Posted - January 10 2015 : 11:01:27 PM
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If ever there were a car I would want to own and drive, this would be it above all others  1920s, classy, and rail wheels to boot!
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._MacMillan) he was certainly a rich man, so a Rolls would be quite fitting, but he wasn't a railway man - so where was he driving this?
And yes, the steering wheel is a bit frightening
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Posted - January 11 2015 : 01:48:23 AM
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Beyond words. We just don't see anything like this anymore.
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Posted - January 11 2015 : 1:33:27 PM
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He would be inspecting any and all forestry aspects.
Also, old b&w photos are deceptive.
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Posted - January 12 2015 : 4:54:53 PM
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steering wheel scary? Why? 
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Posted - January 12 2015 : 6:06:10 PM
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quote:steering wheel scary? Why?
Originally posted by microbusss - January 12 2015 : 4:54:53 PM
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If you want to risk making a hard left while driving on the ROW, you're a braver man than I.
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Posted - January 12 2015 : 10:04:04 PM
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quote:
If you want to risk making a hard left while driving on the ROW, you're a braver man than I.
Originally posted by NickelPlate759Â -Â January 12 2015Â :Â 6:06:10 PM
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OR it was something to hold onto while going down the tracks hehe
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Posted - January 12 2015 : 10:34:19 PM
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quote:If ever there were a car I would want to own and drive, this would be it above all others 1920s, classy, and rail wheels to boot!
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._MacMillan) he was certainly a rich man, so a Rolls would be quite fitting, but he wasn't a railway man - so where was he driving this?
And yes, the steering wheel is a bit frightening
Originally posted by PRR 4800Â -Â January 10 2015Â :Â 11:01:27 PM
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My best guess is that he drove to businesses along the rails or something. I honestly have no clue.
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Posted - January 12 2015 : 11:44:51 PM
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quote:
OR it was something to hold onto while going down the tracks hehe
Originally posted by microbusss - January 12 2015 : 10:04:04 PM
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Or maybe he still took it on the road. 
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Posted - January 13 2015 : 5:37:40 PM
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quote: quote:
OR it was something to hold onto while going down the tracks hehe
Originally posted by microbusss - January 12 2015 : 10:04:04 PM
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Or maybe he still took it on the road.
Originally posted by NickelPlate759Â -Â January 12 2015Â :Â 11:44:51 PM
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With a cowcatcher and a bell? Besides, it's not a hi-rail... those rail wheels look permanent to me!
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 Posted - January 13 2015 : 7:51:29 PM
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Cows wander across roads, too.
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 01:33:24 AM
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| Looks like it could be a slick way to run moonshine.
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 08:15:39 AM
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The Guayaquil and Quito RR in Ecuador has a fleet of Bluebird buses on railroad wheels. I was reading an article by someone who rode on one. He was riding along, not really thinking about being on rails. As the bus entered a curve to the right, the driver turned the steering wheel to the right. Then, as the bus entered a curve to the left, the driver turned the steering wheel to the right. What?!
The steering wheel had been converted to a brake wheel and the bus was slowing down coming into the curves.
I doubt that was the case with the car in this thread. It would still be easier just to use the brake pedal. Probably, no one had bothered to remove the steering wheel.
So why mention this? I just thought it was an amusing story.
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 10:45:26 AM
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neat railroad, scsshaggy
Course I want to build THIS but in Standard Gauge
http://www.ridgwayrailroadmuseum.org/motor1.html
But I will leave the steering wheel in it
AND I did see every single Goose at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden, CO!
But Goose Motor #3 from Knott's Berry Farm 
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 4:11:22 PM
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I've seen Goose #1 just parked at Ridgway, but never running. It must have been a neat event seeing them all together at CRM. My cousin lives just down the creek from there. I'll have to ask him if he saw that.
I've seen movies of a Model T truck running down the tracks, just with the tires off of the wheel rims, so I think the model T is already standard gauge. The wheel rim would be double flanged, so I expect that people who just ran on the rims avoided switches.
It would be cool, though, to be able to get some sort of flanged wheels and put them on some sort of car or truck and run it.
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