The Weird Trains Thread.

[Matuchkin]

4 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:

It must be on the Railway to Hell...

Nicely said, nicely said, fellow.

[GoSlash27]

Good luck trying to sleep tonight!

[StrandedonEarth]

43 minutes ago, GoSlash27 said:

Good luck trying to sleep tonight!

Ah yes, "Charlie the Choo-Choo," as featured in Stephen King's "The Waste Lands." Those kids don't look all that happy, and that train looks positively, smugly evil. I'm surprised I didn't think of that for this thread.

[PhylumCnidaria]

 

[Spaceception]

9 hours ago, GoSlash27 said:

Good luck trying to sleep tonight!

Wh-where was that?

[p1t1o]

Holy moses this was a cool thread! I wholeheartedly support Kerbal Train Program! Or Kerbal Rail Program?

Every cool train I could think of to contribute was already mentioned 

[epicrafter]

this is a train (with a little gun) 

and this is a train (looks like it was build from jebediah kerman)

and another train (with more guns)

wtf is this ?!?

Who made this ?

 

why

Edited April 3, 2016 by epicrafter

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

@epicrafter Have you ever seen The Great Race?  You really should.

[Dfthu]

[magnemoe]

19 hours ago, epicrafter said:

this is a train (with a little gun) 

and this is a train (looks like it was build from jebediah kerman)

and another train (with more guns)

wtf is this ?!?

Who made this ?

 

why

Well the cars to run on rails has been used for maintenance and inspection work, same with the small yellow cart at the end. 
The bicycle stuff is probably to move around on an an freight terminal, so light you can easy lift it of track and part of it lacks roads. 
They have some excavators with rail wheels on front and back who can be moved up and down at the railway I used to work. Benefit is that you can move them with an small locomotive at normal speed without having to put them on an wagon, guess they keep on the track for most work too but might move off if needed. 

The pirate rocket is an joke, not sure about the jet thing, 

The giant gun is the world larges gun, build by Germany during WW2, it need two set of rails, guess they use rails as they had to move it by rails anyway even if they had to build the two tracks then they wanted to use it, it was not very practical. Second armored train look more practical. 

Some kids next to where I live though of making an cart who run on railway tracks and run down an long slope. 
They looked at the timetable and found they had an 40 minute gap on Sunday, problem was that only the standard passenger trains is in the timetable, not the freight ones, all jumped off before impact. 
 

[derictheone]

let's all go back to this train and pounder what they were thinking when desgning this monster

[NSEP]

1 hour ago, derictheone said:

let's all go back to this train and pounder what they were thinking when desgning this monster

Thats how i would make such trains lol.

[Cydonian Monk]

15 hours ago, derictheone said:

let's all go back to this train and pounder what they were thinking when desgning this monster

Random guess: They were trying to get around a couple of patents. See: James Watt vs the Crank Patent. 

Another random guess: Drugs are bad for you. 

[kerbiloid]

Sail train.
Not for Kerbin due to lack of the wind.

Close view.

 

Lite version

Edited May 27, 2017 by kerbiloid

[magnemoe]

6 hours ago, Cydonian Monk said:

Random guess: They were trying to get around a couple of patents. See: James Watt vs the Crank Patent. 

Another random guess: Drugs are bad for you. 

Its fiction
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/fictional/fictional.htm
its probably an parody on this 
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/holman/holman.htm
who was an scam to get investors

 

[magnemoe]

On 27.5.2017 at 9:02 AM, Cydonian Monk said:

Random guess: They were trying to get around a couple of patents. See: James Watt vs the Crank Patent. 

Another random guess: Drugs are bad for you. 

Looked up the "James Watt vs the Crank Patent." and its obvious that patent trolls are older than the think, cranks dates back to roman times or earlier. 
Any sawmill with an up and down motion powered by water have to use them too and you would need an joint on the shaft like on the early steam engines. 

[Kokoro]

Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland have a Quirks and Curiosities event.  I wish I could have gone this year but work and money..... Planning to revisit in September.

 

This site is good: http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

has this: http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/holman/holman.htm 

I also think stacked engines like this have been proposed for gauge changes.

 

Edited May 29, 2017 by Kokoro
more stuff

[Ultimate Steve]

Both aren't actually real trains. But I wish they were.

[derictheone]

and what is this it looks like it was made to look like a face

and this looks like a submarine

and this is a tank made by australia

and this is a weird snowplow it looks like a meat grinder

and i just found this funny

Edited May 31, 2017 by derictheone
adding stuff

[magnemoe]

Trains with cat ears

If its stupid and work, its not stupid, 
Yes the color is a bit weird but I guess its also to easy see if some brakes don't fold in after use. 

[Kokoro]

19 hours ago, derictheone said:

and what is this it looks like it was made to look like a face

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_GT3

[Camacha]

21 hours ago, derictheone said:

and i just found this funny

That is the face parents fear, because it inevitably means a change right after.

[derictheone]

On 5/31/2017 at 9:25 AM, magnemoe said:

Trains with cat ears

If its stupid and work, its not stupid, 
Yes the color is a bit weird but I guess its also to easy see if some brakes don't fold in after use. 

nah it looks more like a dog

[derictheone]

On 5/29/2017 at 9:01 PM, Ultimate Steve said:

 

and i can think about when looking at this is the magic school bus theme song

[derictheone]

so i found more trains but this time in shapes

triangle

square

and rombus

and thats not all i found

meet the giant leafblower

also i found the real dog train

shhhhhhh it's asleep XD

i think i found out where the old thomas went

worlds tinyest train

ahhhh there huging

i think they missed a turn back there

what were they thinking 

i perzent to you the hummer train

omg there is a train thats blue or undead

really

Edited June 6, 2017 by derictheone