#CoolTrainTuesday Two DB ICEs (1 and 3) in Frankfurt Hbf in September 2019. I had just ridden the ICE1 from Basel Hbf on a very rainy day. Frankfurt is a strong contender for one of my favorite stations; not as much diversity as Munich Hbf, but you get to see the whole yard coming into the station.

#trains #traintuesday #highspeedrail #frankfurt #de

#CoolTrainTuesday NSW Government Railways #4490, a class 44 built in 1967 by A. E. Goodwin, it was a license built version of the Alco (American Locomotive Company) 1800 hp "World Model", in turn based on the Alco FA of the 1940s, but with an extra flat cab added in the back. 4490 was retired in 1994, and still in operation for excursions; it left for an excursion later that day. Photographed at the NSW Rail museum, Thirlmere, NSW, June 2022.

#trains #traintuesday #nsw #australia

#CoolTrainTuesday The most important American locomotive that you've never heard of: Baltimore & Ohio #50, built in 1934 by the Electro-Motive Corporation with Public Works Administration funding. It was the first mainline diesel locomotive in the US, and was the mechanical prototype for the streamlined E and F series that sold thousands, revolutionized the world, and killed steam in North America. Now preserved the National Museum of Transportation, #StLouis.
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#CoolTrainTuesday Chesapeake and Ohio 490, a streamlined L1 4-6-4 rebuilt in 1947 from an unstreamlined 1926 4-6-2. Intended to haul the "Chessie" DC-Cincinnati express as an interim until the massive M-1 steam turbines were ready, the M-1s and Chessie itself were cancelled in 1948 and the L-1s retired in 1953. 490 is the only survivor, donated to B&O Museum #Baltimore in 1968. It remains there today, a true relic of the last gasp of US steam.

#steam #train #steamtrain #traintuesday

#CoolTrainTuesday on a Thursday, it's a GO Transit MP40PH-3C about to leave West Harbour, Hamilton, Ontario, to head to Toronto along the Lakeshore West Line. The GO Lakeshore West is the line I probably rode the most as a kid, and will always be my reference for "Cool Train".

#gotransit #hamilton

#CoolTrainTuesday The GM/EMD Aerotrain of 1955! It looks slick, but actually has the mechanicals of an SW1200 switcher, and the passenger carriages are based on GM's Fishbowl buses. The ride quality was terrible, it could barely make 80 mph on a good day, and needed helper to get over the Cajon Pass. They eventually ended their days as Chicago commuter trains, as the Rock Island didn't trust them to do much else.
#trains #aerotrain

#CoolTrainTuesday (even though it's Friday)

The John Bull, the oldest intact locomotive in the Americas. Built originally by Robert Stevenson in 1831 as a similar 0-4-0 "luggage locomotive" to what was used on the Liverpool & Manchester, it was significantly modified by the Camden & Amboy (of New Jersey) into a 2+2-2-0 by removing the connecting rods and adding floating pony truck with cowcatcher.

#train #steam #steamtrain

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French electric locomotives CC 7107 (left) and BB 9904 (right) at the Cite du Train, Mulhouse, France. These two locomotives jointly set the world railway speed record at 331 kph (206 mph) in March 1955. This remained the record for a locomotive hauled train until 2006!

#trains #highspeedrail #mulhouse #france

(Delayed) #CoolTrainTuesday! This one's a twofer, with both generations of Channel Tunnel running Eurostar train at St Pancras International, May 2018. On left is the original Eurostar Class 373/e300, a member of the Alstrom TGV family shrunk down to fit the tiny British loading gauge. On right is the newer Class 374/e320, a member of the Siemens Velaro family, and what I had just rode from Paris.

#highspeedrail #train #london #eurostar

#CoolTrainTuesday South Australian Railways #504 "Tom Barr Smith" 5"3' gauge 4-8-2 built in 1926 by Armstrong Whitworth, and served to the end of SAR steam in 1962. Rebuilt in the 1930s to purposefully resemble the American Southern Pacific GS class (I legit did a double take coming around the corner and seeing it), and used on the Overland route from Adelaide to Melbourne. Now at the Australian National Railway Museum, Adelaide, SA.

#steamtrain #adelaide

#CoolTrainTuesday JNR 8600 class #8630 at the Kyoto Railway Museum. The only steam I've been on Japan (so far). The 8600 class were the first mainline steam locomotives to be designed in Japan, heavily inspired by contemporary German and American practices.

#steamtrain #kyoto #japan

#CoolTrainTuesday JR West Series 103 ex-Yamanote Line working the Kyoto-Nara slow train in 2018. It was cool to say I rode it, not cool in temperature. "Mildly Air Conditioned" was a bit more than a mild exaggeration.

#Kyoto #Japan #DenshaDeGo

#CoolTrainTuesday JR East Yamanote Line E235-0 3'6" narrow gauge 11-car EMU. Encircling the centre of Tokyo, the Yamanote is the busiest rail line in the world, with trains running every 2 minutes at peak. Pictured in September 2018, when the E235s were being introduced to replace the E231s.

#Tokyo #Japan #Train

#CoolTrainTuesday Trenitalia Frecciarossa ETR 1000 in Milano Centrale after whisking us from Rome, mostly underground. Built by Hitachi Italy and capable of 400 km/hr speeds, it's limited to just 300 km/hr in normal operation. In addition to domestic Italian services, some also run the Paris-Milano route, and in Spain under the Iryo brand.

#highspeedrail #train #milano #italia

#CoolTrainTuesday Manitou & Pikes Peak locomotive #1, now at the Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden. Originally built in 1890 by Baldwin, it was rebuilt in 1912 as a 0-4-2T Vauclain compound, with both high and low pressure cylinders driving a rear jackshaft that then drove the driving wheels and the Abt cog. Used until 1944 when it was retired in favor of gasoline railcars.

#pikespeak #manitou #goldenco #colorado #SteamTrains

#CoolTrainTuesday Durango & Silverton K-28 3ft gauge 2-8-2 #476, Silverton, Colorado, July 2019. Built by ALCO in 1923 for the Denver & Rio Grande Western. This was before its recent conversion from coal to oil burning, to reduce forest fire risk.

#Silverton #Colorado #SteamTrains

#CoolTrainTuesday Amtrak Siemens ACS-64 pulling Amfleet coaches on a Northeast Regional service through BWI station, July 2021.

The ACS-64 (Amtrak City Sprinter) was Siemens' first successful entry into the American heavy rail market in 2014, with an Americanized version of their popular EuroSprinter family. It has become the workhorse of the Northeast Corridor, pulling the plurality of trains on the only actual active high speed rail line in the Americas.

#amtrak #baltimore #maryland

#CoolTrainTuesday South Australian Railways 4-8-0 T 199, currently at Steamtown in Peterborough, South Australia. Built in Australia in 1912 for 3'6" narrow gauge, it was converted to 5'3" broad gauge in the 1920s, and then back again to narrow gauge in 1949, eventually being retired in the 1970s.

#CoolTrainTuesday Makes a triumphal return!

RhB Ge 6/6 I "Crocodile" in the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Meter gauge. Built in 1925, it ran until 2000, when it was donated to the museum. The front and rear units are powered by large electric motors under the hoods, via jackshafts, and the power units are independently articulated from the cab. That meant a lot of power, with the ability to go around the tight corners of the RhB.

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Daniel Nason of 1858, the only surviving American inside cylinder 4-4-0. "Dutch Wagons" like this were very common in North American before the Civil War, as they much easier to convert to the many broad gauges that were in use.

Now at the National Museum of Transportation, St. Louis.

#Steam #Train #StLouis #USA