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09-14-2019, 02:00 AM | #21 |
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The "putt-putts" were the Fairmont 2-cycle inspection cars however those engines were superceded by 4-cycle engines such as Onans in the Fairmonts. Also during that same era were the bigger gang cars by Fairmont that used 4 cylinder (-and even 6 cylinder) engines. Relatively speaking, there were just as many non putt-putt speeders as there were putt-putt speeders.
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09-14-2019, 07:33 AM | #22 |
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The Southwest Railroad Museum in Campo, California has a speeder with a Model A engine in it. We rebuilt about 25 years ago for them. The are on the San Diego & Arizona Eastern railroad Line built by John Spreckels in 1906 through the Carrizo Gorge and called the "Impossible Railroad."
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05-12-2021, 07:02 PM | #27 |
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there is a fascinating book out there about Henry Ford's purchase and operation of the D T & I Railroad.
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05-12-2021, 07:35 PM | #29 |
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We don't need no stinking driver's door on the Vicky!
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05-12-2021, 08:07 PM | #30 |
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They ran those putt-putt MOW cars down the CB&Q tracks by our house in the 50's and 60's. When the train would come along I would see the workers get out, pull these long wooden handles out, and lift the whole works off the tracks and wait for the train to pass. Sometimes they would be at a little wooden deal that was perpendicular to the tracks that they would wait on.
They had to be heavy that amazed me as a kid them doing that. |
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