I'm reading Paul Pietrak's Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway (c. 1992, Second Ed.) and find that the road owned two streamlined gas cars. In 1910 they ordered the Comet (#1001) from McKeen and in 1911, the Meteor (#1002) from GE. While the GE gas electric was an improvement over the mechanical drive McKeen, neither car distinguished itself in reliability. By 1917, both were off the roster, replaced with conventional steam trains.
The railroad museum in Carson City NV has a fully restored operational McKeen and offer rides around their site, usually on holiday weekends. It is very impressive.
This one is just outright ugly.This Movie The elephant man shows the UGLY SIDE of Society then and at times Today and cannot seem to Understand , except one's Challenges in their daily routine and Life ! The Elephant Man - Train Station Scene - YouTube Tom
Kurt Moose, Me, Personally I UNDERSTAND Both Sides of the spectrum. My whole right side is affected with CEREBRAL PALSY since my Birth.. whereas my Left Side is Perfectly Normal. even today I still get X comments from those who went to college to deal with Special Needs people or Encounter that individual which understands both sides! Tom
Sad, but true. Even more so nowadays with social media and all. Seems humans have lost respect for one another, and quick to point out what's wrong with our fellow man. We all have our flaws, nobody is perfect.
A couple years after our subject time era, but there were relatively few Rocky Mountain railroads that streamlined. While the Burlington Zephyr passed thru CO and UT during a barnstorming run in 1934 to commemorate the opening of the Dotsero Cutoff thru the Moffat Tunnel, the only diesel streamliner (if it could be called that) on the Rio Grande was the prewar Prospector. Built by Budd in late 1940 as a 2-car set, they had several seriousmechanical problems and to make matters worse, woefully underpowered and were withdrawn from service less than 9 months after their 17 Nov 1941 service debut. 24 May 42 Otto Perry image, shortly before the trainsets were removed from service: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/53424/rec/40
Never knew this existed, wow! Pre-RDC? Was it saved, or scrapped long ago? ...looks like they're working on it as well, lol!
In November, 1941, the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad inaugurated the Prospector, a pair of Budd-built two-car trains that went overnight between Denver and Salt Lake City via the Moffat Tunnel. Unfortunately, the trains proved inadequate for the job: with only 44 seats and 18 beds, demand exceeded capacity; while the little 192-HP Hercules Diesels were insufficient for getting the trains over the mountains. Within eight months the Rio Grande returned the trains to Budd and they were scrapped. https://streamlinermemories.info/?p=829
Interesting @acptulsa and @HemiAdda2d . I had never heard of this trainset. (Ooops, I just read @Kurt Moose 's post. I could have simply clicked [Like] there.)
This one has been posted in other threads here on Trainboard but deserves to be added to this one as well. Not quite as streamlined on this day as TA 602 was out of service on Feb. 7, 1938 when Rock Island Ten wheeler number 47 had to pull the Budd built train set for the Texas Rocket. Houston Union Station. Photo: H. J. Heaney, from Joe Thomas Collection, Railroad and Heritage Museum, Temple, Texas.