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| Author: | Bob Yarger [ Sat Jun 05, 2004 12:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Detroit Zoo train |
Minature trains that formerly ran at the Detroit Zoo, rusting away in a storage area of the Detroit Historical Museum. These were gasoline-powered/steam outline locomotives, of fairly old construction. http://www.glancytrains.com/php-cgi/gallery/album37 ryarger@rypn.org |
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| Author: | Chris Jacks [ Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Detroit Zoo train |
If I am wrong, someone please correct me: aren't these trains stored at the Ft. Wayne site? (That's a fort in the south side of Detroit, not the city in Indiana.) Chris J. > Minature trains that formerly ran at the > Detroit Zoo, rusting away in a storage area > of the Detroit Historical Museum. These were > gasoline-powered/steam outline locomotives, > of fairly old construction. chrisjacks@chrisjacksnospam.com |
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| Author: | Scott [ Sat Jun 05, 2004 12:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Detroit Zoo train |
Too bad - it looks like it would have been fun. Anyone know why it was removed from the zoo? Also, if I'm not mistaken that's a '69 Camero parked beside the loco. Wonder why that's in a zoo storage lot. Perhaps a possible engine swap for the locomotive's engine? ;^) |
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| Author: | Dave Sutter [ Sat Jun 05, 2004 10:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Detroit Zoo train |
Is this the equipment that was involved in the derailment they had in the early 80's? I know they still run trains on their miniature railroad. sutterd@hotmail.com |
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| Author: | Aarne H. Frobom [ Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Hydraulic MILW Hudsons |
I haven't been back to the Detroit Zoo (actually in Royal Oak) since the middle sixties, but if they're still running trains they're hauled by 3 locomotives driven, I believe, by truck engines through automatic transmissions, and having the outline of Milwaukee Road streamlined Hudsons. I have a vague memory that they were built by Chrysler Corporation in the fifties. They are very showy pieces and each was named for a Detroit industrial magnate of the fifties, presumably big donors. The trains were a central feature of the "zoological park," which is large enough that a family with kids wouldn't want to walk round trip, but would typically take the train between the gate and the other side of the park, so I presume they're still running. On one trip around 1962 I remember a nonstreamlined engine hidden in a fake "tunnel" and always wondered about it. I presume this was an earlier generation of motive power, and that it's the one in these photos. - Aarne Frobom |
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| Author: | Brian Austin [ Mon Jun 07, 2004 2:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | There is a photo of one of these locos... |
I thought you folks might want to know there is a color picture of one of those streamliners in a car magazine...the August issue of Collectible Automobile, which should still be on the newsstand. It is in a small picture on page 20, in the background, behind a 1961 Plymouth Valiant. The article itself is on the Valiants. Funny how I had just finished reading the article and wondered about the train in the picture. The zoological park name on the tender was partially blocked so I didn't know where it was. Thanks for giving me some clues. BTW: the name of the pictured locomotive was named after Walter Chrysler. .Brian Austin > I haven't been back to the Detroit Zoo > (actually in Royal Oak) since the middle > sixties, but if they're still running trains > they're hauled by 3 locomotives driven, I > believe, by truck engines through automatic > transmissions, and having the outline of > Milwaukee Road streamlined Hudsons. I have a > vague memory that they were built by > Chrysler Corporation in the fifties. They > are very showy pieces and each was named for > a Detroit industrial magnate of the fifties, > presumably big donors. The trains were a > central feature of the "zoological > park," which is large enough that a > family with kids wouldn't want to walk round > trip, but would typically take the train > between the gate and the other side of the > park, so I presume they're still running. > On one trip around 1962 I remember a > nonstreamlined engine hidden in a fake > "tunnel" and always wondered about > it. I presume this was an earlier generation > of motive power, and that it's the one in > these photos. > - Aarne Frobom raylrhodes@aol.com |
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| Author: | Bob Yarger [ Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Walter Chrysler |
...the pictured locomotive was named after Walter Chrysler.... Incidently, he began his work career as a machinist apprentice in the UP roundhouse at Ellis, Kansas. Chrysler boyhood ryarger@rypn.org |
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walter Chrysler |
> ...the pictured locomotive was named after > Walter Chrysler.... > Incidently, he began his work career as a > machinist apprentice in the UP roundhouse at > Ellis, Kansas. And was a VP of American Locomotive Co. when he bought his first horseless carriage in 1910 (?) and took it apart to see how it worked. A year later, he was out of the railroad biz. And the rest, as we say, is...... hpincus@mindspring.com |
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| Author: | Aarne H. Frobom [ Wed Jun 09, 2004 12:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Walter P's tube roller |
"And the rest, as we say, is...... In the collection at the Henry Ford. Until recently at least, Walter P. Chrysler's tool box was on display, including a tube roller that would probably fit a Up 2-8-0, and several other boiler tools. - Aarne Frobom |
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| Author: | NVPete [ Fri Apr 08, 2022 10:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Detroit Zoo train |
Here are three of the paint codes from a mid-fifties Ditzler/PPG fleet catalog I just received... Zoo Train Blue, 10672 Zoo Train Apple Green, 40910 Zoo Train Yellow, 80413 You can see those three colors as well as the others here... http://wpporter.worthygems.com/DetroitZooTrains.php |
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