"lightweight trains"

Jim Vaitkunas · **Posted:** Sat Nov 08, 2008 2:07 pm

Jeff:

The New Haven RR Tech & Hist Society has several good articles on the various New Haven RR lightweights in back issues of their slick magazine the Shoreliner. I would go to their website and get copies of the issues in question http://www.nhrhta.org/

Thanks!

Sloan · **Posted:** Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:01 pm

Arthur Dubin's work More Classic Trains published by Kalmbach devotes a chapter to that subject. Excellent photos too.

Sloan

Randall Hicks · **Joined:** Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:44 am **Posts:** 154

Also, John H. White's classic "The American Railroad Passenger Car" also has a lot of good information on the subject, although naturally it concentrates on the passenger car designs rather than the power plants.

m3ohwell · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:00 pm

PRR's Aerotrain at Slope, west of Altoona. The Keystone at Colonia, NJ.
Ed K. cp Laurel Run

trainspot · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:59 pm

Some photos and info. on the Baldwin "RP-210H's" here:
http://baldwindiesels.railfan.net/rp210/index.html
And I've actually found an interior photo of one of the NYC coaches on line!

kevin kohls · **Joined:** Tue May 03, 2005 8:35 pm **Posts:** 298

Railway Age had great coverage of the BLH NYC RP 210. The year would be 1956 but I don't remember the month. Also, there was a video called "A NEW FACE FOR CASEY" that showed the NYC RP 210 #20 in service ! The quality was quite good as it was done by a news agency (I believe).
I would check Railway Age for coverage of the other light weights .

Kevin Kohls

bbunge · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:55 pm

AJ Campbell has a neat page on NYC's xplorer in Ohio here:

http://www.columbusrailroads.com/nyc%20xplorer.htm

Bob Bunge

Jeff Newenhof · **Posted:** Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:02 am

The Oregon Zoo in Portland Oregon has the Washington Park and Zoo Railway. One of the trains is the Zooliner.

Quote:

The Zooliner

This diesel-powered streamliner was built in 1958. A replica of General Motors’ "Aerotrain," the engine’s 165 horsepower is transmitted to eight driving wheels through a hydraulic-type torque converter transmission and spiral gears. Safety features include a "dead man control" to ease the train to a halt in an emergency. A governor holds the train to a 12-mile-per-hour maximum. A conventional automatic air brake system provides safe train handling.

For more information about the Washington Park and Zoo Railway, go to http://www.oregonzoo.org/AboutZoo/train.htm