Here's Something You Don't See Every Day

[Jim G.]

A 1939 Railroad Inspection car;

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Wonder what the powerplant is? Diesel, Gas, coal?

Do you really need a steering wheel to drive it?

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Looks like a 30's Buick, so that a gas straight 6. They didn't do much but slap those rail trucks...

on, so pulling out the steering wheel would be work. Or, maybe they thought it might go back on the street.

Here's a later model of that sort of thing:

on

[Hekate]

3. For the first time ever, I saw one today. Modern truck, clickity clacking down the track...

…while we were stuck in a long traffic jam. Very cool to have this bit of synchronicity pop up.

[Mopar151]

4. Straight 8 Pontiac

The trucks you see have a "high rail" conversion -can go from road to rail on a couple minutes