Vintage track vehicles

Wrecked Engines and Telescoped coach. This is a train wreck that happened in Canaan,N.H. Sept. 15, 1907. Postcard from the Robert J. Girouard collection. www.facebook.com/NewHampshireThenAndNow

 

July 1912... Engineer and his #9 Cog engine and passenger car.

 

July 1912...Engine 989 waits patiently for riders to return to Fabyans. This engine with its passenger cars would pick up people at Fabyans who wanted to go to take the cogs to the top of Mt. Washington. Then it would wait for returning riders, and bring them back to Fabyans. In this photo you can see 4 cogs going up Mt. Washington, and one waiting to go. Photo from the Robert J. Girouard collection.www.facebook.com/NewHampshireThenAndNow

 

A trolley on the Swanzey Factory run slid off the snowy rails on Keene's lower main street in 1910.www.facebook.com/NewHampshireThenAndNow

 

Any info on this? I've never seen it before. Looks like someone grafted on a '59 Cadillac.

 

It's a GM Aerotrain locomotive. Here's the Wiki page on the Aerotrain:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotrain_(GM)

Essentially, the design idea was a very lightweight passenger train, to replace heavier-duty equipment in corridors that were losing money. The 'cars' were actually GM bus bodies, sufficiently widened to cover the running gear. And yes, because it came fron General Motors, car designers worked on the locomotive's carbody shape.

 

That's quite interesting. Thanks for the link.

 

http://www.newenglandhistoricalsoci...4CFeiyFhg0ee9Q29bV4jm7Dh4CgvcBIk8d7daJjleL7DI