Here's a cute story about a couple of Ford Transit vans converted to rail busses on some narrow gauge track in Romania. Be sure to watch the video to the end where the "engineer" turns the van around:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/ford-tran ... locomotive
Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
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Greg_Lewis
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Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
Greg Lewis, Prop.
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Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
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Re: Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
Make sure you balance the occupants...
Gregg
Just let go of it, it will eventually unplug itself.
Just let go of it, it will eventually unplug itself.
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Re: Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
Yeah, if I was to open the door and step up on it, I'd be wearing it sideways around me while I stood on the ground. 
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Re: Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
Charles T. McCullough wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:02 am Yeah, if I was to open the door and step up on it, I'd be wearing it sideways around me while I stood on the ground.
Greg Lewis, Prop.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
Re: Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
Almost looked like the van was turned on one leg of a wye!
I wonder...
RussN
I wonder...
RussN
Re: Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
Like how the “engineer” had to constantly “toot the whistle” to shoo dogs and chickens off the track. 
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Re: Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
I think Red Green would surely be envious
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Re: Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
Wonder what kind of trains originally ran on those tracks and what they hauled. Neat looking. Wonder what that rear axle was out of.
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Re: Cute story: Ford Transit vans on rails in Romania
Gotta give the guy kudos for efort and creativitate.
Guessing it won't be long before he gets the 'lift and rotate' semi-automated...cannot imagine that exercise is enjoyable in the dead of winter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moc%C4%83ni%C8%9B%C4%83
Guessing it won't be long before he gets the 'lift and rotate' semi-automated...cannot imagine that exercise is enjoyable in the dead of winter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moc%C4%83ni%C8%9B%C4%83
Too many things going on to bother listing them.