History of the locomotive - The development of the locomotive, old photos - Great locomotives in the 1930's- Electrical locomotives in the dawn of XX Century
Old locomotives , the train in the 1930's
Photo: General Electric Co.
Petroleum-electrical motor-car for passengers, impelled by a gasoline motor coupled to a dynamo unit , the electrical current moves the motors installed in the truck, like in an ordinary electrical street car. With this combination it was obtained a perfect regulation .
Railway at the summit of Pikes Peak, Colorado, in the United States. Photo of 1920's of the highest mountain railroad in the Rocky Mountains. With a track of 15 kilometers long , it raised up to 4,267 meters above sea the level from where it could be appreciated in the clear days an extension of about 160 kilometers of radio. As it is seen in the photo it used a rack system similar to the one used one in Mount Washington, New Hampshire and in the Mount Pilatus Rack Railway in Switzerland.
Old photo of the Railroad of San Gotardo, in Switzerland
Photo J. D. Tate Co.
Gasoline locomotive transporting textile fiber from the agave to a warehouse in Yucatan, Mexico.
August 1921 - August 1831
Comparative photo taken to two locomotives, one was the most primitive and the other the newest one of that time for the transport of passengers. One was the locomotive fueled by firewood of "De Witt Clinton" and its cars in the first years of the operation of the line of the New York Central Railroad , marching next to the last machine model in service in that decade of the XX Century Limited.
Photo taken in a festive act to commemorate the ninety years of operation of the railroad line.
Gasoline automotive vehicle for 41 passengers. It had a special sector for the luggage behind the conductor. At full load, this car reached a speed of 53 kilometers per hour
Underground rails : Old graphical where it can be seen the distribution of the The New York City Subway System circa 1920 , it can be appreciated a complicated network of subterranean passages in the Grand Central Station at the 42nd. street and Lexington Avenue.
- Floor level at the 42nd. street.
- Corridor that connects with the Grand Central station
- Underground interconnection
- Corridor that connects with the Great Central Station
- Elevators
- Lexington Avenue line
