Most of Douglas Self is a time capsule to when the site was setup but the loco loco section has many of the most wild experimental locomotives you’ve never seen! Many are early iterations as nobody had yet figured out the meta for building a relatively efficient and successful steam locomotive but there’s also diesel and electric designs as well buried in there, as well as late steam ideas that tried to outcompete diesels
Like seriously, what the heck is up with these? (And yes, all had at least one example built!)
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm
Most of Douglas Self is a time capsule to when the site was setup but the loco loco section has many of the most wild experimental locomotives you’ve never seen! Many are early iterations as nobody had yet figured out the meta for building a relatively efficient and successful steam locomotive but there’s also diesel and electric designs as well buried in there, as well as late steam ideas that tried to outcompete diesels
Like seriously, what the heck is up with these? (And yes, all had at least one example built!)
thx my neurotypical ass did NOT spend an hour on this.