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A diseasel! So they are real.
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I am unsure what's more strange about this photo-- the masquerade as a steam loco or the mechanism for turning the unit? Either way, this is a bizarre contraption!
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Turntables who needs 'em
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Regarding "Locomotive Details," I believe you meant to type, "0-4-0."
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@ Thomas R Schultz: For sure, it is correct now, thanks!
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If you look on YouTube, you will find an RhB snowplough being turned on a built-in turntable, exactly the same concept but on a much larger beast
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Many pieces of track machinery (regulators, etc) are turned in this same way as well.
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There was a (or still is) a railway somewhere in France, which had diesel passenger units with an unpowered trailer unit, that they could use and the powered unit could be turned by jacking the thing up, with a hand crank, and then pushed round. I'm not sure why its shown on a video I have on continental railways, captured on 16mm colour film I think the units did not have a cab at both ends. Or something? I would have to watch the video again to see what was going on. But as for fake steam what is the world coming to? It would be as crazy as having an loco that looked like a diesel but worked by steam! :-)
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