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end of the road wrote: »

it is sad but i believe high speed trains like that don't tend to have as long a life span as classic trains due to the speeds they travel at day in and day out.

Could be true although it's hard to know just now as most high speed lines have only been running for the last 5-20 years so none have been running as long as regular trains. Another thing is the technology for high speed trains is constantly changing and being updated meaning that they may to be replaced more often in order to be up to date and run at the highest speeds possible further backing up your point which is not as much of an issue for classic trains.

Short colour video showing the narrow-gauge trams of the Los Angeles Railway (3' 6"/1067 mm), a.k.a. the "Yellow Cars". The system had PCC cars on it too when the LA MTA took it over. Some trolleybuses are featured.

Photo from the Bronx, 1915 showing the Jerome Avenue elevated railway (today's 4 train in the NYC subway system) being built over what will become River Avenue; actual location information is a bit hazy (all I got is "south of 167th Street", so the only clue to the station being built in the foreground on the left is 161st Street, where the new Yankee Stadium is today. If further north than that, then what will become Mullaly Park is on the left instead. Would the Bronx be better off as it was in 1915 than as it is today? (This el currently serves a lot of neighbourhoods with recent Irish immigrants, BTW.)

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Short film showing a steam-powered demonstrator railcar built by George and William Besler of Davenport, Iowa, USA.

The steam engine had a flash boiler made from designs acquired from the Abner Doble Steam Motors company: these could go from cold start to being able to move a car within about five minutes, and they were explosion-proof due to not needing to make huge volumes of steam but vapourising small volumes of water into steam as needed (about two litres at a time in the automobile version) and were very quiet due to having advanced condensation technology. The biggest problems related to them had to do with heat fatigue: the temperature inside the boiler went up as high as 3,000 degrees Celsius (three times as hot as a normal steam locomotive firebox), so steam pipes would crack and boiler jacketing would melt/burn through, problems that Jay Leno in particular (who owns two Doble E-types) has attempted to solve by using modern ceramic materials inside the flash boiler.

The Besler brothers made a larger two-car streamlined version for the New Haven Railroad, called the Blue Goose, which ran from 1936 to 1943. Despite its streamlined appearance, it was limited to branch-line operations, and later superseded by railcars with either petrol or diesel engines.