3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) and 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)
The McKeen Railmotor was a 6-cylinder self-propelled railcar or railmotor. When McKeen Company of Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A., first unveiled the car in 1905, the McKeen was among the first engines with a distillate-fueled motor.[1] Revisions to the McKeen car led to the modern self-propelled gasoline rail-motor vehicle, and the "contours of the porthole windows, the front-mounted gasoline engines, and other features anticipated the streamline concept."[2]
^O'Connell, J. (1954) Railroad Album: The Story of American Railroads in Words and Pictures. Popular Mechanics Press. p 79.
^Klein (1989) p 298 as cited in Grant, H.R. (2005) The Railroad: The Life Story of a Technology. Greenwood Press. p 83.
The McKeenRailmotor was a 6-cylinder self-propelled railcar or railmotor. When McKeen Company of Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A., first unveiled the car in 1905...
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German components, Austrian producer in Hungarian, now Romanian Arad McKeenrailmotor, 1904, futuristic design, early international success, unsolvable gear...
the company. Produced almost at the same time as the McKeenrailmotors, the Weitzer railmotors were an equivalent step in railway development. Some of...
unknown 129 km/h (80 mph) 1905 Union Pacific and Southern Pacific US McKeenrailmotor Single Railcar Gasoline Engine unknown First streamlined train in history...
Australian railway companies bought McKeenrailmotors. In the 1920s and 1930s, more reliable Gasoline railmotors were built by Australian industries....
Creek branch was dismantled in 1934 after a few years of service by a McKeenrailmotor. The tracks through the Santa Cruz Mountains suffered major damage...
Maryborough and St Arnaud, initially as a temporary measure to replace a McKeenrailmotor and permanently from April 1914. From January 1915, it operated local...
Beach station on the present site. For a period of time, de-motored McKeenrailmotors were used as carriages on steam-hauled passenger services. By 1924...
The 1800 class railmotors were a class of self-propelled diesel railmotors built by Commonwealth Engineering, Granville for the Queensland Railways. In...
development of the Mayne rail yard 1913 – First self-propelled railmotors introduced (McKeen Cars — imported from U.S.A.). 1924 – North Coast line opens...
locomotives RTL class Electric E class Bo-Bo (1923) L class Co-Co (1953) Railmotors and diesel multiple units Electric multiple units Tait (1919) Parcels...
of the Great Western Railway, part fourteen: Names and their Origins – Railmotor Services – War Service – The Complete Preservation Story. Lincoln: RCTS...
locomotives RTL class Electric E class Bo-Bo (1923) L class Co-Co (1953) Railmotors and diesel multiple units Electric multiple units Tait (1919) Parcels...
The DRC (Diesel Rail Car) was a class of railmotor operated by the Victorian Railways on its country rail network in Victoria, Australia. The cars were...
the Queensland Railways between 1956 and 1971. In 1956, two 2000 class railmotor prototypes were constructed by Queensland Railways at its Ipswich Railway...
labor costs. In the 1900s steam railcars gave way to gasoline, led by the McKeen Motor Car Company, which produced 152 between 1905 and 1917. The J. G. Brill...
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