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Boy, was I surprised when this trailing unit showed up on the main! Does anyone have any information about it? It seems to be somewhat inspired by the DD40-AX experiment, but with three trucks and two prime movers. I wonder how long it will be before all the road units are upgraded? I guess the middle truck has been modified to accommodate lateral movement?
A bit late for April fools… let’s see if Athearn cobbles one together!

Scale Trains would provide a Rivet Counter version but it might be in about 10 years.
Is that a Google Steetview splice? I've seen some weird things there.
It appears to be a hoax. This diesel can't handle any curve without derailing. Something like this:
It's directly from my phone. I just found it there after the train passed. The shooting mode was incorrectly set to "pano".
And we wonder where fake news comes from…..lol
Is that a Google Steetview splice? I've seen some weird things there.
Ya, take a look at Paducah, KY using Google Earth ( maps.google.com ). Find Enterprise Rental Car. You will notice that there is 1/2 a car on the hiway out front. Amazing how it rolls good and straight!
A little too modern for my era (1940's- 1960, but if I could kitbash 2-10-2's and 2-10-4's out of 2-8-2 Mantua steamers that will negotiate 18" radius curves and #5 turnouts, I probably could...just make all the center wheels blind. Oh, never mind!

Come to think about it, the Santa Fe had a couple of articulated steam locomotives that hinged in the middle. They leaked too much and eventually were converted to switch engines or somesuch!

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