10 Bizarre Locomotives That Actually Worked
10 Bizarre Locomotives That Actually Worked One burned fuel so thick it had to be heated before it could move through a pipe. Another carried its own boiler on two powered trucks and had no fixed front or back — it could run equally well in either direction without turning around. A third mounted a propeller from an aircraft engine on its rear and set a speed record that stood for decades. These were not drawing-board fantasies. They were locomotives that hauled real loads on real track and proved every textbook wrong. Here are ten bizarre locomotives that actually worked.
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