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How did this not make it into our Illustrated History Of Checker Motors? Because TTAC commenter whynotaztec didn’t send it in soon enough. Better late than never, though.
11 Comments on “What’s Wrong With This Picture: Checker Handles Like It’s On Rails Edition...”
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Okay, throw a Diesel hooked up to Prius hybrid pieces under the ample hood, and you’ve got yourself a nice railroad locomotive there. All aboard!
Think that’s cool? Well it is but we’ll never own it. The Jigger Cart on the other hand…
Well, ain’t that a cool adaption!
How about somebody giving us the back-story on this … like what railroad, when and who converted the car, what it is for today, etc.!
I wonder if that particular Checker had cruise control?
What if you meet something coming the other way ?
brakes, then reverse gear … last ditch solution, jump out into the ditch…
nice wye by the way… and nice way by the wye…
Don’t you think that it would be the Grand Trunk RR, since they ran through Kalamazoo? Nice High Railer though. Not quite a wye though, by the wye.
It’s the Maine Central, and I’m sure someone on railroad.net could come up with the history of the car.
Lionel made an “Executive Inspection Car” that looked something like this (well, actually based on a Desoto). We had a nice train set when I was a kid and my brother had one of these cars. It wasn’t pristine, because we played with it and trains crash, but it lasted till we had families of our own, and then my niece dropped it and cracked the body shell.
http://www.trainxchange.com/images/Posted%20to%20Web/68ExecutiveInspectionCar.JPG
Thanks for that video John.fitz. If I’m not mistaken, those gents are on the road to Paradise.