Nostalgia & History > Nah, it'll never work.

From the March 1938 Popular Science:

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So thats where those Flash Gordon cigar space ships ended up.

Undoubtedly designed by the same firm that gave us the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

Wonder who built them and where exactly they were tested. If Inglewood, probably the Santa Fe? I've never seen photos of these in railroad books/magazines.

These cars have all the attractiveness of an intestinal parasite.

Fred Harrison
Central Point, OR
CORPpower/JSS/EORS

Refugees from the Jetsons.

These actual cars never operated in RR service but three other cars were built and sold one each to the CB&Q, GN and AT&SF. The GN rebuilt the windows in there car by squaring them off. The GN Pendulum car spent most of its operating life operating out of Seattle in the Internbationals or GNs Seattle Portland pool train. The AT&SF Pendulum coach operated as an extra car in the San Diegans. The CB&Q pendulum car spent its final years operating with a Doodlebug. The CB&Q car was the only one named that beiung SILVER PENDULUM.

Ugly enough to be Amtrak.

My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R.....



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/24/11 20:36 by DrLoco.

I think they were kind-of neat ...and I'm no young whippersnapper! I had never seen anything like these either.

Laugh not, the firm that designed the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile did design a railcar, one of the most celebrated observation car designs of the 20the century....the firm was Brooks Stevens Design, and observation car was the Milwaukee Road Sky Top.