Odd Propeller-Driven Vehicles

Deputy Dog has a collection of "7 unusual propeller-driven vehicles," including this "Rail Zeppelin" by Frank Kruchenberg, driven by a BMW aircraft engine that brought the train speed to a then-record-breaking 145 MPH in 1931.

7 unusual propeller-driven vehicles [Deputy-Dog via Ectomo]

[#1 posted by Scuba SM , October 1, 2007 9:23 AM]

I love that the railplane has a stained glass window on it's door. I'm also in love with the propeller driven car... I wonder how hard it'd be to build one of my own.

[#2 posted by the specialist , October 2, 2007 7:11 AM]

oh my - that is some cow catcher! or is it a cow sprayer?

why did they create these things? is it not obvious that a mechanical drive would be more efficient? were they just caught up in the novelty?

[#3 posted by Anonymous , October 2, 2007 9:26 AM]

Stained glass window in a prop-driven traincar? I'll shoot it out with the front-mounted machine gun on my prop-driven snowmobile! There is nothing cooler than this Soviet death machine!