Nuclear powered trains fact or fiction?

[PR19_Kit]

Making the gauge very wide makes some sense, and not only because the train itself will be larger. The gauge is a squared term in the stability equation for a railed vehicle so that the wider the gauge the faster the critical speed before the wheels go unstable.

Of course the died-in-the-wool GWR fans have been saying that British railways should have stayed with Brunel's 7' 0.25" gauge for YEARS because of that fact. 

[jcf]

This appeared in the Eagle comic in 1962:

Hilarious, the artist just took a steam locomotive and converted it to atomic power.
The configuration makes no sense. 

[PR19_Kit]

Everything was going to be nuclear powered in the 60s though. 

[frank2056]

Like Project Plowshare Need a ditch carved? Some weeds vaporized? We have a small nuke for that...

[Mossie]

This appeared in the Eagle comic in 1962:

Graft an Mi-8 cockpit onto a Dapol Battle of Britain class.

[zenrat]

Like Project Plowshare Need a ditch carved? Some weeds vaporized? We have a small nuke for that...

There were times when I was labouring that I would have used a small nuke rather than continue with a spade and shovel.