Russian Nuclear Train Named "Big Joe"

[vic]

Dont forget, the "Little Joes" were called that because they were built for service INSIDE Russia, they were designed during the war, but then the cold war put the kuputz on shipping them overseas, they were reworked for US gauge and eventually sold off to the Milwalkee Road.

And this WAS the soviet era, were logic and common sense were trumped by official party decree, "your cooperative farm WILL produce 100,000 bushels of grain" (regardless of the fact that the crops have failed). Decree over reality was a hallmark of the soviet era works.

[CAB_IV]

it still doesn't fly.  no locomotive would be able to melt through the tracks like that, especially with such a large locomotive.  the thing would have blown itself up before it got that far.

the idea of nuclear locomotive isn't farfetched, but the size and mostly the story of it is just beyond reality.

this locomotive is a fake.

[vic]

I'm not saying it existed or not, theres no way to prove it or to disprove it, buts it is a hellova story.

How about this for a scenario...If this monster was over the permafrost and the heat from the engine caused enough weakening to allow the rails to buckle, leading to a break in the piping carrying superheated water from the reactor to the boilers, this allowed a stream of superheated steam to blast out like a blow torch which caused instant melting of the surrounding permafronst, leading to more buckling of the powerplant and boilers,the engine then sank into this superheated mess of a soup eventually breaking the reactor seal, China Syndrome. This thing would sink as far as the surrounding melting caused by the radioactive mess would allow, its quite conceivable that something this large could dissappear from sight , the aftermath would be that the entire sight would be off limits, all evidence would be buried by containment mounds of earth to cover the wreckage.

Like I said cant prove it one way or not, but its conceivable during that insane era.