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Saint Celestine posted:Why are Big Boys track destroying? Do they weigh that much more than a regular locomotive? Big Boy: 1,250,000lbs Standard AC4400CW: 486,000
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but the big boys have lots of wheels. Steam locomotives are harder on rail than diesels. They hammer the track, both with acceleration impulses, and with the weight of the crossbars and wheels.
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Dec 12, 2012 05:19
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Their drive wheels wheelbase is also much longer, meaning they will be working really hard to destroy each and every curve. Do they have and 'blind' drive wheels?
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Dec 12, 2012 06:22
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I would let a Big Boy destroy my track any day if I get to one in operation 
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Dec 12, 2012 06:26
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Does Big Boy require a blood sacrifice as a part of the resurrection ritual? It looks like it needs at least 12 virgins offered up.
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Dec 12, 2012 06:36
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Nerobro posted:but the big boys have lots of wheels. This, from the sinusoidal torque. They also have a bad habit of oiling the tracks and (when coal fired, at least) starting fires from embers. Oh, and killing their crew every time someone lets a crown sheet get hot.
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Dec 12, 2012 07:22
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Well I guess we should scrap it then.
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Dec 12, 2012 13:59
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Ron Pauls Friend posted:Well I guess we should scrap it then. Its like one of the Elder Locomotive Gods, if you try to scrap it, it just gets angry and terrorizes the village.
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Dec 12, 2012 14:36
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From what I've read UP won't let it run unless it is converted into an oil burner, but apparently that was considered back in the 60s and nobody thought it would work due to the type of coal the Big Boy's firebox was designed for. I don't know what has changed in that regard aside from maybe improved oil burners.
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Dec 12, 2012 15:01
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I wonder if a natural gas conversion would work. That's a scary/awesome thought; a locomotive that big hauling around a huge tank of CNG. Though I guess that stuff is probably already shipped via rail so it's not that big of a deal.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:From what I've read UP won't let it run unless it is converted into an oil burner, but apparently that was considered back in the 60s and nobody thought it would work due to the type of coal the Big Boy's firebox was designed for. I don't know what has changed in that regard aside from maybe improved oil burners. I thought they DID make one?
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Dec 12, 2012 15:11
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CommieGIR posted:I thought they DID make one? Actually you may be right about that, if so it must have had problems. I know I read an article about the problems with such a plan at some point. I don't recall details though.
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Dec 13, 2012 02:45
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I've got a phone interview with NS for a transportation manager trainee job. Even though the job probably sucks, I'm pretty excited about not getting told to fuckoff straight up by NS for the first time.
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Dec 13, 2012 04:18
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I haven't gotten a chance to drive this yet but I hear it's the best thing ever (it's in a mine 4850 feet below ground). Hopefully next shift I'm up here I'll get to train on it  
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Dec 13, 2012 18:32
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I love the faux bloodstain on the rear deck edge.
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kastein posted:I love the faux bloodstain on the rear deck edge. Who says it's fake? 
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Dec 13, 2012 18:47
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Mr. Despair posted:I haven't gotten a chance to drive this yet but I hear it's the best thing ever (it's in a mine 4850 feet below ground). Be glad you're not working in Albania: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhXEQQk8G8
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Dec 14, 2012 06:40
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bytebark posted:Be glad you're not working in Albania: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhXEQQk8G8 So instead of a pantograph, they just gave a guy a metal rod and rubber gloves.  And that's interesting rail switching going on.
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Dec 14, 2012 07:00
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These kids kick rear end and I wish I was them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPu3WJ9xuBY I don't think they're going to get run over by a real train anytime soon by the look of those tracks.
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Dec 14, 2012 07:05
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They're in/near my county. I had no idea any of those ancient Northwestern Pacific rail lines were still in remotely usable condition.
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Dec 14, 2012 07:23
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Brno, Czech Republic, saw this on another site and wanted to repost it here. Seems awesome to me.
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 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3513877&pagenumber=44#post410717178 Soyuz rollout, launch today at Baikonur, Kazakhstan temperature is a high of -17c.  
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Dec 19, 2012 04:36
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Man those are lovely pictures. Seems so much more logical than giant tracked beasts.
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Dec 19, 2012 07:17
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I always love that disparity between the American and Russian space programs. "We build our rocket inside a building tall enough to have its own weather, on top of a launch pad powered by 5000 horsepower and the worlds largest sets of tracks, which travels from the building to the launchpad on a custom road paved with special rocks so they don't spark." "We put ours on train and launch from hole in ground."Yes, yes, I know, stable ground vs. FL coastal swamp and all that.
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Dec 19, 2012 08:09
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It's not like it's a normal railway. It's actually pretty darn similar to the US setup, just on rails instead of tracks.
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Dec 19, 2012 08:28
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Advent Horizon posted:It's not like it's a normal railway. It's actually pretty darn similar to the US setup, just on rails instead of tracks. Most of the railways there are pretty much 'normal' of course they would be super heavy duty but for the soyuz it's normally one or two locos pushing it around. The N1 moon rocket mover is what you are thinking of being similar to NASAs Crawler. That was a monster, towed by four locos on two tracks. The russian way of rolling something out horizontally then lifting it into position was faster then NASAs crawler, which back then in the cold (-17c is the expected high for the Soyuz launch in 45 minutes) was probably better for everybody to get it to the pad ASAP.   N1 moon rocket rollout  The vehicle transporter moving the Soviet shuttle Buran and it's Enrgia booster to the launch pad.  
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Dec 19, 2012 12:33
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So who mentioned G-scale trains? http://binged.it/12FDj4v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHRU_QOungw
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Dec 22, 2012 05:35
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http://youtu.be/6xSzU0oM4mM Kinda neat! Closed tube station.
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Dec 22, 2012 06:06
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Speaking of model railroading, I'm sure many of you will have seen the 1978 film Model Railroading Unlimited. Most of it is silly, but I like the ten-minute "action" sequence at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDl8aOoaXcU&t=553s
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Dec 22, 2012 06:06
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Boomer The Cannon posted:So who mentioned G-scale trains? When I have a ton of extra money and a big yard I so want to do this. So...when I'm about 70? In fact, I still have a lot of n-gauge stuff from when I was a kid. Hmm. InterceptorV8 posted:http://youtu.be/6xSzU0oM4mM I loved abandoned buildings, especially things like subways.
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CharlesM posted:I loved abandoned buildings, especially things like subways. You've probably seen this, and its been posted in this thread years ago I think, but this is a great read on abandoned Paris subway tunnels/stations. http://sleepycity.net/posts/252/Demolition_of_the_Paris_Metro
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The latest trains/destruction video to go viral: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yBr-H2yskM
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Boomer The Cannon posted:So who mentioned G-scale trains? Give me a few hours, I'll have some pictures of my Christmas trains set up. Edit: Trains are up, pictures will have to wait until better lighting tomorrow. Anyone know anything about track cleaning cars? Some of my track has a bit of oxidation, and it makes the lights flicker on my second Whitepass when I run them both pulling the same train. Of course, that's also partly due to how much power they draw... Log082 fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Dec 22, 2012 |
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bytebark posted:The latest trains/destruction video to go viral: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yBr-H2yskM "Holy poo poo" is right.
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bytebark posted:The latest trains/destruction video to go viral: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yBr-H2yskM "While out doing some very exciting train spotting - yawn - this onlooker caught some truly amazing up close footage of a landslide derailing a train." SucidalMike gets a down-vote from me for that dig against railfans.  Oh, and he can't spell his own name.Landslide Derails Train. This is the ORIGINAL video. This gets my up-vote.
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Brother Jonathan posted:"While out doing some very exciting train spotting - yawn - this onlooker caught some truly amazing up close footage of a landslide derailing a train." Why do people hold their phones vertically when recording?
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EightBit posted:Why do people hold their phones vertically when recording? Especially when recording something like a train which is oriented kind of like, you know, horizontally and stuff. Unless he planned for that landslide to happen. 
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Brother Jonathan posted:Speaking of model railroading, I'm sure many of you will have seen the 1978 film Model Railroading Unlimited. Most of it is silly, but I like the ten-minute "action" sequence at the end: Speaking of which, did anyone ever watch a program called Tracks Ahead on PBS back in the mid-90s? Kimball was one of the hosts and I remember him standing in front of one of the locomotives from his own personal railroad. I don't recall much but I do remember one segment on the ICE in Germany and some model railroad built in a disused bowling alley or something. Interestingly enough, I was channel flipping once and saw it on the schedule for a PBS affiliate. They made a new season as recent as last year or so.
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Zeether posted:Speaking of which, did anyone ever watch a program called Tracks Ahead on PBS back in the mid-90s?
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nmfree posted:Check your PBS sub channels- I watched a little bit of an episode of that (don't know how recent) this afternoon.
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