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Disgruntled Bovine posted:In the case of Alco it's because they sound cool and make lots of smoke. Also, because Alco made steam locomotives. They made them in Schenectady, NY which is the neatest city to spell or say. Looks cool on the boilerplate of a bigboy too.
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bytebark posted:Since winter is getting close: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365218614/ http://www.wplives.org/index.html These guys used to let you drive one if I remember right.
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The Reg done an article about Network Rail's fancy new old train http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/10/network_rail_new_measurement_train_ride/ quote:The image recorded by PLPR comes from seven cameras looking at the track from different angles and is recorded as one long file. This is 2048 pixels wide and 30 miles long, capturing as little as 0.8mm of movement. 
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I was driving up in the hills yesterday and passed by the Puffing Billy tourist railway, a narrow gauge one. Decided to wait around the trestle bridge for 15 minutes for a train to come past. Sadly it was the end of the day so it was backwards. They're currently doing some maintenance works on the bridge, replacing some cross beams and such.   Drove a few minutes up the road to Emerald where another train was just departing the station. Apparently they had the 'Thomas & Friends' day earlier at Emerald station where you could ride their Thomas the tank engine engine.  Edit: One from their twitter - PuffingBillyRailway @puffingbillyr Nov 11 What a sight- this hasn't happened for 15 years! All 5 NA locos fired up. #happydays #trains #holysmoke 
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:I'd hate to be on their seniority roster. It stretches from here to the middle of next month - and it needs to be. They run trains almost every day of the year except Christmas and Easter. Usual operations will call of at least one kettle, often more than one kettle in service each day, with the exception of fire-ban days (most of the Aussie bush burns with spectacular effect, and what doesn't burn is loaded up with sufficient oil that they will explode in a bushfire. Think burning bits of foot long 2"x4" flying through the air at 20-30mph)
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:I'd hate to be on their seniority roster. That's not even the full extent of their rolling stock. There's another 5-6 steam locomotives that aren't the flagship NA loco's, though some of those are special-occasion ones, and a few diesels on top of that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ddsV-SmMQ It appears the driver controls the engine simply by moving the pantograph. That seems odd and somewhat unsafe. Or is there another reason for it?
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kids just hanging out the window over a bridge  Stick Insect posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ddsV-SmMQ I'd wager simplicity as that thing appears to be the economy/budget friendly locomotive.
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If it isn't called the local equivalent of "Ol' Sparky" then I don't know what the gently caress.
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I am looking for info about the Steiner F8 steam locomotive. Things like it's own weight and how they used to lift these machine's on merchant ships for instance. Are there technical drawings available etc. Thanks.
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Something no one tells you before hiring into TY&E: If you're not pro napper, you'll become one in short order.
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ijustam posted:I'd wager simplicity as that thing appears to be the economy/budget friendly locomotive. Along those same lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhXEQQk8G8
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jaigh_taylor posted:Something no one tells you before hiring into TY&E: If you're not pro napper, you'll become one in short order. Winter is the best. Broken rail ahead? Single main railroad? 3 hour nap.
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I stole this train from the mall, and it ain't no thang at all.
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Alegedly was not stolen, was actually built for a peaceful protest?
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Keiya posted:Alegedly was not stolen, was actually built for a peaceful protest? Makes me wonder if it's a reference to this: 
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Keiya posted:Alegedly was not stolen, was actually built for a peaceful protest? This is correct. That image has been run out of hand  http://i.imgur.com/r7OmQNQ.png
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Looks like the racist slant was added by reddit, shocking I know.
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Hey, look at that. A kinda rough 1947 Dodge sedan. Looks kinda worn out on the outside. Any better inside? Nope...  A view from above ... hey, are those RAILS under the car?  Well I'll be damned. It even has special flanged tires for those rails.  Backstory: This is a limo variant of a 1947 Dodge built for the Milwaukee Road railroad, and modified by their shops for use on rails rather than road. It was retired in 1961. After several years of sitting around it was purchased for $25 by a museum in Wisconsin. Fast forward to 2014, and after it had sat outside for many years (and was never operable), that museum wanted to get rid of it. So the museum I'm involved with picked it up earlier this year. A couple of our members run an unofficial museum blog with more details and pictures of the car. Supposedly the plan is to restore it and get it running again. I've been told that although it looks pretty rough, it was never exposed to salt (since it wasn't used on actual roads) so other than surface rust, the body is in pretty good shape.
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That is awesome! There is a similar car in the Duluth rail museum, but unfortunately I don't have the pics handy.
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Wally Joyner posted:That is awesome! There is a similar car in the Duluth rail museum, but unfortunately I don't have the pics handy. I was just gonna say, they've got one too. Also they've got a 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone which is just ENORMOUS.
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They also have the first one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Road_class_EP-1,_EF-1,_EF-2,_EF-3,_and_EF-5 which is loving awesome. Was climbing around inside it wondering what exactly it was, then read the backstory and was like "drat this thing is a piece of history."
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Great story that is part of the history of my line. http://www3.gendisasters.com/wyoming/5661/edson-wy-train-wreck-jan-1888 quote:Edson, WY Train Wreck, Jan 1888 There was a tunnel at Edson. It was called "Tunnel No. 1" Because it was built before the tunnels up on Sherman Hill at Dale. According to an article done by the UP Historical Society, The tunnel was daylighted in 1927. You can still see the remnants of it if you know what you're looking at. It is one of the two big abandoned cuts just before we come into Edson westbound.
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What happens when one empty car derails and the cars are connected by "anti-bypass" double shelf couplers? This  Best comments from my railroad coworkers: "That's what happens when you let a train sit too long in the yard.... they get tired and roll over to go to sleep." "Clear the main at last named point." "At least they stayed connected as designed. It saved a disast.. never mind."
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Yeah I was going by that the other day and stopped to take pictures which are in the mechanical failures thread. That's a filling station for a pipeline too. We also had this happen last month: http://missoulian.com/news/local/wr...a58c9d0957.html And there was that airplanes in the river thing.
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B4Ctom1 posted:"anti-bypass" double shelf couplers? What are these?
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Looks like one of our customers didn`t feel the need to vent the car before unloading...
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ijustam posted:What are these? Hazmat couplers. Look like this: 
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Skeeber posted:Looks like one of our customers didn`t feel the need to vent the car before unloading... That made a noise. What do one of those cost, anyway?
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jaigh_taylor posted:Hazmat couplers. Look like this: They can be on any car, not just hazmat.  But per the FRA all hazmat tanks are required to have them, along with roller bearings (I thought friction bearings are completely gone?)
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BrokenKnucklez posted:They can be on any car, not just hazmat. Yeah that's kind of odd, all roller bearing cars? That doesn't make sense. Friction bearings have been gone for a long time as far as I know.
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It has to be some pretty old language is my guess. But knowing this place if it saved them 50 cents to use friction bearings they would do it.
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I can think of one exception to the rule of thumb that friction bearings are gone from railroads - hot bottle tank cars (specialized tanks used to shuttle liquid steel between steelmaking facilities). Supposedly the heat from the molten steel can cause roller bearings to expand (and make the car immovable) in this type of application, hence the use of standard (friction) bearings. Video of this type of car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbzKU3cxWkk Also, railroads often use old-as-hell equipment in MOW service which sometimes has friction bearings. There's a rule set by the AAR prohibiting the interchange of rolling stock with friction bearings, but it can still be used in captive service on work trains, etc.
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Did they just throw whatever crap cars they had sitting around the yard between those bottle tank cars, to keep them separated from each other?
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I remember an old issue of Railpace magazine I used to have related to the Bethlehem steel mill closing down. They had some really wild specialized rail equipment.
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FISHMANPET posted:Did they just throw whatever crap cars they had sitting around the yard between those bottle tank cars, to keep them separated from each other? Looked like Indiana Harbor Belt cars going back to the owners. http://www.ihbrr.com/
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They do intentionally put spare empty cars between the bottle cars to space them out. Unsure of the exact reason but I suspect it's either to more widely distribute the weight of the steel, or because putting the cars right next to each other might make loading/unloading more difficult.
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