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The Norfolk and Western J Series 611 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%26W_J_class_%281941%29 Probably my all time favorite steam locomotive.
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Lionel Super O supremacy!
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Gorilla Salad posted:In the green room. Biggest resolution you have please!
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That site and those pictures are awesome.
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Speaking of NKP 765, here's it's mainline schedule for the next month or so. I live in Fort Wayne and am a huge antique steam nut and how the hell did I not know about this? Is there any way the general public can catch a ride on this?
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Lionel O gauge for life!
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http://www.fireup611.org/main/index.php So they are doing a feasibility study of restoring the last remaining J-Class locomotive, No. 611, to operational status. I remember riding on this train when I was 4 years old back in the early 80's when it came through Fort Wayne, and it might by why I think it's still the most beautiful steam locomotive ever produced. Not to mention it was also probably the fastest ever built, achieving over 100 mph back in the 50's on the Fort Wayne racetrack spur.
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Brother Jonathan posted:This picture seems to fit the thread title of "Locomotive Insanity" well: This is awesome, and yet it makes me very sad. The promise of the "future" back in America's heyday was great. Our grandparents had saved the world and were investing in America's future, so that their children would have a better tomorrow. And what did their children, our parents, do to further that legacy? They poo poo on everything their parents did for them, gutted unions and the labor movement, got greedy and gave corporations and the rich all of the power and look at the loving mess we are in because of their short-sightedness. Our infrastructure hasn't been touched since WW2, all of the funding we poured into science and technology has all but dried up, and its only now, in their twilight, that our parent's generation have only started to realize their colossal mistake because they dismantled the very social safety net that their parents broke their backs to build for them. I'll get off my soapbox now, but goddamn it makes me sad to think that the rest of the world is going to pass us by and we'll still be stuck cleaning up the mess our parents made. Maybe our children will get to ride on bullet trains powered by renewable energy...
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For more information about air cooled nuclear reactors, see this awesome (and terrifying) wiki entry.
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CommieGIR posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmSclbRE Seeing that video made me miss my grandfather. He worked for the Lima Locomotive Works before WWII building steam locomotives. Unfortunately he died when I was 5 so I never really got to talk to him about the trains that he helped build.
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It makes me sad when non-idiots intervene on behalf of idiots to prevent them from getting killed. We're not doing the species any favors people, let Darwin handle it!
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Enos Shenk posted:
Sup fellow Fort Wayne AI goon. I think that makes 3 or 4 of us now.
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