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MO Fugga Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 3 hours ago, Historian said: Me, too.  Nothing good happens when a train hits something. Said no coin ever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MO Fugga Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Historian said: Two experiences here. One was a suicide. It was dreadful. The train crew was very shook up over it...as were a lot of seasoned cops. The other is not an accident but an observation. I was leaving shift and got stuck at the crossing. So i said what the heck...enjoy it. So i stood outside my car and watched an AMAZING CSI train chug through.  They are freakishly big. I started reading off the contents of some of the cars and realized if they had an accident i would likely be dissolved. Sometimes if you're outside on a warm summer night you can hear the train go through the town to the west.  It's a great sound. Not here. Closest tracks are 30 miles away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators Eric Posted February 24, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted February 24, 2021 I don’t think I’ve ever seen a gear-driven supercharger that big on a dragster. It seems like the gear drive would be more likely to fail, at high RPM, then a drive belt would be. Cool looking setup though. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 2 minutes ago, Eric said: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a gear-driven supercharger that big on a dragster. It seems like the gear drive would be more likely to fail, at high RPM, then a drive belt would be. Cool looking setup though. Flathead engine. Wonder what rpm it can make 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 My wife was raised a block away from the RR crossing through a major state highway up till we married. She missed the sounds of trains at night, so I made a microphone/amplifier that played on the Bedroom TV. Then for video she could watch the street in front of the house. The Bedroom was on a lower level. She loved to go to sleep seeing the Deer and assorted wild life wandering through the front yards on the IR cameras while listening to the trains in the distance. She has always been important to me. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted February 24, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 minute ago, railfancwb said: Flathead engine. Wonder what rpm it can make I love the sound of the old flathead Ford V-8s when they are hot-rodded. I installed a bunch of Fuelie performance parts and triple carbs on a 1940 with a V-8, for a client back in the nineties. That thing purred like a kitten. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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