railfancwb Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 I saw Ike at a rally in 1957. I like Ike. tom. My home town was too small and in a safe Republican District. So I got to see Nixon and shake his hand. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 Just now, railfancwb said: My home town was too small and in a safe Republican District. So I got to see Nixon and shake his hand. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk He's looking like quite the amateur compared to the Clintons and Obama. In fact, those two make the Chicago Machine look pale in comparison. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 For smaller trains, this book might be of interest:It was published in at least two editions, hardback and paperback, so copies are readily available inexpensively. Libraries may have copies. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 He's looking like quite the amateur compared to the Clintons and Obama. In fact, those two make the Chicago Machine look pale in comparison.Arguably more honorable than any of his Democrat successors. Had he not resigned, I now suspect he would not have been removed from office by the impeachment process. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 29, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 29, 2019 I think they are doing it wrong. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 They do tend to make a mess. made a couple of them myself...of course it wasn’t my fault . 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 I think they are doing it wrong. When and where? Any injuries?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 31, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 31, 2019 9 minutes ago, railfancwb said: When and where? Any injuries? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk It is the 2013 CSX Derailment at CP 188 in Fonda, NY. Two crewmen received minor injuries. Two trains were involved. https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Report-details-June-27-derailment-near-Fonda-4784619.php http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=92902 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 There is a stretch of a major highway in MN that runs between my old home town and my residence. It ran parallel with one of the major rail lines through my state. We made considerable trips on that highway to visit my wife's and then my own parents. Every time I bought a new car in my home town, as I was driving back there I would watch the rail lines paralleling the highway, wondering if one of those new car trains I was pacing was carrying my new car. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Supposedly this is on Canadian National. So far haven’t been able to learn anything about that locomotive. Can anyone identify it?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, railfancwb said: Supposedly this is on Canadian National. So far haven’t been able to learn anything about that locomotive. Can anyone identify it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk https://pressfrom.info/ca/news/technology/-139172-why-canadian-national-railway-tsx-cnr-is-still-1-of-the-best-long-term-stocks.html The picture has been flipped right to left, but it's the same picture. This is all I could come up with. Edited September 1, 2019 by janice6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 I don't know one from another but here is the locomotive roster for the Canadian National Railroad. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locolist.aspx?id=CN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 No ditch lights, no plow. probably a switcher making up a train, or block swapping. It doesn’t look like a road engine . 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NPTim Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 On 10/27/2018 at 7:29 PM, Eric said: Did Harley Earl design the locomotive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 3, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 3, 2019 3 minutes ago, NPTim said: Did Harley Earl design the locomotive? I don’t know. It did have someone with an artistic eye behind it though. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 7, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 7, 2019 This is after the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, in the Florida Keys. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 7 minutes ago, Eric said: This is after the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, in the Florida Keys. Atlas shrugged. The hurricane was just an excuse to take track from the only productive line. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Our dorm-house in Texas had tracks in the backyard, where you could hit the train from the back door with an empty beer can. It was unacceptable for a month, and then, somehow, became a comfort. Even all night long. You could hear the whistle from years away. You knew it was coming. The second-worse was when they'd put on the brakes and all the couplings would collide together, creating a rumbling boom that would wake you up. The first-worst was when they'd start going again. You could hear it start from miles away. The gradually growing boom of all the empty car couplings taking up, and when it hit the house..... the windows would break. It would knock you out of bed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Many times, we'd see the train going past, and a red-hot meteorite would shoot off and bounce across the field or back yards, creating a fire every time it ricocheted off the ground. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 One time, an ancient pufferbelly was going to its retirement in a museum, right behind us. Don't remember its name, and cameras, I guess, hadn't been invented yet. But we waited, and got drunk, so we could go "woooooo!" as it went passed. The sound and smoke and verberation and smell was very memorable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Our dorm-house in Texas had tracks in the backyard, where you could hit the train from the back door with an empty beer can. It was unacceptable for a month, and then, somehow, became a comfort. Even all night long. You could hear the whistle from years away. You knew it was coming. The second-worse was when they'd put on the brakes and all the couplings would collide together, creating a rumbling boom that would wake you up. The first-worst was when they'd start going again. You could hear it start from miles away. The gradually growing boom of all the empty car couplings taking up, and when it hit the house..... the windows would break. It would knock you out of bed. To start a long train with a steam locomotive, the train would be backed up in necessary to create slack. Thus the locomotive had to start only one car moving at a time. To start a long train with a diesel locomotive, the train would be eased forward to remove slack. This minimized the risk of jerking the train in two. A steam locomotive could pull a train it couldn’t start. A diesel locomotive could start a train it couldn’t pull. Passenger trains were eased forward to remove slack regardless of the locomotive type. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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