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Posted by dougdagrump on Saturday, August 2, 2008 12:30 PM
 tangerine-jack wrote:

This is an interesting little piece of equipment I found next to the Mississippi river in Chester, Ill.  Looks to me like the number one (and two) most important thing a maintenance crew can have on site.Wink [;)]

Hmmm, it's the Democratic Presidential Campaign Car. Grumpy [|(]

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Posted by tangerine-jack on Friday, August 1, 2008 12:03 PM

 

 

That's easy Toad, just retire from the military and get a job at Passer & Theuer as a service rep for N. America.  simple.

 Rail grinder drawings- hmmm.  I know there are some around, I'll see what I can do.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 1, 2008 7:29 AM

TJ,

Now that is cool! How do you get inside and all over it?

BTW you got drawings for a rail grinder? (not a hand grinder)

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Posted by tangerine-jack on Friday, August 1, 2008 6:46 AM

This is for all you wire junkies.  MTW 100 catenary repair vehicle.  The machine is equipped with a telescopically raised and lowered work platform that rotates and a telescopic crane mounted lift bucket

interior work area

palfinger crane

pantograph and work platform.  Very dangerous area in which to be careless.  There are 12,000V here during normal repair operations.

work platform with lights

This is a junker.  Hey, not all of your model MOW needs to work Wink [;)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 5:56 PM

You know they can not get it right the 1st time Laugh [(-D] Save lives, heck yeah!

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Posted by ttrigg on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 3:55 PM
 ToadFrog WhiteLightn wrote:

This is the bad boy they use today.....got to play with one!

M9 ARMORED COMBAT EARTHMOVER (ACE)

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I got to drive one back in the late 70's.  The one I sank was serial number 0002!  #0001 burned up in the motor pool, some mech put mogas in the fuel tank instead of deisel.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 1:05 AM
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CSX track inspection truck

 -Brian

You will never guess what I like the best????? Those 2 ties they have for stops!!! Laugh [(-D]

Hey, can you go get pixs of the caboose? Inside and out?

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Oh yeah what you up so late for you got grass to cut and all those men to watch over!

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Posted by altterrain on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 12:17 AM

CSX track inspection truck

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 30, 2008 10:04 PM

This is the bad boy they use today.....got to play with one!

M9 ARMORED COMBAT EARTHMOVER (ACE)

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Posted by ttrigg on Monday, June 30, 2008 9:32 PM

Toad: add a few layers of boiler plate and it looks like something we used to use to clear enemy minefields.  It was also highly effective clearing scrub brush, smaller trees (less than 4 ft dia- for larger we had a Rowne Plow), also good for clearing foxholes, and other such goodies.

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Posted by corsair29 on Monday, June 30, 2008 8:39 PM

This is a siding off the main line that they left the equipment on over night.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 30, 2008 7:08 PM

Steve.........do you think redoing the ties and spikes while it is wet like that would do a good job?

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Posted by corsair29 on Monday, June 30, 2008 4:09 PM

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 28, 2008 9:38 AM

TJ,

Are you sure that is not for the inspector? Could be his car you know Big Smile [:D] jerk him down the road.......

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Posted by John Busby on Saturday, June 28, 2008 7:58 AM

Hi TJ

So who makes a G scale porta loo and have you got any old time HO steam roller type RR wheels.

Guess you could say the challange has been issuiedWhistling [:-^]

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Posted by tangerine-jack on Saturday, June 28, 2008 6:44 AM

This is an interesting little piece of equipment I found next to the Mississippi river in Chester, Ill.  Looks to me like the number one (and two) most important thing a maintenance crew can have on site.Wink [;)]

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Posted by hoofe116 on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:39 PM

Could I get a larger pix of the crane car? Looks like a donkey engine but can't tell. I'm gathering parts to build one with a rotating boom.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:45 PM

Thumb pix very bad, can not see.

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Posted by sfcgadget on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:24 PM

Here are a couple of my home brewed M.O.W.: Combine Caboose still needs decals and weathering, Steam derrick almost done and Speeder needs minor fix for warped plastic.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 16, 2008 5:29 PM

 GearDrivenSteam wrote:
I gotta get me one of those.

If you look at the top of the "push over bar" it has teeth to and he can tilt it to the angle he needs as far as trees and deeper brush.

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Posted by SNOWSHOE on Monday, June 16, 2008 4:38 PM
Toad its too bad you were not driving in that machine in that first picture (the shredder). 
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Posted by Great Western on Monday, June 16, 2008 11:17 AM
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On the side of the MOW it shreads everything in its path, trees to.

Toad

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 Hi Toad, 

Maybe they could be encouraged to build one that shreds drunken drivers as well! 

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Posted by GearDrivenSteam on Monday, June 16, 2008 11:07 AM
I gotta get me one of those.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:13 PM

On the side of the MOW it shreads everything in its path, trees to.

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Posted by GearDrivenSteam on Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:47 PM
Ok, I give up. What's the first one?
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Requested Post: M.O.W. Equipment (Add yours if you like)
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:00 AM

Photos here are only for ed. purpose so photos are respected to there owners.

Enjoy......Toad

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