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Intresting Railfan experience

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Intresting Railfan experience
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:52 PM
The other day I was waiting on a train or so I thought at a crossing and rail truck

pulling two older gondolas with metal stake beds welded on top of the normal

sides with a catapillar track hoe sitting in one picking up piles of ties out of the

gondola and dropping them in piles every so often. Tie replacement. I just

thought how odd that track hoe look sitting in the gondola. No more crain cars I

guess.
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Posted by bman36 on Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:44 PM
Matt,
Times have changed. CP Rail here in Manitoba has a work train pulled by...get this...a Western Star truck! Beastly looking thing with the big steer tires and all the usual outrigging necessary for rail running. Just does'nt seen right somehow. Once in a while I will still see the big 200 ton crane with a boom car travelling down the track. Usually that means a wreck somewhere. Later eh...Brian.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 24, 2004 7:06 AM
Brian, I didn't get to see the truck really, I came upon the crossing and the truck was hidden by the trees all I saw was the slow moving gondolas at first then I caught a glimsp of the back end of the truck.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 24, 2004 1:50 PM
Wow.Do you guys really get railway maintenance out there!
I must mention that to our system.
Troy
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Posted by jpmikesh on Friday, September 24, 2004 8:09 PM
Railroads use many different things. NJ Transit has a tie crane that crawls on top of rail cars for loading and unloading of ties. It rides on a specially modified gon.


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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 24, 2004 9:17 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jpmikesh

Railroads use many different things. NJ Transit has a tie crane that crawls on top of rail cars for loading and unloading of ties. It rides on a specially modified gon.


JP



That's pretty much it in your pic other than the gondola had stakes welded on top with a cross bar across the top of the stakes for a top rail. I'm guessing the line is Conrail Norfolk Southern division I saw due to it runs North and south in Ohio.
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Posted by bman36 on Friday, September 24, 2004 11:19 PM
Matt,
I've seen the same sorta' deal here too. Would be nice to find some 1/24 construction equip. to modify for rail use. Everything I have come across is the wrong scale. Well except for the $1500.00 brass crane advertised in GR. That's a couple of bucks too much for me to bring home and "bash". Always keeping my eyes open for items that work with our trains! Later eh...Brian.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 9:59 PM
I'm sorry this hasn't got much to do with railways but it was a strange sight, saw it down in Sydney not long before I migrated up here.

I was going along Rookwood Road (Rookwood is the largest cemetary in the Southern Hemisphere). A motor bike with sidecar, but no one was sitting on the motor bike; it was being driven by a guy sitting in the sidecar.

Do you think he was heading for the cemetary?

Incidentally here is an Aussie slang term for you or maybe a Sydney slang term. To be as "Crook as Rookwood" is a term meaning you are very sick or suffering from a hangover or even have the flu

Free for today only

Rgds Ian.
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Posted by jpmikesh on Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:55 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by carpenter matt
That's pretty much it in your pic other than the gondola had stakes welded on top with a cross bar across the top of the stakes for a top rail. I'm guessing the line is Conrail Norfolk Southern division I saw due to it runs North and south in Ohio.


The photo is a tie crane and walks along the top of the rail cars. Next time I see it, I'll have to get better photos.

JP

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