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Quickie with Mookie!
Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:41 PM
Why would some coal cars have Do Not Hump stamped on the end?

I may have asked this before and don't remember the answer - it is only on certain ones I see. They look just like all the rest, but .....

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:54 PM
For openers:

(1) If the cars are loaded, the retarders may not slow them down enough before they "hard couple" down in the bowl. Laws of physics (inertia) in play here. (know of incidents at Pueblo where the retarders failed, heavy cars rolled out the other end (south end) of the yard, only to be dumped on the ground by a switch point derail [gravity works!])
(2) some have a secondary air line for automatic dumping that is not to be messed with up high where a switchman might not see it.
(3) rotary coupler assemblies could be damaged or misaligned, depending on the type......
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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:01 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

For openers:

(1) If the cars are loaded, the retarders may not slow them down enough before they "hard couple" down in the bowl. Laws of physics (inertia) in play here. (know of incidents at Pueblo where the retarders failed, heavy cars rolled out the other end (south end) of the yard, only to be dumped on the ground by a switch point derail [gravity works!])
(2) some have a secondary air line for automatic dumping that is not to be messed with up high where a switchman might not see it.
(3) rotary coupler assemblies could be damaged or misaligned, depending on the type......
# 1 and # 3 - wouldn't this apply to most coal cars? Especially # 1 - isn't that always a hazard?

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:36 PM
(1)If you shift the mass in some of the newer aluminum coal-gons (coal car), a massive enough impact will "break the back" or warp the body of the coal car. If you get two or three cars together going over the hump, then WHAM! The cars continue to get heavier and some dowty retarders won't slow down the moving mass. Some car owners see humping as contributing to a shorter service life for the car due to impact loading and metal fatigue. Anyone working in a hump yard has seen the results of overspeed impacts in the bowl - sooner or later something either crumples / breaks or the lighter cars get pushed up & off the track.
(3) coupler type and the bearings in the rotary assembly are different in many of the solid bottom/ rotary coupled cars (where's the carknocker on this forum when you need him/her around anyway?)

Wish we could give you a more complete answer. This is just what I've been exposed to over the years.

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:39 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

(1)If you shift the mass in some of the newer aluminum coal-gons (coal car), a massive enough impact will "break the back" or warp the body of the coal car. If you get two or three cars together going over the hump, then WHAM! The cars continue to get heavier and some dowty retarders won't slow down the moving mass. Some car owners see humping as contributing to a shorter service life for the car due to impact loading and metal fatigue. Anyone working in a hump yard has seen the results of overspeed impacts in the bowl - sooner or later something either crumples / breaks or the lighter cars get pushed up & off the track.
(3) coupler type and the bearings in the rotary assembly are different in many of the solid bottom/ rotary coupled cars (where's the carknocker on this forum when you need him/her around anyway?)

Wish we could give you a more complete answer. This is just what I've been exposed to over the years.

mudchicken
Ah - well that is pretty clear! I think I have it sort of figured out now. Thanx for info! Will go file that one away!

Probably shouldn't say file around talons, should I?

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:06 PM
The cat is safe. Getting things sharpened-up for the Long Black Train dimwits and the transportation people that can't think beyond more paving....(If you could only see how the local spin artists are explaining the front range freight rail bypass around Denver!)

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Posted by dharmon on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:22 PM
Okay...maybe I wasn't paying full attention the past few days.....maybe it's all the smoke and ash flying around.......maybe I should stick to putting together "ready to run" instead of HO kits becuase of the glue fumes....I don't know.....but the subject line is "Quickie with Mookie" and the topic's about "Do not hump".........make up your mind![;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:39 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Okay...maybe I wasn't paying full attention the past few days.....maybe it's all the smoke and ash flying around.......maybe I should stick to putting together "ready to run" instead of HO kits becuase of the glue fumes....I don't know.....but the subject line is "Quickie with Mookie" and the topic's about "Do not hump".........make up your mind![;)]


lol lol lol lol lol


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Posted by edblysard on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:40 AM
You missed one.
Loaded coal car are often loaded above the top, remember seeing that little mound of coal sticking up above the rim of the car top?
In a hump yard, when the car hits the standing cut of car(bumper) all that coal shifts. You can get a pretty good pile of it for free.
In the aluminum cars, when that much weight shifts, it can distort the car body.
We flat yard switch, which in some instances can be harder on cars than a hump yard, and trust me, with the coke and coal cars, if you need a little coal for the barbque pit, it ait all that hard to "spill" some out of the cars!
And you dont want to beat up the older bottom dump cars too badly, they will dump their contents really quick if the door lock breaks.
And a hopper load of coal in the middle of the tracks slows things down real fast!
Stay Frosty,
Off to work
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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:16 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

You missed one.
Loaded coal car are often loaded above the top, remember seeing that little mound of coal sticking up above the rim of the car top?
In a hump yard, when the car hits the standing cut of car(bumper) all that coal shifts. You can get a pretty good pile of it for free.
In the aluminum cars, when that much weight shifts, it can distort the car body.
We flat yard switch, which in some instances can be harder on cars than a hump yard, and trust me, with the coke and coal cars, if you need a little coal for the barbque pit, it ait all that hard to "spill" some out of the cars!
And you dont want to beat up the older bottom dump cars too badly, they will dump their contents really quick if the door lock breaks.
And a hopper load of coal in the middle of the tracks slows things down real fast!
Stay Frosty,
Off to work
Ed

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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:20 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

You missed one.
Loaded coal car are often loaded above the top, remember seeing that little mound of coal sticking up above the rim of the car top?
In a hump yard, when the car hits the standing cut of car(bumper) all that coal shifts. You can get a pretty good pile of it for free.
In the aluminum cars, when that much weight shifts, it can distort the car body.
We flat yard switch, which in some instances can be harder on cars than a hump yard, and trust me, with the coke and coal cars, if you need a little coal for the barbque pit, it ait all that hard to "spill" some out of the cars!
And you dont want to beat up the older bottom dump cars too badly, they will dump their contents really quick if the door lock breaks.
And a hopper load of coal in the middle of the tracks slows things down real fast!
Stay Frosty,
Off to work
Ed

ok - i see that - we have a hump yard - and my thinking is that most coal trains mt or full come into the yard already made up. I have seen a remote pushing a couple of coal cars around - and wondering if maybe they aren't just putting them on a train w/o having to hump the cars.

Ah, this is all beginning to make sense to duh Mook.

Thanx guys. Another lesson in the old filing cabinet!

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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:30 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Okay...maybe I wasn't paying full attention the past few days.....maybe it's all the smoke and ash flying around.......maybe I should stick to putting together "ready to run" instead of HO kits becuase of the glue fumes....I don't know.....but the subject line is "Quickie with Mookie" and the topic's about "Do not hump".........make up your mind![;)]
DAN!!!! Mookie is appalled!!!! [:0] And you probably don't know how hard it is to be appalled and laugh at the same time! [:D]

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Posted by dharmon on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:45 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Okay...maybe I wasn't paying full attention the past few days.....maybe it's all the smoke and ash flying around.......maybe I should stick to putting together "ready to run" instead of HO kits becuase of the glue fumes....I don't know.....but the subject line is "Quickie with Mookie" and the topic's about "Do not hump".........make up your mind![;)]
DAN!!!! Mookie is appalled!!!! [:0] And you probably don't know how hard it is to be appalled and laugh at the same time! [:D]

Moo


And all this time we were led to believe that mookie was a cat. Now we find out mookie is a palled. Would that make you a palled bearer??[:D][:o)]
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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:20 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Okay...maybe I wasn't paying full attention the past few days.....maybe it's all the smoke and ash flying around.......maybe I should stick to putting together "ready to run" instead of HO kits becuase of the glue fumes....I don't know.....but the subject line is "Quickie with Mookie" and the topic's about "Do not hump".........make up your mind![;)]
DAN!!!! Mookie is appalled!!!! [:0] And you probably don't know how hard it is to be appalled and laugh at the same time! [:D]

Moo


And all this time we were led to believe that mookie was a cat. Now we find out mookie is a palled. Would that make you a palled bearer??[:D][:o)]
Groan

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Posted by dharmon on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:41 AM
I can't help it....all this fire nonsense has got me all s(punned) up[:I]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:53 PM
I was going to say, the title of this thread is VERY misleading...

Kind of like at the movie Theater when all three of these movies came out at the same time

ERIN BROKOVITCH ................SCREWED .............. MY DOG SKIP

little did I know, these were 3 different movies!
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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:57 PM
there you are! check your email Kev!
stay safe
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:30 PM
I thought your file cabinet had burst a long time ago with all the info. we have pumped into you. [;)] You keep flunking your tests. [}:)] Luv ya sweety LOL [:D]
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Posted by Mookie on Friday, November 14, 2003 6:32 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by drailed1999

I thought your file cabinet had burst a long time ago with all the info. we have pumped into you. [;)] You keep flunking your tests. [}:)] Luv ya sweety LOL [:D]
Got a second file cabinet!

Until one or many of you buy me a real live engine and let me park it in the back yard - I can't have a "hands-on" experience! (That's just for you Marty!)

I have to take all this information and make up the pictures in my acorn brain! I have no access to the real thing, so Engineer Mookie is riding an imaginary train - and boy you should see how funny it looks sometimes! Plus you should see my conductor - I'd whistle, but cats don't have lips!

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Posted by csxns on Friday, November 14, 2003 8:03 PM
Who is in for a Quickie.

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Posted by bnsfkline on Friday, November 14, 2003 9:18 PM
Oh, my friend says "Do Not Hump" is so Pervert guys wont try to have sex with the cars.....Thats a disturbing thought.............X_X
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