Murphy Siding henry6: Firelock76: henry6: Firelock76: How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken? And today's Off Topic prize goes to..... Well thank goodness I've won SOMETHING! I haven't had any luck with MegaMillions or Power Ball at all! I toss those losses off with the touch of a feather....which brings to mind featherbedding which is closer to topic. So, maybe you've won chairmanship of the steering committee... But......You can't steer a train.
henry6: Firelock76: henry6: Firelock76: How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken? And today's Off Topic prize goes to..... Well thank goodness I've won SOMETHING! I haven't had any luck with MegaMillions or Power Ball at all! I toss those losses off with the touch of a feather....which brings to mind featherbedding which is closer to topic. So, maybe you've won chairmanship of the steering committee...
Firelock76: henry6: Firelock76: How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken? And today's Off Topic prize goes to..... Well thank goodness I've won SOMETHING! I haven't had any luck with MegaMillions or Power Ball at all!
henry6: Firelock76: How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken? And today's Off Topic prize goes to.....
Firelock76: How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken?
How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken?
And today's Off Topic prize goes to.....
Well thank goodness I've won SOMETHING! I haven't had any luck with MegaMillions or Power Ball at all!
I toss those losses off with the touch of a feather....which brings to mind featherbedding which is closer to topic. So, maybe you've won chairmanship of the steering committee...
I thought we are talking birds through windshields not cows on tracks....
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henry6 Firelock76: henry6: Firelock76: How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken? And today's Off Topic prize goes to..... Well thank goodness I've won SOMETHING! I haven't had any luck with MegaMillions or Power Ball at all! I toss those losses off with the touch of a feather....which brings to mind featherbedding which is closer to topic. So, maybe you've won chairmanship of the steering committee...
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Firelock76 henry6: Firelock76: How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken? And today's Off Topic prize goes to..... Well thank goodness I've won SOMETHING! I haven't had any luck with MegaMillions or Power Ball at all!
henry6 Firelock76: How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken? And today's Off Topic prize goes to.....
Firelock76 How about a real chicken test? Who's better, KFC, Popeyes, or Roy Rogers "Pappy Parker" fried chicken?
I'd prefer any fresh grainfed fellow right about now...non mushed.
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But Cannonball it is when you call the Dispatcher and report it and you make him faint because the Corparate Policy was an Any Animal Strike was an Accident. So the Conversation went like this. Lyle Ed here I was in an Accident. Lyle Any Injuries Me MULTIPLE Lyle Fatalites Me MULTIPLE Lyle goes GET BARRY NOW THUD as he passed out. Larry gets on the phone and goes WTF happened I went Per Company Policy I was reporting my Incident with a Flock of Canadian Geese. He went OK how many are Dead I went 15 total 5 I think form the Body Parts are IN THE TRUCK. 20 or more are All over the Road Injured. He went Lyle is going to KILL YOU.
Remember the RDC cab ride of the last B&M Sprinfield to Greenfield MA. Going through the north spring switch at Holyoke in the February night with switch heaters on, a pigeon enjoying the warm, alarmed at the approaching cyclops flew right up into it and losing. Headlight suffered no damage.
Great horned owls are not windshield friendly either. Shirley was dozing a bit in the right seat of Rattler at 75 or so MPH, instant rude awake to feathers and mush bouncing about the cab and into the bunk/ living room. Quite exciting indeed. ~~~ 15 mi. to the nearest Truckadero. to recoup and clean up. Unforgettable event.
P.S. We still laugh about that from 15 yrs. ago
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All I know is that when riding my Norton 750 I do not want a feathered fellow of any size beaking me in my visor, thankee very much.....
rrnut282 carnej1: So somebody took the old urban myth about airplanes and rewrote it as a RR yarn? The original airplane related story has been the basis of not one but two episodes of "Mythbusters"... Jet engine manufacturers used "bird cannons" to determine robustness for decades. I have no doubt that aircraft windshield manufacturers borrowed this device, too.
carnej1: So somebody took the old urban myth about airplanes and rewrote it as a RR yarn? The original airplane related story has been the basis of not one but two episodes of "Mythbusters"...
So somebody took the old urban myth about airplanes and rewrote it as a RR yarn? The original airplane related story has been the basis of not one but two episodes of "Mythbusters"...
Jet engine manufacturers used "bird cannons" to determine robustness for decades. I have no doubt that aircraft windshield manufacturers borrowed this device, too.
They do, all covered in the "Mythbusters" episodes (which first disproved the Frozen vs. fresh chicken issue but then proved it)..
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edbenton Black and white wieghed about 25LBs before Impact and lets just say was flying with about 35+ of his buddies. I felt like Capt Sully would in a few years excpet my engine stayed running however I needed to have a Deep Cleaning of my Cab Interior done afterwards. Had Feathers Guts Blood Everything all over the place in the cab of my truck and all I could see was the Head of the freaking thing wrapped around the center post of my cab.
Black and white wieghed about 25LBs before Impact and lets just say was flying with about 35+ of his buddies. I felt like Capt Sully would in a few years excpet my engine stayed running however I needed to have a Deep Cleaning of my Cab Interior done afterwards. Had Feathers Guts Blood Everything all over the place in the cab of my truck and all I could see was the Head of the freaking thing wrapped around the center post of my cab.
The LION was riding at the RFW (Rail fan window) on an LIRR train when we hit a seagull at speed. Startled me, ans scared the engineer. He did not stop until we got to NYP, but he did get out to examine the bonnet. A red scorch mark was there, but no damage to the train.
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When birds hit, are they operating at beak performance?
One of my coworkers had a close call with a deer this morning. He just barely missed the deer, but it must have scared the animal in a big way. When I got to work, he was scrubbing deer poop off his bumper, hood and windshield.
edbenton I can honestly say this most Car and OTR truck Windshields ARE NOT bird strike rated. When a Large Canadian Goose hits you in the Windshield HE IS COMING THRU IT along with his Buddies.
I can honestly say this most Car and OTR truck Windshields ARE NOT bird strike rated. When a Large Canadian Goose hits you in the Windshield HE IS COMING THRU IT along with his Buddies.
I can honestly say this most Car and OTR truck Windshields ARE NOT bird strike rated. When a Large Candaian Goose hits you in the Windshield HE IS COMING THRU IT along with his Buddies.
carnej1 So somebody took the old urban myth about airplanes and rewrote it as a RR yarn? The original airplane related story has been the basis of not one but two episodes of "Mythbusters"...
Chicken fine, except for headache.....chicken's hardhat another story....
Paul, I agree; as I was reading it, that thought came to me.
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And I though it was going to be an article about two engineers that got on their locomotives and headed directly at each other on the same track to see who would hit the brakes first.
challenger3980 I guess that they should have thawed those chickens before firing them at the train windshields.
I guess that they should have thawed those chickens before firing them at the train windshields.
OR saved them for the annual test lab barbecue. Of course, using, non frozen chickens could have brought up the old featherbedding arguement again, too...depending on how far back the unthawing was.
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DEVICE TESTS HIGH SPEED TRAIN SAFETY: Engineers at NJTransit have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of Locomotives and Railcars all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate incidents of collisions with airborne birds to test the strength of the windshields. AMTRAK engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrrangements were made. But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cab. Horrified AMTRAK engineers sent NJT the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged NJT for suggestions. NJT's response was just three words, "Thaw the chicken".
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