I received an email from the 1225 rebuilding program in need of help.
CZ
http://www.indiegogo.com/michigansteamtrain
They had it run as a 1 1/2 cylinder locomotive with that HUSH!-hush -- hush -hmm-- exhaust rythm . In replace of that missing beat , the whistle seems set to keep blowing by default and probably you have a lever to stop it but you'd have to keep it pressed down all the way and that's why most of the time the just let that whistle whine and whine and whine all along ? The signal is when the whistle stops blowing ?
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Juniatha the whistle seems set to keep blowing by default and probably you have a lever to stop it but you'd have to keep it pressed down all the way and that's why most of the time the just let that whistle whine and whine and whine all along ? The signal is when the whistle stops blowing ? = J =
the whistle seems set to keep blowing by default and probably you have a lever to stop it but you'd have to keep it pressed down all the way and that's why most of the time the just let that whistle whine and whine and whine all along ? The signal is when the whistle stops blowing ?
Why yes, in Digital Logic Circuit Design, we call that inverted (or negated) logic . . .
An opinion magazine once published a satirical article on "negative money", largely to prove the point that money is valuable because it has positive value. The article went on to discuss a world in which people would accept "negative money" in order to receive goods and services but how criminals would break into bank vaults to stuff them with negative money.
What with strapped city budgets and the Environmental Movement, it is increasingly difficult to dispose of many things -- microwave ovens, refrigerators, car batteries, refrigerators, and so on. This is supposed to raise revenue through disposal fees, but it is also meant to discourage "conspicuous consumption", of people buying new and just throwing away the perfectly good old instead of donating items to charity or to the un-prosperous brother-in-law.
This has the unintended consequence of creating a kind of "negative money", of items that are not only worthless (I wouldn't want ot dispose of my dehumidifier if the fine thing hadn't broken down, and because of other regulations, the manufacturer or dealer refuses to repair it) but items have negative worth because of large disposal fees.
One day, someone will return home from vacation, will press the radio garage door open button, and will be shocked to see that criminals had broken into the garage to stuff it to the roof with broken microwave ovens and dehumidifiers . . .
So now what is the whistle signal for a grade crossing -- a long silence, punctuated by two short silent intervals, followed by the engine driver leaning on the stop-whistle lever to maintain silence as the train enters the crossing?
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
Hi , Paul
>> So now what is the whistle signal for a grade crossing -- a long silence, punctuated by two short silent intervals, followed by the engine driver leaning on the stop-whistle lever to maintain silence as the train enters the crossing? <<
or so it seems ...
Well , I should not make jokes about it , they have my respect for running that steam locomotive in essentially a non-steam environment - so let's forgive them enjoying to hear a lot of choo-choo from that whistle for the work they have invested .
>>Negative money <<?
Gee - sounds pretty much like the formulae everyone is in search for to explain what on earth the European community is about with all those ESM funding of depts by creating more depths and dealing them between staates in need and banks in need - or not - until nobody knows what's what anymore (at least *that* point they seem to have reached about nearly although again no-one could say for sure .
Why , some airlines are said to secretly investigate business models where planes don't have seats inside but sport pedal posts to run good old propellors and passengers are then being asked to make an extra effort for a swift take-off . Obviously , this kind of air travel likely will be confined to short-hauls , the idea of a row of passengers giving up flat-out exhausted midways above the Atlantik ocean would not exactly look encouraging .
Someone stuffed a person's garage with used 'negative value' electronic junk ..
Well , that , too is already going on - only the waste is being dumped illegally into sea water where at the same time fishing ships are 'harvesting' huge amounts of fish leaving not enough for the population to ever recover .. and so on and so forth .
Precious natural forests are being erased and the land turned into an evironmentally hostile poisonous waste to get another couple of barrels out of oil-sands when inevitably the end of it is in sight and coming up fast - a helpless prolongation of the known procedures of the past instead of starting what American spirit has been known for : winning the future by innovation !
Ok , let's rather talk steam ...
Regards
Juniatha
I think they should bring back the engineer for a hour program. For a short while you could rent the 1225 for a hour either as a engineer or a fireman. I took my turn as the engineer for a hour and found it very, very, rewarding even though it was just light power. Back in 2002 it was around 350 a hour for the engineer and 125 a hour as the fireman. But I think todays rates for similar programs are around 500-700 a hour for engineer.
Cool! I'll work for that kind of wage? Why don't more people apply?!
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