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How much train is too much train?

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How much train is too much train?
Posted by rrinker on Thursday, October 1, 2015 4:13 PM

I am posting this from onboard Amtrak Train 196 at New Carrollton MD, while working on my track plan in 3rd PlanIt on my laptop.

 I guess the only thing better would be if I had a small Z scale loop to run on my tray table - there's more than enough room in business class seats.

                   --Randy


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Posted by 7j43k on Thursday, October 1, 2015 4:36 PM

I s'pose you could add listening to railroad songs on your headphones.

 

Ed

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Posted by rrinker on Thursday, October 1, 2015 4:41 PM

Ah, totally forgot on the Acela on the way down, you can jack in to the railroad radio. I guess I could hot one of the scanner web sites on my laptop.

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, October 1, 2015 4:48 PM

rrinker
if I had a small Z scale loop to run on my tray table

Remember the briefcase Z scale layouts? You would not have to do any setup; just open, plug in, and go.

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by rrinker on Thursday, October 1, 2015 4:54 PM

 That would be perfect - wouldn't even need batteries to run it since they have AC at all teh seats now.

                --Randy


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Posted by charlie9 on Thursday, October 1, 2015 5:43 PM

I get together with other retired railroaders on the internet where we discuss health issues and the most recent episodes of Thomas The Tank Engine we have watched on PBS.

Charlie

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, October 1, 2015 5:50 PM

7j43k

I s'pose you could add listening to railroad songs on your headphones.

 

Ed

 

Here Randy, I'll send ya one.Laugh

Brent

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Posted by steemtrayn on Thursday, October 1, 2015 8:24 PM

One more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffEY5qgM_s

 

 

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Posted by ricktrains4824 on Friday, October 2, 2015 10:20 AM

How much train is too much train?

Is this even possible???????????

 

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Posted by yougottawanta on Friday, October 2, 2015 5:17 PM

"When you get just a little bit more" - John D Rockfeller is famaous for reply when asked when will he have enough ? Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Friday, October 2, 2015 6:47 PM

Whistling

There is too much train when the front coupler on the lead Loco is coupled to the tail coupler on the caboose....Smile, Wink & Grin

from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North.. 

We have met the enemy,  and he is us............ (Pogo)

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Posted by rrinker on Friday, October 2, 2015 9:56 PM

 Did that many times as a kid on the old 4x8. Fun to see which locos could pull a train that went all the way around on itself. At least until all those truck mounted horn-hook couplers knocked something off the rails.

 I should have put a train on the tracks in the 3D mode of 3rd PlanIt - then I could have been running a train while on a train...yo dog! I don;t have any train simulators loaded on my laptop so I couldn;t do it that way - but I DO have (somwhere) the NEC for the original Microsoft Train Simulator, so I theoretically could have run my actual train while riding on it at the same time in the same location. Well, there's always next time.

                --Randy


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