Alex
Your train is to long if you can read all the postings on this thread and have yet to see the caboose!
Your train is to long if you have to use a passing line for the engine so the caboose does not get hit by the engine.
Your train is to long if all the engines you want are made and delivred before you see your caboose!
Your train is to long if you think about running the short line around your yard?
Your train is to long if you are thinking about using the 70 amp battery car charger as a booster!
Your train is to long if your wife gives up on trying to count the number of rolling stock you have on the bench.
You have to many Rolling Stock and Engines when you have to pull half of them so you can run a train!
I guess I don't read 1/2 off the postings, I have missed the trolls postings and that is fine with me.
To many train Ken
I hate Rust
If your fresh switch crew ends their shift before they get to the end of the first cut, your train is too long (and your yard might be too)
Cheers!
~METRO
Your train is too long when Walthers has to go out of business because you bought them all.
Semper Vaporo
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steemtrayn wrote: jeffers_mz wrote: When all 20 drivers have ground clean through the nickle steel rail, and start in on the plastic ties, your train might be too long.You mean like this?
jeffers_mz wrote: When all 20 drivers have ground clean through the nickle steel rail, and start in on the plastic ties, your train might be too long.
When all 20 drivers have ground clean through the nickle steel rail, and start in on the plastic ties, your train might be too long.
You mean like this?
Yes, only deeper.
That picture or one very much like that gave me the idea.
In the case of the pic I saw, teenage vandals broke into the train at night, fired the diesel, locked the brakes and it just sat there spinning the wheels till someone noticed it the next day.
Pretty crappy thing to do if you ask me, and since I saw the pic, wheelspin on the 5% grade here bothers me a lot more than it used to.
cudaken wrote: Your train is to long if you are thinking about using the 70 amp battery car charger as a booster!
Hmmmm...this sounds suspiciously specific...
:-)
Hum, would it work? I have 3 of them.
Cuda Ken
jeffers_mz wrote: steemtrayn wrote: jeffers_mz wrote: You mean like this?Yes, only deeper.That picture or one very much like that gave me the idea.In the case of the pic I saw, teenage vandals broke into the train at night, fired the diesel, locked the brakes and it just sat there spinning the wheels till someone noticed it the next day.Pretty crappy thing to do if you ask me, and since I saw the pic, wheelspin on the 5% grade here bothers me a lot more than it used to.
steemtrayn wrote: jeffers_mz wrote: You mean like this?
jeffers_mz wrote:
Ah, so that explains why only 3 axles were spinning on (presumably) a 4 axle engine. The handbrake was (I'm assuming) still "tied down". As I'm told, the handbrake only "ties down" one axle.
Don't RR's lock up the loco's at night? Or at least lock the controls somehow? (Oh, wait, you said they "broke in". Never mind.)
Brad
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When the lights in the neighborhood dim as you increase the throttle (and you model in N-scale), then perhaps the train is too long.
When you're running on the huge Springfield N-Trak layout, and you see your loco consist appear soon after the caboose passes by - why then you have room for a few more cars on the train! Hey, what can I say, the rules change on N-Trak layouts...
If your locomotive is a steamer, but by the time you get to the end of the train the caboose has been replaced by a Fred, your train might be too long.
If you invite Werner Heisenberg over to an operating session, your train might be too long, but nobody can be certain.
If you need a Fred on a bridal gown, her train might be too long.
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Good thread Chip. There are some real funny ones in here.
As someone from my local club said, "Any thing less than 150 cars is a local."
If you grew a beard by the time you connected your last rolling stock, your train might be too long.
If your accelerated clock needs to run slower than real time to disconnect all your cars, your train might be too long.
If you have to call an electrician to install new amp service in the breaker box for boosters, your train might be too long. (Sadly I'm close to doing this.)
If your train takes 1 minutes to accelerate and decelerate in DCC and accel vars 2 and 3 are 0, your train might be too long.
If Kadee creates a new titanium coupler just for you, your train might be too long.
If you write the manufacturer to tell them to ramp up production of a particular car so you can add more, your train might be too long. (I'm looking at your branchline blueprint series)
BTW: My C&O George Washington is up to 15 cars, each about a foot long. For a passenger train, that's huge!
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
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If your passengers can board a train walk to the dining car and have lunch in the next station then walk to the front car and exit at their destination station and the train hasn't moved, your train might be too long.
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I don't remember if I heard it on the radio or my Mother singing it. It wasin the late 40s.
" The longest train I ever saw, was comeing from Joe Johnson's coal mine. The engine passed at half past two, the caboose came by at nine"
Perhaps I've dated myself.
If you spit out the cab window while going over a trestle, and, on the return trip you can still see your spit going down, then the trestle is too high.
Oh, wait...wrong thread.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
If your first car unhooks from the locomotive during startup, your train mught be a tad to long.
steemtrayn wrote:If you spit out the cab window while going over a trestle, and, on the return trip you can still see your spit going down, then the trestle is too high. Oh, wait...wrong thread.
Hmm, means you have awfully good vision.
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if the train is led by a 4-4-0 and 40' cars, and end up with 85' autoracks and a FRED... it might be a bit long..
-Dan
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mikesmowers wrote: Lots of humerous answers, That's good. Was wondering. What's a FRED? Seen it several times here on the forums but still I am it the dark. Mike
A FRED is an EoT device (End Of Train) it detects air pressure lenght and tonnage of the train and it replaced the caboose all you do is attach it to the coupler and hook up the train air line to it.
If you train is pulled by all of UP's big boys then your train is too long
If you have 40' wooden reefers on one the front of your train and at the end of the train the switch crew (in a difrent state) is putting the last cut of BNSF grain cars on the end and attaching the EOT, then your trian is too long and you probably have alot of costomers waiting for some of the cargo that's in the front of the train
Expectant Lady (about 9 months along, due any day now) to Conductor: "How much longer until we get to our destination?"
Conductor: "Unknown, we'll get there eventually."
Lady: "What happens if I go into labor?"
Conductor: You're familiar with the reputation of this train, I take it?"
Lady: "Yes."
Conductor: "Then you should have known not to board this train in your present condition."
Lady: "When I got on this train, I *wasn't* in this condition!"
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guys
I though it was when the loco leaves the depot and the caboose is at the next depot down the line
Old MR rule of thumb have three times Max train length between depots.
I think the person referring to the expecting lady is talking about the old Ghan train to Alice Springs
regards John