If your locomotive is a steamer, but by the time you get to the end of the train the caboose has been replaced by a Fred, your train might be too long.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.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
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...
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:
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.
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
EMD - Every Model Different
ALCO - Always Leaking Coolant and Oil
CSX - Coal Spilling eXperts
Hum, would it work? I have 3 of them.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
cudaken wrote: 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 you are thinking about using the 70 amp battery car charger as a booster!
Hmmmm...this sounds suspiciously specific...
:-)
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.
Your train is too long when Walthers has to go out of business because you bought them all.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
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 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 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
Alex
jeffers_mz wrote: When the little door on your P2K GP9 slams open and your plastic engineer is sprinting away at top speed, yelling "She's gonna BLOW!", your train won't be too long for much longer.
When the little door on your P2K GP9 slams open and your plastic engineer is sprinting away at top speed, yelling "She's gonna BLOW!", your train won't be too long for much longer.
Or this?
-Brandon
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
One, any train is Too long when you try to back it up!
Two, any train is too long when it starts taking short cuts through the inside of the curves!
Three, any train is too if the shippers are complaining becuase the yardmaster holds cars in the yard until he has a "full" train's worth of tonnage.
Have fun
When attempts to pull the train yield loud popping noises, only half the train moves, and you find Kadee #5s embedded in the wall more than twenty feet away, your train might be too long.
When the power company calls to tell you they expect you to pay for the melted windings on their 650 megawatt turbines, your train probably is too long.
When you look through the rectangular hole with brown smoking edges in your benchwork, right where your head end consist used to be, and see an identical hole through the subfloor into the crawlspace, your train used to be too long.
When the space time continuum around your layout folds in on itself, past the Schwartzchild radius, and your train and layout disappear beyond the event horizon, your train may well be too long in the X'Y'Z' reference frame, but we have no way of telling that because the Lorentz Transforms break down in proximity to naked singularities.
At this point, we can invoke Hawking's virtual particle annihilation equations using the measured gamma radiation data and equivocably state that your train is probably too long.
PAERR wrote: If you have time to read all of this weekend's troll related posts before the last car of your train clears the yard... your train might be too long!-George
If you have time to read all of this weekend's troll related posts before the last car of your train clears the yard... your train might be too long!
-George
No one has that much time.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
If the conductor can visually check the end of train device from the cab of the lead locomotive... your train might be too long.
If a mathemetician sitting at a grade crossing looses count of the number of cars in your train as it passes by... your train might be too long.
If people waiting at a grade crossing while your train passes by, order a pizza, get it delivered and finish eating it before your train clears the grade crossing... your train might be too long.
If you can't pull your train with a string of 15 Bowser T-1 4-4-4-4s, your train might be too long.
If your train is so heavy your engines can't pull it downhill, it might be too long.
If you can see the back of the train from the engine, and you don't have any curves in your track, your train might be too long.
That's all I've got for now.
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If you can't uncouple from your train without coupling onto your own caboose... your train might be too long.
If you are admiring the realistic smoke coming out of your lead loco going up a 1% grade and then realize 1) it doesn't have a smoke unit, and 2) its a diesel anyway!.... your train might be too long.
If your train can block the arrival yard of your destination and the departure yard of your point of origin at the same time... your train might be too long.
If your locomotive, mid train helpers and caboose/rear end helpers are all in different time zones... your train might be too long.
If you emptied your turntable tracks of locomotives and still cant get out of the yard, your train is too long.
If your the only train on the layout and you see 3 trains over the Tehachapi loop, your train is too long.
If you called for the real 3985 for pusher help, your train is too long.
If you saw 3 trains running and your running only one, your beer was too long.
If the engineer sees the helper engines from train 1 and he is train 1!
If your commuter train is in hoboken and summit at the same time (thats at least 20 miles)
If ALL of the locomotives in the consist are classified as DPUs, then your train is too long.
If the brakemen in the caboose of a train can look over their shoulder and see the whites of the engineer's eyes, then your train is too long.
Man, this is a fun post! Thanks for this, I needed a good chuckle today.
If your local neighborhood power transformer catches fire, your train is too long.
When you wonder why you have to stop at the yard on the main because another train is leaving the same your you just left, your train is too long.
When you build a transcontinental railroad and your train gets from New York to Los Angeles in 10 seconds, your mainline is too short.
When you call your Conductor back to the caboose, he gets on the locomotive pilot for a ride back, your train might be too long, (and he may never get to the caboose either!)