vsmithjwhitten vsmith Gee whiz, all I ever did was just play with my trains... How slow can they go? Can you creep 'em through the yard like the real thing? What if you have two of them on the same track headed towards each other? Do you have appropriate interlocking and signaling set up to stop a collision? John Oh..wheres the fun in THAT???
jwhitten vsmith Gee whiz, all I ever did was just play with my trains... How slow can they go? Can you creep 'em through the yard like the real thing? What if you have two of them on the same track headed towards each other? Do you have appropriate interlocking and signaling set up to stop a collision? John
vsmith Gee whiz, all I ever did was just play with my trains...
Gee whiz, all I ever did was just play with my trains...
How slow can they go? Can you creep 'em through the yard like the real thing?
What if you have two of them on the same track headed towards each other?
Do you have appropriate interlocking and signaling set up to stop a collision?
John
Oh..wheres the fun in THAT???
It was juxtapositional humor-- you rankle the MR'er with references to Gomez Adams wrecking his trains... I just figured you'd do the same to Gomez and Fester by asking how slowly / safely you could run them...
Have fun with your trains
Hamltnbluein modeling that's the case. In real world there is a diesel that drives a generator. The voltage from the generator feeds traction motors on the drive wheels
I know... that was supposed to be a joke.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Springfield PA
blownout cylinderHamltnblue SteamFreak John, I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. This is what happens when the front trucks are trying to move forward and the rear trucks are trying to move in reverse. Blame the electrician. They must've got their mires wixed
Hamltnblue SteamFreak John, I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. This is what happens when the front trucks are trying to move forward and the rear trucks are trying to move in reverse. Blame the electrician.
SteamFreak John, I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either.
John,
I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either.
This is what happens when the front trucks are trying to move forward and the rear trucks are trying to move in reverse. Blame the electrician.
They must've got their mires wixed
Why are there only three divots?
When I first saw this picture I thought that fourth set of wheels must have had some good brakes! But the electrical issue makes sense but how did the the locomotive get to this location to suddenly have this problem?
Jay
blownout cylinderHamltnblue This is what happens when the front trucks are trying to move forward and the rear trucks are trying to move in reverse. Blame the electrician. They must've got their mires wixed
Hamltnblue This is what happens when the front trucks are trying to move forward and the rear trucks are trying to move in reverse. Blame the electrician.
Wait a minute... aren't both trucks driven by a big electric motor above the fuel tank?
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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wholeman SteamFreak John, I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Engineer to conductor, "I guess I should've used sand."
Conductor to Engineer: Maybe you shoulda spent less time in the head...
Will
0-6-0I am just glad you didn't get into airplanes
No, that would be my brother Scott...
Hello Thanks this made my day. I am just glad you didn't get into airplanes Have a nice day Frank
SteamFreakJohn, I too wanted to thank you for this thread. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time, and several friends and family members who aren't even rail fans laughed just as hard when I sent it to them. I think you may have missed your calling, because you ought to be writing comedy based on this shtick, and god knows you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a locomotive...
I too wanted to thank you for this thread. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time, and several friends and family members who aren't even rail fans laughed just as hard when I sent it to them. I think you may have missed your calling, because you ought to be writing comedy based on this shtick, and god knows you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a locomotive...
10,000 comedians out of work and I hafta be a railfan...
SteamFreak I think you may have missed your calling, because you ought to be writing comedy based on this shtick
Aw shucks, it ain't all that... Its just a little something I do now and then whenever I'm not busy curing cancer, scaling Everest, searching for the elusive Higgs-Boson particle, working with Lepers, or managing my ever-growing product line of bunion pads.
But its nice of you to say so all the same!
espee3004 Really made my day. Loved it.Ralph H
Really made my day. Loved it.
Ralph H
Thank you Ralph for your kind words!
Strange isn't it? The places life takes us....
Actually John was working in the research department on the new, cost saving 3 axle locomotive CSX was experimenting with at the time. Didn't succeed, proved to be a little slippery.
SteamFreak
Speed bumps??
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
That picture, btw, has the look of having gone through one of those kodak advantix film scanners...
Well, you can.... but it doesn't do much for the track afterwards!
That was another RCO hiccup wasn't it?
My My!! Talk about getting stuck!!
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
LOVE IT!!!!!! This gave me a good laugh. Thank you for posting.
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
John, all I have to say is...
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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The CF-7...a waste of a perfectly good F-unit!
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the
end of your tunnel, Was just a freight train coming
your way. -Metallica, No Leaf Clover
garrsort of a railroad Forrest Gump story.
Yeah, he was my Fireman.
He was always going on about his mama...
"Mama always said railroadin' is like a box of choc-o-lates"
I swear to this day, I think that boy was a bit peculiar...
jwhittenMedina1128 We don't think you're sick enough to be in Congress. Wanna bet? Heck, I'm so corrupt I've even got my hands in my *own* pockets! John
Medina1128 We don't think you're sick enough to be in Congress.
We don't think you're sick enough to be in Congress.
Wanna bet? Heck, I'm so corrupt I've even got my hands in my *own* pockets!
That fact alone makes you unsuitable for the USA Congress--the corrupt part is a comfort zone, hands in their own pockets, not so comfortable for them.
Very funny and creative thread--sort of a railroad Forrest Gump story.
jwhitten Wanna bet? Heck, I'm so corrupt I've even got my hands in my *own* pockets!
mmmmm----he may have something here---