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JWhitten -- My Life With Trains!

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Posted by jwhitten on Monday, May 17, 2010 6:27 PM

vsmith

jwhitten

vsmith

Gee whiz, all I ever did was just play with my trains...

Laugh

 

 

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??? Smile,Wink, & Grin

 

 

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...

 

John

 

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Posted by vsmith on Monday, May 17, 2010 10:58 AM

jwhitten

vsmith

Gee whiz, all I ever did was just play with my trains...

Laugh

 

 

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??? Smile,Wink, & Grin

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by SteamFreak on Friday, May 7, 2010 9:14 PM

Hamltnblue
in 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. Laugh

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Friday, May 7, 2010 8:19 PM
in 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

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Posted by garr on Friday, May 7, 2010 8:19 PM

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SteamFreak

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 

 

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. Whistling

They must've got their mires wixedWhistling

 

 

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?

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Posted by SteamFreak on Friday, May 7, 2010 7:23 PM
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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. Whistling

They must've got their mires wixedWhistling


Wait a minute... aren't both trucks driven by a big electric motor above the fuel tank? Clown

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Friday, May 7, 2010 7:08 PM

Hamltnblue

SteamFreak

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 

 

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. Whistling

They must've got their mires wixedWhistling

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Friday, May 7, 2010 6:29 PM

SteamFreak

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 

 

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. Whistling

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Posted by jwhitten on Friday, May 7, 2010 6:06 PM

wholeman

 

SteamFreak

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 



Engineer to conductor, "I guess I should've used sand."

 

 

Conductor to Engineer: Maybe you shoulda spent less time in the head...

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Posted by wholeman on Friday, May 7, 2010 2:22 PM

 

SteamFreak

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 



Engineer to conductor, "I guess I should've used sand."

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Posted by jwhitten on Friday, May 7, 2010 1:20 PM

0-6-0
I am just glad you didn't get into airplanes Big Smile

 

 

No, that would be my brother Scott... Whistling

 

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Friday, May 7, 2010 10:18 AM

Hello Thanks this made my day. I am just glad you didn't get into airplanes Big Smile Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by jwhitten on Friday, May 7, 2010 5:27 AM

 

SteamFreak

John,

 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...  Laugh

 

10,000 comedians out of work and I hafta be a railfan...  Wink

 

 

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!

Laugh

 

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Posted by SteamFreak on Friday, May 7, 2010 5:08 AM

John,

 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...  Laugh
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Posted by jwhitten on Friday, May 7, 2010 5:01 AM

espee3004

 Really made my day. Loved it.

Ralph H Smile

 

 

Thank you Ralph for your kind words!

Strange isn't it? The places life takes us....

 

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Posted by espee3004 on Friday, May 7, 2010 12:18 AM

 Really made my day. Loved it.

Ralph H Smile

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Posted by garr on Thursday, May 6, 2010 9:07 PM

SteamFreak

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 

 

 

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.

 

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Posted by Medina1128 on Thursday, May 6, 2010 7:33 PM

SteamFreak

 

 

Speed bumps??

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Posted by jwhitten on Thursday, May 6, 2010 5:31 PM

 That picture, btw, has the look of having gone through one of those kodak advantix film scanners...

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Posted by jwhitten on Thursday, May 6, 2010 5:28 PM

 

SteamFreak

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 

 

Well, you can.... but it doesn't do much for the track afterwards!

That was another RCO hiccup wasn't it?

 

John

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, May 6, 2010 4:55 PM

SteamFreak

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 

My My!! Talk about getting stuck!!Tongue

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Posted by SteamFreak on Thursday, May 6, 2010 4:36 PM
I think it had something to do with a bet and a tug of war, but I could be wrong. Whistling
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Posted by IVRW on Thursday, May 6, 2010 4:32 PM
SteamFreak

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 

Wow, what happened? Where and when did it happen? Did John forget about all the kinds of currency, and put those huge pennies on the track, causing the engineer to gun the engine not knowing of the coin?

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Posted by SteamFreak on Thursday, May 6, 2010 4:23 PM

 John,

I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either. Mischief

 

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Posted by rs2mike on Thursday, May 6, 2010 4:10 PM

LOVE IT!!!!!!   This gave me a good laugh.  Thank you for posting.

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Posted by Arjay1969 on Thursday, May 6, 2010 1:43 PM

 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!

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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

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Posted by jwhitten on Thursday, May 6, 2010 11:25 AM

garr
sort 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...

 

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Posted by garr on Thursday, May 6, 2010 10:29 AM

jwhitten

Medina1128

 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!

Tongue

 

John

  

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.

 

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, May 6, 2010 6:35 AM

jwhitten
 Wanna bet? Heck, I'm so corrupt I've even got my hands in my *own* pockets!

mmmmm----he may have something here---TongueEvilLaugh

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