John,
I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
SteamFreak John, I guess you found out you can't smoke the tires on a GP40, either.
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
My My!! Talk about getting stuck!!
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
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Well, you can.... but it doesn't do much for the track afterwards!
That was another RCO hiccup wasn't it?
John
That picture, btw, has the look of having gone through one of those kodak advantix film scanners...
SteamFreak
Speed bumps??
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
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.
Jay
Really made my day. Loved it.
Ralph H
espee3004 Really made my day. Loved it.Ralph H
Thank you Ralph for your kind words!
Strange isn't it? The places life takes us....
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!
Hello Thanks this made my day. I am just glad you didn't get into airplanes Have a nice day Frank
0-6-0I am just glad you didn't get into airplanes
No, that would be my brother Scott...
Will
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...
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.
Springfield PA
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.
They must've got their mires wixed
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?
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
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?
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.
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?
Oh..wheres the fun in THAT???
Have fun with your trains
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???
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...