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Railroad no-nos(the real world edition of Hobby no-nos)

  • Never leave food on a engine manifold......it might explode(or just burn up)
    Let the government run a railroad(think hmmmmm, Amtrak on non- Amtrak track??????)
    -Michael It's baaaacccckkkk!!!!!! www.youtube.com/user/wyomingrailfan
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  • I'd challange your last point, look what happened to CN after they were privatized!

    Oh, and...I lost the game. 

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  • The US gov doesn't know how to run a railroad. except for conrail, which they just owned it.

    Never run a really light car in your consist, because it will go in the ditch.Cool [8D]

    -Michael It's baaaacccckkkk!!!!!! www.youtube.com/user/wyomingrailfan
  • I got one...Never allow the engineer to tell you that he's got everything under control (Go take a nap if you want) to because, by the time you wake up and look over at the engineer he will be asleep too. Man what a scary feeling; hope you didn't run an absolute signal!Sign - Oops [#oops]

    LORD HELP US ALL TO BE ORIGINAL AND NOT CRISPY!!! please? Sarah J.M. Warner conductor CSX
  • Merge with as many companies as possible

    Let women drive the train. (you see how bad they are in cars...Dunce [D)])

    Vincent

    Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....

    2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.

  • Never choose a pretty paint scheme(KCS) over cab signals and isolated cabs.(It's really a joke told to me by a KCS engineer.(He likes the GEs better)

    by the way, i just saw a E-L hopper.

    -Michael It's baaaacccckkkk!!!!!! www.youtube.com/user/wyomingrailfan
  • When running a steel mill locomotive never race another guy for the right of way at a converging switch.  Both would up getting fired and did several hundred thousand dollars worth of damage.
  •  Packer wrote:

    Let women drive the train. (you see how bad they are in cars...Dunce [D)])

    I hope that your wife doesn't see this post.  At any rate, I've ridden BN suburban trains in the past with women at the throttle and I didn't notice any difference in train-handling.

    The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul
  •  CSSHEGEWISCH wrote:
     Packer wrote:

    Let women drive the train. (you see how bad they are in cars...Dunce [D)])

    I hope that your wife doesn't see this post.  At any rate, I've ridden BN suburban trains in the past with women at the throttle and I didn't notice any difference in train-handling.

    I don't have a wife. :lol: (how many 18 year olds have wives?)

    Vincent

    Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....

    2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.

  • Never back a long chem train down a steep grade on a curve.BOOM!BAM!SCREEEEEEEE!

    Whistling [:-^]SoapBox [soapbox]Shock [:O]Banged Head [banghead]Dead [xx(] Yes, I did this in MSTS, trying to double the hill. Never let temper get you. My engines didn't derail(why should they, otherwise it wouldn't derail midtrain.

    Yes, and flying a plane is NOT like driving a train or a car.(Hey! I hit Mach in a Cessna!)

    I went Mach 1 in a HHL-8 in ......MSTS(With a steam engine, so that the smoke was just a thin stream.

    -Michael It's baaaacccckkkk!!!!!! www.youtube.com/user/wyomingrailfan
  •  wyomingrailfan wrote:

    Never run a really light car in your consist, because it will go in the ditch.Cool [8D]

    You can run a light car on your train, put it on the tail end. I'd like to change that then, never run an MT on the head end ahead of the heavy loads. 

    Tyler W. CN hog
  • Never pick the wrong siding and end of going off a midair track into a gorge.
    Ouch.
    -Michael It's baaaacccckkkk!!!!!! www.youtube.com/user/wyomingrailfan
  • That's why they make an emergency brake...duh!
  • Ever hear of, "Panic over order"? HMMMMMMMM!??
    I actually altered MSTS just to have a little fun.
    But the brakes on mSTS are crap, because a train has too much momentum. But the wrecks are very real indeed. just trains don't go straight into a gorge.
    But one train stopped one inch from the end, but moved a little bit so one engine and three cars went with it. Might I mention it had locotrol?
    -Michael It's baaaacccckkkk!!!!!! www.youtube.com/user/wyomingrailfan
  • Eat/drink the worm before driving a loco.

    Vincent

    Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....

    2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.