Forum topics with lots of replies

[BaltACD]

KBCpresident

And how big is the penalty for hauling ht ewrong cargo in a tank car?

Loss of the load that was contaminated by being loaded in the wrong kind of car and cleaning cost for getting the car back in condition to handle it's intended commodity.  In as much as the cars are controlled by the shipper, the incidence of loading the wrong commodity is low - personnel responsible for load cars know their cars.

[Murphy Siding]

     Getting a lot of replies on a thread isn't the goal.  It's the byproduct of any subject that is interesting to several people.  I've found that curiosity breeds a lot of discussion.

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy2QvZUiY0Y

 

[KBCpresident]

You've posted that three times now? 

[BaltACD]

Murray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy2QvZUiY0Y 

Tax deductions were much easier to claim back then!

[Anonymous]

KBCpresident

You've posted that three times now? 

This is a thread on topics with a lot of replies.....no?

Is this one reply per customer?

 

[KBCpresident]

Murray

 

 

KBCpresident

You've posted that three times now? 

 

 

 

This is a thread on topics with a lot of replies.....no?

Is this one reply per customer?

 

 

 

Oh, by no means! You are spot on and you are certainly helping this post get many replies.  Post it fifty times, it doesn't bother me. [:-)]

you have just posted it so many times that i am wondering if this is a hidden message or something or a favorite song?

[Anonymous]

When the opportunity presents itself...  I like to post off the wall things.... 

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Murray

When the opportunity presents itself...  I like to post off the wall things.... 

Does this mean that you slap your Post-Its on the ceiling??

[Anonymous]

LOLOLOLOL......

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxyb4Xma4Rs

 

[KBCpresident]

Aside from the fact that this is already one of my longest threads to date, can we not push it a bit longer?

 

[Murphy Siding]

    A tread that's long just for the reson of being long doesn't sound like much a reward.

Why not interject something train related? (or not):
1) What part of the country do you live in?
2)What's the most predominate railroad in your area?
3) What's the most interesting thing you've seen on a railroad in the last month?
4)What's the longest distance you've ridden on a train?
5)The shortest?
6) Does your area have any shortline or regional railroads of interest?
7) What's your shoe size?
8) What's the oldest locomotive you see on a regular basis?
9) Etc. ?

[Murphy Siding]

1)  S.E.  SD, near S.W. MN & N.W. IA
2)BNSF
3) The puffing locomotive I mentioned on a different thread
4) 12 miles?  North Shore Scenic Railroad, Duluth MN
5) 300' (?) Steer trolly A same place
6) Ellis & Eastern, Dakota & Iowa
7) 10-1/2 or 11, depending on the whims of the shoe manufacturer
8) Maybe some old SW sitchers on the E&E? Or old Geeps on the D&I?
9) And then some..

[Deggesty]

Murphy Siding

    A tread that's long just for the reson of being long doesn't sound like much a reward.

Why not interject something train related? (or not):
1) What part of the country do you live in?

The Crossroads of the West

2)What's the most predominate railroad in your area?

Uncle Pete, in four recent incarnations

3) What's the most interesting thing you've seen on a railroad in the last month?

Inedible tallow in oodles of tank cars

4)What's the longest distance you've ridden on a train?

About 2800 miles--Toronto to Vancouver

5)The shortest?

6 miles--Atlanta to Decatur

6) Does your area have any shortline or regional railroads of interest?

Utah Railway

7) What's your shoe size?

10

8) What's the oldest locomotive you see on a regular basis?

I do not see any locomotives on a regular basis.

9) Etc. ?

On my first trip by train, I screamed for about fifteen minutes (from Plant City, where we boarded to Lakeland, Fla., on our way to Jacksonville and north) I was two years old then, but I did get over my fright.

 

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kYeg5A6jBE

 

[edblysard]

1: Swamps of Houston, Tx.

2: The Yellow Peril.

3: A narrow gauge locomotive from NRE on a flatcar headed to Brazil.

4: Houston to San Francisco as a small child…Mumbai (Bombay) to the other side of India as a young teen.

5: About 20 feet…stopped a shove to line a switch.

6: My road, the PTRA.

7: 8 ½

8: A GP 7 that works the Cargill elevator.

9: Found a Yorkshire Terrier in between the rails during a shove move last week…he thinks he owns our house now.

[Deggesty]

Ed, it took me a little while to remember the question that you answered, "The Yellow Peril"--when I got to your answer to #6, I remembered the question--

[tree68]

Murphy Siding

    A tread that's long just for the reason of being long doesn't sound like much a reward.

Kinda like posting just to boost one's post count.  Which happens from time to time...

Why not interject something train related? (or not):
1) What part of the country do you live in?

Northern New York (some six hours from "the City" and just a few miles from the Canadian border)

2)What's the most predominate railroad in your area?[

CSX

3) What's the most interesting thing you've seen on a railroad in the last month?

A passenger, early teens female, whose every picture of the scenery we were passing was a 'selfie.'

4)What's the longest distance you've ridden on a train?

Just under five hundred miles (Syracuse to Detroit)

5)The shortest?

Probably the loops at the Huckleberry Railroad or Greenfield Village.

6) Does your area have any shortline or regional railroads of interest?

The Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern, which as a GVT company is all ALCO

7) What's your shoe size?

13

8) What's the oldest locomotive you see on a regular basis?

1941 EMD SW1 originally built for L&N, now lettered NYC 705.  I run it occasionally, too...

9) Etc.

Other vintage locomotives I've run include a 1947 F3 (rebuilt to an F10, nee GM&O), a 1950 RS3, a 1953 F7 (nee Alaska RR), a 1964 ALCO Century (nee SP&S 303), a couple of ALCO C424's, and a couple of late 50's MLW RS18u's

[zugmann]

 1) What part of the country do you live in?

PA

it says so right over there.

 

<----

 

2)What's the most predominate railroad in your area?

NS

3) What's the most interesting thing you've seen on a railroad in the last month?

Tough one.  A nice looking Chevy suburban hi-rail with what I believe was a laser level mounted on its bumper.

 

4)What's the longest distance you've ridden on a train?

Been on a train as far away as Mystic, CT.  But in recent times?  200-some odd miles.

 

5)The shortest?

0.  Got called as a conductor for a work train assignment.  They didn't need us to do anything that day.  We didn't even start the engine (was a nice day out).

 

6) Does your area have any shortline or regional railroads of interest?

Lots of them.

 

7) What's your shoe size?

12.

 

8) What's the oldest locomotive you see on a regular basis?

I can see just about anything within a few hours of here.  But what I see with any regularity may be an Alco S2.  Or a GE 65-tonner, depending how I go home.

 

9) Etc. ?

Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.

 

 

 

[Murphy Siding]

     Do they even have door knobs (or doors, for that matter) on other planets? 

[Murphy Siding]

     I had to Google "Crossroads of the west".  I was expecting Denver , or El Paso, or..

[zugmann]

Murphy Siding

     Do they even have door knobs (or doors, for that matter) on other planets? 

 

 

They must.  It's a law.

[zugmann]

Murphy Siding

     I had to Google "Crossroads of the west".  I was expecting Denver , or El Paso, or..

 

 

But you won't google my #9 answer?

[edblysard]

What I what to know is why in the world did Kane put his face over the egg?

I mean, come on, your deep in the bowels of an alien space craft, in a dark room full of pulsing alien eggs, and you bend over an put your head directly over one?

Didn’t this guy ever watch any of the Hammer Horror films?

His mom must be the blonde that always opens the door with the monster just outside….

[Deggesty]

Murphy Siding

     I had to Google "Crossroads of the west".  I was expecting Denver , or El Paso, or..

 

Did you find me? It is true that no passenger trains cross here anymore, though there is a diversion from time to time, as earlier this month when Uncle Pete was doing some work on the through route and I traveled around and not through.

[Murphy Siding]

zugmann

 

 

Murphy Siding

     I had to Google "Crossroads of the west".  I was expecting Denver , or El Paso, or..

 

 

 

 

 

But you won't google my #9 answer?

 

OK in fairness, I did just now Google it.  The results, including the link to the Facebook page shed new light on the subject.

[KBCpresident]

Murphy Siding

     Do they even have door knobs (or doors, for that matter) on other planets? 

 

Well in "Signs" The aliens aparently aren't able to get through doors so clearly they don't have a lot of experience with them? Is it possible that they ony have doorknobs bloted to the walls?

Seriously though, why invade a planet made up 80% of a substance that is acidic to you? 

[KBCpresident]

Murphy Siding

    A tread that's long just for the reson of being long doesn't sound like much a reward.

I understand entirely what you mean. I wasn't trying to push it senselessly on, but, as I said earlier, I am rather enjoying myself with this thread.Thankfully you have kindly provided this thread wiht its long lacking Topic

1) What part of the country do you live in?

Portland area, Oregon. Currently I am in Essex Montana

2)What's the most predominate railroad in your area?

At home: UP or BNSF.

Here: BNSF

3) What's the most interesting thing you've seen on a railroad in the last month?

I have seen several of BNSF's grain hoppers wiht historic logos come through. Just today I saw the BN heritage car.

4)What's the longest distance you've ridden on a train?

Empire Builder, Portland to Chicago (what's that, 2 or 3K?)

5)The shortest?

I think I rode a single stop on the MAX once, and the WP&Z is pretty short.

6) Does your area have any shortline or regional railroads of interest?

 At home: Portland & Western, not too far from the Willamette Valley, and of cours ethe Washington Park and Zoo

Here: Not really.

7) What's your shoe size?

10-10.5

8) What's the oldest locomotive you see on a regular basis?

Home:The SP 4449, and Doyle's collection of old ALCOs.

Here: a couple of SD40-2s BNSF keeps around

9) Etc. ?

I'll get back to you on that one.

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nPoSWtv-k