Overmod Backshop Just say no to drugs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svstp1CWuF0
Backshop Just say no to drugs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svstp1CWuF0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aGFNGH9jHyM
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
n012944A caboose doesn't help with that.
And it's a lot easier to move an EOT/FRED than it is a caboose...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
n012944Potential freight customers don't care if the model railroads are accurate in their portrayal of the real thing.
Model Railroads are the real thing. It is about life-size railroads being accurate in their portrayal of model railroads. As Oscar Wilde said, "There was no fog in London until Whistler started painting it."
I well remember several TV documentaries and interviews back in the 1980s when the elimination of the caboose was imminent. The sky was going to fall, and with it safety and everything else. Yet here we are.. But having grown up in the 70s I do miss seeing them.. and back in those days it was nice to get a wave from someone up in the cupola.
Ulrich... back in those days it was nice to get a wave from someone up in the cupola.
(NOT to reopen the troll session about waving! )
This whole topic is silly.
This thread is taking up valuable space that should be used for discussing a real issue -- the disappearance of wigwag crossing signals.
York1 John
York1This thread is taking up valuable space that should be used for discussing a real issue -- the disappearance of wigwag crossing signals.
What needs discussion is the loss of real crossing signals -- the Holley Rudd kind with red glass lenses and real bells. There are surprisingly few of them in the places I go, now, and it's troubling to think of them only in museums like the remaining Patenall CPL heads...
BaltACD Caboose has the same likelyhood of coming back as the coal fired steam engine does of replacing the diesels.
Caboose has the same likelyhood of coming back as the coal fired steam engine does of replacing the diesels.
As the Jim Carrey character in a movie told a woman who was trying to brush him off, "So you're telling me there's a chance!"
so you're telling me there's a chance - Bing video
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
Shock ControlNo one cares about the intricacies about how railroads work. We demand cabooses for their aesthetic appeal.
Your demands and $5.15 will get you a cup of coffee. But its a nice diversion from other threads on the forum. Keep dreaming. Never know what might come of them.
Electroliner 1935 Your demands and $5.15 will get you a cup of coffee. But its [sic] a nice diversion from other threads on the forum. Keep dreaming. Never know what might come of them.
Unless our rail-friendly President-Elect shares my concerns!
Overmod Murphy Siding Coincidence? Or shall I say, "oincidence?" You should say "oinidene". Just like Lithonia should have said "onspiray" It's only foolish onsisteny that's a hobgoblin of small minds.
Murphy Siding Coincidence? Or shall I say, "oincidence?"
You should say "oinidene". Just like Lithonia should have said "onspiray"
It's only foolish onsisteny that's a hobgoblin of small minds.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Prez-to-be Biden has long been a champion of Amtrak and passenger rail, don't know that I can recall him saying anything re freight trains / railroads. I believe as a Senator he did vote 'yes' on the Staggers rail deregulation act under Pres. Carter.
Murphy SidingYou quoted me, but that wasn't me. It was Shok ontrol.
You misspelled Kalmbah.
Erik_MagYou misspelled Kalmbah.
Stranger things have happened. In 1960 whoever thought muzzleloading firearms would get popular again?
Hence my avatar.
Flintlock76 BaltACD Caboose has the same likelyhood of coming back as the coal fired steam engine does of replacing the diesels. Stranger things have happened. In 1960 whoever thought muzzleloading firearms would get popular again? Hence my avatar.
Popular as curiosity's, not as first rank firearms. We alread have the curiosity steam engines operating as various tourist attractions - some of which probably have a caboose in their operation. Neither steam nor cabooses will become the requirements of operating one of the current Class 1's profitably.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACDPopular as curiosity's, not as first rank firearms.
Not first-rank? These guys might disagree with you! Here's first-rank, as in:
"First rank, FIRE!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3k8Bv35bJE
Lighten up a bit Balt, we're having fun being silly, you know? Beats all the gloom, doom, and discontent that's been going on around here lately.
BaltACDNeither steam nor cabooses will become the requirements
What about wigwag signals? Please don't rain on my parade of hope.
York1What about wigwag signals? Please don't rain on my parade of hope.
When approximately did these go out of vogue?
York1 BaltACD Neither steam nor cabooses will become the requirements What about wigwag signals? Please don't rain on my parade of hope.
BaltACD Neither steam nor cabooses will become the requirements
Build it and MAYBE someone will install it. to paraphrase 'Field of Dreams'
The more I see of these contract vans running around on indirect routings, hauling crew members from one end of a train to another, the more I think eliminating the caboose was a bad idea. Put one guy in the loco, another in the caboose. Problem solved without adding crew cost. Or in the age of DPU's, have them function as a caboose.
How 'bout a large terminal full of belching steam locomotives. Wouldn't the environmental crowd love that?
Better than the fragrance of jet fuel permeating O'Hare Field.
BLS53- I think you're on to something. Don't OTR trucks often have co-drivers? One in the sleeping compartment and one behind the wheel? A caboose would amount to the same thing, wouldn't it?
BLS53 The more I see of these contract vans running around on indirect routings, hauling crew members from one end of a train to another, the more I think eliminating the caboose was a bad idea. Put one guy in the loco, another in the caboose. Problem solved without adding crew cost. Or in the age of DPU's, have them function as a caboose.
So now the crew van has to get to both ends of the train to swap out crews. Not to mention that doing a crew briefing on a 13,000 train will have to be via radio...
54light15A caboose would amount to the same thing, wouldn't it?
Overmod 54light15 A caboose would amount to the same thing, wouldn't it? It is if your idea of a driver swap involves the same distance as commuting from Hoboken to midtown Manhattan.
54light15 A caboose would amount to the same thing, wouldn't it?
It is if your idea of a driver swap involves the same distance as commuting from Hoboken to midtown Manhattan.
Swimming, by the PATH train or by taking the bridges?
Paul MilenkovicSwimming, by the PATH train or by taking the bridges?
Overmod Paul Milenkovic Swimming, by the PATH train or by taking the bridges? Bridges????
Paul Milenkovic Swimming, by the PATH train or by taking the bridges?
Bridges????
Go far enough upstream and you'll find others. Or loop around via Staten Island.
Once the Steam Locomotive has gone past, I don't much care what follows (though I do have a preference for a General Merchandiser freight). If there is no Steam Locomotive on the front, then there is even less reason to care what is on the tail end.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
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