I understand...when I remember to. Hitting the big 65 this year.
Whippersnapper!!!!
I'm turning 70 this year.
Erik_Mag Whippersnapper!!!! I'm turning 70 this year.
Kids... 73
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Bunch of whippersnappers! 83.
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Two weeks + one day to go to 92nd.
I'm old enough to remember when the History Channel actually had history on it. Using the old rule of thumb, I was 420 (dog) years old last April. Be adding another 7 this year.
Jeff
jeffhergert I'm old enough to remember when the History Channel actually had history on it.
I'm old enough to remember when the History Channel actually had history on it.
Backshop I understand...when I remember to. Hitting the big 65 this year.
ninety-two on Feb,8
Married seventy years on June 2024
I feel like a kid. I'm 71 and will be married 37 years in July.
77, like Red Grange's number.
charlie hebdo77, like Red Grange's number.
Yeah, I know it was Pierce-Arrow. Who could tell those repurposed parts of luxury cars apart in the Depression?
jeffhergertI'm old enough to remember when the History Channel actually had history on it.
What is shown on the History Channel, were current events when I was young.
Overmod charlie hebdo 77, like Red Grange's number. I still think the Rio Grande 'Galloping Goose' got its name from Red Grange and the Packard hood ornament. Yeah, I know it was Pierce-Arrow. Who could tell those repurposed parts of luxury cars apart in the Depression?
charlie hebdo 77, like Red Grange's number.
I still think the Rio Grande 'Galloping Goose' got its name from Red Grange and the Packard hood ornament.
The nickname, "Galloping Ghost" was coined for Red Grange in the early 1920s by sportswriter Warren Brown, replacing the earlier "Wheaton Iceman" (also my hometown).
The term "Galloping Geese" for RGS motorcars started in the 1930s.
MidlandMikeWhat is shown on the History Channel, were current events when I was young.
Aliens?
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.
What I said.
"Galloping Ghost" was a known sobriquet when RGS started building.
And it would be logical to pun on 'Galloping Ghost' by calling something with a Packard Goose on its radiator a 'Galloping Goose' -- with the logical sarcasm about ungainly appearance and strange ride quality that would go with it.
(PackardBaker redux)
Since the "Geese" were made from repurposed Buick and later Pierce carbodies, why was a Packard hood ornament (actually a swan or cormorant) used?
charlie hebdo Since the "Geese" were made from repurposed Buick and later Pierce carbodies, why was a Packard hood ornament (actually a swan or cormorant) used?
We have a Mack Bulldog on the hood of our International tanker...
Our late "engineer foreman" (head mechanic) worked for Mack... I forget whether it's dressed up in a firefighter's outfit, or Superman...
Yeah my opinion on the issue is as long as the railroads are privately owned its probably not going to happen. Short term costs of electrifying and building substations for that electrification are too much for the class 1s to even consider doing it. Either its going to be the government paying for the companies doing it or a nationalized not for profit company doing it like conrail but on a national level. Of course nationalization is a whole different issue and i reckon everybody here knows how unlikely that is considering the lack of political will and itd be an existential fight for all the companies.
Electrification? Currently, it would need to be using Chinese batteries, or a very long extension cord.....While we wait for the Federal EPA to ban combustion, or burning of anything...
I can't imagine any RR electrification if it can only be powered by solar or wind in future years.
alphas I can't imagine any RR electrification if it can only be powered by solar or wind in future years.
May be our only chance of holding a daylight job.
Such an installation would undoubtedly include some form of surge power - batteries are currently used at many solar installations. Local fire departments spent a week dealing with a fire at just such a battery farm recently.
Batteries for surge power or emergencies are an old idea. Many early steam railroad and street railway electrifications which relied on their own power plant for electricity had large storage batteries for emergencies and to balance the load.
Part of any plan to electrify with predominantly 'green' energy will always involve relatively vast energy storage. Back in the '90s much of that was supposed to be implemented with superconducting magnetic storage, and much of the 'enabling' technology will have been costed down considerably by modern improvements in tech and materials science. One of the current things being discussed is widespread reworking of retired BEV battery cells into the equivalent of very large, somewhat defective Tesla PowerWalls with inverters synced off the 'grid' powerline frequency. The various methods developed for wayside storage, including those discussed for the dual-mode lite proposal (Volume 4) remain useful in reducing the absolute amount of new generation capacity needed for electrification sections, although of course most of those technologies have shorter storage times than needed to accommodate periods of darkness, still air, or other causes of low renewable generation.
Incidentally, railroads ran signals for decades on battery power only until the advent of the dynamo, with it being a normal operating procedure for trackworkers to check, pull, and arrange to recharge the batteries as needed.
The early versions of electric locomotive used chemical batteries (see Dr. Pope's locomotive, and see if you can figure out why no one adopted it...)
A number of electrifications used renewable solar energy in the form of fallling water, with dams being the method for storing the potential energy.
Using combined cycl gas turbines for generating electricity, one could argue that would be "greener" (lower pm2.5, lower CO2, and probably lower NOx), than using diesel engines.
Erik_Mag A number of electrifications used renewable solar energy in the form of fallling water, with dams being the method for storing the potential energy.
Backshop Erik_Mag A number of electrifications used renewable solar energy in the form of fallling water, with dams being the method for storing the potential energy. How is hydro considered solar energy?
How is hydro considered solar energy?
My father would use the term, "liquid sunshine" to describe rainy days.
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