TheAntiGates wrote:I wanted to see how many people would ask me if I "really looked like that", as they did with my previous avatar.
TheAntiGates wrote:Take a look at this page from a 1969 N&W equipment roster showing an Alco C 630 and notice that they are calling it an 0-6-6-0 and not a C-C.Could this be due to the rairoad's late abandonment of steam, with the nomenclature "holding over" a bit?
IIRC, that's what's on the builder's plate. A "B-B" EMD is, on its builder's plate a 0-4-4-0.
Datafever wrote:My goodness, what in the world happened to Anti-Gates avatar?
Datafever wrote: After your experiment is finished, would you consider reverting?
greyhounds wrote:what's on the builder's plate. A "B-B" EMD is, on its builder's plate a 0-4-4-0.
what's on the builder's plate. A "B-B" EMD is, on its builder's plate a 0-4-4-0.
TheAntiGates wrote: greyhounds wrote: what's on the builder's plate. A "B-B" EMD is, on its builder's plate a 0-4-4-0. Really? thanks!! I was unaware of that.so using that nomenclature, what would they put on the builders plate of an Alco PA or and EMD E series locomotive? (to describe the "A1A" wheel configuration)
greyhounds wrote: what's on the builder's plate. A "B-B" EMD is, on its builder's plate a 0-4-4-0.
Would an A1A be: 1-1-1+1-1-1??? Or, call it a "2" for short?
I figured it was a matter of time until you changed from your "dried up Shrek" avitat to something new. Your present one is.....uh......"unique".
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Murphy Siding wrote: Would an A1A be: 1-1-1+1-1-1??? Or, call it a "2" for short?
TheAntiGates wrote: Datafever wrote: After your experiment is finished, would you consider reverting?Your concern is appreciated. It was time to find a new avatar, the one I'm using at present is merely a transitional one, to break identity with the last one, before flaunting a new one, sort of like that ginger root thing in a sushi bar.The eventual replacement will surely appeal to "most", just as much as my previous avatar did
Your current avatar looks like Orville Redenbacher after he was watching a new microwave experiment too closely when catastophic failure occured.
Your last avatar looked like a melted ghoul.
The one before that (with the cigar) looked knowledgeable enough to explain to this befuddled Canadian why Americans want to spend $700 billion a year to fill the thankless job of being the World's policeman.
Could you please ditch the railbike as well ?
nanaimo73 wrote: Your current avatar looks like Orville Redenbacher after he was watching a new microwave experiment too closely when catastophic failure occured. Your last avatar looked like a melted ghoul. The one before that (with the cigar) looked knowledgeable enough to explain to this befuddled Canadian why Americans want to spend $700 billion a year to fill the thankless job of being the World's policeman. Could you please ditch the railbike as well ?
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