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look out below 8/13/2010 6:19pm
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The locos have 16 cylender deisels that have an electric generator that powers a traction motors on each axle. That is so they can go the same speed forward and backwards. Also they say the tourque of the engines and the weight of the train would turn the loco over when it tried to pull the train. I read that all in a book my boy got about trains for chrismas, I just work on the tracks. I dont work on the engines but i have seen them take a crap while moving, blow lube oil out the top, and catch fire. I have also seen some crazy stuff with the cars too.
minidad160 8/13/2010 6:44pm
8/13/2010 6:44pm
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The locos have 16 cylender deisels that have an electric generator that powers a traction motors on each axle. That is so they can go the...
The locos have 16 cylender deisels that have an electric generator that powers a traction motors on each axle. That is so they can go the same speed forward and backwards. Also they say the tourque of the engines and the weight of the train would turn the loco over when it tried to pull the train. I read that all in a book my boy got about trains for chrismas, I just work on the tracks. I dont work on the engines but i have seen them take a crap while moving, blow lube oil out the top, and catch fire. I have also seen some crazy stuff with the cars too.
what kind of stuff with the cars? Again thanks for the info sounds like you have seen soom crazy stuff! Fascinated with the trains. The way they shake my shop when they go by is unbelievable.
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look out below 8/13/2010 7:49pm
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minidad160 wrote:
what kind of stuff with the cars? Again thanks for the info sounds like you have seen soom crazy stuff! Fascinated with the trains. The way...
what kind of stuff with the cars? Again thanks for the info sounds like you have seen soom crazy stuff! Fascinated with the trains. The way they shake my shop when they go by is unbelievable.
Ive seen some really bad wheels, like almost square, some times the knuckles will break and the last half of the train will stop (the whole thing will go into emergency). We had a spot that the track was uneven and had a tendancy to make the coal hoppers dump on the tracks (it happened twice at the same spot). 120 tons of coal is alot. We had a train break and axle on a loaded coal car and drag it for three miles. That was a long cold 13 degree night. The best was a loaded coal train collapsed a bridge in Gore OK. Nine cars went in the river and another 10 or 12 hit the ground. That was a sight. Oh and I cant forget the one that ran in the back of a stopped stack train.....

I do like hearing the big units getting the coals poured to em to leave town. The rumble is cool, and any train going over 50 is cool too.

Some days I think my job is cool, other days I would rather be dead. But Im not really a "Foamer" either.
Intothebreach 10/13/2010 3:28pm
10/13/2010 3:28pm
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My grandfather was a conductor on the old Providence and Worcester Line. When I was a little kid every once in a while I would get...
My grandfather was a conductor on the old Providence and Worcester Line.
When I was a little kid every once in a while I would get to go ride with him for the morning run up from Westerly RI to Providence and back.
Walking from car to car puching tickets.

We had tracks out behind my parents house that had the old glass and ceramic insulators on the poles.
Used to put pennies on the tracks to squash them.

Actually did used to jump on the freight trains when I was a teenager and ride them to get to a friends house at night.
Course the thing was only moving about 10 mph so it wasn't too much of a challenge.
My dad collected those glass & ceramic insulators, He had over 100 different ones. But, like I said earlier, he did work for the RR for 40+ years.

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