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Axion to aid Norfolk Southern’s battery-run locomotive
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Axion to aid Norfolk Southerns battery-run locomotive (The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on June 9, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Norfolk Southern Railway is tapping Axion Power International to develop a battery management system for the all-electric ya...
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Model Trains meets Sunflowers
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I was running out of ideas of what "prop" I could use to place next to a very colorful sunflower. Somehow my HO train locomotives got a chance to get into a ridiculous idea I had when the sunlight was so great. Time was short and I could only find a few different different models as I must a made a d...
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BBBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssAckwards!!
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What a man!! Running by using the little 2 X 2 mirror!!
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Look at dis ting!
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Hillbilly Harrison must be shedding 'his railroad' of all the excess power, including the ols Soo Line's SD-50s, and 60s. Damn thing showed up as a leaser ta 2LARRCO. Interbay grunts will prob'ly end up fixing the damn thing tu, since they bought all those extra parts ta repair the ex-UP 50s back in the...
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So how many BJ members know their steam engines?
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I was born late 1953 and the transition from steam power to diesel power was well past as most railroads interested in diesel locomotives were already all=most all diesel in 1953. By the time I can recollect the trains in my youth, it was all diesel. Maybe laying in my crib during my baby daze I heard the G...
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Pandora Washington in 1977 and today.
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Poor Uncle Warren...
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...still power shy, and borrowin' junk from anybody who can spare it ta help 2LARRCO move their trains. Damn, unreal! Just look at this clinking, clattering, collection of collagenous...Trash-9s that even LAMCO doesn't want!
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A's and B's are OK for DrainOders...
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http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3426343 DrainOdorans like them skeeter bites. I prefer a set of Double D's.................. -- Edited by Calvin on Monday 2nd of June 2014 03:57:46 PM
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DrainOders Blow
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Eastern Railroad Discussion > FT and PRR units arrive at Spencer - Date: 05/28/14 20:29 FT and PRR units arrive at Spencer - Author: All units are now here. Supposed to be good weather on Saturday and Sunday. Ed K will blow one by one around the turntable to start the event tomorrow around 9 am
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The Putz remembers!
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You'd think employee ownership would dictate another location for that SkullBuster. http://gjptrains.wordpress.com/category/home/ -- Edited by Calvin on Sunday 13th of April 2014 07:15:34 AM
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GP38-2
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http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3370986 If it wasn't for the GP38-2 Conrail never would have been Gonerail.
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Uncle Warren pisses Wick off. Again!
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Somethin' 'cause LAMCO continues swapping power with 2LARRCO. Look at this latest gem from you know...
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LAMCO visitor...
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...ta GPNW territory. Obviously Wick don't need it, so 2LARRCO ends up with it! Hell of a swap for one of Uncle Warren's GEVOs! (When the outbound crew started 'er up... The smoke was so thick, the neighbors called 911!) Alas fire dept. knew...
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Odd Smites........
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Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS Gorail unit? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 03/04/14 16:17 NS Gorail unit? Author: P -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On hu.co...
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Odd is about ta strike
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How long ya think last post (from Milw_E70) gonna stand?? http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3339824 Date: 03/02/14 18:16 Re: EMD success? Author: Frontrunner ns1000 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1 Wrote: > ---------...
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BrainSurgeons at Drain odors..
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http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3339259 Nice touch for the 8831 to have yellow border on the plow. That yellow border identifies a plow that has been modified and has been accepted as permitted to operate in 3rd rail territory. See pics.
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Where's the Putz??
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http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3334933
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Western Railroad Discussion > World's Largest Locomotive is...
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I check out TO for a news story just like any other internet news source. Sometimes you hit on an interesting thread going and can gleen something from it without spending a single penny. Western Railroad Discussion > World's Largest Locomotive is... http://www.trainorders.com/discussion...
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My first pics of BN Cascade Green and White 1971
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Summer of 1971 I bought a Russian 35mm camera...the Zenit-E from Ritz Camera on a mail-order. Think it was $70 dollars and since I was 17 yrs old $70 was a big purchase. The camera served me pretty well as I took many of the pictures that ended up in my high school yearbook with it and lots of train pictures....
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So what are the rules if any on "coasting"?
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Two great examples of "coasting" would be revelant to BN/BNSF Stevens Pass in WA State where each side of the pass has 30 miles of downhill. The 2.2% grades are descended with full dynamic braking and a pretty loud roar but once they reach some level ground like at Merrit where its flat for mi...
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Bad paint jobs
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Paint jobs gone bad. The BNSF hasn't cared a lot what paint jobs are still running around 18 years after the BNSF Merger. BNSF so far has only cared about the paint schemes on new orders of locomotives..H-1, H-2, BNSF Swoosh. I've seen several Sante Fe "red and silver" paint jobs that have tu...
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BN 2222 North meets the BN 1421 South at Ferndale Wa.
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Been going through my BN Ferndale pictures and probly some of my best came from an unauthorized student trip aboard the Cherry Point Local that ran out of Bellingham to New West BC and switched the Tilbury branch at night. These pictures came when it was still light out at Ferndale. It was one of those &q...
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BN Christmas Train at Blaine
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I got the honor to work 3rd trick opr at Blaine WA on Christmas Eve 1982. I wasnt expecting what rolled into Blaine about 2am Christmas Morning but a couple of SD-45's with strings of Christmas lights hanging from the lead unit was just so cool. I always carry a camera so I made 7 attemps to capture this sce...
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So what locomotive of the past you dint get to run do you still want to run?
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Every engineer has to have a bucket-list.
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Incredible! Well...
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...it's not really that big! Okay 19,000-HP is big... But all the superlatives? Biggest; Largest; Massive(st); gimme a break! Yeah it's big. And it's got four turbos. So what? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itqD-OrotBo Brits... Sheesh! Monty Python again... Overstating the ob...
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