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EMD desktop before computer screens

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EMD desktop control stand after computer screens

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EMD throwback console GOODBYE desktop!!

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GE desktop control stand before computers

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GE computer desktop contolstand.

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GE new throwback to conventional control stand model...

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-- Edited by Calvin on Sunday 4th of January 2015 11:03:35 AM

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Here's a fun factaroonie just fer you Krink...

Its the middle of the night, you have the lights off/dimmed way low so you can see.

All the sudden.....POW!!! Yer in Emergency.

Operating rules require you to immeadiatly hit the switch to dump the rear.

You've seen a few examples of controlstands.

Each rr has its own cab committee which says what should be where.

This means the location of the switch youre looking for is in 4 different places (just off the top of my head).

When they download the engine to see if you complied with all the rules and regulations, will you pass?

Or are you going to be looking at some "carpet time"??

 

PS I love the first GE pic. You can see it was on the UP at onetime because the one blind cocksucker out there that ran it that took his white paint pen and scrawled headlights on the dash. Usually he scrawls a line from the word headlights to the actual location of the headlight switch. Id love ta go ta his terminal, find his 2015 F350 and scrawl headlights on the dash of it.  



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FMB wrote:

I could always "feel" my train way better with the older units... this wasn't a huge deal once they nuked the cabooses... for comfort, there was no comparison....


 FMB used to nuke cabooses?  Maybe I should read that line again.  



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Snippy called really bad handling caboose, "cheerleading".

Stand up
Sit down
Fight, fight, fight.

PS: Snippy stole his last reverser today.



-- Edited by Snippy on Sunday 4th of January 2015 07:27:57 PM

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Snippy wrote:


PS: Snippy stole his last reverser today.



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How many reversers has Snippy procured?



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Cy Valley wrote:

How many reversers has Snippy procured?


 Snippy doesn't know. How can Snippy know if they're real reversers without Gus' help?



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I have no reversers in my collection of railroad shit.
The best I can do is a CMSP&P switch lock with no key.
I have a couple of caboose keys but there are no more
cabooses. Pretty lame collection I have except for a
couple boxes of "425" light bulbs which any railroader
knows is hard to get.

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Kiss them lite bulbs goodbye Krink...now the new LED lanterns are brighter, and bye gawwd the hawg can see it when it gets bandied about, even by a novice who stands sideways so his backup signal looks like a highball.

Oh, and the battery lasts longer too.... 



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"425: Green dot for a sure spot." Hard to come by because the railroads hated buying batteries and always gave out the 502 blue dots. (SOU UTU agreement specified 425s and they had to go back to buying them.)

Alas, Calhoun is correct. The LEDs are great. Snippy so appreciates/strike that/ appreciated having them shined directly in his eyes by the McDonoughald's rookies.

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In early 1973 on the BN in Everett, the yard checkers had
to have a 425 bulb in the "mirrored part" of a railroad lantern.
The 502 bulb was for "ambience" lighting. With a fresh battery
and a 425 bulb..you could cast beams of light a long ways into
the sky or fog. I worked the night checker job at Delta Yard
for a few years and I was really amazed at the design of the
railroad latern to have such a "powerful flashlight" aspect.
Biggest problem for me today is finding "free-latern batteries".
Ever go into a store and buy a bunch of latern batteries...no
because they cost $10 a piece.

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LAMCO went rechargeable in 1992 or so.

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you guys have tv's and cup holders?



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