What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

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Maximum speed 70 MPH"
I can't even imagine the inertia that a long and loaded train would have at 70![/QUOTE]
They don't stop, but they do slow down.
Horkn : they do haul 95' flat cars of poles...telephone poles or tree trunks for milling or pulp.


Cunning people ask me what kind of engineer.... Pratt and Whitney Aircraft is here, so they ask me what division at "the aircraft" I work in.

So with 2 locomotives (sometimes 3) and 80 cars on the pin, stopping distance and acceleration mean a lot. Think of hooking up a dozen trailers to your vehicle, each with their own brakes. Slowing down uses the trailer brakes, otherwise they would jacknife behind you. When starting up, just jamming on the gas woukd stretch out all your trailers, possibly causing some of them at the far end to break away. Same with a reverse movement....too much braking on tbe loco and not enough on the "trailers", makes them stretch out and come apart. Dont ask me how I know that.

We had a beer box-car Accidentally come to our facility and stay for a few days to be re-routed. Nothing went missing from it, but there were a lot of ideas as to how one might lighten the load.

If a train fulla loaded pole cars happens to stop where I can see it, I'll give FHC a friendly heads up!

Sca

 

That looks like firewood cutter's Hell. 10 or so chimney sets, with 4 flues each....thats an endless handful of hungry fireplaces or wood stoves.
I cannot imagine how much wood a place like that would go through if even half were wood burning flues.

Sca

 

Started snowing here around 7 this evening. The forecast is for 2-5 inches. Time will tell. I have a dentist appt in the morning. Hope we don't get too much.

 

Thanks all for the B-day wishes !

 

It's been raining here. Probably won't turn to snow until sometime early am.

Our expected snow total is now maybe an inch.

That said, snow is in the forecast through Monday. We're not going anywhere for a couple days. So, it really doesn't matter to me.

 

Birthday Greeting and best wishes to you!

 

Ok snow started earlier than previously figured. It started about 9pm big wet heavy flakes. It was supposed to be rain for us until many hours later when it was to change to snow.

 

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Thanks for sharing. Wondered what the operator's cabin looked like. I've seen a few CSX engines around. Our main long haul train is Norfork Southern, we have a local railroad, Sandersville Railroad, that pulls cars from the various Kaolin clay plants, wood chip mill and a couple other industries.

 

This didn't add up to really anything. It was snowing hard , of course when I had to take the pups out to do their business. Anything that was on the roads and driveways is gone now.

 

We got a few inches of snow

landlords employees plowed the lot, it snowed a little more, it turned to greasy slush, next thing the forklift barely makes it up over the hill after several attempts.was a real struggle to get back inside too.

if you're not going to keep up with it, it's just as well to not plow it in the first place. 6" of snow is safer to drive in than that thick, greasy film of slush

 

Happy Birthday Beetle-Kill .. I hope it was a good one.

 

Worked late on the car last night changing the muffler and tailpipe. Had to drive the truck into town for parts with no reg or sticker. Didnt care for that much and was glad to get home.. Feeling a little old today and took it easy. Got one heck of a mess to clean up. Looks like rain on the way here tomorrow. Not much going on but grocery store for some things in the afternoon... Hopefully they have our Red Barron pizza in stock.

 

So we always welcomed a good snow. My dad said that one day when we own a house, we won't be so excited for a big storm. Well, we always enjoyed a good blow, noreaster, a gullywomper of a snowstorm.
Well, we own now, and really look forward to a big storm. With wood heat, we'll be over-the-top excited for a big ol snow storm. We'd both be happy snowed in for a few days!

Just dont seem to see much snow around these parts these days.
Sca

 

The Mrs. And I committed two nights for this project. 3 coats of paint, 2 bottles of wine.

P.O. did the purple paint I swear on it.



The the basic runner at HD.



Off the list!

 

Nice work .. Cant say I love to paint but I bet some wine would help that.

 

Looks much better.