"Men at work"...

NSCALEMIKE Nov 27, 2005

  1. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Wow, I can't unsee that....:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

    "Smoke 'Em if Ya Got 'Em"

    A radio control job throttles up working in downtown Minot. Yes, Spartan cab EMDs can lead technotoasters in 2020!


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  2. r_i_straw

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    Both the engineer and the conductor had to get off the BNSF local in Rosenberg to throw this bulky turnout on the interchange between between the UP and BNSF. March 21, 2012.
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  3. HemiAdda2d

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    "Meeting One at Baden"
    While an eastbound manifest freight's crew does a rollby inspection, a CP ribbon rail train eases into Baden siding, then will stop short to enter the house track. Before the train left Minot, the dispatcher told them they'd meet one at Baden, and would get a ride back to the city.

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  4. r_i_straw

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    Crew change. And the van is ready to go.
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  5. Mike VE2TRV

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    What that van is missing is a 1970s psychedelic paint job and kitschy curtains over the big side windows...:p
     
  6. RailMix

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    Men (and a woman) at work servicing PM 1225 at Cadillac, MI June 6, 2015.

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  7. HemiAdda2d

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    Steam, you say?
    I'll play...
    John Bush, in his trademark bowler hat, lovingly oils the rod gear under D&RGW 463 at Antonito, CO:
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  8. r_i_straw

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    The one with the hammer is me. We were repairing the trucks of the ex MKT chair car New Braunfels.
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  10. Hardcoaler

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    February 1987 at Melrose, NC, the foot of the Saluda Grade.

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  11. HemiAdda2d

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    I tell ya, this caboose doesn't look like the BN merger happened over two decades ago...

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  12. r_i_straw

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    Looking out the back door. Vicksburg, Mississippi. March 2001. He is about to connect air and HEP after the locomotives are coupled onto the back end of the train in order to push it up on to a switchback half way up the bluff along the Mississippi River. Then the locomotives will pull the train backwards to the top.
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  13. r_i_straw

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    Me again working on the New Braunfels. I like to wear painter's pants for working because they are inexpensive, rugged, cool in the Texas heat and have tool pockets and a hammer loop. However they do get dirty. But who cares?
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  14. Hardcoaler

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    Leaving Montgomery, AL aboard a former Clinchfield caboose in October 1985. That's Montgomery's trainshed and Union Station in the background.

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    Near Manchester GA - 2006

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  16. r_i_straw

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    Houston, Texas in June 2011.
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  17. HemiAdda2d

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    Needleton, CO rollby:

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    "Winter Railroading Ain't for Sissies"

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    Crews change on CP train 197 at Portal, ND just at the international border and Customs inspection.

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  19. Hardcoaler

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    When the going gets tough, call out for Hulcher and the big hook. [07/16/1976, Barrington, IL] That that C&NW Waycar took quite a bump. As I remember, no passenger train was involved. They brought in an E to help move cars about.

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  20. r_i_straw

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    Well, the sign planted just behind my old van does say "MEN AT WORK" but it appears the men are all way down the line shooting the bull instead of doing any work.
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