just a quick word about flange oilers. When I was qualifying in suburban service not too long ago, we went over the oiler between Lisle and Naperville and I had some wheel spin and the overspeed annunciator sounded. When you are doing 70mph and you get wheel spin, you have to react fast! That annunciator gets your attention RIGHT NOW!
Maybe this will post: I borrowed this from maintainence to show racks of spare parts. The parts are out in the weather when on the rolling stock, so storage is ok in this type of rack. Inside parts are stored inside of course. [ 18 July 2001: Message edited by: watash ]</p>
Here is an interesting piece of equipment a company uses to unload coal cars then load it into their own dump trucks. They call it a Carhoe. You may have seen these anywhere and not recognized what it was. There is a pocket under the track for a hopper car to dump into and a conveyor belt carry the load up dumping it into the dump truck bed. It also has a hydraulic arm sorta like a back hoe that the operator runs from up on the platform. There is a flat blade instead of a bucket he uses to poke the load down to the bottom while they are unloading. These are used for coal, gravel, ballast, or most anthing usually loaded in to dump trucks. During the winter months, the load sometimes gets frozen in place, so the operator breaks the load up, loosening it enough to get the car empty. The flat blade works better than a bucket, because he can scrape the sides and bottom right up to the metal getting the car pretty clean. Even then, its still quite a job sometimes. This one is all electric, though some have small gasoline generators to operate way out in remote areas like construction sites. Either way, he just turns it on and away we go! The guy I got the photos from said, "It sure beats a pick and shovel!" This would make a nice craftsman's project with some dump trucks where you have a few hoppers required.
Alright here is my submission for more that just trains. I have a habbit of doing photo's of all aspects of the railroad. I also doing model railroading where I'm mainly a freelancer but get ideas from the proto-type. I just put up a site for photos and other miscellaneous train garb at http://RailSpike.net Today I'll be posting new photos which include items from "Not Only Trains". I'm from southern Florida so most of my photos are of the Palm Beach area which includes the local Tri-Rail system. Tell me what you think. Enjoy,
Don't you hate when links aren't tested? Let's try it again. - Image on By the way this is the Yellow Spike that I posted on a previous board. Anyone know the meaning? (I have the answer, just curious if you know) By the way this is on an old sea board line now owned by CSX at the West Palm Beach seaboard passenger station. RailSpike.net
Here is a pushplow at work. My good buddy is probably hittin' a good sixty here because that snow is flying about 75 to 100 feet on either side. I saw these many times charging across the western plains of Kansas as I was growing up.
<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Furtak: [QB By the way this is the Yellow Spike that I posted on a previous board. Anyone know the meaning? (I have the answer, just curious if you know) By the way this is on an old sea board line now owned by CSX at the West Palm Beach seaboard passenger station. RailSpike.net[/QB]<hr></blockquote> Doesent it mark the clerence point on a siding?
I don't know about a "yellow" painted tie, but on CSX (ex-L&N) along the Mississippi Gulf Coast a "white" painted tie shows where a large concrete drainage pipe is buried beneath and across the track. [ 02 August 2001: Message edited by: Hank Coolidge ]</p>
That plow is impressive! There's a caboose with a similar plow (takes up half the length of the caboose) in a little caboose village not far from me, but I've never seen it move, much less book along hurling snow like that.
That is one on the best snowplow shots I have ever seen. I would like to suggest you use it to start a new thread on the subject of snow removal.
Peirce, I tried that with my favorite, the big steam rotaries, but it didn't generate much interest. I have movies of rotaries in action, but not much in the way of postable photos. [ 12 August 2001: Message edited by: watash ]</p>
