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Any railroad buffs out there? Pic attached - Katy!
dcloco
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Here ya go...
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MKT, very collectable.
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/up3985.shtml
EvilDr235
Two types of people drive old cars.Rich people because they want to and poor people because they have to.
teens and twenties. His mother was a chief cook and some
of his fondest memories was of the Moffit Road and the
building of the enormous snow sheds along it. The
engineers used to let him ride in the cabs of the
Challengers and Big Boys for about twenty miles in
one direction and then hand him off to the engineer
of another going back to the camp from which he had
come. We were bought up with stories of avalanches,
-40? below (for weeks sometimes) storms and hunting
with his father's 'trusty ole '94,' 30-30.
I'd give anything to be able to hear just one of his exciting
and humorous stories again!
[:D]
The older I get, the better I was!
Proud NRA member
"The constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people; that...it is there right and duty to be at all times armed."
Thomas Jefferson 1824
But THESE ARE REAL LADIES! One has seen better times, but she's still beautiful. One is a drop-dead gorgeous oldster who can still hold her own against anything on rails today. The diesel is just a youngster in full bloom... Sort of like the photo I mentioned above, but nothing less than a lady.
WOW!
Nord
quote:Challenger: Union Pacific at one time owned 105 Challenger locomotives. Built between 1936 and 1943, the Challengers were nearly 122 feet long and weighed over one million pounds. Articulated like their big brother, the Big Boy, the Challengers had a 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangement. They operated over most of the Union Pacific system, primarily in freight service, but a few were assigned to passenger trains operating through mountain territory to California and Oregon.
The engines we run on the railroad today are only about 200 tons and are basically just big combination electrical generators/air compressors.
Still though, it's an awesome feeling to be sitting at the head end of 5 or 6 linked together putting out about 4500 hp each.
I think I like my new job![:p]
"Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice.
Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Barry Goldwater quoting from Cicero, I've been told.
I see coal buckets daily with distribted power, but never with 5-6 locos.
You run in high country?
We don't use that kind of power often, but when pulling 15-16,000 tons of grain or soda ash up and down even 1% grades, the extra hp and dynamic braking is very "reassuring".
"Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice.
Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Barry Goldwater quoting from Cicero, I've been told.
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