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Here you go Micro-B
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 12:52:54 PM
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thanks
Now do this one
http://d.facdn.net/art/microbuss/1405184797/1405184797.microbuss_dsci0521.jpg
cool yes?
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 1:42:45 PM
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quote: Um, I don't mean to be the informer but the link doesn't seem to work.
-Steve
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 2:03:36 PM
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Now I'm getting the "Forbidden" message
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 2:19:15 PM
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darn 
Try this
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13967578/
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 4:31:33 PM
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quote:
OOOO...that is a great shot! 
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 8:59:08 PM
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quote: quote:I see there's and link-and-pin coupling on the front of this engine. What's on the rear?
Originally posted by gmoney - October 22 2014 : 8:16:47 PM
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Glenn sorry about the tardy answer. I just now saw the question. There's a link and pin coupler on the back, too. Instead of a link, though, we use a kind of drawbar with a piece that goes in the coupler and has a hole for the pin. There's a bar hinged to that so it can move up and down, vertically, and another piece on the other end to connect to the link and pin socket of the next car in the train. Making the coupling is kind of scary with these drawbars, because you have to hold the drawbar close to where it goes in the socket to keep it from flopping down, but still have your fingers in the clear. I's a pity I didn't photograph one, because it's a hard thing to describe well.
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No worries about the tardy answer! The way the pages update on this forum it's easy to miss a new post.
That's really cool that there are link-and-pin couplings on both ends of the engine. Since the things were outlawed around the turn of the last century, I figured the rear would have a knuckle and the front link pocket was just for show. Is there a legal exception for tourist lines?
Glenn
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 9:46:06 PM
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quote: [Since the things were outlawed around the turn of the last century, I figured the rear would have a knuckle and the front link pocket was just for show. Is there a legal exception for tourist lines?
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I think that the law was a federal law dealing with interstate commerce. This equipment is all in-plant equipment. The steam engine is from a Calumet and Hecla copper ore stamping mill and the gas hydraulic engine and the cars come from the old Badger Ammunition plant in Wisconsin. No interchange service and no interstate commerce - these things were pretty much unregulated.
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 10:00:48 PM
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| well tourist railroads are regulated tho
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 11:26:22 PM
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quote:well tourist railroads are regulated tho
Originally posted by microbusss - November 30 2014 : 10:00:48 PM
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Some more than others. If they don't interchange with other railroads or cross public roads, the FRA only cares if they inspect their bridges. On such insular roads, steam boilers are inspected by the state rather than the FRA. If all help is volunteer, it's not a workplace, so OSHA is not involved.
Regulation comes down to the desire of the tourist railroad and its insurance company to avoid mayhem. (That's a pretty strong desire, in a basically human sense.)
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Posted - January 09 2015 : 2:54:15 PM
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| Some vintage subway cars from December 2014 in New York City.  .  .  .  . 
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Posted - February 24 2015 : 7:41:23 PM
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One of the original EMC FT units that toured the country, restored to its original paint scheme.
On display at the Museum of Transportation, in West St. Louis County, MO.
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Posted - February 24 2015 : 9:30:48 PM
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quote:| Some vintage subway cars from December 2014 in New York City. . . . .
Originally posted by wks - January 09 2015 : 2:54:15 PM
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That's definitely vintage. Pretty cool looking in my book.
-Steve
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 Posted - February 24 2015 : 9:56:01 PM
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hadda be quick taking this pic
CLEAN Ain't it?
Had to trudge thru DEEP Dec snow to get these pics
Locos were on a switch track overnight & the snows melted after a few days in Feb with 70s
Ain't seen borrowed locos lately
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Posted - March 14 2015 : 9:02:05 PM
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Big Spring Rail...... Big Spring Texas
SW1200, SW1500, and SD40?
http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/uploaded/JRG1951/20150314205832_BigSpringRR_G.gif
http://www.bigspringrailsystem.com/about-us.html
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Posted - March 19 2015 : 11:23:17 AM
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| Very nice engines Ben and John. This next one is a Housatonic Railroad RS-3 engine.  Location at Lenox, Massachusetts.  I took these pictures in August 2006. More info on the Berkshire Scenic Railway museum site.
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Posted - March 19 2015 : 11:47:54 AM
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quote:...SD40?...
Originally posted by JRG1951Â -Â March 14 2015Â :Â 9:02:05 PM
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It has the spotting features of an SD40-2. 
Glenn
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Posted - March 19 2015 : 11:49:01 AM
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My friend Shawn Christopher took this photo of a lashup of CSX locos from the Smithfield Bridge in Pittsburgh March 2015. CSX 3131 looks to be an SD40-2 now and no longer an ES44AC.
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Posted - March 19 2015 : 4:59:43 PM
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Originally posted by wildecoupe - March 19 2015 : 11:49:01 AM
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What is the caboose up there? 
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Posted - March 19 2015 : 6:16:07 PM
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Unsure, but I could get a closer picture.
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Posted - March 19 2015 : 10:01:17 PM
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For a moment I thought you had linked to that site for what it's normally used for and I got very disturbed. Still slightly disturbed that you're using THAT website to host TRAIN pictures... don't tell me that no one else on the forums knows what it is...
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 Posted - March 19 2015 : 10:42:59 PM
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just a few PRR 4800
ok I knows this a loco only thread but this still cool
Yesterday I saw this but didn't get a pic
ARTISTS MAKING
FOAMERS MAD
Was on the side of a possible BNSF grain hopper
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Posted - March 19 2015 : 10:53:08 PM
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Glenn,
With the Long nose, I would guess was a Union Pacific SD40 engine.
Regards, John
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Posted - March 20 2015 : 02:02:21 AM
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The roof overhang at the rear edge of the cab, and the water level sight glass in the side of the long hood are Dash 2 features, as are the HT-C trucks. That's what I base my conclusion on.
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Posted - March 20 2015 : 4:27:31 PM
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Glenn,
You are right it is a SD40-2
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This is a SD75M that has been rode hard. 224 is now 20 years old and shows her age. EMD 710 4300HP
Slaton, Texas Oct 2014
Regards, John
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Posted - March 20 2015 : 5:46:02 PM
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quote:
This is a SD75M that has been rode hard. 224 is now 20 years old and shows her age. EMD 710 4300HP
Slaton, Texas Oct 2014
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heh looks like they used the doors of a BNSF that was a SF unit
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Posted - March 20 2015 : 9:32:52 PM
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Think I read recently that some of these were sold to Norfolk Southern.quote: quote:
This is a SD75M that has been rode hard. 224 is now 20 years old and shows her age. EMD 710 4300HP
Slaton, Texas Oct 2014
Originally posted by JRG1951Â -Â March 20 2015Â :Â 4:27:31 PM
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heh looks like they used the doors of a BNSF that was a SF unit
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Posted - March 21 2015 : 12:15:58 AM
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this was at a coal train derailment on UP near Chimney Rock
CLEAN Ain't it? A rare thing on UP 
& the local switcher that replaced BN/BNSF #2155
ok I took pic crooked So sorr-EE
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Posted - April 12 2015 : 12:58:36 PM
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Found these this week.
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Posted - April 12 2015 : 4:58:04 PM
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saw this a couple days ago
the BNSF Warbonnet on the nose is missing!
This was going on last week & why I never heard trains on the line
Shoulda been taking moar pix of the track equipment but I had a cold all last week
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Posted - April 20 2015 : 02:14:58 AM
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Norfolk Southern freight idles on overpass in Greensboro, NC April 18, 2015.
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Posted - April 20 2015 : 4:41:06 PM
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A few locomotives at the head of a train in Midland Texas.
Not a long train, most likely locomotives going east.
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Posted - April 20 2015 : 6:20:16 PM
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quote: That BNSF has obviously had some paint wear on the front. How do I know? Because I believe there's still a bit of the logo on the front door thing.
-Steve
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Posted - April 20 2015 : 8:06:50 PM
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| nopes the yellow is on the safety handrails
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Posted - April 20 2015 : 8:39:07 PM
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When you live in the rail capital of the world, you really need something unusual to get your attention. July 30,2009, this caught my attention.
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Posted - April 20 2015 : 9:29:51 PM
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I saw SP 4449 back in '76 when it was pulling duty for the American Freedom Train. The sad thing is, the tracks where the AFT was on display are 20 years gone.
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Posted - April 20 2015 : 9:56:29 PM
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quote:A few locomotives at the head of a train in Midland Texas.
Not a long train, most likely locomotives going east.
Regards, John
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Heh this reminds me of the 30+ loco pic I took a pic of in Bridgeport, Nebraska
Saw the video later on too
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Posted - April 21 2015 : 09:15:22 AM
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Here's another one for micro!
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Posted - April 21 2015 : 09:57:59 AM
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Great Picture this week.
I really like the GS4
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Posted - April 21 2015 : 12:48:19 PM
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A couple of photos from family history. Both taken in WV in 1970.
The first in Charleston, the windows of the Penn Central dispatcher's office circled in red - my dad was likely there at the time.
Second is a PC coal train in nearby Blue Creek WV.
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Posted - April 22 2015 : 10:35:19 AM
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Jerry, did the PC run long hood forward a lot?
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Posted - April 22 2015 : 11:40:40 AM
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quote:Jerry, did the PC run long hood forward a lot?
Originally posted by rbturner - April 22 2015 : 10:35:19 AM
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Randy, back in the day when the PC was a busy operation in Charleston I never paid that much attention! Trains were trains back then - never gave it a second thought.
It sure seems like they preferred long hood forward going by those photos though.
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Posted - April 22 2015 : 7:37:52 PM
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well the reason for Long Hood Forward was prolly cause of lots of crossings in the areas
Some locos will have a F on the loco
Indicating the Front
NS & CSX may still do that idk
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Posted - April 22 2015 : 8:16:51 PM
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Long hood forward.
Even though the road switcher style loco was bidirectional. long hood forward was the norm for many years. The controls were arranged that way on the early road switcher engines. It was the late 50s before this changed. Some of the GP9s had low noses with controls designed to run short hood first. Every informed steam railroader knew that the cab was supposed to go at the back of the engine. Duh!!!!
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Posted - April 23 2015 : 05:27:58 AM
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I hope it's ok to post a link to a video in this thread. This is a really cool video of a small branch line that operates in Ontario, Canada. Ontario Southland Railway's owner is a huge railfan who takes pride in rescuing old locomotives and putting them back to work. Check out these F units running the plow this past winter. When I lived in Ingersoll Ontario I loved watching the trains from this railway go by. You never knew what you might see!
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Posted - April 23 2015 : 06:32:49 AM
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INCREDIBLE video - thanks for posting it!
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Posted - April 23 2015 : 07:55:32 AM
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I'd never seen the end results from a video drone before. They do a better job than I would have expected.
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Posted - April 23 2015 : 10:07:23 AM
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Way Cool Video!
Thanks, John
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Posted - April 23 2015 : 10:07:35 AM
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quote: I actually saw both of those track equipment thingies at the tracks in my town yesterday, almost made me late for school.Very odd looking.
-Steve
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Posted - April 23 2015 : 10:18:21 PM
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Some philosophical questions on locomotives:
Why is is that NS and CSX have been so much quicker to wipe out all the old Conrail blue on the locos they got in the breakup, than BNSF has been to repaint BN green and ATSF warbonnets? I'm sure we've discussed this before but darned if I remember.
Also, what reason could there possibly be that for an Iowa Interstate geep to wind up in BNSF territory in northern Wisconsin like I observed last summer? Has BNSF been leasing locos from/pooling locos with IAIS?
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