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 Posted - March 13 2016 : 04:08:46 AM
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My accessory this week is a coupler level gauge set up for a Link and Pin coupler.
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Posted - March 13 2016 : 09:02:45 AM
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A uniform height gauge for link-and-pin couplers? That's not going to produce realistic cars! ;) :P
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Posted - March 13 2016 : 1:34:35 PM
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It will considering that the time period I model in was pre-knuckle coupler. I also have trains
from the post knuckle coupler period and have a coupler gauge for that as well.
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Posted - March 13 2016 : 1:43:59 PM
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*facepalm* I was making a joke. One of the problems that often came up with link-and-pin couplers was that they'd turn out to be at different heights.
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Posted - March 13 2016 : 2:18:13 PM
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Didn't know that there were scale link and pin couplers.
They were notorious for snipping off fingers, and according
to railroad lore, one could tell how long a brakeman had
been at the job by the number of fingers he had left.
My great grandfather Sherman, a 40 year employee of
the PRR, once got his head caught between two box
cars at the moment the engineer was reversing. Lucky
for my gene pool, an alert bystander waved off he
engineer.
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Posted - March 13 2016 : 3:00:46 PM
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| My father was caught in between two coal cars when he worked for the N&W. Somehow the cars didn't couple correctly. They told him he would never walk again from the broken back injury. sometime later he could get on his feet and move his legs with his hands. Time went on and Dad walked normal with no sign of ever being injured that badly...
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Posted - March 13 2016 : 4:16:08 PM
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| Those are some pretty good stories about family members being injured working for the railroad. Such a time in history when probably everybody knew someone or had a family member working for the railroad; maybe like everyone working in the tech industry or something now. A while back I was interested in learning about the accident one of my great grandfathers was killed in to gain a piece of genealogical history. I have news stories, but I heard you could write to the National Transportation Safety Board, or some such place, I don't recall the exact name presently. Anyway, never heard back (this was for 1910 information). Need to try again. He worked for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern.
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Posted - March 13 2016 : 11:41:34 PM
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Yes, this would have predated OSHA. Another great-great
grandfather died falling off the scaffolding of a sailing
vessel under construction in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
He arrived in New Bedford as a stow away escaping the
British penal colony of Bermuda, from which he had been
sentenced for poaching game on private English estates.
I remember this when I am thinking I am having a bad
day.
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Posted - March 14 2016 : 12:41:46 AM
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Life-Like "Pole Lights". I placed 3 of these around the Cabinet Factory in BOTW. A few of these were dim right out of the blister pack. Thankfully, I test all bulbs b4 mounting. I have 106 light ups working on my layout now...
Edited by - walt on March 14 2016 12:44:34 AM
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Posted - March 15 2016 : 6:11:20 PM
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Life-Like "Pole Lights". I placed 3 of these around the Cabinet Factory in BOTW. A few of these were dim right out of the blister pack. Thankfully, I test all bulbs b4 mounting. I have 106 light ups working on my layout now...
Cute bulb shades. I'd hate to see your electric bill. Any new
dumpsters?
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Posted - March 16 2016 : 03:21:47 AM
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Cute bulb shades. I'd hate to see your electric bill. Any new
dumpsters?
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â March 15 2016Â :Â 6:11:20 PM
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Our home is total electric, Jeff. Our Winter bill is soo high monthly that no one recognizes the difference!  We know our bill is high because it comes in a box from UPS!
I have thought about it though. I feel with the one Ripmax Power supply operating all the lights by its self... I think it would be equivalent to a strand of Christmas bulbs.. 106 bulbs lit now
No new dumpsters at this time...
Edited by - walt on March 16 2016 03:45:03 AM
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Posted - March 17 2016 : 12:27:38 AM
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Elephant.
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