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As requested by DaCheez.
I'll have pictures of my lone RR spike from NH if I ever manage to find it again...
...it may have completely combusted into a small pile of dirt and rust by now, though...
...anyways, everyone join in!!!
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Posted - March 25 2009 : 8:31:20 PM
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ok ill put my score i got today in
the inside of bell
my UP crossbuck webcam cord not long enuff to get whole thing in
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Posted - March 25 2009 : 9:15:12 PM
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I posted this a while back when I first bought it. This is a number board off of a Canadian National F7au (i think that's what it was). It now hangs on the wall next to my layout.
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Posted - March 25 2009 : 10:52:55 PM
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| now do it in HO scale in the EXACT loco & numbers
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Posted - March 26 2009 : 01:17:07 AM
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I have a bell from a locomotive but it is still stashed away in the closet and I don't have a photo.
The most interestingRR item I found I couldn't bring home.
It is the center base of a turn table on the Polland branch of the Bradshaw Mountain Railroad.
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Posted - March 26 2009 : 5:12:55 PM
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hey guys! I found the website where my bell came from!
http://www.wch.com/
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Posted - March 26 2009 : 7:30:30 PM
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quote:microbusss Posted - March 25 2009 : 10:52:55 PM
now do it in HO scale in the EXACT loco & numbers
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That would be cool. The Athearn engine I bought a few months ago is actually the same type of engine and is numbered in the same series as my numberboard. It's not the exact number, but fairly close. I believe the original engines were numbered from 90-- to 9162.
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Posted - March 27 2009 : 7:35:54 PM
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got bell to work used a old Tyco transfomer cause bell is rated at 6 to 17 volts D.C.
gotta find some longer wires 
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Posted - March 27 2009 : 8:07:28 PM
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I'm sorry, but you're using a Tyco pack to operate real railway equipment?! 
I don't think they were designed with that in mind...
Still, that's the funniest thing I've seen all week. Good show!
    
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Posted - March 27 2009 : 8:12:46 PM
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hey it works & I said bell is a 6-17 volt D.C. & power pack IS 12 volts D.C. bell clangs fine
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Posted - March 29 2009 : 9:32:24 PM
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got a bolt for the bell & longer wires 
Tyco power pack is silly yes but hey it do power the bell! That my Tyco Army loco & caboose to show show just how big bell really is! 
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1:1 scale railway equipment eh? Hmmm! Well, I've included this one before, but a good one to start with.
/tyco/forum/uploaded/B 67/g%20003r.jpg
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And here it is some years earlier. As you can see, I just found it lying in the street. Must've fallen off the back of a truck.
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Australian railway crossing signal. No, I don't run mine from a Tyco power pack. The bell may work, those things are pretty efficient (watch that back EMF though - it bites). I run this from a car battery charger and the amp meter says the lamps draw about 2 amps.
I have a bit of full-size equipment as I went a bit mad in my younger years - helped that you could get it cheap or for the asking back then.
Old Victorian Railways semaphore signal. I lived within sight of this for years as a teenager, and when it was to be replaced, I wrote into the railway's head office in an effort to obtain it. I was able to buy it for scrap value - $15.
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Posted - April 01 2009 : 10:04:33 AM
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O.O it DID fall off the back of a truck?? anyone report it to the police?? How did you get it home!? I'd love to have the railway crossing sign
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Posted - April 28 2009 : 9:44:11 PM
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awww no more real railroad/railway stuff? 
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Posted - April 29 2009 : 4:36:29 PM
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Well, not really railroad equipment here, but this past weekend I followed your example microbusss. I hooked up my powerpack (retired until my new layout is setup) to my motorcycle, just to test out the lights after the battery died in storage.
Check it out:
Ready to hit the road! (NOT! )
Anyway, if you must know, it's a 1981 Honda C70, and because it is just under 70cc it's NOT a moped. Unfortunately, after two years, I still can't get it running...  
I do have a couple pictures I'd like to share though, including this rusting turntable, which is directly beside a well used walking trail. In fact, this trail follows the old rails that the Samson ran on. It was the first locomotive in North America to run on standard gauge rails, and it was just down the street from where I live.
Here's the picture:
And this picture I took of the local freight yard that I just love:
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Posted - April 30 2009 : 09:47:37 AM
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| oooo me wants a set of those crossbucks X
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Posted - April 30 2009 : 5:29:43 PM
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B67, great! You found exactly the cab of the engine you took your nick from on the street. This is a real good story and a very unusual find!
You actually can be happy that nobody found it before you and took it home!
A few years ago, when I visited Martinsburg, VIC, the were also pieces of a 930 Alco lying somewhere round the corner. Must happen quite often in Down Under , well, exceeded my allowed checked luggage on my return flight a bit, so I left it there!
Maybe on my next trip to the great southern land....
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quote:B67, great! You found exactly the cab of the engine you took your nick from on the street. This is a real good story and a very unusual find!
You actually can be happy that nobody found it before you and took it home!
A few years ago, when I visited Martinsburg, VIC, the were also pieces of a 930 Alco lying somewhere round the corner. Must happen quite often in Down Under , well, exceeded my allowed checked luggage on my return flight a bit, so I left it there!
Maybe on my next trip to the great southern land....
Cheers,
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Oh yeah, I find bits of locos all over the place.
Well, no. Not really. I had my tongue planted firmly in my cheek when I made that comment. The truth is that the cab had been placed in the side of a hotel (pub) for some years to look as though it had crashed through the building. See below...
It had been cut from scrapped B 67 and placed against the wall of the building and the mess created around it.
Way back in 1995, a new leaseholder of the hotel wanted to change the place and put the cab up for sale. Incredibly, other than a scrap dealer, I was the only one who showed any interest. So I was invited to take it away at no charge (the scrap dealer was going to charge to remove it).
Of course removing it and transporting it was far from free.
And here's a photo of the removal process. Looks like a major accident too. As the loco was known as a "B class", I call this photo "B side".
So, I've had the cab since 1995 and have used the name B 67 online for many years. I was born in '67 too. So, i hope that helps to explain the reason I have the cab.
Here's what a B class looked like. This one is B 75. 26 were built in 1952 to the double-ended design. Basically they are an F9 on Co-Co Bogies (or C-C trucks) and are actually the reason EMD developed the C truck as the Victorian Railways here at the time demanded 3-powered axles over the A1A design. EMD were at first reluctant to do this, but pressed on and soon realised the advantages with their SD series.
About half these B class were rebuilt in the 1980s and still run today. A few Bs were scrapped, but the remainder live on, mostly in daily revenue service.
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Posted - May 08 2009 : 10:10:39 AM
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A gon I saw one day filled with deactivated bombs.  
A lone amature built the ark! A large group of professionals built the titanic!
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Posted - May 08 2009 : 10:21:06 AM
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O.O thats crazy the bombs in the gondola! also be a good idea for a HO model too hey B67 the "crashed thru" loco reminds me of the last scene in Silver Streak
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You know, I have had that train coming out of the hotel as the background on my computer on and off sinct the beginning of forever, and I never made the connection! I still Haven't found my railroad spikee...
...oh, and I hope I don't even need to mention this to many of you, but just in case: http://www.nationaltrainday.com/2009/
The link speaks for itself, so be ready tomorrow!!!
NTD IS REAL!!!!!!!!!!
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National Train Day? We need to extend that to World Train Day.
So DJ, you've been using my photo all this time have you? Ha! No doubt my photos are in many places I don't know about. I find plenty myself as it is.
microbuss, I'd never thought of the Silver Streak crash scene being similar to the one crashing though the hotel, but I guess it is. It even looks like it is smiling, although at least the 'smile' isn't a gaping hole as on the Silver Streak.
And as you asked (in a PM), the yellow wheel in my level crossing signal photo is from a track inspector's trolley. It is a wooden-framed, single-seat motorized trolley. The operator sits over one rail and a couple of outrigger wheels go across to the other rail. It doesn't run, but shouldn't take much work to get it going again. I haven't bothered on account of nowhere legal to run it.
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Posted - May 09 2009 : 11:50:08 PM
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O RLY? no where to run that car eh?
http://www.assco.org.au/
try that link B 67 & =P that should tell you where you can run that car LEGALLY hehe
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Posted - May 10 2009 : 12:02:19 AM
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ok,
http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=282331
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=172381&nseq=3836
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quote:O RLY? no where to run that car eh?
http://www.assco.org.au/
try that link B 67 & =P that should tell you where you can run that car LEGALLY hehe
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Correct - nowhere legally. ASSCO is now mostly limited to operation in Qld, which is 3'6" gauge. My "section car" (they were known as ganger's tolleys or inspection trolleys here in Victoria) is 5'3" gauge, although it is originally from New South Wales and was 4' 8 1/2" gauge. And even if I could join and run in Victoria, it would have to be certified for such operation. No, the only practical alternatives are to run on a disused line (very few here that still have rails in place) or get it and myself certified to run on a tourist railway. Not impossible, but all that practical from where I'm located in relation to such railways. Still, I haven't given up on the idea.
There are actually some disused sidings only a 1 minute walk from where I live and physically disconnected from the mainline. Still illegal to use them, but a quick test would be possible.
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Posted - May 10 2009 : 09:49:32 AM
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| so convert it to standard gauge
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quote:so convert it to standard gauge
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That'd be easy to do considering it was originally standard gauge. Still doesn't change the legality of things and ASSCO are of little help in NSW either. However, NSW has many, many disused railways, some closed for over 30 years, that are still largely intact. So very tempting. Hmmm!
No doubt one could get away with it.
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Posted - May 10 2009 : 10:53:26 AM
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worst you could do is ask permission sign a waiver wear steel toed shoes & stuff like that AND start up a railcar club there in your area
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Posted - May 10 2009 : 1:35:04 PM
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Gondola's risen on stilts for storage use.....
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Posted - May 10 2009 : 1:49:45 PM
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| say I knows where there is a tank car used that way but its long ways from the main road but I'll sneak down to where tanker is & take a quick pic
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quote:worst you could do is ask permission sign a waiver wear steel toed shoes & stuff like that AND start up a railcar club there in your area
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The chances of being able to use an open mainline in this state is zero. There are few branches to speak of. Those that exist are quite remote. Even if they are out of use for most of the year, the chances of getting permission are little better than zero unfortunately. Those who could give permission are too worried about the consequences if something goes wrong. Waiver's won't necessarily protect them. All silly, but that's how the law is now.
The usual procedure here is to just not tell anyone and ride a disused line - preferably one physically disconnected from a running line. Still illegal, but some do it and it's relatively safe if you know 100% that no trains can or will be using the line. I know someone that does it regularly on a line soon to be dismantled. Still not without its risks of course - like trees growing between the rails, missing (stolen) rails in the undergrowth, farmers erecting fences over the line, level crossings and track being out of gauge on rotted sleepers / ties. 
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Posted - May 12 2009 : 4:45:29 PM
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One tractor cab struggling to pull one boxcar while a train cruises by at 60 miles an hour with about 100 cars!
-Jacob
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Off topic, but related to the previous post...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1dclN9wJT4
And yes, it is my video.
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Posted - May 13 2009 : 08:27:14 AM
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maybe the semi wasn't struggling after all
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Posted - May 13 2009 : 4:16:30 PM
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| that is SWEET B67 over in US its called a hyrailer would do that here in US have a semi that goes on the rails
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Posted - May 14 2009 : 02:49:57 AM
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quote:I posted this a while back when I first bought it. This is a number board off of a Canadian National F7au (i think that's what it was). It now hangs on the wall next to my layout.
-cheez
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Cheezus DaCheez,
That's off of one of the First few F-7's made for Canadian National!!
#9158 Renumbered from #9051, I believe. The 9051, 9052, and 9053 were Demonstrator FP-7A-F7B-F7B respectively as a set. (no FP-7B's were made.)
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| Interesting info. I don't know much about the numberboard, nor have I been able to find a clear picture of the engine.I'll have to look into this somemore.
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Posted - October 31 2009 : 4:59:56 PM
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hey how about this link?
http://ozarkmountainrailcar.com/forsale.htm
REAL Rail stuff for sale
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Posted - November 27 2009 : 6:49:22 PM
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ok got better pic of my bell
yes still use that Tyco Power pack to make bell ring
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Something Unique. A Throttle Control Stand! This Came Out of A GP60.
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| real neat Now figure out a way to run your trains off it
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Ive Tried To Do That, And It Would Take A Lot Of Work. I Might Do It Next Summer.
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