done something have never done
Before, got to ride in a locomotive today pretty cool....rode in it while guys was moving grain cars to load at grain terminal. 1750 hp v16 engine, it was built in the later 50's don't know model for sure, seen that it had SD8# in cab so not sure thats the model number....can count how many cars you have on behind when you take off was pulling 35 loaded grain cars.
0
-
sounds like a good day. 0 -
Rode on one when I was a kid and it was a great experience. Would love to ride one today.
Sounds fun, glad you enjoyed it.0 -
I rode this locomotive in Canada 
0 -
think after looking on the net that it is an SD9 originally come from Southern Pacific Rail Road 0 -
[8D] Did he let you toot the whistle? [8D] [:)] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
Rode on one when I was a kid and it was a great experience. Would love to ride one today.
Sounds fun, glad you enjoyed it.
With all your money, just buy one. [:D][:o)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by freemind
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
Rode on one when I was a kid and it was a great experience. Would love to ride one today.
Sounds fun, glad you enjoyed it.
With all your money, just buy one. [:D][:o)]
I couldn't afford to paint the graffiti on the side...0 -
Is that a diesel electric loco? 0 -
35 loaded cars at 1750hp is very good. I think about 35 was my best with a GP7, about 2000HP with a small uphill grade before the pit. It was a slow pull and dry tracks.
Your story brought a smile to my face. It is fun operating a train. I think I had the fortune of blowing the horn on 4 different ones. All in a yard. I never was able to go fast. A couple of SW1000's and GP's,
Porta-potty is in the nose.
Driving it while having a stack fire at night is loads of fun. Had one of those at Mound City (down by Cario) in '95.0 -
0
-
Sounds pretty neat. I've never been on one before. 0 -
my Dad and I hopped a freight once in Oxford and rode to Roxboro...about 30 miles...I was probably 7 or 8 and remember every second!
My and my chillys ride the amtrack to Charlotte 2-3 times a year.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
Trains & farmers don't mix!
LOL!!
Don't you love working at a grain facility!
Got Guns?0 -
MY JOB
It's not my job to run this train;
The whistle I can't blow.
It's not my place to say how far
The train's allowed to go.
It's not my job to shoot off steam
Nor even clang the bell.
But let the damn thing
Jump the track . . .
and see who catches Hell!0 -
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
quote:Originally posted by freemind
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
Rode on one when I was a kid and it was a great experience. Would love to ride one today.
Sounds fun, glad you enjoyed it.
With all your money, just buy one. [:D][:o)]
I couldn't afford to paint the graffiti on the side...
...but he knows people he could hire to paint the graffiti for him. [;)]0 -
Capt, somebody forget to move the derail?....the middle photo 0 -
Used to do some work on the engines. EMDs and ALCOs. 2 stroke diesels. 0 -
Whem I was a lad the train ran past our house every day.
It was an old coal-fired steam engine, pulling from 90 to 110 cars full of logs.
When they replaced it with deisel in the late 50's, it took 2 deisel engines to move the same number of cars.
Anybody have an idea as to the horsepower of those old steamers?
[^]barto[^]0 -
I have actually operated a locomotive. A long time ago, I worked for the Weyerhaeusr Corp. as a brakeman on the engine that worked the yard of the treating plant. On slow nights, the engineer would sometimes let me run the engine, and when he was on vacation, I got to operate the engine with a trainee brakeman. It was enormously powerful. Operating the train brake took some getting used to.
Our engine was made by General Motors and was a 1953 model. I don't remember how many cylinders the diesel engine had, but it was huge. It had inspection/repair plates on the side. If you had a cylinder that lost compression, you could just open the plate, unbolt the connecting rod from the crank, shove the piston up, pin her in place, and keep going.0 -
I would occasionally run the train, underground hauling lead ore. I have no idea what hp the deisel motor had, but enough to pull about 14 cars (approx 20ft. long ea.) plenty well...fairly small loco's.
A lot of moisture in spots, and had to sand the track for traction. The "chute puller" rode shotgun and dumped bags of sand down a funnel that was tubed down im front of the drive wheels.0 -
i love the steam locomotives and was lucky when young, my uncle was an engineer and i rode with him many times. those steamers were measured in tractive effort instead of horse power, but converted his was roughly 3600hp. the diesels that replaced them were 1500 hp roughly[;)] 0
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
21 comments