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Back about 1957, fall or winter, I was working at a plant that got regular rail shipments. By this time Union Pacific had mostly switched to diesel. Early one morning, I was working the midnight to 8:00 a.m. shift, a steamer brought some cars. I went to the door to watch.

As the engine came up It stopped, the engineer stuck his head out, "We're going back down the track a mile to pick up some cars, want to ride along?" I jumped at the offer and scurried into the cab. He moved onto the main line and backed slowly.

At the slow speed, the jarring was bone crushing. It was extremely hot, particularly when the fireman would open the fire door to throw another shovel of coal.

Has anyone else had this experience? What is the ride like at higher speeds?
 
WTF?
Johnny is a foamer?

I thought this was trysail's gig. I need to pay better attention to the thread starters, no matter how old. Not you Johnny, the thread.

Anywho, I guess y'all are foamers.
 
Charles36 said:
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At the slow speed, the jarring was bone crushing. It was extremely hot, particularly when the fireman would open the fire door to throw another shovel of coal.

Has anyone else had this experience? What is the ride like at higher speeds?
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When I was young one of our family friends was an engine driver on the route from London to Southend. He took me on a footplate ride on a steam tank engine to Southend and back. My difficulty was keeping out of the way of the fireman. The operating cab of a tank engine was very small for two adults and a child.

Several local preserved steam railways will provide footplate rides for a couple of people for a substantial fee. Most do it once and say 'never again!'.

But most UK rail tracks are much smoother than US ones. The preserved railways tend to have better track beds now than the line ever had when in normal service because of teams of unpaid volunteer track maintenance crews.
 
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trysail said:



The reason my electricity costs 9½ ¢/kWh
(i.e., less than half of what electricity costs in Governor Moonbeam's California):





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Is that a Kansas City South locomotive? One like that passes through the tracks in front of my house once or twice a day.

I used to love trains, but now that I live where they pass through so many times daily, the novelty has worn out its' welcome.
 


https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/02/05/ap_18035705067121_wide-6a9b30abdf03bd75fb0b2f50027e92390ee6944b-s800-c85.jpg

The Amtrak locomotive is a General Electric-manufactured P42DC (Genesis) No. 47 lying on its side. I can't tell with
certainty what the CSX locomotives are. They're either GE Dash 9s or GE ES44ACs. It's no wonder the Amtrak engineers
died. Hitting 2 × 216 tons of stationary locomotive plus a drag at speed is likely to have that result.


https://www.npr.org/2018/02/05/583455540/ntsb-looks-at-disabled-signals-locked-switch-in-latest-deadly-amtrak-crash

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