Working rail roads and their tracks.

[spitter]

Reminds me of a line from the Blues Brothers movie {Jake : How often does that train go buy? Elwood : so often you'll never her it}

 

[Williy]

Amazon has semi's that drive themselves no
truck driver. Read that semi truck drivers are
going to be a thing of the past. In the bigger cities
they have vehicles no drivers to deliver product.
looks like we will have to put the big wheels on the back wheels so we will always be going down hill for better gas mileage??? Back in the 70's joke was lots of people taking their sail boats to the lake this guy
had a arab friend with him said you guys sure must
have a very bad gas shortage with all the sail boats
pushing their cars.

willy

 

[Williy]

;one thing about Mr Choo Choo he always leaves his
tracks behind
Worked on a tie gang Chicago & NorthWestern they
sold to Canadian National RailRoad

willy

 

[ArlyA]

;one thing about Mr Choo Choo he always leaves his
tracks behind
Worked on a tie gang Chicago & NorthWestern they
sold to Canadian National RailRoad

willy

Where did you do that Willy?? I worked on a BNSF main line in SW South Dakota for a while and got to know some of the guys on the steel gang lying the 2nd line of ribbon there.

 

[Hay Dude]

While making hay today, East Penn hauled freight by us

 

[MossRoad]

When my wife and I were dating, we'd go sit in a local park at night and listen to music and talk about stuff (that's my story and I'm sticking to it). On wet rainy nights, the South Shore electric train would come hauling past at 70+mph. They were NOT welded tracks, and that thing would clickety-clack down the tracks bouncing the pantograph on the overhead wire and throw these HUGE blue arc fireballs one after the other. It was quite impressive.

That train was so rough riding back then, the local nickname was The Vomit Comet.

 

[5030]

You mean you could see them through the fogged up windows???

 

[MossRoad]

You mean you could see them through the fogged up windows???

We couldn't afford windows.

 

[5030]

While making hay today, East Penn hauled freight by us

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Had to look twice, not at the train but the bailer. Not mine though. I don't have the net storage on the back. Won't be here too much longer, I have a Kubota on order.

 

[caver]

On the live railcam (youtube) at Kearney Nebraska they used to have these crossing horns that were automatically triggered. Sometimes for no apparent reason. I heard the horn was directed at traffic and not as loud as a train horn. I noticed recently they have been removed and someone said it was some time back.