It is still redirecting me to the log in page.

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It is still redirecting me to the log in page.

Oh.

Well, I'll have some better ones up on my Flickr soon.

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David
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Thanks David, I will wait for those.

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Okay, the pics are up at Flickr. 15 new ones from this Sunday.

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David
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It's a Hyundai...

It's also ugly.

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David
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So my best friend, who is now a Pullman Conductor for Pullman Rail Journeys, left Chicago last night on the back of Amtrak's City of New Orleans. They got to Memphis about 20 minutes early. Everything's fine.

This morning, he was sitting in the lounge area and the brakes went into emergency. He had his radio on and heard that they hit a tree that fell across the track. After a lot of messing around, cutting out most of the brakes on the train, they proceeded very slowly (and with the Amtrak conductor there in the Pullman car to apply the handbrake if necessary) to the next station, about 2 miles away, where a CN crew came out with some tools to fix the brake lines which had been damaged on one of the Amtrak cars.

So they get going again, and after a while, he smells really strong brake shoe smoke. He looks out the Dutch door and sees smoke coming from the same Amtrak car. He's about to get on the radio and report it to the conductor when the hotbox detector goes off. They go into emergency again. This time, the conductors have to crawl around under the car cutting out just its brakes. By this time, their uniforms are in pretty bad shape.

So once again, he's sitting down, relaxing, on the final stretch to Hammond and New Orleans, when they go into emergency again. This time his radio was off, but he turned it on quick. The conductor came along inspecting the whole train and told him they hit a truck. It turned out they hit a trailer being pulled by a pickup truck. This damaged a brake cylinder on the engine and the engineer couldn't read his air pressure. I'm not sure what they did about that, but they finally made it to NO. He stayed on the train as it went through the inspection building. They had a huge pile of brake shoes they had replaced, including 8 from his 2 cars.

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David
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Sorry if this sounds stupid but
does CN down there mean Canadian
National like it does up here?

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Sorry if this sounds stupid but
does CN down there mean Canadian
National like it does up here?

Oh yeah. CN is big down there, particularly in the mid-west and around Chicago.

Today Chicago, tomorrow THE WORLD.

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Sorry if this sounds stupid but
does CN down there mean Canadian
National like it does up here?

Oh yeah. CN is big down there, particularly in the mid-west and around Chicago.

Today Chicago, tomorrow THE WORLD.

They had always owned the Grand Trunk Western, by which they reached Chicago, and Duluth Winnipeg & Pacific (which got them into northern Minnesota). Relatively recently, they bought the Illinois Central (Omaha, St. Louis, and New Orleans), Wisconsin Central (Chicago to the Twin Cities and northern Wisconsin), Elgin Joliet & Eastern (outer beltway around Chicago, to connect all the various lines), and Duluth Missabe & Iron Range (connects WC to DWP).

In the 1980s and 90s, UP was known to railfans as Borgrail, but that name now applies to CN.

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David
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They had always owned the Grand Trunk Western, by which they reached Chicago, and Duluth Winnipeg & Pacific (which got them into northern Minnesota). Relatively recently, they bought the Illinois Central (Omaha, St. Louis, and New Orleans), Wisconsin Central (Chicago to the Twin Cities and northern Wisconsin), Elgin Joliet & Eastern (outer beltway around Chicago, to connect all the various lines), and Duluth Missabe & Iron Range (connects WC to DWP).

In the 1980s and 90s, UP was known to railfans as Borgrail, but that name now applies to CN.

I know that the SOO is owned by either CN or CP and I knew about the GTW, though I didn't know about the other dwarfs...

SOO was always the US subsidiary of CP. (They now have a second one in corporate parallel, the Dakota Minnesota & Eastern.)

Ironically, the original SOO from Chicago to various points just beyond the borders of Wisconsin was spun off as the Wisconsin Central after SOO bought the Milwaukee Road out of bankruptcy. That is the WC that was bought by CN, so now CN owns what was once CP's route to Chicago from west of the Great Lakes.

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David
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I don't know who Grandpa Bill is, but his layout is nicely detailed.

I'm guessing the kid used a GoPro camera.

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David
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Gee what a great Granddad some kid has,
it must have been a lot of fun putting
that outfit together. Did you notice what
looked like an old 1950s era Ford flathead?
It was a black car at the start of the clip,
also there was a great looking woody half
way through.

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Gee what a great Granddad some kid has,
it must have been a lot of fun putting
that outfit together. Did you notice what
looked like an old 1950s era Ford flathead?
It was a black car at the start of the clip,
also there was a great looking woody half
way through.

Got a Forbidden on that picture, Ian.

I agree that it's HO scale. A long time ago, Lionel marketed a video kit that included a camera in the nose of a dummy engine. It transmitted the video through the rails to a base unit that you connected to a TV. It didn't work very well, and went through its 9V battery in about 9 minutes. A GoPro camera is just the right size to have made this video, plus the lens is to the left of center which also corresponds to this video. It's also the right price for a teenager with a job and no expenses to own one.

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David
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Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Gee what a great Granddad some kid has,
it must have been a lot of fun putting
that outfit together. Did you notice what
looked like an old 1950s era Ford flathead?
It was a black car at the start of the clip,
also there was a great looking woody half
way through.

I agree that it's HO scale. A long time ago, Lionel marketed a video kit that included a camera in the nose of a dummy engine. It transmitted the video through the rails to a base unit that you connected to a TV. It didn't work very well, and went through its 9V battery in about 9 minutes. A GoPro camera is just the right size to have made this video, plus the lens is to the left of center which also corresponds to this video. It's also the right price for a teenager with a job and no expenses to own one.

And the mountains are hollow. ;)

They usually are on model railroads. At least his are clean inside.

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David
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Got a Forbidden on that picture, Ian.

Vic can you see the woody pix?

Ok, here it is:


See Rob, I should have taken my own advice!

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I see it now too.

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David
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I don't know who Grandpa Bill is, but his layout is nicely detailed.

I'm guessing the kid used a GoPro camera.

I was so awed by that video, I watched it twice and probbaly will a few more times too. That is one heck of a layout. And we didnt get to see the whole thing either. Anyone notice the boxcar laying on its side in one of the mountains?

Im guessing its modeled about mid 50's maybe very early 60's

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Old James

http://screen.yahoo.com/trending-now/trending-redditor-posts-pov-video-110000374.html

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Thanks for the link Gary. The man has a passion for trains. Id like to know the actual size of that layout. it looks like at least two big rooms.

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Old James

Yes, thanks for that 2nd link, Gary.

I agree that it's probably set in the 50s. That's a very popular era for modelers, because it allows such a wide range of equipment, both steam and diesel engines and older cars that aren't legal for interchange in the modern world. (But it does preclude newer types, if you're faithful to your era.)

I'm thinking the layout probably takes up most of what was an unfinished basement.

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David
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