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Post by peterliddell on Sept 14, 2012 15:50:06 GMT -5
Hmm, if you did it's well hidden, I've re checked all the AIM Dc-10s released, didn't see it? Got a file name?
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Post by peterliddell on Sept 14, 2012 17:15:09 GMT -5
Thank ye!
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Post by fitch on Sept 15, 2012 0:30:35 GMT -5
I am at work, ao I will look when I get home. I will take care of it, one way or another. Aren't you prohibited from having your phone at work, by federal law?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2012 13:20:48 GMT -5
You're a locomotive driver? Very cool!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2012 9:17:17 GMT -5
Yes, I work for the CN in Stevens Point, WI. Shunting or also freight hauls?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2012 8:42:29 GMT -5
Yeah, that's what the USA are famous for, train-wise.
I think all you get here at best is 1500 ft and 1200 tons or so. Still numbingly long when empty (and thus at their loudest) though.
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Post by fitch on Sept 17, 2012 16:49:23 GMT -5
Quite honestly, if I came to a Crossing and a trains engineer was standing beside his Loco playing an Electric Guitar, Epically Awesome would be the only way to describe it.
BTW: Do you have a preferred locomotive? Do you really get to run more then a few? All we see here in town are your typical road engines, Dash 8's and 9's ES44's, SD60's, occasionally we'll get some SD70's. It's always pretty cool when an SD-40 or GP38 rolls through, and being an NS Town, they're usually High Hoods, the GPs mostly, which is doubly cool.
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Post by cgold on Sept 17, 2012 23:32:06 GMT -5
I live in Roanoke, VA... which, as some of you may know, is where Norfolk-Western, now Norfolk and Southern has a huge yard and shops located here. This used to be quite a big thing back in the days of yesteryear... but now, all we see are those big, beautiful, black and white Dash-8's (and sometimes the occasional GP-7,GP-40, or Dash-9 (or a variation or combination of the lot)) carrying 2 miles of coal from West Virginia. I have the utmost respect for the engineers of 20,000+ tonnes of cargo and steel... Talk about responsibility... My hat is off to you men.
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Post by cgold on Sept 18, 2012 9:18:36 GMT -5
I bet that does make things easier on those longer runs along the mid-west... NS probably doesn't do that probably because of the terrain and areas they run through... or they are just breaking even with the $$$... can't exactly afford it yet.
(As interesting as this conversation is, I don't want to "de-rail" the original topic here... I'll stop on the trains here, unless these posts are moved elsewhere.)
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Post by peterliddell on Sept 18, 2012 10:40:44 GMT -5
I hate NS power. We have microwaves and fridges on our power, while the NS doesn't. I guess I should of looked into train driving as a career more. That SD60F (yea one of those full cowl monsters from CN) cab ride as a teen seemed awfully spartan, fridges and microwaves now? Better than being a pilot!
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Post by fitch on Sept 18, 2012 13:18:30 GMT -5
So you have run everything then, wow.
How long have you been an Engineer? How long we're you a Conductor? And have you always been with CN?
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Post by peterliddell on Sept 19, 2012 21:45:43 GMT -5
Those car body SD60s are crap... Don't ask what the trailing units were then Those came from Montreal and made nice black smoke... be glad you don't have to run M420s or HR616s
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Post by fitch on Sept 19, 2012 22:28:31 GMT -5
Smokers ya say.....Gotta be Alcos
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Post by peterliddell on Sept 20, 2012 8:25:56 GMT -5
Both were made in the same plant... Montreal Locomotive works, which Bombardier took over during the M420 period... but they DID have Alco prime movers And now that the thread is totally off(on?) the rails...
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Post by fitch on Sept 20, 2012 12:15:18 GMT -5
Well MLW was an extension of Alco, or rather they built a large number of Alcos under license....
Regardless, How bout them DC-10-30's?
We gonna see a -40? how bout an L-1011?
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