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- Thread starter Klinger
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legolistic
also a rubiks cube fan
Grab a Shovel.
"FAIL."
cascaderailroad
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OHH MAN !
We used to have CR ore cars G38 & G39, which were real "6 Hole Becky's". They would load them up, and shunt them back and forth, and you would see iron ore taconite pellets just pouring out of the moving trains. Our job was to oil the friction bearing, that were not for interchange, and were only legal for CR system use up to the year 2005. And to shove pieces of rotten RR tie and straw in the rusted out ore car side sheets, as the "Polyethene Foaming" quick fix program that some CR bigwig stewnod thought up, failed miserably.
CR had an outside contractor who would regularly come in with a huge noisy "Vac U Suck" truck to vacuum up the tons, and tons of spilt taconite pellets.
We also had to clear out the flood of taconite pellets from the yard tracks, when a car sat overnight slowly leaking out all it load onto the track. I used to get filthy dirty, and have to warsh off, using Boraxo, with a garden hose outside, and take off my boots and sox before entering my house.
One head honcho from the HQ actually came down to the shop, and had us slice an air hose partially, so he could teast out his new fangled idear of how to get a train out of Emergency, due to a busted airhose. He proceeded to wrap a entire roll of 3M black electrical tape around the leaking hose, and told us to Charge the airline. It grew bigger and bigger, like a balloon, and I steped far away, saying: "Look out ! She's Gonna Blow" ! And BLAMMMMO, it sounded like an M100 went off.
We used to have CR ore cars G38 & G39, which were real "6 Hole Becky's". They would load them up, and shunt them back and forth, and you would see iron ore taconite pellets just pouring out of the moving trains. Our job was to oil the friction bearing, that were not for interchange, and were only legal for CR system use up to the year 2005. And to shove pieces of rotten RR tie and straw in the rusted out ore car side sheets, as the "Polyethene Foaming" quick fix program that some CR bigwig stewnod thought up, failed miserably.
CR had an outside contractor who would regularly come in with a huge noisy "Vac U Suck" truck to vacuum up the tons, and tons of spilt taconite pellets.
We also had to clear out the flood of taconite pellets from the yard tracks, when a car sat overnight slowly leaking out all it load onto the track. I used to get filthy dirty, and have to warsh off, using Boraxo, with a garden hose outside, and take off my boots and sox before entering my house.
One head honcho from the HQ actually came down to the shop, and had us slice an air hose partially, so he could teast out his new fangled idear of how to get a train out of Emergency, due to a busted airhose. He proceeded to wrap a entire roll of 3M black electrical tape around the leaking hose, and told us to Charge the airline. It grew bigger and bigger, like a balloon, and I steped far away, saying: "Look out ! She's Gonna Blow" ! And BLAMMMMO, it sounded like an M100 went off.
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magickmaker
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Why am I suddenly reminded of that old Thomas Episode where Percy is shunting under the coal loader, only to end up buried in the stuff himself?
tommylee3010
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LOL me to, that is quite a misshap
Klinger, why did you let that happen
But seriously, wow, Sure that ain't a picture From the Penn Central years?
Penn Central?!? Why that's insulting.:hehe:
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