Screenshot of the Week: 7/2/2012 to 7/9/2012 (Warning: potential for large shots)

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Retro00064

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This week's theme: Maintenance of way (suggested by Rail4Pete).

One screenshot allowed per entrant. Screenshots must adhere to the theme and the Code of Conduct.

Submission closes on July 9 at 12:00 a. m. UTC (July 8 at 8:00 p. m. here in the eastern U. S.), after which point voting will begin.

Next week will have no theme.

Please feel free to PM me with suggestions for themes, etc. They are much appreciated!

Good luck. :)

Regards,

Zachary.
 
The ‘Swiss Army Knife’ for maintenance of way

The Jordan Spreader, a combination spreader-ditcher, is or was used on just about every railroad in
North America. What it lacks in beauty, it more than makes up for in its versatility. Various plows,
wings and blades are used to dig ditches, trim brush, build banks, distribute gravel, and plow snow.
The first ones were built in the 1890s. The most recent was built in 2000 for snow plowing on the
Alaskan Railroad.

Over the years several models were designed and built including the "Knuckle Braced", "Standard" series,
"Type A" series (introduced in 1923), "Type J" series (introduced in 1955), and "Road Master series
(in production until the late 1960's).

Recently bnsf50 has uploaded three assets of the "Type J" series to the DLS: a Southern Pacific
(kuid2:39134:100422:1) and CP Rail (kuid2:39134:100422:1) with a front-end high plow for snow
removal, and a CP Rail (kuid2:39134:100428:2) without the front-end high plow, used for build banks
and distribute gravel.

jordanspreader750.jpg


Here CP Rail 402960 is clearing snow at the eastern end of the Shaughnessy Viaduct (also a bnsf50 asset
kuid:39134:100397 and kuid:39134:100398) in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
The Type J has a high glassed-in cab at the front for optimum visibility by the separate crew that operates
the unpowered spreader. The spreader is usually powered by two locomotives, one facing forward and one
facing backward, shoving from the rear.

For more on the Jordan Spreader visit:

http://www.doug56.net/MBC_2010_Featured_Topics/

Cayden
 
Just a question: Retro, why did santefebuff stop being screenshot of the week manager, and you become it.
 
boyerm25 said:
Just a question: Retro, why did santefebuff stop being screenshot of the week manager, and you become it.
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The contest has been managed by various people in the past. Someone managing the contest may become too busy or otherwise unable to manage the contest, and so someone else takes over. The management before me (composed of one member managing submissions and the other managing voting) got too busy or whatever back in September 2011, and the contest fell into abandon, so I offered to take over, and here I am.

boyerm25 said:
I mean random people. Why can't I edit my post?
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Best I can tell you is to send Zec Murphy a PM about this. I did so myself back in mid June, but have not received a reply and apparently nothing has been done to resolve the issue.

In the meantime, until this issue is resolved (if ever), if anyone needs to edit his or her post in a Screenshot of the Week thread here in the Competitions forum, feel free to PM me with the desired changes.

Regards,

Zachary.
 
I think It might be because of me. I'm like a thread killer. After I post in a thread, nobody else ever seems to want to past in it. Sorry, Retro:(.
 
Here's another one

Retro00064 said:
Wow, only 2 submissions?
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Hope it just about fits the theme.

The plan was to put in some kind of weed killer vehicle/squad but I’m not sure they were around in the 1950/60s (and I’ve run out of time).

From memory, in small steam loco shed and yard areas where there were no creosoted sleepers (an effective weed suppressant!), they just let the weeds go to seed, dry out and wait for a boiler spark to burn them off.

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boyerm25 said:
I think It might be because of me. I'm like a thread killer. After I post in a thread, nobody else ever seems to want to past in it. Sorry, Retro:(.
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Nonsense. You asked a perfectly good question, nothing wrong that I see. Some themes just aren't as popular, I guess, although I have done this theme before and it received more submissions that time! (Sometimes I kinda wonder if the contest now being located here in the Competitions forum has actually reduced the visibility of the contest a little bit, since the old location, the Screenshots forum, is a very popular forum.)

Regards,

Zachary.
 
boyerm25 said:
Why did the contest move?
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N3V wanted it to be located here, to allow it to be more easily found than in the Screenshots forum (because in that forum, if people didn't keep bumping the Screenshot of the Week threads with submissions or whatnot, it could soon sink below other popular threads), and so that they could directly link to the Competitions forum in the newsletter or whatever to make it easy for people to find the competition.
 
They did indeed have weed sprayers and weed spraying trains during the late steam era Mezzo, so I suggest you put em in and resubmit.

Cheers
Tim
 
Timothetoolman said:
They did indeed have weed sprayers and weed spraying trains during the late steam era Mezzo, so I suggest you put em in and resubmit.

Cheers
Tim
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Hi Tim.

I won’t have time this week (even if I could edit the post!:D).

I threw the entry in because of the low number of submissions this week. I reckon (hope) it’s just a blip. We occasionally see these extremes.

Suffice to say that I shall grit my teeth at the prospect of half votes only (or none!) for being off theme. Meanwhile, those two loco shed employees are working damned hard to tighten off that fish plate!

Cheers
Casper
 
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