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The Alabama & Southeastern RR WIP Thread (Large Screenies)
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Southern1581
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A&SE SD42-3 7183 led northbound empty coal train C584 into Autumnville today with a very pleasant foreign power surprise.
Southern1581
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I would absolutely kill to get some response from you guys. Aside from me, NSguy, and wannabe posting replies/updates, and the extremely rare person that'll drops by to tell us we're doing well, this is a seriously dead thread. What should we do to keep this thing alive????
While I try to figure that out, here's a shot of the basically finished slug.
While I try to figure that out, here's a shot of the basically finished slug.
bentrain14
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Great looking stub there. Call it the A&SE CFS (S for Stubby
Southern1581
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SL - Slug. F-7 - We put remnants of the original unit name in the designation occasionally. B - 4 axle slug. Thanks for your input though. I have exams all next week, so I get out early (albeit I have to study my *** off), so hopefully the mother/slug combo will be done this week. Then I just have to finish that baking layer.
AMTRAKwannabe
Norfolk & Western Lives
Southern1581
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I am thoroughly enjoying JR's Christmas release.
Today I had to sort out yet another botched switch job by wannabe. He was supposed to switch the Hershey's Plant and take some cars to the CSX interchange. Basically he dumped the CSX interchange cars wherever he could find room in the Hershey's spurs. I had a heck of a time fixing that mess. Today's power for the fix was a pair of NS GP38-2's. NS units are pretty rare around this part of the Alabama Division.
Today I had to sort out yet another botched switch job by wannabe. He was supposed to switch the Hershey's Plant and take some cars to the CSX interchange. Basically he dumped the CSX interchange cars wherever he could find room in the Hershey's spurs. I had a heck of a time fixing that mess. Today's power for the fix was a pair of NS GP38-2's. NS units are pretty rare around this part of the Alabama Division.
AMTRAKwannabe
Norfolk & Western Lives
I was supposed to do the Hershey switch? I was at the doctor for my 92 day, uh, I mean yearly visit :hehe:
Southern1581
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Oh gawd... Has Ben been here recently?
bentrain14
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Ive been out with a bad case of Lag. Gonna get surgery done soon on my windomis sevenus. Doc says it isnt too bad but it may get worse over time so he said its best to get it over with now.
Southern1581
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SOMEBODY has been causing trouble around here. First, I had to fix that gigantic switching botch at the Hershey plant that normally only one of you two could possibly create, and I got call an hour ago saying that a trestle had been set on fire. Then shrapnel almost find its way into my office after someone blew up a U18B. Not your typical GE super smoky with a side of flames blow up, but a "someone filled the engine room with explosives then lit the fuel tank on fire" explosion. Literally decimated an old storage complex and spur...easily 200 yds from my office! Then I get a report of someone destroying a small dam flooding half the Squirrel Creek Branch Line. Then a yard crew told me that someone had de-Ben-proofed the yard switcher, A&SE GP40X 4044. I spent a lot of time trying to keep Ben out of that thing! Someone also knocked a light pole over on my car. Finally, someone pulled off wrecking 3 trains in roughly 15 minutes. The first clogged up tunnel 5 on Cheaha Pass, the second got destroyed by number one, and the third found a way past the concrete wall I put up on the Summit Yard drill track and took a lovely drop off the side of a mountain.
Needless to say I'm pissed. As soon as I find out who did all this I'm kicking their ***.
Needless to say I'm pissed. As soon as I find out who did all this I'm kicking their ***.
cascaderailroad
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Years ago the radio cracked to life at 3:00 AM, I head: "STOP STOP STOP EMERGENCY STOP STOP STOP", and in the distance there was heard an awful calamity ... Then moments later: "Hey Carknocker, did you used to have a brown car, parked down by the tracks" ?
When I arrived, the Foreman said: "OMG You shoulda' heard it, I thought the world was coming to an end, it was like an earthquake, sounded like a bomb went off, I thought they were coming right on through the back of the shop wall, I ran for my life, Wham ... I fell outa' my chair, and hit my head on the wall, and fell so hard that I think I broke my butt" !
My car was OK, but just a dozen feet away, while the midnight crew was shoving a long consist back into the yard, several dozen empty TTX flatcars, had picked a switch, and gone down two separate parallel tracks. The rails were twisted up 15' in the air, bent up like pretzels. TTX flatcars were everywhere, sticking up 15' in the air, in a climb over, zig zag, derailment.
Once they shoved a consist of G38 and G39 CR iron ore gennies down a two bit RR yard track ... When they derailed, there were several dozen of them all twisted up in an awful mess !
When I arrived, the Foreman said: "OMG You shoulda' heard it, I thought the world was coming to an end, it was like an earthquake, sounded like a bomb went off, I thought they were coming right on through the back of the shop wall, I ran for my life, Wham ... I fell outa' my chair, and hit my head on the wall, and fell so hard that I think I broke my butt" !
My car was OK, but just a dozen feet away, while the midnight crew was shoving a long consist back into the yard, several dozen empty TTX flatcars, had picked a switch, and gone down two separate parallel tracks. The rails were twisted up 15' in the air, bent up like pretzels. TTX flatcars were everywhere, sticking up 15' in the air, in a climb over, zig zag, derailment.
Once they shoved a consist of G38 and G39 CR iron ore gennies down a two bit RR yard track ... When they derailed, there were several dozen of them all twisted up in an awful mess !
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Southern1581
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Wow... Well, they finally caught the guy causing this crap...sort of.
Firstly, it was two people, a guy and a girl (which would explain the mountain of used condoms they put in my car prior to putting the streetlight on top of it), and secondly, we caught them in the act, trying to set a tank car on fire, we're still chasing them down. They won't run for long though (I'll show you why in a sec).
Firstly, it was two people, a guy and a girl (which would explain the mountain of used condoms they put in my car prior to putting the streetlight on top of it), and secondly, we caught them in the act, trying to set a tank car on fire, we're still chasing them down. They won't run for long though (I'll show you why in a sec).
Southern1581
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Mwahahahahaha!!!!!! You can't run OR hide *******!!!!!
Like my F-15's?!? That's right! I know people!
Like my F-15's?!? That's right! I know people!
bentrain14
does not make bogies
Im still recovering from when my work office was bombed a few weeks ago because of you. All i did was drop a GEVo on your head.
Southern1581
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I don't have any bombers...that was someone else, I haven't gotten my revenge yet...
luvintrainz
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hey Southern, sorry to go COMPLETELY off topic, but can you clear some space in your inbox?
Southern1581
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Can't get any more off topic than we already are... Inbox is clear.
AMTRAKwannabe
Norfolk & Western Lives
Hey! Someone just dropped a bomb on the Greenwood yard! Looked like two F-15's... judging by the ruble, shot em down with my tank...