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    Teen killed by train in southwest Houston

    I've worked on the rails for more than 25 years and trains can come on you without you knowing it for lots of reasons. You don't necessarily see them, hear them or feel them (the least likely) (Smooth wheels on smooth rail ,especially ribbon rail, should not be creating much vibration and can...
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    Mythbusters: Train Suction

    Haven't seen the episode but having worked with the 3rd rail all my working life I can explain it in three words. It can kill. Messing with it is like Russian Roullete... only the odds are stacked against you. Having seen burnt flesh scraped off the (isolated) 3rd rail and seen the police...
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    Mythbusters: Train Suction

    All trains moving at speed create air turbulence. This would not usually suck you in while the train is passing but there will be something of a vacuum (lowered air pressure) behind the train. If you're on a footplate level platform (as we have here in the UK) an intermodal train with empty...
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    Help choosing a small switcher.....

    Want to confuse everyone? Get a calf unit from an SW cow-calf set and run it as a remote-controlled "zombie" operated by someone on the ground with a control panel like a radio-controlled plane rig. (or he/she can stand on one end). Just a variant on an old Booster F unit. There are models of...
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    Need some covered hopper information please!

    I've seen those open ended "verandah" fridge units in pics from the net. Thanks for the good news that they are way to late for me to need to worry about!:thumb: I've been told by several people that UP in particular were unning reefers that externally looked awful for grime and "weathering"...
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    Need some covered hopper information please!

    I take your points Russ. Especially on the drawgear length. These reefers are some of the few cars that always came ready with the cushion draw gear making them a lot longer in the frame than the body. (This came up somewhere else recently with a question about how close together cars should...
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    Road-over-track bridges - pics please

    Dallas doesn't throw up anything yet, still working on Houston. I've found that website before but there are some good updates and I followed the links. Thanks both. I'm looking for the overpasses from the road angle as well please...
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    What is this engine????

    P2K made them in several road names.
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    Need some covered hopper information please!

    As far as I know the correct way to measure a car for description is to measure the length clear inside the inside of the ends. This means that the important information (how long the load space is) is immediately clear. RR people know that a 50' car will be longer outside. Car width is...
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    10/21 Derailment outside of Pittsburgh

    :thumb: Thanks Brian :thumb: Anyone got any pics of the bridge in normal times or any of the diversions PLEASE train97
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    Road-over-track bridges - pics please

    I am looking to make my urban tracks disappear under a complex of interstate or expressway concrete (or other) overpasses as a variation on the usual tunnel scene break. My scale is H0, era 1980s, location sort of Chicago... but I keep looking at Kansas and the bridge approaches there... I am...
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    What is this engine????

    bounce7 Had to be a BL2 from your word description! bounce7
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    Need some covered hopper information please!

    I think Russ is right about the difference in size but bit out on the lengths. An 85' covered hopper would be enormous... even the plastic pellet cars were't that big... and (with a few exceptions) they are about the biggest covered hoppers around. The P2K 3 bay PS2CD cars are right for what...
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    10/21 Derailment outside of Pittsburgh

    Has the fire gone out yet?
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    10/21 Derailment outside of Pittsburgh

    Any chance of a map or a link to a map please? Cruise control???
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    10/21 Derailment outside of Pittsburgh

    No one hurt... never so bad. We can say "OOPS"! Where are the diversions running?
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    Scenery/landscaping Practice.

    I feel pretty sure that you know that I was using your pic as example and not finding fault. I certainly wish that I was that far advanced and not still pulling stuff out of boxes after moving! May i suggest adding an ordinary tungsten lampor a daylight lamp to your lighting? It would help...
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    All sorts of Bridges

    :thumb: CCT I love that SP bridge :thumb: Anyone else got similar urban/industrial bridges please?
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    Scenery/landscaping Practice.

    Interesting track I'm not sure exactly where to go with this. How much do you really want an honest response to your original question? Okay; so you've guessed it will be negative... at east to start. I'm going to post some notes I made before on ballast in the hints and tips section...
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    New Walthers Products Announced, YAY

    Why post for anything else?bounce7 :p
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