Well i was born and raised in Poland, so my name is Maciek (try:Mah-chek) not sure how to write this for easy pronunciation.Karl - You almost made my heart go into Afib again with that auto insurance! That is even higher than CA. rates! Happy with the explanation. Nice photo of the caboose there!
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You have to give me a short handle - say like Bubba .... Louie ... Sam!
I would like to comment to you, but , I'm sorry, I cannot pronounce your name there - let alone spell it?
Really like the photos you have put up for us.
@NYC_George Here's my daily driver. I gave all the good ones to my son.I always thought Billy Gibbons used a Gibson SG. Like my guitar. I was watching ACDC last night on AXS TV and their lead guitarist (I forgot his name) use a SG.
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Whatever the party in power can screw you out of. Triple that if you live in Kalifornia.Would someone please explain, PM or whatever, just exactly what
PAY MY FAIR SHARE' is?
LOL -- You got me there - I'll go with Bubba!Well i was born and raised in Poland, so my name is Maciek (try:Mah-chek) not sure how to write this for easy pronouceation.
We could do an Americanism, and call him MacLOL -- You got me there - I'll go with Bubba!
No, seriously - welcome to the forum and I will try to remember Maciek - thanks.
My next door neighbor has a g-son named Malick (my spelling).
Funny because i reffer to WalMart as "Wally World"We could do an Americanism, and call him Mac
Americans love to shorten big words.
Except for WalMart... there is a segment of the population that refers to it as "WalMarts" - I always ask my sister (when she says she's at WalMarts) how many can she visit at once? Are they stacked? Next to each other? Or did she clone herself?
Truckdad my first real guitar was a Gibson SG that I bought in 1967. I ended up giving that to my cousin after my band years were over. I bought the SG I have now for $900.00 about 4 years ago. I got use to the wider neck SG's have then fender's guitars. I talked to my wife about moving to FL today. If we ever move, I'll be spending more time with my guitar then model railroading because of the space a model RR requires.Here's my daily driver. I gave all the good ones to my son.
It’s been on display since the 80s but the still have a couple that saw work on Donner last winterDave, is that Espee rotary retired? Or is it just stored, or on loan until Winter?
There is another preserved SP oil-fired steamer in the park in Monterey CA. The same park which has the lake with the paddle boats.Something I saw at the UP Roseville yard this morning. View attachment 170374View attachment 170375
Here's an even earlier version. In this instance, the radio gear filled a dedicated boxcar-sized piece of rolling stock:Ok, the answer to the quiz is "DPU," as in today's Distributed Power Units. Typically spliced mid-train, and with a single unit or two pushing at the end. DPU's are more common in the west, and are almost a fixture on long and heavy trains.
The EMD dash two's, like these SD40-2 snoots were the first line to sport "plug-and-play" circuit boards for various locomotive functions, which reduced maintanence costs and increased up-time. The multi-unit remote control system which came into use then was a rudimentary form of "Locotrol," and while the circuit board systems were the new norm, Locotrol still took up enough space that the short hoods were extended to become the snoots. Not exactly laptop PC size, nor even floor standing PC size...then.
I don't think they still sported any vacuum tubes, but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they actually did.
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This is Willie's PM answer to me in its entirety, and you'll note he did not give away the game--the answer is in his first sentence:
ATSF had 40 SD40-2's with the 123" snoot noses that housed "Locotrol" equipment, an early forerunner of DPU systems. The #'s were 5020-5027 (delivered in 1977), and 5109-5140 (delivered in 1980). Even #'s were master units and odd #'s were slave units. Thus #5128 (which is one of my pictures re-posted) is a master unit. Some sources erroneously say that they were 118", but that was true only for SP and SSW units. All ATSF units were 123". A normal SD40-2 was 88".
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My only (very small) quibble with Willie's normal short hood length was that some very early SD40-2s--specifically the D&RGWs SD40T-2s (and probably some others too)--were delivered with 81" noses, but 88" did later become standard, quite true. Rio Grande never did buy any snoots themselves.
D&RGW did have a somewhat closer-than-normal experimental relationship with SP, which dated all the way to the purchase of their three first generation Krauss-Maffei units, or even further, but those were sold to SP after only two or three years. Whether Rio Grande ever borrowed some of SP's snoots to see how well they worked for them is an open question for me, although I'm sure someone knows.
UP also employed snoots and Locotrol to some degree, and I do not know how many units they tried and then kept as Locotrol sets or not, but I have the idea the experiment on UP was somewhat short-lived. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I THINK DPU's today are still described as sporting Locotrol, but it's a much more compact system now, I'm sure. For all I know all the units distributed in a train today can be controlled with a $5 app you can buy at the Apple or Google store. Nothing would surprise me, although security would obviously be a problem now too. It wasn't much back then. I imagine Ken would know.
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I'll come up with another brain-teaser at some point, and in the mean time feel free to toss up one of your own.
Wow! That one MIGHT have used vacuum tubes. There would be plenty of space anyway.Here's an even earlier version. In this instance, the radio gear filled a dedicated boxcar-sized piece of rolling stock:
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We refer to Walmart as never go in there!We could do an Americanism, and call him Mac
Americans love to shorten big words.
Except for WalMart... there is a segment of the population that refers to it as "WalMarts" - I always ask my sister (when she says she's at WalMarts) how many can she visit at once? Are they stacked? Next to each other? Or did she clone herself?
HUH?This is not meant to be political.
Would someone please explain, PM or whatever, just exactly what
PAY MY FAIR SHARE' is?
I keep hearing this said and I cannot figure out what My Fair Share is?
Now before you gasp at the insurance, remember there is an 18 almost 19 year old on our policy with 3 fully insured vehicles, all 4wd. The 4th vehicle , my little red "toy" only cost $300.00 a year to insure through Hagerty, with a 2,000 mile cap on miles and only me and the wife to drive it. Once he's done college and working, he can get his own insurance.