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Weekend Update 4/16/17
« on: April 14, 2017, 07:24:37 PM »
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2017, 08:24:33 PM »
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The unit shown was a storage battery locomotive... No, the small diesel generator was unable to keep the battery bank charged but makes for a great billboard.
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2017, 08:28:29 PM »
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Quote from: jmlaboda on April 14, 2017, 08:24:33 PM
The unit shown was a storage battery locomotive... No, the small diesel generator was unable to keep the battery bank charged but makes for a great billboard.

What is old is new again. Didn't somebody - Long Island RR? - try this concept a century ago with the same result? Actually, I think they recharged off the 3rd rail, but batteries went flat a lot sooner than intended, with multiple instances of needing rescue by a steam engine. Oops.
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2017, 08:43:16 PM »
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I'm showing my age, but the RJ Corman loco made me think of the movie director/producer Roger Corman. He directed/produced, alongside his better movies, a number of 1960's science fiction/horror B-movies. For that, he is mentioned a number of times on Mystery Science Theater 3000.


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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2017, 10:47:01 PM »
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Grabbed my Tardis and traveled back to the local yard.

Caught the Cincinnatian about to depart.







Then I went back to the future to the late '70s and caught a local switcher sorting a cut.









Those covered hoppers are actually old models from late high school that I've just never photographed.  As an experiment, each one's ladders are different and partly inspired by an old article or two by @SAH back in the day.  The first one has thinned ladders and wire grabs.  The second is GMM etched ladder stock.  The third is thinned ladders and thinned grabs.  I sanded away the hideously thick weld seams on the Atlas three-bay car.  Makes it look a whole lot better. It's difficult to tell, but I added more brake details to the cars on the B ends.   And I still need to glue on the etched roofwalks on some of them ... ten plus years later.   :facepalm:
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2017, 11:02:01 PM »
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What is old is new again. Didn't somebody - Long Island RR? - try this concept a century ago with the same result?

A number of railroads tried this sort of contraption to varying degrees of success (or failure).  Even a few motor cars were tried but it is hard to say just how well they fared in the grand scheme of things...

Gotta love the Tardis... and just in time too given the new season premieres tomorrow!!!
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2017, 01:14:02 AM »
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Quote from: jmlaboda on April 14, 2017, 08:24:33 PM
The unit shown was a storage battery locomotive... No, the small diesel generator was unable to keep the battery bank charged but makes for a great billboard.


From what I've heard the idea works in SoCal on the UP, etc. Corman's in Kentucky, which isn't exactly a very progressive thinking place, so maybe progressive ideas don't work there.
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2017, 01:42:43 AM »
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I thought the UP units had three generators and little in the way of batteries.
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2017, 01:44:01 AM »
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From what I've heard the idea works in SoCal on the UP....

Hasn't been in quite a long time and it was on the UP that the first battery fires were experienced in Texas... leading to Rail Power to recall all of their battery powered units.  Many were rebuilt to gen-sets...
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2017, 07:58:29 AM »
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Working on the Oxnard Hotel. looks like the street sweeper is asleep on the job!!




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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2017, 11:09:38 AM »
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Wolf .......... That looks great .
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2017, 11:34:54 AM »
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Just put down roadbed on a another section of layout that will depict an area where the Erie crossed over the B&O in Kent Ohio, where Erie had a large yard. This section of layout will have some Erie light towers that I scratch built years ago there will be a 4 track set of through plate girders and a single track through plate girder crossing the B&O, pictures will be coming as the photograph worthy work happens. Also just received my first order of super trees for my truss bridge module 8).
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2017, 01:24:31 PM »
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Love my new Smart TV - Watching Luke Towan Boulder Creek videos on YOU TUBE - good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjRkUtHQ774mTg1vrQ6uA5A
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2017, 04:44:44 PM »
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Quote from: up1950s on April 15, 2017, 11:09:38 AM
Wolf .......... That looks great .

Thank you, Richie!!
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Re: Weekend Update 4/16/17
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2017, 05:01:34 PM »
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Quote from: sirenwerks on April 15, 2017, 01:14:02 AM
From what I've heard the idea works in SoCal on the UP, etc. Corman's in Kentucky, which isn't exactly a very progressive thinking place, so maybe progressive ideas don't work there.

I thought most of what UP had in California were gensets. Anyway, you may be onto something. From experience owning and driving an early-ish electric car, with that radical a change in the power management you have to adjust your operating expectations. Simply dropping a vestigial generator-battery-traction arrangement into an operation formerly handled by conventional large generator-traction without adjusting procedures will not work. It could be that UP's operations managers understood the limitations and modified the workflow to compensate.
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