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just a question, theoretically, how is the Thrall-40 controlling the pusher or is it just a place for the crew to ride when shoving (but w/ brake stand as well as horns + bell?) or is it an actual control cab controlling the pusher. If there is a control stand is the Thrall-40 Mu-ed through the t...

Not too bad. It's a good idea. A RR that would use one of those would be for captive service, back and forth. I highly doubt that a RR would use the coal car/gondola like what you have as a cab control car as the typical way a car like yours is unloaded is with a dumper. A cab-control-coal car wo...

I wish Alex was alive to see this. Poor kid. I was bullied, I am glad I was able to find friends my age as well as on the local shortline. It really helped me get past bullying as well as not having a dad (he died when I was 11). I hope that we as railfans pull together and some of us older railf...

wow it's a full sized atlas turntable!!! ;)

@EMDSD14R yeah I almost forgot about the trucks! Well EMD (GMD actually) used an SD40 Frame with GP mechanicals and Trucks to make the GP40TC (the extra room on the frame was used for a Genset for the head end power (I think it was a small Detroit or Cummins diesel). The end of the GP40TC Hood wa...

Lady didn't look too old, she looked more like my college art professor who is a burn-out hippy (btw I am not an Art major, I took the class to meet a requirement for graduation).

@greenwich1754 In a way Shemp "handed" the third stoog slot to Curly and when Curly had his stroke Shemp came back to help Larry and Moe on the condition that he would be there until such time as Curly were well enough to work again. Unfortunatly Curly passed away followed soon after by Shemp.

@Abcdgify they were in Martha's Vinyard not Mattapan. One of the few black families to show up on Martha's Vinyard are the Obama's on vacation.

Nice!!!

The kid racing the train on his bike is damn lucky he didn't wipe out as he wouldn't have had a chance!

too bad they are still there

Damn!!! That's one big train car!!!

@swhiteism This version of the Chipmunks was distinctly 1980's, there was an earlier chipmunks from the 60's which I believe was called the "Alvin Show."

they "sound" pretty good, almost like they had sound!!!

@EMDSD14R I have no idea if they were affiliated but it looks like the one I saw last night!

Since you have a thing for PRR Electrics, why not try and build the "GG-1 Snow-blower-melter" that Penn Central and Amtrak used in Wilmington. It was built out of 1/2 a GG1. The GG-1 was cut in half and...

@enzocerusico, my point is these kids will live and th

@michael1618034 Yes I have heard of rights but as a teacher maybe she should be behaving more professionally by being in the classroom not at a protest. I know more about rights that you will ever know and have seen the effects of where people had no rights, so the lady had her hair pulled big de...

Great Song By Creedence!

Now for all you people who Hijacked this thread to turn it into a Vietnam debate. I'd have to say we (The USA) won the battles but lost the war.

@timosha21 They're not "Yellow." They're Orange, Historic color of the PCC's + other equipment of the MTA + Boston Elevated Railway. The Trolley's were Green due to one of the Trolley lines going to the "Arborway" (Trees are Green), the Blue Line Blue because it went by the Aquarium and along the...

@mmandmcb14 I knew that, I was talking about when they were on the Roadrailer Trains. Thanks for the F40 #'s.