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Anonymous Sat 07 Sep 2024 10:57:59 No.2017281 View View Reply Original Report

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Literally scrapped because of a refrigerator.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Sep 2024 14:50:52 No.2017502 Report

Quoted By: >>2017779

>>2017281
>scrapped because of a refrigerator

?

Anyway, here's this beauty:
>built 1947
>withdrawn 1956
>scrapped 1959

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Sep 2024 20:22:04 No.2017779 Report

Quoted By: >>2017918

>>2017502
>owner spends 2 decades buying various equipment to use on excursion runs
>breaks his back moving refrigerator
>hatches plan to wait out the railyard owners into scrapping it
>sues for large sum of money to fix fucked finances
>court says no money for anybody
>court legally requires railroad to destroy it on sight

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2024 12:23:09 No.2017918 Report

Quoted By: >>2018405

>>2017779
So did he own the loco itself at all? Why did the court ultimately come to that decision?

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Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2024 14:59:52 No.2017932 Report

Quoted By: >>2018203 >>2018406 >>2018786

unreliable handicraft pieces of shit with pneumatic throttles and internal maze of wire and solenoid
but god damn they worked barely 10 years and at least one pair should have been saved

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Anonymous Wed 11 Sep 2024 06:52:43 No.2018064 Report

Quoted By: >>2018203 >>2019182

The only locomotive made by Ingalls Shipbuilding

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Sep 2024 11:52:29 No.2018203 Report

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>>2017932
interesting variant on the bulldog nose front anon
>>2018064
horrifying triple window bulldog, they should've stuck to making ships

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Anonymous Thu 12 Sep 2024 19:22:23 No.2018274 Report

Quoted By: >>2018319 >>2019744 >>2019756

>make the most kino metropolis streamlined loco
>none survived
what the fuck was their problem

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2024 03:16:56 No.2018319 Report

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>>2018274
(((Alfred E. Perlman)))

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2024 21:53:05 No.2018405 Report

Quoted By: >>2018963 >>2020411

>>2017918
I don't think he had anywhere else to store it, and the yard it was in wasn't his property.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2024 21:54:08 No.2018406 Report

Quoted By: >>2018783 >>2019144

>>2017932
I heard each of those big niggers was wired differently, so no one was alike. Imagine that maintenance nightmare.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Sep 2024 20:39:25 No.2018783 Report

Quoted By: >>2018963

>>2018406
every year of the second generation Toyota Supra has a different wiring harness so if you buy any electrical shit used it has to be from the same year

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Sep 2024 21:27:42 No.2018786 Report

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>>2017932
>how many axles should our bogies have?
>"Yes"
I always love those strange designs

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2024 07:46:07 No.2018963 Report

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>>2018405
Ah. Figures. Pity anyway.
>>2018783
Sounds like a dick-move from Toyota.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2024 07:52:06 No.2018964 Report

Quoted By: >>2018976 >>2019063 >>2020358

>into traffic 1950
>incredibly noisy
>looks like a class 37 fucked a steam loco
>suffers breakdown and gets sidelined for a while
>back into service, then catches fire and destroyed
>straight to scrapyard, gone by 1960.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2024 11:33:07 No.2018976 Report

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>>2018964
A lot of the 1st gen BR diesels were extremely unreliable and prone to serious failures or just catching fire, it's a shame but not that surprising not that many survived into preservation. The late steam BR locos being mass scrapped was criminal considering most had barely even reached a quarter of their useful lives and were increasingly some of the most reliable and efficient steam locos built like the Class 4s and 9Fs.

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Anonymous Thu 19 Sep 2024 04:55:23 No.2019063 Report

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>>2018964

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Anonymous Thu 19 Sep 2024 19:05:35 No.2019144 Report

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>>2018406
they were, Baldwin built them one at a time
PRR had to rewire everything during maintenance
still somehow NdeM had more care for them and kept them around longer

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Sep 2024 00:48:37 No.2019182 Report

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>>2018064
The one prototype was apparently well liked by crews from what I remember

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Sep 2024 21:14:47 No.2019744 Report

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>>2018274
The loss of all of the NYC Hudsons is a death sentence worthy crime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2024 01:25:22 No.2019756 Report

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>>2018274
they realised too late they'd built a gigantic penis on wheels, complete with glowing urethra

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2024 12:58:37 No.2020358 Report

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>>2018964
>what a motherfucker has to do to avoid diesel-electric

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2024 01:08:20 No.2020411 Report

Quoted By: >>2025779

>>2018405
A local railroad Museum was more than willing to move it

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Anonymous Thu 17 Oct 2024 11:31:41 No.2022321 Report

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The idea was good.

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Anonymous Sat 26 Oct 2024 20:19:52 No.2023235 Report

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technically not left but HHP-8 should have had a long career

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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2024 01:08:06 No.2023266 Report

Quoted By: >>2023267 >>2023324

its ugliness should have been preserved for future generations of industrial designers to awe at

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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2024 01:14:00 No.2023267 Report

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>>2023266
Really would be improved by removing that cowling ahead of the pantograph

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Anonymous Sun 27 Oct 2024 17:03:10 No.2023324 Report

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>>2023266
yuck. it really has that squashed nose look that's so prevalent on EMD third world shithole export locos

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Anonymous Tue 05 Nov 2024 04:45:20 No.2024120 Report

Quoted By: >>2024122 >>2024842 >>2025889

The big woosh

1944-1949

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Nov 2024 05:53:42 No.2024122 Report

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>>2024120
here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Nov 2024 17:21:16 No.2024165 Report

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>>2023267
or slant it back for aero

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 23:29:43 No.2024842 Report

Quoted By: >>2025892

>>2024120
the connecting rods on the wheels look like the ones on the N&W J-Class, very unique turbine design

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Anonymous Mon 18 Nov 2024 23:42:50 No.2025595 Report

Quoted By: >>2025780

There wasn't a great thread to post this in so I'll leave it here. I saw these two amtrak carriages today in NH behind a McDonalds and thought of you guys. I'm more of a bicycle /n/igger but you train guys are cool.

Sorry I didn't take any more pics, I just got back from hiking in the Whites and I'm chafing like mad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2024 02:01:18 No.2025779 Report

Quoted By: >>2025807

>>2020411
Yeah, but IRM didn't have the funds at the time and Metra's management was too much of a dick to care, therefore it was scrapped.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2024 02:02:39 No.2025780 Report

Quoted By: >>2025857

>>2025595
Nice catch of an ex-ATSF Hi-Level, fren. Hope they get preserved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2024 06:59:47 No.2025807 Report

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>>2025779
I recall the history of it being that the court order allowed Metra to scrap it, not move it. The reasoning being that it wasn't moveable on its own wheels without major work, so the court limited them to scraping it on site.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2024 19:25:49 No.2025857 Report

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>>2025780
Hi-levels and viewliners are, ostensibly bi-level coaches, correct? Though they only appear to have windows on the upper deck.... so whats going on on the bottom deck?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2024 00:55:22 No.2025889 Report

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>>2024120
Those huge tenders are so cool. It's like a big shed rolling around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2024 01:45:52 No.2025892 Report

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>>2024842
Probably a lightweight alloy instead of plain steel

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