My first love as a little boy

[ironglows]

im sorry she passed. I didnt know that.

i went full circle. When i was little guns and trucks came first. They something changed Today im right back to where i started. If my wife died tomarrow the last thing id want is another girl. But a new truck or car or gun will always put a smile on my face. 

   Well; I sure don't need another girl..had chances but passed them by.  ..But I could give up any chance at a fancy car or truck, for just a couple days with my one true love again!
  Ah... but then, I remind myself that I will soon have an eternity to share with her !

  Time helps the pain...it will be 4 years in May..  same month as her birthday..

[ironglows]

Most people have seen this locomotive picture before


But not many know this wat the the other end.

  I have seen photos of that engine before, but never that Chevy caboose ! 

[Bob Riebe]

Incredibly Strange Railway Systems

https://io9.gizmodo.com/incredibly-strange-railway-systems-1500937101?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

I have a book on the history of steam engines, and as incredibly complicated it is, but when this locomotive was created physics was far better understood that most of todays snot-faced punks could ever imagine, but it was still a build it and see how well it works era to the extreme.



Railroaders were practical men. But some antebellum locomotives, like this 6-2-0 built by the Camden & Amboy, were spectacular oddities as well as miserable failures.
RAILROAD MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA


The Boynton Bicycle Railway, operated between 1892 and 1894 on Coney Island.


The first Lartigue-system monorail line was built in 1888 in Ireland, and another in 1895 between Feurs and Panissières, France.

[ironglows]

 Just a note...some may not yet realize that in the common diesel/electric engine, the wheels are powered by electricity, while the diesel simply charges the batteries..
  The GE locomotive plant, located in Erie, PA, is moving to Texas...for the usual reasons, plus Texas is a right-to-work state.

[Bob Riebe]

Just a note...some may not yet realize that in the common diesel/electric engine, the wheels are powered by electricity, while the diesel simply charges the batteries..
  The GE locomotive plant, located in Erie, PA, is moving to Texas...for the usual reasons, plus Texas is a right-to-work state.

At the turn of the century  efforts for engineless electric locomotives were already underway, but problems with that caused GE, in the U.S., to look for internal combustion engine power source for the motors.

Direct drive locomotives have also been around for some time but rarely in main-line use.

Diesel–mechanical propulsion is limited by the difficulty of building a reasonably sized transmission capable of coping with the power and torque required to move a heavy train. A number of attempts to use diesel–mechanical propulsion in high power applications have been made (e.g., the 1,500 kW (2,000 hp) British Rail 10100 locomotive), although none have proved successful in the end.

True electric locomotives, especially those that use a pantograph are the easiest to put out of action in conflict of even minor scale.
In the mountains and industrial use, the U.S.  had/have electric locomotives for over one hundred years.
Henry Ford built one for his factory that no longer exists.

[ironglows]

I don't know if it still holds true, but my veterinary friend has a brother who was a mechanical engineer with GE, in their Erie factory.  He told me that Locomotives are built vertically, and lowered to the horizontal when finished or near finished.

[Bob Riebe]

I don't know if it still holds true, but my veterinary friend has a brother who was a mechanical engineer with GE, in their Erie factory.  He told me that Locomotives are built vertically, and lowered to the horizontal when finished or near finished.

Better than bending over or being on your knees all day.