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Text 836, 143 rader
Skriven 2012-07-18 20:06:51 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
    Kommentar till text 807 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Darwion award candidate
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Hi Roy,

On Wed 2012-Jul-18 03:38, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Richard Webb:

Roy> What were we to know about vibrations and a penny stock squashed
Roy> into pieces at the ripe old age of 8 or 9 years? We were told that
Roy> they'd be squashed, but no one ever said that they'd disappear.

<rotfl>  YEah we all had to test the urban legends at that
age <grin>.

 Roy>> Dunno...I wasn't there. I have noticed that the freight cars headed
 Roy>> south are 'hoppers' full of concrete materials and those hoppers
 Roy>> going north are full of sand and gravel.
<snip>

 RW> Oh I'm sure.  YOu can find with those long coal trains going through
 RW> the mountains where the front engine is braking while the back engine
 RW> is still pushing.  Anybody who doesn't understand the principle of
 RW> inertia should watch a train start rolling or come to a stop.

Roy> Especially attempting to stop. That's what I think when I see a load
Roy> of gravel in the hopper of an 18 wheeler coming off the freeway at
Roy> freeway speeds of 65/70mph, even though the ramp speedlimit is 45
Roy> mph. And then they think they have the right of way over traffic
Roy> that is already on that ramp.

OH yeah I'm awlays amazed at those guys.  I know our remote
truck is heavy even for a 19" bed box truck, because of the
lead and other insulating materials under the skin of the
box and all the electronics inside.  Bringing that bad boy
to a stop from highway speeds can even be fun.  Iirc it tips the scales when
the duals in back are on the platform at 18k or thereabouts.


<snip>

 Roy>> The yard up there in Illinois had a turntable and lots of sidings.
 Roy>> We were always chased out of those yards. Had to cross the yard to
 Roy>> get to the fishing ponds on the other side.

 RW> YEp, much like the yard in Burlington, which was actually in
 RW> Burlington. The railroad shops were out in WEst burlington, almost
 RW> like a mini switching yard there too, but the actual train yard with
 RW> turntable adn all was Burlington itself. Back when I worked with
 RW> homeless folks I got to know quite a few hoboes who could tell you
 RW> horror stories about the railroadbulls at the yard in Burlington. IF
 RW> you were heading east across the MIssissippi river and you were a
 RW> hobo hopping a freight you prayed there wasn't a tow going under the
 RW> railroad bridge, because they'd hold the train in the yard and the
 RW> bulls would go peeking in every open boxcar for illicit riders, so if
 RW> you hopped it going through town you hunkered down and hoped that
 RW> bridge was ready for business.

Roy> I've heard stories about those bulls, but havn't seen any of it up
Roy> close. It seemed like every RR employee was on the lookout for
Roy> youngsters crossing the tracks at the yard. A chase would always
Roy> ensue and when we made it to the 'other side' the chase ended. Don't
Roy> know what would have happened had we been caught, since we were
Roy> always faster than those fat bellied RR workers. 8^)

YEah I noted that with the bulls even in the railroad shops, we used to cut
through there to go sledding, our favorite
sledding spot was a hill which was now just pastureland, but had been used for
some of the first air brake tests way back when.  I think the bulls were told,
whether it be kids or
hoboes that once you got past rr property they were to give
up the chase anyway.  IT's when they caught you on rr
property you might be in some trouble.

<snip again>
 Roy>> Illinois Central ran through Freeport, where my grandfather (clark)
 Roy>> would get on board as the conductor of the Land-O-Corn, ride it
 Roy>> into Iowa and back to Chicago and then back to Freeport where he
 Roy>> got off...all of that track is gone now and so are the yards and
 Roy>> the depot. Used to be 3 or 4 sets of tracks ran along the
 Roy>> Pecatonica River (Pecatonica was native American that meant - muddy
 Roy>> water). Sometimes it resembled a flow of mud too.

 RW> YEp, my mom's dad was an engineer for C B & Q, and then for
 RW> SAnta Fe.  One of her uncles who lived in MEdia, Il. not too far from
 RW> where you grew up iirc was a fireman in the steam days.

Roy> Hmmm. Media is in Chicago. Freeport is about 120 miles to the west
Roy> of Chi-town, on Illinois/Interstate 20...

YEp, that sounds about right.  Back in the days when mom
remembers visiting the old guy with the family (they rode
the train of course) it wasn't part of Chicago exurbs she
says, just another little town.  THis was before ww2 though.

 Roy>> Nice thing about that trestle is that the top is wider than the
 Roy>> structure that supports it. No way you could climb under the top
 Roy>> and get to the safety of the supporting structure in time to let
 Roy>> the train pass overhead.

<snip>
 RW> THis one was same vintage, Murray Iron works iirc.
 RW> DIfferent name now, but it's still in business, friend of
 RW> mine's a machinist for 'em.  My xyl sold him some "joe
 RW> blocks" is waht he called them that were her ex husbands.

Roy> Stover went belly up during the depression or after WW2 ... Jo
Roy> Blocks were called that because the inventor's name was Joe
Roy> something. He was a Swede, I think. They're precision metal blocks
Roy> that are lapped to size and they're supposed to have a tolerance of
Roy> plus or minus .0001"... If you gave them some finger-oil and rub a
Roy> few together, they'd stick together if you needed a stack to make up
Roy> a set thickness of blocks. Too expensive for a machinist to buy, but
Roy> they were easily lost for whatever reason. I have a few odds and
Roy> ends in my tool box that I used to check the accuracy of my 'mics'
That sounds about right.  These had a nice carrying case.  I thought they were
probably templates for something like
that.  Iirc he gave the xyl a couple hundred bucks for 'em.
WAs a nice set, you coudl tell that just by looking, and my
buddy the machinist was quite happy to get them at that
price.

<snip>
 RW>> I know I didn't care for hanging below that trestle with my hands
 RW>> curled around a railroad tie either.

 Roy>> I'll bet!

 RW> NO that was not a fun twenty minutes or so.  I'm guessing 20 minutes,
 RW> couldn't tell you for sure, but my arm muscles sure hurt.  Thing is,
 RW> I'm not sure that river was deep enough if I let go to be good to
 RW> land in, that mighta hurt pretty bad too.

Roy> LOL! Been there and done that. Dropped on my knees to a block of
Roy> concrete just under the water's surface. I didn't have much fun that
Roy> day.

<ouch.  Can picture it.  The cedar river there was sort of a gravel bed, and
though it ran fairly fast through there it
wasn't that deep, and i knew letting go of my handhold was
not a good idea!


Regards,
           Richard
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