Spokane today

[kc7jty]

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We talked about this before but I couldn't find the thread.

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Here's one for Cor.

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Original Northern Pacific Railway overpass built in 1915. The NP logo (which was once painted over) can be faintly seen in the center. I'd love to go up there and restore it to it's original appearance.
http://columbiariverimages.com/Images/northern_pacific_logo_2005.jpg

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Only a fawlkin tourist from a small town in Idaho would take pix of the big buildings.

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Of course I wasn't ready for this train...

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...but I waited for this one.

[KG4CGC]

But boarding the bus in an unwashed state is perfectly A-OK!

[al2n]

Those E-cigs give off water vapor. Folks are complaining about water vapor!

Never ceases to amaze me how people will act all smoked out when there is no smoke. Friend of mine gets on the city bus and puts his pipe in his mouth. People start to cough, wave hands and complain about his pipe.....which is unlit and giving off no smoke. He points this out and they usually get even more pissed than if he really were smoking.

[kc7jty]

evidently the folks at Image Shack have access to ALL the places I can "browse" to for an upload. Even my nekked womenz collection. Those slick bastardos.

[kc7jty]

Never ceases to amaze me how people will act all smoked out when there is no smoke. Friend of mine gets on the city bus and puts his pipe in his mouth. People start to cough, wave hands and complain about his pipe.....which is unlit and giving off no smoke. He points this out and they usually get even more pissed than if he really were smoking.
I was on an almost full Greyhound bus in PA once from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. The driver missed his turn off the turnpike onto rt 76. I wondered WTF, but thought maybe he was going a different way. After another 10 minutes it was obvious he was lost.
I got up from 3/4 way back in the bus and asked him what he was doing? This big plump woman up front heard everything.
At first the driver thought I was off, but after asking him a few key questions he realized he was way off course.
I gave him 2 options, which he was uncertain about, but assured him they would work.

Well by this time this woman explodes, demands I return to my seat and starts to tell everyone on the bus in a broadcast voice I was annoying the driver.
Every idiot on that bus, save maybe 2 or 3, had fire in their eyes. The woman commanded me to go back to my seat, which I did, then commanded me to sit down, which I did cause I didn't want a mob of slobbering goons attacking me.

When my ass hit the seat I decided if anything further happens, I'm gonna flip, and tell everyone to GoFuThmSel. Fortunately that was the end of it.

We eventually made it to the bus station in Philly after doing what I didn't want to do. Completely back tracking 20 miles to where he should have turned in the first place. We could have gone a much shorter, easier way.

[W4GPL]

Those E-cigs give off water vapor. Folks are complaining about water vapor!

Never ceases to amaze me how people will act all smoked out when there is no smoke. Friend of mine gets on the city bus and puts his pipe in his mouth. People start to cough, wave hands and complain about his pipe.....which is unlit and giving off no smoke. He points this out and they usually get even more pissed than if he really were smoking.That's amusing. I'm not hyper sensitive to smoke in terms of coughing or breathing, but I find the smell to be horrid. If I don't smell it, I really don't care. What gets my blood boiling, because I'm convinced they do it on purpose is when a guy puts out his cigarette just outside the door of a store and then exhales on his way in.

[KC2UGV]

That's amusing. I'm not hyper sensitive to smoke in terms of coughing or breathing, but I find the smell to be horrid. If I don't smell it, I really don't care. What gets my blood boiling, because I'm convinced they do it on purpose is when a guy puts out his cigarette just outside the door of a store and then exhales on his way in.

Yeah, it's done on purpose. Not that I did anything like that or anything when I was a kid.

[W1GUH]

You can simulate the same thing by holding your hand on your mouth and compressing the air in it. Then, you can blow out the vapor -- like as if it was cold outside!

[W3WN]

I was on an almost full Greyhound bus in PA once from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. The driver missed his turn off the turnpike onto rt 76. I wondered WTF, but thought maybe he was going a different way. After another 10 minutes it was obvious he was lost.
I got up from 3/4 way back in the bus and asked him what he was doing? This big plump woman up front heard everything.
At first the driver thought I was off, but after asking him a few key questions he realized he was way off course.
I gave him 2 options, which he was uncertain about, but assured him they would work.

Well by this time this woman explodes, demands I return to my seat and starts to tell everyone on the bus in a broadcast voice I was annoying the driver.
Every idiot on that bus, save maybe 2 or 3, had fire in their eyes. The woman commanded me to go back to my seat, which I did, then commanded me to sit down, which I did cause I didn't want a mob of slobbering goons attacking me.

When my ass hit the seat I decided if anything further happens, I'm gonna flip, and tell everyone to GoFuThmSel. Fortunately that was the end of it.

We eventually made it to the bus station in Philly after doing what I didn't want to do. Completely back tracking 20 miles to where he should have turned in the first place. We could have gone a much shorter, easier way.
Yes, but she sure showed you who was In Charge, and it wasn't you, right?

[w3bny]

"Fat bottom girl you make the rockin world go round!"

Large...and in charge...

[PA5COR]

Thanks good piccies ;)

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=1UuHDc-0EFI&feature=related
Steam engine show The 150 year jubilee The Dutch Railways
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=Cloy_pl0HPI&feature=related

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=WnRMkA4DlPQ&feature=related

[kc7jty]

Yes, but she sure showed you who was In Charge, and it wasn't you, right?

Yep...I wasn't about to tangle with that brainless goon.

[KG4CGC]

Large...and in charge...
Bet the bitch clogged the toilet on every visit.

[kc7jty]

Thanks good piccies ;)

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=1UuHDc-0EFI&feature=related
Steam engine show The 150 year jubilee The Dutch Railways
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=Cloy_pl0HPI&feature=related

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=WnRMkA4DlPQ&feature=related

Very nice.

"Parallelfahrt" WTF!?

[kc7jty]

Bet the bitch clogged the toilet on every visit.

as well as cracked

[NQ6U]

Thanks good piccies ;)

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=1UuHDc-0EFI&feature=related
Steam engine show The 150 year jubilee The Dutch Railways
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=Cloy_pl0HPI&feature=related
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=WnRMkA4DlPQ&feature=related


You call those steam locomotives? Feh--mere children's toys. Now this is a steam locomotive!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OgSNQOTw2U&feature=related

Stay with it to 2:05 -- the whistle is worth the wait. It gives me the chills.

[KG4CGC]

You call those steam locomotives? Feh--mere children's toys. Now this is a steam locomotive!




As I recall, they had to add extra articulation to the wheels as well as making the locomotive body as a two piece deal so that it would bend enough going though the more mountainous areas.

[NQ6U]

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As I recall, they had to add extra articulation to the wheels as well as making the locomotive body as a two piece deal so that it would bend enough going though the more mountainous areas.

It's got two separate articulated six-wheeled sets of drivers and engines bolted to a rigid frame. You could almost look at it as two locomotives powered by a single boiler. Configuration would be denoted as 4-6-6-4. Awesome hunk of machinery but they really never worked out that well and, coming as they did at the end of the steam era, they couldn't really compete with diesel-electrics. Maintenance cost alone was enough to kill steam once a viable alternative came along.

Read the attached to get an idea of what it takes to bootstrap a steam loco from cold.

[KG4CGC]

It's got two separate articulated six-wheeled sets of drivers and engines bolted to a rigid frame. You could almost look at it as two locomotives powered by a single boiler. Configuration would be denoted as 4-6-6-4. Awesome hunk of machinery but they really never worked out that well.
Yes, this is true as very few were made.

[kc7jty]

You call those steam locomotives? Feh--mere children's toys. Now this is a steam locomotive!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OgSNQOTw2U&feature=related

Stay with it to 2:05 -- the whistle is worth the wait. It gives me the chills.

Great find Carl, what a magnificent beast. I usually don't like the whistle, it just contaminates the sounds of the mechanics, but this one is sweet.

Here's some whistle for ya, I've seen this creature in the flesh on numerous occasions, I like the distinct sound of only 2 cylinders as opposed to the 4 on the 3985.
http://www.travelingo.org/video/hd-sp4449-steam-engine-in-ritzville-wa-72472.html
same train an hour later with the 2 cylinder sound:
http://www.travelingo.org/video/hd-sp4449-chasing-in-sprague-wa-7_03_09-49975.html

Here's a pic I took of the same train the next day as it passed through my town:
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9998/dud004.jpg

[NQ6U]

Great find Carl, what a magnificent beast. I usually don't like the whistle, it just contaminates the sounds of the mechanics, but this one is sweet.

It really is a beast. 4449 is a much more aesthetically pleasing machine for sure but there's something about the sheer industrial brutality of 3985 that's fascinating. And that five-chime whistle really gets to me.


Here's some whistle for ya, I've seen this creature in the flesh on numerous occasions, I like the distinct sound of only 2 cylinders as opposed to the 4 on the 3985.

Yeah, I've seen 4449 many times myself--even got to climb up into the cab once. It's truly a beautiful loco.

[n6hcm]

you know, seeing spokane here makes it look almost pleasant ... but i will never get those two years back during which i worked in spokane part time.

[PA5COR]

Running into a 149 metric ton steam engine here is not considered toy game ;)

[NQ6U]

Running into a 149 metric ton steam engine here is not considered toy game ;)

Compared to 3985's 487 metric tons it is.

Wimpy little European tea pots with tin whistles.