Locomotive Hijacking

[Moot]

Last week I delivered 4 springs for the locomotive pictured below. When I backed into the shop I noticed the locomotive, all 200 tons, was raised about 8' off the ground and supported by 4 hydraulic jacks. The wheel assembly that required the springs I was delivering was on a side track out of the picture.

 

[moose]

Locomotive rules !!!

last month have Del. a Turbo for a locomotive brake down ,
it was a 4,500 lbs. box
the blown up locomotive was towed by another one , there was oil everywhere ...
imagine the BOOM ,
poor loco. driver must have gone deaf...



Moose.

 

[FIS53]

Last January I delivered a locomotive engine to a train yard in New Brunswick. Minus 17f out but they had the thing apart to accept the new engine.
Rob

 

[theoldprof]

Liked delivering to RR yards. IF you can find out how go get in and where to go. Once I got in the people there were always ready and eager to unload me. I like the big mechanical stuff. Am almost getting a tear in my eye just thinking about how I miss working on the big machines at GM..........Nah!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Moot]

I like the big mechanical stuff. Am almost getting a tear in my eye just thinking about how I miss working on the big machines at GM..........Nah!!!!!!!!!!!

Professor, were the big machines at GM the Terex dump trucks? Those are truly monster trucks. Years ago I had a connection that got me into a taconite mine in Northern Minnesota. I was working on a presentation for an industrial processes class. I got free rein to wander the facility with my camera.

The immense size of everything blew me away. Especially the Terexes and Euclids as they rumbled by hauling tailings from the plant o the dump site.

 

[theoldprof]

Naw, Moot, the presses at GM were small presses. Don't remember the capacity but if you could fit it in by taking the dies and feed mechanisms out, they would probably be able to squush a full size Hummer flat. Large presses that were two stories tall down to machines the size of sewing machines that did several hundred cycles a minute. On another note, some people complain of the oil smell in a CV. Sleeping next to a couple baskets of parts just reminded me of "home".