Man Hauls Train by his Teeth

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/31/King.tooth.ap/index.html

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – A Malaysian man nicknamed “King Tooth” has pulled a seven-coach train using a steel rope clenched in his mouth in an attempt to set a new world record for the heaviest weight pulled with teeth.

Rathakrishnan Velu pulls a train clenching a steel rope in his mouth in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday.

Grunting and gasping, Rathakrishnan Velu’s neck muscles strained and his face contorted Thursday as he hauled the nearly 328-ton train over more than 9 feet along tracks at a railway station in Kuala Lumpur.

[jeaton]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/31/King.tooth.ap/index.html

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – A Malaysian man nicknamed “King Tooth” has pulled a seven-coach train using a steel rope clenched in his mouth in an attempt to set a new world record for the heaviest weight pulled with teeth.

Rathakrishnan Velu pulls a train clenching a steel rope in his mouth in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday.

Grunting and gasping, Rathakrishnan Velu’s neck muscles strained and his face contorted Thursday as he hauled the nearly 328-ton train over more than 9 feet along tracks at a railway station in Kuala Lumpur.

And that was up grade with the brakes applied!!![:O]

(Don’t spread this around. Might give railroad management some thoughts about fuel savings.)

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Not unlike former 90-pound weakling Charles Atlas pulling a PRR observation car at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair.

[Anonymous]

So much for dental coverage.

Im just happy to keep some of my teeth after weeks in a Diamond Reo on bad roads.

Some people enjoy good health with teeth and can do these things. I wonder when he reaches old age will he still endorse denture glues by pulling on trains in commercials?

[samfp1943]

So much for dental coverage.

Im just happy to keep some of my teeth after weeks in a Diamond Reo on bad roads.

Some people enjoy good health with teeth and can do these things. I wonder when he reaches old age will he still endorse denture glues by pulling on trains in commercials?

Safety Valve–I feel your pain! [banghead]

How about Memphis,Tn. to San Berdoo in a 1961 B-61 [a Mack w/tri-plex tranny] with a 42 ft reefer [nose mount]/no A-C. and not a lot of 4-lanes…The memories are still vivid, and that was about 40yrs ago!!!

Anyway, enough of that!

Does anyone besides me recall the Timken Companies roller bearing 4-8-4 called the “Four Aces.” ? One of the advertising photos they used, showed a young girl in a dress and heels pulling that locomotive with a hawser-type rope.

I could only find this one on short notice- Y’all get the idea-Here’s the link, Enjoy!

http://www.timken.com/industries/rail/overview/overview3.asp

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So much for dental coverage.

Im just happy to keep some of my teeth after weeks in a Diamond Reo on bad roads.

Some people enjoy good health with teeth and can do these things. I wonder when he reaches old age will he still endorse denture glues by pulling on trains in commercials?

LOL. Hey just try running an old CR C36-7 as leader (only unit available with cab signals) with big flat spots on a hot TV train for 10+ hours.

LC

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just try running an old CR C36-7 as leader (only unit available with cab signals) with big flat spots on a hot TV train for 10+ hours.

LC

TV train? Did it at least have basic cable?

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just try running an old CR C36-7 as leader (only unit available with cab signals) with big flat spots on a hot TV train for 10+ hours.

LC

TV train? Did it at least have basic cable?

A TV train symbol was Conrail’s hot intermodal symbol. The train in question was TV-78.

LC

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just try running an old CR C36-7 as leader (only unit available with cab signals) with big flat spots on a hot TV train for 10+ hours.

LC

TV train? Did it at least have basic cable?

A TV train symbol was Conrail’s hot intermodal symbol. The train in question was TV-78.

LC

Just as well, those old GE’s probably had black and white only.[;)]

[edblysard]

Guess that beats having a drawbar stuck where my TM keeps telling me to “stick one and start pulling…”[:D]

[kenneo]

Guess that beats having a drawbar stuck where my TM keeps telling me to “stick one and start pulling…”[:D]

Sooooooo, why don’t you suggest that he back up, couple on, and help out.

[oops]You mean he already doesn’t have ----- Oh, my[:-^]

[eolafan]

Mom always told me to brush and floss regularly. Now I guess I know why she was so adamant about that.

[canazar]

I guess what strikes me as odd as that he wearing a saftey vest…

“So you want to pull 328 tons of passenger cars while laying down on the tracks, useing a steel cable that you are going to pull with your teeth? No way! Not on our railroad you wont.”

“I’ll wear a safty vest”

“OK.”