its on ch (66) they are going to move a huge locomotive!
4-27-07 its 1:10 here, and it just came on.
is it the hual or the track move type I just dont know
Ken
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its a kind of short move
Brief synopsis for those who missed it:
Lift loco (2-10-2) with slings lifted by massive hydraulic jacks. Roll a 128-wheel hyperadjustable trailer under it. Move through downtown in the small hours of the morning. Make a big whoop-de-do out of crossing some railroad tracks. Arrive at site, roll the monstertrailer under the jack lift beams, rig, lift loco, pull trailer and place on new display track.
IMHO, the hardest part of the job was getting the pilot and trailing wheels on the rails! Of course, the announcer made the rather routine move sound like brain surgery aboard a storm-tossed sailboat - which is one reason why I’m not a big fan of The History Channel. (That guy can make parallel parking sound like a Scherbo-Johnson dismount in gymnastics…[#dots])
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I found this listing on their website. Time is EST:
Mega Movers : Locomotives. Airs on Sunday April 29 10:00 AM
Travel back to the golden age of railroads in this episode when a small town in the state of Washington is determined to save its cherished train depot from the wrecking ball. But time and Mother Nature have taken their toll on the aging structure. Will the old depot once again welcome tourists to the town of Morton? Meanwhile, in two Texan cities, we move two unique locomotives using two different methods–one used for more than 150 years, and another that’s on the cutting edge of technology. Watch how these giant locomotives roll again for the first time in 50 years.
Gotta go program the VCR! [:D]
I remember watching a show some time back of a Big Boy being moved, by truck! That was a big job.
Not totally train-related but the other week I saw one where this guy found an old Bucyrus steam shovel buried in the woods in Colorado and moved it out. For part of the trip it actually ran under its own power, albeit using compressed air instead of firing up a questionable boiler.
–Randy
It’s always cool to see trains on TV. It’s too bad Mega Movers spends more time showing you hydrolic rams and trailers rather then the thing they are trying to move.(I guess that’s what the shows about though.)
I watched that one. It was great seeing that thing actually move under it’s own power. I would have loved to see that Big Boy move. I have seen it in p[ics but not on TV.
I’m surprised they didn’t throw in a lot of personal drama ala West Coast Chopper, where maybe the foreman gets mad at the crane operator and insults him endlessly till the operator quits. Then the question is will they be able to find a qualified operator before the moving permit deadline is up??
Maybe because that actually never happened[;)]. History channel dosn’t put much drama there shows, there more realistick. But that would of made a good show.
I try to avoid too many of these shows. I prefer the Discovery Channel or Learning channel instead. The History Channel tried very hard but all they talked about is the stuff used to move these items, beams, power rams, wheels and problems. Nothing about the history of the item being moved. “OOO that light house is veddy strong. we must haf break many rocks.” Nothing much about the lighthouse itself.
Once in a great while you get a show where they actually stop trying to fill a 7 minute shlot between 4 minute commercials and actually MAKE a show. Those are the good ones. Im the kind of person that is able to remain in one place for hours if necessary to complete a task, no need to run off to the loo or coffee pot every 7 minutes and lose half the next slot reviewing the previous.
There was a show recently where they anchored a deep sea drill rig to the ocean floor against hurricanes. They stayed on one crew who worked that job start to finish. It was not history channel but it was an hour or so of awesome work… part of which is wondering if that locomotive sized 20 ton bouy is going to mash one of the workers.
All these hype shows use words like miraculously, amazingly, etc. They make it sound like professionals doing their jobs are the biggest bunch of risk takers ever put together for the purpose of doing thing in a wrong manner.
If you want risk takers, go talk to the people who crab fish in the bering sea, and the oil well firefighters. Now that’s risk.
Huh? The drama is there. is it just in disguise and hidden (mostly behind 3 billion commercials and repeating the same tiny clip of video over and over and over and over …). I don’t believe anything I see on the History channel anymore, if I even watch it anymore.
I watched (or tried to watch) the moving the Big Boy. Was very disapointed.
Well…The show IS called Mega MOVERS. Not Mega Trains or Mega Lighthouses.
The commercials are getting REAL bad! You have 5 minutes of show. Then 5 minutes of commercials. Then when they go back to the show they do a 2 minute recap of what they showed before the commercials. [:(!] Your lucky if you get 20 minutes of show footage in a 1 hour block these days.
You dont even get that much when you carefully evaluate the content in some of these shows. If it gets too bad, we wont have a problem ditching the satellite. We are month to month on our account anyways. We have thought about getting a Recorder that allows us to bleep out commercials but suspect that new models are designed to feed more commerical content.
Another part of the problem in our home is that they constantly feed little imagery on the bottom of the screen and it erases the captioning that I rely on to catch the text. Some shows are not part of my viewing schedule anymore because of that specific reason.
Our last hope is probably Fiber Optics. When that arrives in my area I might be able to use the one computer on the network to capture and pre-record shows and edit out the commericals before viewing. It’s just not worth it.
If anything at all is positive, We like the Sirus radio from the satellite. Set it up for tunes on one channel and leave it alone. It plays constantly commercial free for the most part.
Here is a twist. Cell Phones now offer live TV content for a monthly fee.
I’ve got that Sirius too. I love it! Too bad they don’t have a TV version. I remember when pay cable TV came out. You payed for it so you wouldn’t have to sit through those fracking commercials.
I heard a year ago they were going to start running ads on that little bottom banner through out the whole show.[xx(]
Gee, I wonder why, Jeff. LOL
thanks tomikawaTT for adding and the great update you the man
lothar thats so funny you always have a cool avitar
safty valve you make a great point, history seem a bit on the slow side, I fell like I can change the channel and not even blink. but I try to get on the web here with train shows just if someone wants to check it out .
jeff I missed the big boy wTf
I did see that steam shovle big birtha… worth saving
K-