Just took a look at Precision Craft Models website. They’re asking for critiques on their preproduction UP Big Boy and N&W Y6b. We now have two mfrs that I know of who have open channels for communication re their product offerings. Discussion this day re Kadee monitoring the forum and open solicitation by PCM for suggestions and critiques.
One thing about PCM site that took me back a bit; they already have a refurbished outlet. Uh, make that PCM Factory Direct Outlet. Someone in Florida dropping 'em off the loading dock? Fork lift mayhem in the warehouse? At the refurbished site a Reading T1 unlettered with LokSound for $239.99 PCM# 592. A Reading T1 in service #2113 also leased to PRR without Sound for $239.99 PCM#594. Huh? Sound same price as no sound? Please pass the decals.
You’d be amazed how often stuff gets wrecked involving forklifts. I used to operate a forklift in the Sony Plant in Mt. Pleasant and lots of times you had guys drag racing the forklifts, going insanely fast in them, or in general losing loads and occasionally you had a couple wrecks. I guess their forklift guys do alot more of it.
dirtyd79,
NASCAR is always looking to expand their entertainment continuum. OK, what we propose is forklifts on the high banks. Of course they’ll have to be modified for typical NASCAR V-8. Engine placement won’t be a problem-NASCAR already have front wheel drive models running as rear wheel drives. An advantage going in is that most fork lifts already have roll cages. What about tires? Are some fork lifts still running solid rubber tires? If so, that could be a problem-might reduce the drama of the pit stop tire change.Might be able to introduce additional entertainment for the fans by having X number of required pit stops where each fork lift has to spot Y number of cartons into a psuedo warehouse rack Z feet tall.
Of course this being a forum in the public domain NASCAR will probably steal the idea without any acknowledgement of the true creators of this series.
This series will definitely blow lawn tractor racing out of the water. Although why anyone would want to race lawn tractors in water is beyond me. OK, I’m going to leave quietly now…it’s getting late…
Ive seen stuff in warehouses get smashed, clipped, skidded etc…
My personal favorite incident is 90 pounds of sirloin steak written off as damaged and unfit for retail and must now either get destroyed (Insured) or resold to wholesale.
Why?
Minor scratch on the case containing the beef.
There is a certain amount of waste, loss and damage that a grocery store customer will never see in the warehouses.
hehe good luck finding T-1 decals. None of the major decal manufacturers has ever made a T-1 decal set - it’s NOT the same as a standard Reading steam loco decal set. Otherwise, I’d buy an unlettered in-service unit and number it for a more well-known unit than the 2111 I already have. Maybe 2101 or 2102.
Even Overland has no idea who made their decals for their factory-painted brass T-1. This would likely be a true DIY job - and making those stripes around the tender and cab side and getting them sized right would be a real bear.
I’ve driven one from time to time, mostly on construction sites, but sometimes in warehouses in the winter when a builder got caught by weather too cold to pour concrete and we were temporarily laid off.
One day a truck driver thought he was loaded and pulled out. The fork truck had been speeding up parallel to the line of doors and then hooking a sharp right into the truck.
The seat belt prevented the fork driver from being injured, but the fork truck looked hilarious at a 45 degree angle, two feet off the ground with the forks stuck into the asphalt of the loading ramp, four feet below the door.
Personally, I always maintained a safe and respectible speed.
