Mookie,
Go get a digital camera,instead of the trusty old Brownie;and then
just download 'em to the’puter;and presto,send via e-mail.[:)]
I haven’t heard that since I was last in jail.
Now as far as trains go, this is the closest I could find. But these are on the ends below the ladders. If its in the panel itself, I’d bet it is an inspection port to look at the opening gear if it’s a rotary and bottom dump.
Mutt - waiting for Trains to send me a Canon Rebel, can’t download to this puter, don’t have puter at home - would have to run to either Ed’s, Carl’s or Muddy’s place to download pics…and I can barely send an E-mail normally!
I had to get Tree and Ed to help me several times! It’s embarrassing!
Moo[:I]
Spend a lot of time there, Dan?
OK - everyone go look at Dan’s picture. The “hole” was right below the “50” where that little black object is on this picture. And if they are for some kind of inspection or maintaining them, why not on all of them. Why just the FURX?
Mook
Moo,could always take memory card to local drug store,have them download
to CD’s and send everybody one[}:)][:D]
Will my new Rebel have a memory card? If so, it will be one up on Mook!
Because cars are built in blocks. FURX orders x number of cars from Johnston and either specifies that an inspection port is put in or because of customer feedback or FRA regs they need to have a better way to inspect or access a piece of gear. Cars in the blocks prior won’t have it. Or perhaps the FURX cars have a piece of gear that is new beginning with this series and will follow as standard equipment.
Is FURX your own reporting mark Moofie - and is it a substance for getting rid of hairballs?
[:)]
CATX and FURX are both mine and the CATX has my paw print on it!
Mookie doesn’t have fur balls - she is professionally cleaned! [:D]
Geez,
All this time I thought Mookies reporting marks were KATY[:D]
Should,most digitals that I know of have them.[:)][:p]
FURX is First Union Leasing.
Is it possible that the ‘hole’ is behind an externally-mounted transponder of some kind, with equipment normally mounted either behind the sheets or on the endsill but with a cable or other connection between?
It would help to know how the ‘edges’ of the hole were finished: rough or smooth cut, painted or not, beaded or grommeted edge. (Better ask the driver and sandwich guy for 12x50s, or while he’s at it a good reflector telescope! ;-} )
The new ones are pretty powerful - just a little late for the FURX. But the hole, from where I could see it, looked plain, smooth - very dark on the inside, so I am sure it didn’t go all the way through. Reminded me of when you do your lawn and take plugs out of it or plug cheese - just a perfect round hole - driver sez about 6" in diameter - not sure but probably pretty close to that.
With all the eyes on this forum, surely someone has seen them!
Mookie,
Next chance you get, see if you can take a peek inside the “hole”…
Bet you see the end of a air hose connection, like the one the gas station has.
We have a bunch of ECRX hoppers down here in a captured coke service, they have this hole also, always seems to be on the left hand side of the car.
Designed for a worker to stab or hook up a air hose, which in turns uses the air to open the bottom dump doors…
Ed
“CATX has my paw print on it”…Careful now, that is Garfields icon. Meow.
…Jen, you had question on Rebel…Are you talking about a new Canon Digital Rebel…? For sure it will have memory card…Don’t know how much MB’s. Digital we purchased recently had 16 MB’s of memory and I increased that to 64 MB’s…Should take about 50 pic’s.
Digital cameras don’t need ‘developing time’ for pictures.
I still live in the world of take your pictures to Walgreens for developing.
Have digital camera on list. List is long…
Moo
Dear Ed: To get a peek inside, Mookie will have to learn to run very fast!
Driver and I have racked our brains trying to remember whether these were bottom or rotary dump. Didn’t work. The train was headed east, we were on the south side and the holes would have been, well, right there in front of us! So not sure if that is left or right! And they weren’t always on the same side panel. Some were under the # and right above the trucks and others were at the other end, right above the trucks.
But…if they are rotary is there any way these could be either air hose holes or…
here comes the tricky part…if rotary - something to fasten the floor and the car together so they can be dumped together? Make sense? A right-angle post that fits in that hole to secure the car? No probably not. Probably like you said - an air hose hole.
Well, give me c for creative!
Mook
Mookie,
Even if they have a rotary coupler, they can still have dump doors…
One dosnt exclude the other…lets them be used in different services.
I will keep my eyes open, and if I find some of your cars, I will just take a look…
Ed
(dont mind the sheetrock dust, it vacumes up)