WAUKESHA, Wis. – Kalmbach Media is reinstating a tradition that began in the 2000s. On Friday, Nov. 22, modelers, railfans, and train lovers are invited to take their trains to work to celebrate the national Take A Train to Work Day. Whether i…
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/11/15-take-a-train-to-work-day-nov-22
It’d be weird if I went to work and there were no trains.
Work?
Work?
I’d get arrested if I took a train to work. Let’s see:
“Trespassing on a freight train” (there are NO passenger operations near here).
OR…
If I “took” the train, there’d be:
“Grand Theft Locomotive”.
“Operating a train without benefit of tracks.”
“Illegal parking” (it would probably take up more than one parking space).
Sorry, I can’t “take a train to work”. Besides, I’m retired and don’t work no mo’.
You remind me of Maynard G. Crebs.
Hey…let’s be careful of using four-letter words on the forums. Oops, four is a four-letter word, which is a four-letter word, which is…
“FOUR” (all caps) has a very real place on the railroad:
I’ve been taking a train to and from work for over forty years now. What’s the big deal?? Less sarcastically, I do have pictures from railpictures.net and other sources as the wallpaper on my work computer.
Being an on-the-road tech all those years I just never could pull off a “Take A Train To Work Day.” Too bad, the gang would have gotten a kick out of it.
I compensated by wearing a Lionel wrist watch!
What type is that locomotive? I’ve never seen one like it. And the “number” boards are a nice feature.
Toy trains, like light rail don’t count.
Zardoz: Must have led a sheltered life? Five of those, liberally mashed together, and you have a C-boat that you might be a little more familiar with.
Light rail certainly must count. Our two-car, each car articulated with 12 wheels, Jerusalem light rail trains carry lots more passengers than a single RDC-1 or doodlebug. Typical weekday sees 140,000 riders on our one line. (More are in construction and more in planning.) Outside of New York City and Chicago, there is no single commuter or rapid transit line that equals that in North America. Not even Toronto, which has one that comes close.
And it is the only train I can ride on the way to work. So it must count.
A GE 44 tonner?
Most likely. GE did build some other models that had essentially the same form factor.
There’s a Diesel engine under each hood.
The 44 tonner was designed to get around the requirement that any locomotive 45 tons or over had to have additional crew (ie, a fireman).
That unit is indeed a GE 44 ton switcher. This particular one was built as Canadian National 4 in 1956. It was sold to Stelco in 1967, and spent most of its post-CN life at their Camrose, AB pipe mill, where that photo was taken.
I have no idea when those aftermarket “numberboards” were installed. Here is how it looked originally:
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cnr_diesel/4.jpg
Today it is preserved at the Alberta Railway Museum, where I get to run it on occasion. It has been repainted into its original CN colours and fitted with proper numberboards.
Good thing it didn’t run in Maine - the numberboard would have read “FOWAH…” [swg]
In eastern New Brunswick it would be “FERR” (say it like “fur” but drag out the “r”).
Good thing it wasn’t in Quebec, I don’t think you could fit “QUATRE” onto those boards.
WD-40 would be a better number for that unit, as large amounts have been used all over since we got it…
Judging by your location, I wouldn’t be surprised if you went through more than a few cylinders of Quik-Start getting it fired up.
Yeah. For my first few years on the rails all the CNW had to use for power on the Wisconsin Division were nothing but locomotives of various types. MUing those chimeras was frequently a challenge, but I did learn more about airbrake systems due to the repeated efforts to hook up all those contraptions.
It has glow plugs and large circulating block heaters but yes, “fresh air” is needed sometimes.