More MOWing

Akirasho May 22, 2008

  1. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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  2. Mike VE2TRV

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    Somebody had fun and drew a smiley-face on the left half of the unit.:)
     
  3. r_i_straw

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  4. Mike VE2TRV

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    :p Cool! :cool:
     
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  5. BoxcabE50

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    About fifteen years ago, the railroad museum in Snoqualmie, Washington refurbished their ex-Great Northern ballast regulator:

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  6. Mike VE2TRV

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    All ready to go MoWing, old school:

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    My Dad's photo, August 1979, at Ste-Thérèse, Québec.
     
  7. BNSF FAN

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    Despite saying Wisconsin & Southern on it's side, this little fella was in the KCS yard in Vicksburg MS on Monday 08-22-2022. Sure not a road name I expected to catch on any MoW equipment there.
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  8. HemiAdda2d

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    MOWing in the Magic City on the old Soo Line:
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  9. Mike VE2TRV

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    Using a heavy-duty leaf blowers to unclog the switches... hmmm...:cautious:

    He could soup up his blower and use it as a jet pack.:cool:
     
  10. Kurt Moose

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    Looks like it has two blowers?:cautious:
     
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  11. HemiAdda2d

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    Yup, just happened to capture them with one guy hiding the other.
     
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  12. sidney

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    one blower two hose's . he has the bad boy blower
     
  13. Kurt Moose

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    Oh, I see it now, lol!;)
     
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  14. Mike VE2TRV

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    You're a crafty little devil, aren't you? :D
     
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  15. badlandnp

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    Yesterday I caught part of this mixed heading east with a load of MOW equipment. Glendive has a MOW equipment shop, which I am sure was being used to do maintenance on these things,
     
  16. r_i_straw

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    This is definitely an odd little contraption.... I would sure like to see the drive system.
     
  18. Hardcoaler

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    07/03/1984 at Rondout, IL, MILW x452.

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    01/07/1975 at Barrington, IL, EJ&E 8785 and friend, by teenage Hardcoaler armed with a Kodak Instamatic 126, good ol' square format point-and-shoot photography. :)

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  19. Hardcoaler

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    A weary, owl-eyed PRR MP54 combine as modified long ago for wire train service, found at Harrisburg, PA on 04/03/1989. It's Amtrak car number 495200 and it carries a pantograph, third-rail shoes and windowed cupola.

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  20. Mike VE2TRV

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    Odd and a half, plus tax...o_O

    More than likely a single cylinder under the floor, driving just one cranked axle. I don't think tractive effort was a consideration here...:ROFLMAO:

    Another oddball! Just as interesting are the tower cars behind it.
     

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