And now for the November edition. Please follow these simple rules: Do not trespass (or violate any other laws in the pursuit of photos or videos). Be safe (and legal). If you are driving, stop the car in a safe place to use your phone's camera. All photos must be taken during the period of the thread (i.e. now through November 30, 2015 for this thread). Photos should be taken with your smartphone (or other similar mobile device) and uploaded. Videos may be embedded from Youtube (or other video site). This guy would not hold still for a clear shot. Bout blew be back a few feet. At the 3rd Street crossing in Rosenberg, Texas today. Sent by Jedi mind trick.
Here we have a very large transformer that UP delivered to Houston today, 11/12/15. It came up from Mexico on a flat car with 20 axles. Sent by Jedi mind trick.
Ken, assuming you're referring to the transformer, short answer...No, due to heat build-up and dissipation. The biggest bug-a-boo in the power industry, and for electronics as a whole, is heat. Anytime an electron is forced to move more quickly it generates heat. That heat must be gotten rid of very quickly or the hardware, be it a tiny computer chip or motor or humongous transformer, will fry in short order. There is at least one solution that I'm aware of, cryogenics. If a device is immersed in a liquid that is kept near absolute zero, an electron has virtually no friction, thus generates virtually no heat when forced to move more quickly. Unfortunately, the cost of maintaining any device near absolute zero far outweighs the cost of huge containers of heat-dissipating oil such as you see on Russell's car. Therefore, until the next major technological breakthrough in solving the conflict of atomic motion and heat generation, I'm afraid we're stuck with Schnabel-like transportation.....which ain't really a bad thing for us Foamers.
On Veterans Day 2015, Iowa Interstate ran the heritage duo(30th Anniversary unit 516, 25th Anniversary unit 513) on the Cedar Rapids Turn. Later in the day the 513 went to the shops for a checkup and the two are now separate. Taken with an Apple iPhone.
