[quote author=Hoss link=board=10;threadid=5716;start=90#51594 date=1034360874]<br>Yeah...being a conductor would be even more cool than dispatching!! ;D I need to start my model railroad back up again....<br>[/quote]<br><br> There is a grade that goes by my aunt's place that is supposedly the longest in the country for the grade it is. Not unusual to see 4-5 locomotives pulling a 100 or more train cars straining and puffing. Have seen a lot of Dodge trucks on those trains. Must be coming from Mexico heading north.

 

Actually it's blue and white....

 

[quote author=turboblue link=board=10;threadid=5716;start=105#51617 date=1034362533]There is a grade that goes by my aunt's place that is supposedly the longest in the country for the grade it is. Not unusual to see 4-5 locomotives pulling a 100 or more train cars straining and puffing. Have seen a lot of Dodge trucks on those trains. Must be coming from Mexico heading north.<br>[/quote]<br><br>Cool. ;D

 

If you really want to see some loco's working, go to Horseshoe Curve in Altoona Pa. It is not uncommon to have four or five pullin and three or four pushin. The track starts up one side of the mountain, goes across between the two and goes up the side of the other one. Can't remember the name of the little town at the top they are going to though. Them wheels are really screaming going around that shoe you bet. I think there is a web site something like horshoecure.com or something like that. Real cool for sure if you like that kinda stuff.

 

Got bored with college and went into the service as a Fire-Support Specialist(made artillary/mortars/close air support kill stuff). Been to a few continents, 4 years active, 4 years gaurd. Got out and went to the Michigan State Police a few years, then wrecked my motorcycle. After a couple of years off, came back as a dispatcher. Here I sit and collect a check so I can hunt, fish, play with the chainsaw, and work on the cabin. When cabin is done would like to start some wood working and build some flyrods.<br><br>Union Pacific Railroad - Train Dispatcher..... sounds intresting.<br>I grew up with trains and use to want to drive them. Is this job boring? Benefits O.K.? I'm always looking these days. <br><br>Don<br><br>

 

I started framing houses for T. E. Hunt framing when I was 15 and I am now 17 and I am the lead setup mech. for Shrouts power Sports. I build all the new motorcycles, dirt bikes, 4 wheelers, and personal water craft. When i turn 18 I would like to become a certified welder or drive a truck. I started home schooling when I was 15 to work a full time job. -Anthony

 

I'm a retired Coast Guard Naval Engineer CWO4, 26 years. For fun.......I work for the Va. Marine Resourses Commission as marine police officer on the Chesapeake Bay.

 

I design and build electronic surgical instruments. I work from my own shop/lab 50 yards from the house. I contract for a major medical/surgical instrument manufacturer. So far, it's makin' the payments on the CTD (and a little BOMB cash)!<br><br>I restore old farm tractors for fun.

 

I'm a freelance computer tech in Austria. Main customers in the automotive supply chain and related industries. I plan networks for them. Other projects are things like an adaptive energy management system for clustering small thermoelectric units. Especially interested in renewable energy. (My CTD drives on that stuff too). General problem solver for lots of folks. Have spent my time in the service (Austrian Air Force- a joke in itself if you compare it to the USAF), Spent some time in Africa building networks and founding a company for small power stations. Once upon a time I went to High school and did an apprenticeship as a mechanic in a tuning company. <br>Ans some other stuff, like organizing and driving medical help to enclosed cities during the war in former Yugoslavia etc... <br>Sorry for the long post- Java asked for it ;D<br>AlpineRAM

 

Hey rattle rattle, have you seen my collection on yesterdays tractors yet?

 

Assistant Fire Chief with 22.5 years on the job. Spare time I play with trains, watch the roundy rounders (NASCAR), and camp.<br><br><br>&quot;ACJC&quot;

 

[quote author=dieseldude4x4 link=board=10;threadid=5716;start=105#52965 date=1034679775]<br>Hey rattle rattle, have you seen my collection on yesterdays tractors yet?<br>[/quote]<br>I think I have seen every picture of every tractor on the WWW I will go there again and look around.

 

Senior Operations Support Engineer for the largest fleet of rental gas compressors on the planet. <br><br>Design engineered over 800 compressor packages in 10 years as design engineer, now I fix young engineers goof ups in the field. <br><br>Here is one of our largest: <br>Wartsila 18V34SG-CD. <br><br>Not Cummins and not diesel, but big anyway. <br><br>Natural Gas Fueled 13.385&quot; bore x 13.780&quot; stroke, 18 cylinder engine. 8,321 BHP @ 750 RPM. Pic taken at our customer's Moss Bluff Compressor station.<br><br><br>

 

Spent last 28 years building and maintaining golf courses in Arizona, Ohio and Florida. Oversaw constuction of 6 Jack Nicklaus design golf courses. Assembled several nationally televised golf tournaments including the Phoenix Open. The Memorial in Columbus Ohio and the first 2 Skins Games in Scottsdale. As well as first 2 senior golf tournaments called The Tradition in Scottsdale.<br>Still work full time hoping to retire soon and spend time riding my Missouri Fox Trotters and doing pack trips into the mountains. My wife and I go as much as we can, we take 2 mules w/, one for food and one for adult beverages ;D ;D Maybe will see one of you out on the trail someday.

 

me4osu: That shure looks like a nice one-(will it fit under the dodge hood ??? ;D ) I do some stuff for connecting small powerplants - 25 kW - 200kW... <br>Do you run biogas too? <br><br>AlpineRAM