Locomotive Thread
#109
10-12-2016, 11:49 PM
#110
10-13-2016, 12:58 AM
Fleet Mechanic
honestly i don't seek the updates, i run across it on youtube.
in other locomotive news, a few weeks ago i was in Santa Clarita behind the saugus cafe at the weekly R/C races and about 10pm ish on September 27th got a quick glance of live steam.
took a few minutes for me to come to sense what was happening at the grade crossing across the street, but after that i could hear them really laying into the whistle going around the bend towards the saugus speedway. all i knew was it was big! it was steam! and showing those 2 modern BNSF loco's who is boss.
3 weeks later (tonight) i find out what i saw and why it was passing through.
SBRHS 3751 TRAVELING TO ACTON FOR METROLINK PLATFORM DEDICATION - SBRHS
i found this to be a cool fact, "Noted earlier, this outing will be the first time in 24 years that a steam locomotive will operate north of Los Angeles. The last recorded time any steam locomotive traveled north of Los Angeles was in September of 1992 when Southern Pacific, 4-6-2 No. 2472 pulled the “Earth Train” from San Jose to Los Angeles and return. Breaking away at Burbank for the trip up the now Metrolink Antelope Valley Line (ex-Southern Pacific), a steam locomotive has not traveled this segment of the San Fernando Valley and through Soledad Canyon since 1984 – some 32 years ago. The last recorded time a steam engine traveled here was when Southern Pacific 4-8-4, No. 4449 traveled south with a train bound for the World’s Fair in New Orleans, Louisiana."
in other locomotive news, a few weeks ago i was in Santa Clarita behind the saugus cafe at the weekly R/C races and about 10pm ish on September 27th got a quick glance of live steam.
took a few minutes for me to come to sense what was happening at the grade crossing across the street, but after that i could hear them really laying into the whistle going around the bend towards the saugus speedway. all i knew was it was big! it was steam! and showing those 2 modern BNSF loco's who is boss.
3 weeks later (tonight) i find out what i saw and why it was passing through.
SBRHS 3751 TRAVELING TO ACTON FOR METROLINK PLATFORM DEDICATION - SBRHS
i found this to be a cool fact, "Noted earlier, this outing will be the first time in 24 years that a steam locomotive will operate north of Los Angeles. The last recorded time any steam locomotive traveled north of Los Angeles was in September of 1992 when Southern Pacific, 4-6-2 No. 2472 pulled the “Earth Train” from San Jose to Los Angeles and return. Breaking away at Burbank for the trip up the now Metrolink Antelope Valley Line (ex-Southern Pacific), a steam locomotive has not traveled this segment of the San Fernando Valley and through Soledad Canyon since 1984 – some 32 years ago. The last recorded time a steam engine traveled here was when Southern Pacific 4-8-4, No. 4449 traveled south with a train bound for the World’s Fair in New Orleans, Louisiana."
#116
10-27-2016, 11:21 PM
83 if I counted right. " Commbiiiinnnne Traaaaaain!"
Deere sold 7462 combines in '15, down from 13166 in 2011. See all the numbers in the many PDFs posted here:
https://investor.deere.com/our-compa...s/default.aspx
So what, combines are like you gotta have a new one every year or so, like the guys who swapped cars out like changing socks years ago? Nobody slugs their way through 10 seasons on combine? Hell, that's why you own a pickup ain't it, to make parts runs and then drive the parts out into the middle of the field, then drive back for a tool you forgot, etc.... Huh? OK.
Deere sold 7462 combines in '15, down from 13166 in 2011. See all the numbers in the many PDFs posted here:
https://investor.deere.com/our-compa...s/default.aspx
So what, combines are like you gotta have a new one every year or so, like the guys who swapped cars out like changing socks years ago? Nobody slugs their way through 10 seasons on combine? Hell, that's why you own a pickup ain't it, to make parts runs and then drive the parts out into the middle of the field, then drive back for a tool you forgot, etc.... Huh? OK.
#117
10-28-2016, 07:13 AM
#119
10-28-2016, 11:15 AM
Do many farmers own their own combines these days? Seems to me like most of the larger farms hire crews to come in and do the harvesting and hauling for them. No sense letting a combine sit around for 51 weeks per year.
Not a bad way to go IMO. Then your budget remains flat, and very little spent on maintenance. I've tried to do that myself, but with two vehicles traded every 8 years and alternating each financed for 4 years. But I always failed at it. Something unexpected always happens. And when the 8 year mark comes, I decide we don't really need to trade. Wait too long and then have to buy two.
Not a bad way to go IMO. Then your budget remains flat, and very little spent on maintenance. I've tried to do that myself, but with two vehicles traded every 8 years and alternating each financed for 4 years. But I always failed at it. Something unexpected always happens. And when the 8 year mark comes, I decide we don't really need to trade. Wait too long and then have to buy two.
