Last Post Wins - V3

[Electrojake]

Yes a bit of mechanical sympathy is advantages when you own a bike a bit of self diagnosis is necessary

People that are afraid of heights shouldn't sky-dive.

People that get motion sickness shouldn't work fishing trawlers.

People that cant wrench shouldn't... well, you know the rest. 

[jestercinti]

True, but people that don't wrench ask Jester a lot of questions.  Most people know that a clicking noise means dead battery.  It means that the solenoid doesn't have enough oomph to engage the gears.

And then there's people that I work with.  I'm at an office where all you need to know is Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel...so it makes sense that not all people are mechanical like Slips and the Narrow Gauge Goald Coast Australian Railroad.

[jestercinti]

...And EJ and the PATH and NJ Transit or wherever he works.

[Electrojake]

True, but people that don't wrench ask Jester a lot of questions. 

...so it makes sense that not all people are mechanical like Slips and the Narrow Gauge Gold Coast Australian Railroad.

Narrow gauge... WTF? Real trains roll on 56.5 inches.
The standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.
Long story but it's true.

Also... Real locomotives run on 27,500 volts AC.



... Get constant maintenance & inspections.




Like old school?  See the EMD GP40 below. No catenary required!
A smokey, stinky, noisy, rolling eco-disaster
Something Slips would be comfortable around...
 

[jestercinti]

I think I know where EJ wors now.  Took the train once from Basking Ridge, NJ into NYC.  Changed trains in Summit I think then the Path maybe into Manhattan?  12 years ago.  Been drunk since then.

Got me there on time.

[Electrojake]

Yeah jester.
You don't remember it but you got off the train at Hoboken Terminal on the Jersey side, walked down a long flight of stairs to the PATH (subway), and then rode under the Hudson River into Manhattan.

It's OK. We specialize in "drunk transport" services. 

[jestercinti]

Hoboken sounds familiar. Yep. Me thinks that's how I got from here to there and there to here (or something)

[Electrojake]

Cool beans man! It must of been one hell of a bender you were on.

[slipperymongoose]

Actually jester we now have 5 or 6 gauges in Queensland. Narrow gauge to cover most of the state for its main rail network and the Brisbane suburban network. Standard gauge on the main line south from a place called acacia ridge to link us to nsw it runs in tandem with the narrow gauge network. The Gold Coast light rail project runs on a gauge that looks to be standard gauge width but could possibly be closer to broad gauge. And around nambour, bundaberg and most of north and far North Queensland to service the sugar mills and sugar cane farms we have at least 2 gauges of sugar cane rails which are not much further than a foot between rails.

[Electrojake]

143.5 centimeters anyone? 

[peteGS]

Ugh... Slips said Acacia Ridge... ugh... I grew up there... ugh... 

Don't tell anyone... 

[slipperymongoose]

Is that standard or broad gauge? And first post back after the outage. Where I work we measure the distance between wheel flanges

[yamahonkawazuki]

Yep, similar happened to me at work a little while back.

Go out to go home and find a young fella trying to start his (what looked like) brand new FZ something and it would click and do nothing. He had no idea about the battery etc. so another guy out there ended up giving him a towing guy's number... a few days later the bike was back out there again so I assume he got it sorted 

I run into the wtf is a battery ppl nearly constantly. you know how hard it is for me to NOT tell them " its beside the blinkerfluid reservoir?"

[slipperymongoose]

Oh my god

[Toledo Jim]

Keep









thread









live









please









.









Thank









you









.



















Jim

[peteGS]

Live? yeah... live...

[Electrojake]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
win? 

[slipperymongoose]

Come on ej we had some good railway chat going on here

[Electrojake]

Come on ej we had some good railway chat going on here

Sometime after the US Civil War all the railroads agreed (for the sake of profit) to make all of North America 56 and a half inches as the standard gauge so all railroads could (eventually) be connected together throughout the continent.

Unlike Europe & England, the US is all one "standard" gauge.
There are a few other gauges still here but they are small, private, or historical lines.
And yes Slips, I do believe that is measured flange to flange here in the US too.



WIN 

[Electrojake]

Slips, click this link, then once you get on the page, click on the photograph of the train-car and a 16 slide presentation will begin.
It may take about 10 or 15 seconds to load and start.
Hope it works.

http://erausa.org/trips-and-events/2012/04-14.html