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Offline CG6468

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Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« on: January 22, 2012, 11:13:17 PM »
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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2012, 05:10:19 AM »
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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2012, 07:51:01 AM »
That IS pretty cool. I never thought much about how train track is laid these days, but I can't imagine they're still driving spikes with sledges too much anymore.
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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2012, 09:01:18 AM »
That IS pretty cool. I never thought much about how train track is laid these days, but I can't imagine they're still driving spikes with sledges too much anymore.

I want to know how one gets a job doing this, driving the huge machines that lay the track.  The engineers that built and designed this amazing thing are one thing, but who is in the cab making it work.?

Same old mantra here, with overtime and the pay scale, the labores who man the cabs may be making more then the engineers. 12 years of college and the good old boy with out a GED may be bringing in more money then them.

To top it off it will be the workers that alert the educated on a problem they had not envisioned. 

   Sort of like when a young kid right out of the Academy has to be seasoned by the Sargent's or Chiefs in the real world.

In the film there was one man whose job was to place some sort of divice on each  piece that rolled by him, wonder what he was paid for that complicated job that a 10 year old could do.

Interesting device, but more interesting were the people that ran the device, and how they ever learned the skill to do so.

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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2012, 10:00:59 AM »
I want to know how one gets a job doing this, driving the huge machines that lay the track.  The engineers that built and designed this amazing thing are one thing, but who is in the cab making it work.?

Same old mantra here, with overtime and the pay scale, the labores who man the cabs may be making more then the engineers. 12 years of college and the good old boy with out a GED may be bringing in more money then them.

Railroad/locomotive engineers, through on-the-job training with what is essentially an apprenticeship, followed by licensing exams.

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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2012, 10:11:33 AM »
Railroad/locomotive engineers, through on-the-job training with what is essentially an apprenticeship, followed by licensing exams.

BS for quoting Vesta.

That is pretty neat.
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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2012, 11:20:29 AM »
BS for quoting Vesta.

That is pretty neat.

What are you talking about? 

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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2012, 12:35:00 PM »
What are you talking about? 

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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2012, 05:10:44 PM »
This is the type of track that's been put in along the N. F. Feather river. I have to walk the tracks to fish the river. I fish the river ALOT and have seen the transition from the old wood ties to the concrete "snap in" style over the years. One thing however, when they break a tie it apparently is a bigger problem. The old wood ties would just get kinda munched up (from derails), but now the concrete ones actually break in half. I see the RR fixing sections of track all the time.

One other thing perplexes me, normally the gaps in the track, from section to section, will take up any thermal expansion. Now the tracks seem to be continuously welded, but they don't have any expansion problems.  :???:
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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2012, 07:40:35 PM »
you know how many jobs that thing has killed! :panic:


the vibrating packer spikes at the end are my favorite.

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Re: Ever See A Train Lay It's Own Track?
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2012, 10:06:37 AM »
you know how many jobs that thing has killed! :panic:


the vibrating packer spikes at the end are my favorite.


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