Model Railroad Rock

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Model Railroad Rock

Model Railroad Rock

Rock Roll Star Trivia Question?What well known rocker is a devoted Model Railroader, who is a part owner of Lionel, and has several patents for Model railroading products for autistic and disabled kids? Note: I don't know...I just think this is a fun fact. LOL XCELLENT! You will get the 10 points. Neil got into Model railroading as a way to bond with his disabled kid. He is a quality guy...and one hell of a shredder. I bow my Lefty Merle Haggard Telecaster and Lefty Rick 620 in his direction! BTW, Springsteen is also a BIG Model railroading guy! So is Billy Joel. ooops, forgot Waterman...a major Model RR geek. LOL OMIGOD! How could I leave out the Oz? I am ashamed! [ Read More ]

How Do You Figure Out A Diesel-electric's Tractive Effort?I am building a Model Railroad with a ruling grade of 3 - 3.5%. Time is early fall 1979 (or late winter 1981). My roster consists of 3 GP9s outfitted with 567D3A prime movers rated 2500hp. 2 Alco PAs and 3 PBs outfitted with 1800hp 251 prime movers, and 3 to 10 SD35s. My trains will consist of 2-12 cars + caboose. I would like to run up to 45 car trains. Most traffic will consist of lumber/forestry products, automotive, and Rock from the 3 online quarries. I found an army site with some equasions HPx30= starting Tractive Effort : HPx300/speed=TE and No of Cars = TE/ [3+(20xruling Grade%)]xWeight of cars Also included was tables for weight of car taking into accout friction and drag like a 70Ton car would be 105 in the equation and a 120T would be 160 Tons. Does this sound right? or do I need to find a table somewhere with similar grades and use their TE tables or what? Thanks in advance for any help provided. [ Read More ]

Last For Today...Are You Happy Lol?A redneck walks into a hardware store and asks for a chain saw that will cut 6 trees in one hour. The salesman recommends the top of the line model. The redneck is suitably impressed, and buys it. The next day he brings it back and says, 'This chain saw is defective. It would only cut down 1 tree and it took all damn day!' The salesman takes the chain saw, starts it up to see what's wrong, and the puzzled redneck says, 'Hey, how did you make that noise?” 2.....So there are two guys walking through the desert, and they happen upon a hole that they can't see the bottom of. So one says to the other, 'Let's see how deep it goes.' So they pick up a small rock, and toss it in. No sound. So they get a really big rock, heft it over to the hole, and toss it in. Again, no sound. So they come across a Railroad tie. Now I don't know if any of you have ever been up close and personal with a Railroad tie, but they're huge. Anyway, so they toss it down the hole. And then, out of nowhere a goat comes running and jumps in the hole! 'Wow. That was really weird,' one says to the other. A short time later a desert farmer (he grows sand or something) comes walking up and says, 'Have you guys seen my goat?' 'Oh, no,' says one guy. 'It was really strange. I don't know how to tell you this, sir, but your goat just came running out of nowhere and jumped in this hole.' 'But that's impossible,' says the farmer. 'I had him tied to a Railroad tie!' 3.....When the driver of a huge tractor-trailer lost control of his rig, he plowed into an empty tollbooth and smashed it to pieces. He climbed down from the wreckage and within a matter of minutes, a truck pulled up and discharged a crew of workers. The men picked up each broken piece of the former tollbooth and spread some kind of creamy substance on it. Then they began fitting the pieces together. In less than a half hour, they had the entire tollbooth reconstructed and looking good as new. 'Astonishing!' the truck driver said to the crew chief. 'What was the white stuff you used to get all the pieces together?' The crew chief said, 'Oh, that was tollgate booth paste.' Ah yes, telling jokes makes me feel like a twenty year old...problem is there is never one around! [ Read More ]

Model Railroad Rock