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Other Narrow Gauge / Re: Rockport Lime Company
« on: September 17, 2021, 03:02:55 PM »
The locomotive on display at Rockport was purchased from the Kovalchick salvage folks. It has no Rockport history at all.
Keith
Keith
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QuoteIt is also planned to modify our home-built Beatty-style flanging machine to serve as a brake...
As in a train brake? We have to toss it out the end of the car like an anchor.
Hello ! Have the AMTP just got a new steamlocomotive? For further information give a look at my fb page.Alain,
"Rock the house" sort of refers to a party with loud music, or other loud, boisterous gathering.Originally it referred to a boisterous crowd at a venue like a theater.
The terms trig and sprag go back to the terms used when securing a horse drawn wagon’s wheels.
I would also comment, Alain, that railroading has its own vocabulary, and even its own regional words and phrases. For example, in New England, a device to hold a rail vehicle in place is called a "trig," while in the mid-Atlantic the same thing is called a "chock." Some railroaders refer to it as a "block," and I've heard some railroaders also call it a "sprag."
Unless I've missed something but what the use of spreading hay around the pavillon ?.
First day of production on No 11 today with the clanging machine used to flange 8 components for the rear frame.I wish I had a “clanging” machine! But I suspect I would need hearing protection......
I understand that car manufacturers are considering placing the “high beam” switch back down on the floor of the car. Too many people have been getting their foot caught in the steering wheel!
How about the starter button on the floor and the timing advance on the steering column that looks like a blinker lever?
Brian W.