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Cle
06-01-10, 04:42 PM
This is what happens when it snows up here lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X_EcPThKdg

I went up to see it last night looks nutts lol

bmw156
06-01-10, 04:47 PM
WICKED.

only kidding. looks mental :)

Nova_Sean
06-01-10, 04:52 PM
Its full of stuff for tesco's, dad was saying.

He is a train driver and they have all had a text saying to keep applying the train brakes every 5mins or so, to keep them warm. Otherwise they freeze! Which is what is suspected to have happend in scotland!

Both drivers were unharmed and escaped with only minor injuries (Y)

draper
06-01-10, 05:06 PM
whoops, at least there ok

Mike
06-01-10, 05:11 PM
Rah, looks exactly the level called "Derail" on Modern Warfare 2 lol lol

Benn
06-01-10, 05:13 PM
Oddly it looks like its been looted all ready...

novalicous
06-01-10, 05:13 PM
cle did you go raiding the containers maybe so good stuff in there lol


i do not hold any responsabilitys if you are cought and arrested for thieft from containers lol

draper
06-01-10, 05:14 PM
Oddly it looks like its been looted all ready...

must of been full of whiskey

Jack
06-01-10, 05:14 PM
Nowt to do with the snow as such, more the cold freezing up some of the electrics. The train will be loaded with sand, of which I bet the driver was (or should have been!) spraying on the track like a maniac!

I've seen 66's up close hauling hundred-long trains of hardcore out of Whatley. Never seen one move faster than about 15 mph lol

Its funny, in the summer they don't drive them as its too hot (no air con), and in the winter they fall over. Pretty useless loco really!

Cle
06-01-10, 05:18 PM
cle did you go raiding the containers maybe so good stuff in there lol


i do not hold any responsabilitys if you are cought and arrested for thieft from containers lol

Not yet lol there was loads of police there when i was up lol

Nova_Sean
06-01-10, 05:20 PM
lol at ^^

That crash was due to driver error. Not the Loco!

Aslef are working on getting air con into the cabs of the class 66 & many other locos, but due to limited space in the cab its hard to find a place for it to live.

MK999
06-01-10, 05:29 PM
Rah, looks exactly the level called "Derail" on Modern Warfare 2 lol lol

Does look freakily similar lol

Bubba
06-01-10, 06:03 PM
lol at ^^

That crash was due to driver error. Not the Loco!

Aslef are working on getting air con into the cabs of the class 66 & many other locos, but due to limited space in the cab its hard to find a place for it to live.

they though of maybe....opening a window lol

Rich
06-01-10, 06:16 PM
Does look freakily similar lol

Was going to say exactly the same thing lol!

mowgli
06-01-10, 06:37 PM
lol at ^^

That crash was due to driver error. Not the Loco!

Aslef are working on getting air con into the cabs of the class 66 & many other locos, but due to limited space in the cab its hard to find a place for it to live.

if a sodding ford Ka can have it, a hundred foot long train can easily have it!!!!

dannyb
06-01-10, 06:59 PM
How will they get a 130 tonne loco out of the woods?!


Aslef are working on getting air con into the cabs of the class 66 & many other locos, but due to limited space in the cab its hard to find a place for it to live.

I love it that there are so many people who are knowledgeable about trains on here - they are a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine and love getting the train up here where there's freight (there was nowt round where I used to live!). Saw a snowplough at Carlisle and the mrs couldn't understand what the excitement was about!

mowgli
06-01-10, 07:06 PM
How will they get a 130 tonne loco out of the woods?!



I love it that there are so many people who are knowledgeable about trains on here - they are a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine and love getting the train up here where there's freight (there was nowt round where I used to live!). Saw a snowplough at Carlisle and the mrs couldn't understand what the excitement was about!

i once worked for a firm who repainted them in a yard in leicester. Vic Berry's for the rail enthusiasts.. i was only there for a few months till i found out just where the asbestos they stripped from rolling stock was being put... I handed my notice in straight away & was gone on the friday... lets just say that there are a lot more people in leicester who were exposed to asbestos than should have been.....

Nova_Sean
06-01-10, 07:16 PM
if a sodding ford Ka can have it, a hundred foot long train can easily have it!!!! but the cab is only about 5 foot tops from the window to the engine room! Theyre so cramped, and the seats are, or were so uncomfortable! danny, i have a lil room for trains to thanks to dad! Class 37 for me all the way. Has to be a block head loco, with a plow, in ews livery!

mowgli
06-01-10, 07:18 PM
but the cab is only about 5 foot tops from the window to the engine room! Theyre so cramped, and the seats are, or were so uncomfortable! danny, i have a lil room for trains to thanks to dad! Class 37 for me all the way. Has to be a block head loco, with a plow, in ews livery!

you can buy electric aircon units that fit in a cubic foot....and you can't tell me that all of the space in a train cab is taken up with control equipment, there is a panel somewhere that one would fit in.

Andy
06-01-10, 07:28 PM
What about the lager?

Jack
06-01-10, 08:30 PM
Honk lol

http://www.freefoto.com/images/23/12/23_12_2---Royal-Scotsman-liveried-Class-37-37416-at-Thornaby_web.jpg

I used to like 37s when I was a kid as they had a big "nose" lol

My dad does a lot of work with deltics

http://www.nwrail.org.uk/jh55019.jpg

and westerns

http://www.tauntontrains.co.uk/Archive-Images/52s/d1010-d1015-16-06-07-1Z53-MINEHEAD-PADD-BICKNOLLER.jpg

Nova_Sean
06-01-10, 09:16 PM
i prefere this front end

http://www.kentrail.co.uk/Class%2037%20001.jpg

novalicous
06-01-10, 09:17 PM
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/03/trainspotting.jpg

mowgli
06-01-10, 09:48 PM
the honk of a type 37 horn is awesome in a spray booth on a night shift....

I used to have to paint the cab interiors & we'd wait till some kid was painting the buffers & let it rip...... i've seen paint tins involuntarily come up past the windscreen.. bloody good job we could lock the doors

Benn
06-01-10, 10:05 PM
Train crash to train spotting geeks... Oh dear.

MattBrown
06-01-10, 10:07 PM
Get stuff off it!

(I hold no responsibility)

Benn
06-01-10, 10:09 PM
Snow?^
Birds?
Trees?

Hobbit
07-01-10, 05:27 AM
coughs and sneezles spread disiesels

dannyb
07-01-10, 11:22 AM
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i246/dannyblo/DSCF2075.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i246/dannyblo/DSCF2050.jpg

Westerns and Class 08s with the stripy ends FTW. 37s and 58s are pretty sweet too as I had toys of them in blue and railfreight colours :)