I’ve been told stopping precisely is probably the hardest part of doing all this. You need to be delicate with cars or otherwise you can damage the cargo, not to mention endanger the people (called brakemen?) doing the coupling and decoupling.
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That’s it! Check it out if you have a chance – it’s a Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA. (Wish I could talk to my grandpa Kazimierz about all of this.)pic.twitter.com/d7Bn0ltWaz – at Western Pacific Railroad Museum
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Oh, wait! I just saw Bill filmed more things, like this exact sequence of events needed to happen before you start running. This is by the end, where I had it all memorized:pic.twitter.com/eaj8JsURG6
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Warning bell on Direction switch forward Horn signal two short Check mirrors Throttle from idle to 1 Release brake Warning bell off Throttle to 2 (Write it down somewhere, you know, just in case.)
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This was otherwise an unexpected coda to a day that started with me just wanting to hike around some beautiful lakes in a place recommended by a complete random stranger some time back. Morals of the story, I guess: Stop and visit a local museum! And… erm… talk to strangers?pic.twitter.com/qku1OX3QSu
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(My next goal is to find a railway museum where a tour guide could explain all of the strange markings and words on train cars and locomotives, and the stories behind them.)pic.twitter.com/ljdO9GurWW – at Western Pacific Railroad Museum
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Museums are great. https://twitter.com/darkgreendesk/status/1020673013866467328 …
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Oh, wow, @ForeverAgile tells me those coloured bars are called KarTrak, and are an abandoned scheme for train barcodes… aaaaand of course
@ShortFormErnie already wrote about it at some point:https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv38wp/how-the-railroad-industry-invented-then-immediately-discarded-the-barcode …Show this thread
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That dining car supply list is my JAM. Three kinds of olives, 6 kinds of crackers, two kinds of PEAS. ONE SANDWICH WTF I need to know about that sandwich.
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And watermelon pickles, I cannot for the life of me place this thing to a year.
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