Only in Canada?

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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby Chacal » Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:52 pm

Bah that's just a little flurry.
I bet they didn't even close the schools.
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby thecanadianrail » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:54 pm

meh, just another usual summer day......
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby roinuj » Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:37 am

Man that's nothing. You should see what it takes to shut down Toronto. Everything comes to a halt with 1" of snow. Nothing but Snow-mageddon chaos!!! !*roll-laugh*!
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby 1225fan5358 » Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:43 am

At first you think I cool a snowplow. Wait, ITS AN ES44!!
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby donjgatlin » Sat Mar 23, 2013 12:22 pm

This happens in the US, too. Mainly in the plains where you can see intense bursts of snowfall and there isn't enough traffic or snow plows to keep the line open. That will be a tough one to dig out! !*roll-laugh*!
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby arizonachris » Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:09 pm

That's a stuck engine, not a rotary? Holy crap. Where I live, we don't get snow. Maybe a little hail, some ice on a really cold day. No snow. To me, that's a lot of snow! !*hp*!
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby dejoh » Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:12 am

Thats why lots of people move to Arizona. !DUH! !!jabber!!
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby jmslakings » Sun Mar 24, 2013 6:58 pm

dejoh wrote:Thats why lots of people move to Arizona. !DUH! !!jabber!!


All you folks back east in the snow wanting to know where Spring is at? Look out west, we already done had Spring and already started Summer. *!rolleyes!* !*not-ok*!
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby Noel » Sun Mar 24, 2013 8:11 pm

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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby amtrack505 » Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:59 am

jmslakings wrote:
dejoh wrote:Thats why lots of people move to Arizona. !DUH! !!jabber!!


All you folks back east in the snow wanting to know where Spring is at? Look out west, we already done had Spring and already started Summer. *!rolleyes!* !*not-ok*!



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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby NDORFN » Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:04 am

They're not going fast enough. Here's how we do it in NZ...



PS There's no plough on the front of that DX. They just ram the square end through at speed.
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby BNSFdude » Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:07 am

NDORFN,
that's a great way to get a ground fault from shorting your traction motors!
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby NDORFN » Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:20 am

Doesn't seem to be a problem for them !*don-know!*
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby BNSFdude » Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:17 pm

Odd! I know here on our plow trains they stick 2 or more locomotives on it in case one gets snow in the motors and it GF Relays.
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Re: Only in Canada?

Unread postby NDORFN » Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:29 pm

Makes me wonder how they get away with it too. They're a GE U26E ( a narrow gauge version of the U23C, which is very close to the U30C), so maybe the fact that the traction motors are much closer in on the body than standard gauge might be a factor.
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