Burnout

[NDORFN]

Laid down some... STEEL!

http://www.flyerguide.net/photo/394882

[imnew]

Whoa ! That is what i call a serious burnout

[SMMDigital]

"Are you seein' this?"

"Yeah, looks like someone bagged one of Ripley's bad guys."

[imnew]

"Are you seein' this?"

"Yeah, looks like someone bagged one of Ripley's bad guys."

Just a note... One of the best movies ever made, Alien and Aliens are still awesome to watch. Cant wait for Prometheus

Sorry off topic, just had to comment .

[SMMDigital]

Seriously, it looks like an acid burn. Now i've seen photos of rails that were supposedly melted half way through by locomotives sitting still. Is that for real or should I suppose the photos were doctored?

[NDORFN]

Doctored? You can fully see where he dropped the clutch and which direction he was heading as he feathered the brakes.

[Csxgp38-2]

Speaking of burnouts, so F799 is coming north into Apex, he rounds the blind curve, there's trespassers on an adjacent track 100 feet north of the train, which is moving at around 40 mph. Suddenly an idiot does a burnout right after going over the crossing, blocking the engineer's view with smoke. Anyone see a potential for disaster here? 40 mph train, engineer blinded by smoke, he already had no vision of the track ahead due to the blind curve, and trespassers are fouling the second track. Luckily nothing bad happened, but this could've:
"Hey, do you hear a train?" *looks down track* "I don't see a train, hey look at that truck doing a burnout!!" *Train appears out of smoke* *engineer just now sees trespassers and has about 5 seconds to go into emergency, not nearly enough time to stop...* And that, my friends, is how accidents occur, numerous events line up caused by stupid people and bad choices.

[SMMDigital]

Doctored? You can fully see where he dropped the clutch and which direction he was heading as he feathered the brakes.

Sorry, I need to clarify. Im not questioning the photo in this thread, but the one I saw where the tracks were melted three or four inches deep with slag piled around the edges. This example is from chickencrap.com.

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[NDORFN]

It's gotta be fake. Surely the wheel would've welded to the track. Real or not, I think we have a burnout comp winner

[NDORFN]

Speaking of burnouts, so F799 is coming north into Apex, he rounds the blind curve, there's trespassers on an adjacent track 100 feet north of the train, which is moving at around 40 mph. Suddenly an idiot does a burnout right after going over the crossing, blocking the engineer's view with smoke. Anyone see a potential for disaster here? 40 mph train, engineer blinded by smoke, he already had no vision of the track ahead due to the blind curve, and trespassers are fouling the second track. Luckily nothing bad happened, but this could've:
"Hey, do you hear a train?" *looks down track* "I don't see a train, hey look at that truck doing a burnout!!" *Train appears out of smoke* *engineer just now sees trespassers and has about 5 seconds to go into emergency, not nearly enough time to stop...* And that, my friends, is how accidents occur, numerous events line up caused by stupid people and bad choices.

Yep. Never understood the purpose of a burnout. But aslong as there are cars with tyres on them, people will do 'em.

[Csxgp38-2]

Looks real to me, looks like it even loosened some spikes nearby. Likely the locomotive had to be pulled out.

[ArcticCatZRT]

Yep. Never understood the purpose of a burnout. But aslong as there are cars with tyres on them, people will do 'em.

Here is my rational, and this is definitely going to go off-topic

For me, I enjoy the smell of burnt rubber, and it gives me quite a adrenaline rush. For me though I usually do a burn out once in a blue moon, usually when I am on a back country road with no one in site. Apart from being just for fun, I do burn outs when racing at the drag strip as a way to heat the tires and gain more grip when launching.

Alright, carry on with proper discussion.

[SMMDigital]

I don't do burnouts (cars), not because its not fun because it is, but because tires cost $200 per and I try to run them until the tread falls off.

Back to topic, you would think that some damage would be caused to the locomotive wheel as well. I think this problem could easily solved by groving the wheel and putting a giant rubber band in the groove. It worked for years for Bachmann.

[NDORFN]

I don't do burnouts (cars), not because its not fun because it is, but because tires cost $200 per and I try to run them until the tread falls off.

Back to topic, you would think that some damage would be caused to the locomotive wheel as well. I think this problem could easily solved by groving the wheel and putting a giant rubber band in the groove. It worked for years for Bachmann.

If they did that on all wheels trains would be alot quieter... which would suck.

[Chacal]

groving the wheel and putting a giant rubber band in the groove. It worked for years for Bachmann.

You just brought back an unpleasant memory from 30 years ago.