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Title: Check this out...my new job
Post by: uptown on April 19, 2012, 07:12:39 PM: I start here on Monday as a locomotive mechanic. I'll be tearing the engines down and rebuilding them.

Anyway I was surfing the YouTube and what do ya know.....a video for my work place!

http://youtu.be/xm4xWsg2pGQ

http://youtu.be/Pi7i8Y6K3Rw
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Post by: RTHolmes on April 19, 2012, 07:18:38 PM: mmmm locos and BIG engines :)

congrats on the new job :aok
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Post by: SIK1 on April 19, 2012, 07:22:20 PM: Congrats! :cheers:

I've always thought that would be a great job. :aok
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Post by: uptown on April 19, 2012, 07:24:40 PM: Thanks :) It's hard to find a good job around these parts with only a high school diploma and 1 yr of junior college. Finally after 30 years of buying tools and working in small garages, it's going to pay off. I actually can't wait to get in there and get all greasy lol, I haven't said that in a long time. :x
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Post by: Meatwad on April 19, 2012, 07:31:32 PM: Railroad pron!

Im jealous, I loved trains all my life
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Post by: Hawk78th on April 19, 2012, 07:50:40 PM: You're gonna need Bigger Wrenches.... just saying....

:cheers:
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Post by: F22RaptorDude on April 19, 2012, 08:16:10 PM: :cheers: I envy you, I wish I was gifted with knowledge of mechanics
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Post by: curry1 on April 19, 2012, 08:22:01 PM: That looks really cool.
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Post by: Anodizer on April 20, 2012, 12:56:58 AM: Perhaps I could send you my 6 year old for a week... I'd bet you he could look and tell you every model of locomotive present in any rail yard....
It all started with Thomas and Friends 4 years ago.. And now, he wants to work on, in, around trains.... He does train sims like we do AH... lol
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Post by: F22RaptorDude on April 20, 2012, 01:26:43 AM: Since everyone is posting about jobs, I too got a job :D Factory work, pouring plastic molds 6 hours a day 6 days a week, pays good though, 8.50 an hour :rock
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Post by: Meatwad on April 20, 2012, 07:24:29 AM: Quote from: Anodizer on April 20, 2012, 12:56:58 AM
Perhaps I could send you my 6 year old for a week... I'd bet you he could look and tell you every model of locomotive present in any rail yard....
It all started with Thomas and Friends 4 years ago.. And now, he wants to work on, in, around trains.... He does train sims like we do AH... lol

I have MS Train Simulator, that game is fun to mess around with
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Post by: Shuffler on April 20, 2012, 08:07:00 AM: We fabricate panels, tool boxes, battery boxes, spark arrestors, and more for locomotive industry. This among many other things in our shop. We also do tank car parts.

The locomotive repair shops have thinned out the last few years.
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Post by: Meatwad on April 20, 2012, 09:23:14 AM: NRE has a big shop 20 miles from here.

Here is a link that has a decent number of locomotive pictures from that site plus other shots taken throughout town

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locThumbs.aspx?id=39114&Page=1
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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 20, 2012, 02:08:21 PM: Glad for you man :cheers:
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Post by: JOACH1M on April 20, 2012, 02:33:20 PM: Nice!? Now how much does each engine block weigh? 5,00 pounds? Lmao
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Post by: Shuffler on April 20, 2012, 03:29:34 PM: Quote from: JOACH1M on April 20, 2012, 02:33:20 PM
Nice!? Now how much does each engine block weigh? 5,00 pounds? Lmao

The diesels are there solely to chage the batteries. The power is all electric.
Title: Re: Check this out...my new job
Post by: uptown on April 20, 2012, 04:17:35 PM: Quote from: JOACH1M on April 20, 2012, 02:33:20 PM
Nice!? Now how much does each engine block weigh? 5,00 pounds? Lmao
The engines are V12s and weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 lbs a piece. I'm guessing the block alone is 15,000 without the crank and pistons. They put out about 3400 hp to run a generator that puts out around 4500 amps to charge the batteries and run 4 electric drive motors ,.... that's what turns the wheels, not the Diesel engine like most folks think.
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Post by: RTHolmes on April 20, 2012, 04:33:52 PM: batteries? I always thought the generator output went straight to the traction motors. :headscratch:
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Post by: uptown on April 20, 2012, 04:42:27 PM: Quote from: RTHolmes on April 20, 2012, 04:33:52 PM
batteries? I always thought the generator output went straight to the traction motors. :headscratch:
The batteries provides the electric to the starter to start the diesel engine or engines depending on the train. The big passenger trains have 2 V12s. 1 provides power for the generator for the drive motors and the other provides power to a smaller generator for the rest of the trains' electrical needs. Freight trains don't need the smaller generator as they don't have to power all the lights and things that come with pulling passenger cars.

But I may be wrong. I don't start work until Monday at 7am :D
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Post by: RTHolmes on April 20, 2012, 04:44:29 PM: ahh ok. pretty beefy batteries then I imagine :)
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Post by: uptown on April 20, 2012, 05:04:11 PM: About a ton a piece. How many you need depends on the locomotive.
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Post by: RTHolmes on April 20, 2012, 05:08:30 PM: I watched the 2nd vid - that is a busy depot! must have been 30 engines there :aok
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Post by: HL117 on April 20, 2012, 11:19:27 PM: Congrats Up wtg, looks like fun .......

HL
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Post by: KgB on April 21, 2012, 04:22:16 PM: Quote from: F22RaptorDude on April 19, 2012, 08:16:10 PM
:cheers: I envy you, I wish I was gifted with knowledge of mechanics
Don't envy. There is millions of us, doesn't mean we all gifted.
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Post by: icepac on April 21, 2012, 07:15:06 PM: Don't wear any jewelry.
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Post by: gunnss on April 22, 2012, 08:44:27 AM: LOL here is my clubs site, we have a parallel 2 cylinder engine, 5480 hp Grin. Go check out the photo section.

http://www.nmslrhs.org/

Regards,
Kevin
Title: Re: Check this out...my new job
Post by: uptown on April 22, 2012, 11:44:27 AM: Quote from: gunnss on April 22, 2012, 08:44:27 AM
LOL here is my clubs site, we have a parallel 2 cylinder engine, 5480 hp Grin. Go check out the photo section.

http://www.nmslrhs.org/

Regards,
Kevin

Is that pic in the V.I.P. photos? The train behind Gov. Richardson is huge :O 80" drive wheels? lol man