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Yeah, absolutely correct ofcourse but I used the term Dynamic braking because that's what GE market it as and every locomotive so fitted in America aswel, but it is the same thing. As an aside, I've been modelling American railroad practise for 10 years now and Ive never once heard it referred...

Its dynamic braking. Being abit of a north American railroad nut, its fairly familiar to me as more or less every kind of modern traction in America is fitted with dynamic brakes. The size of their freights make then a necessity rather than an option. The traction motors are turned into...

Not bad. I done the same out of GQS with 40061 back in 1980 on an all line rover, I don't remember jack **** about it now though, so long ago!:(

Non turbo EMD. :cool: This has to be the best sounding naturally aspirated V8 lump on the planet! Get a load of this bad ass! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl8X2-sesnY&index=60&list=LLMKlE9XhHaMu9-1K0lOp2zA

Agree with that fella, proper freight trains with proper locomotives driven by 'engineers' with chrome balls!!:twisted: It always amazes me to think that those mid-train helpers, or rear end helpers for that matter, were manned!! **** that for a game of soldiers, you'd need a respirator!!!:lol:

The Toffee Apples were the small sub class of 31/0's that were built as pilot scheme loco's for the rest of the standard class. They were equipped with a power handle that looked like a toffee apple apparently! Also the unique electro magnetic coupling code was a red circle, maybe that was the...

And doesn't it look so much better than those Virgin poo-tubes we now have to endure!

The best class 50 window hang video on youtube (with no wind noise!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afdNyFcs76U Plus, you think EMD's are dull??? Think again- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXpTRpn_fuQ&index=1&list=FLMKlE9XhHaMu9-1K0lOp2zA Checkout the 4 th locomotive's cab window and...

Ive not seen the current form myself, but is that it??? :o:o

I agree. If a person of lets say in their 30's and 40's goes for the job and of whom could have some very serious and useful life skills, I don't think what they did in a doss house (school) 30 odd years ago is an accurate rendition of their character or what they are capable of now!

I done them 15 years ago with Virgin and they were £400 back then. Wouldn't be surprised if they were nearly double that now!

I very much doubt you will have to sit them again. IIRC your passes are valid for 4 years no matter who the TOC / FOC maybe! Sit back and enjoy the ride!:D

HAHA! Oh boy oh boy! I was trying to make light of it son! As I said, I meant no malice, where was the derogatory remark in my post?? It sounds like you've had a very successful sense of humour by pass! You need to work on your attitude son. You'l certainly not get very far in the rail...

You newbies have gota realise that the railway is a totally different ball game to anything you've ever done before. Its like an institution. I mean absolutely no malice in that comment either! Here, we do things differently. Its the right way, the wrong way and the railway! :lol:

Your welcome chaps!

Absolutely correct. Its the wheels passing over a block joint aka IRJ- Insulated rail joint used for track circuit blocks. Its a much different noise to shoe gear hitting the ramps in the earlier video's.

Ive made a schematic to show how and why we use adjustment switches. Ive colour coded the rails to show what parts of the rail is stressed / under tension. GREEN is unstressed. This could be a piece of jointed track or in the case of the picture, there is some S&C out of shot to the right...

No because the rails are machined so that gauge is not effected. They are also monitored and inspected regularly to guard against them closing or opening to much. The overlap is measured as is the gaps according to the ambient and rail temp. If the track it buts onto is maintained the way it...

Made me chuckle at the reference to "must hold at least 5 GCSE's of A-C grade". I cant even remember how many I got let alone finding a 30 year old slip of paper from school!:lol:

Im a team leader / track chargeman for Network rail, Ive been on the railway for just shy of 20 years. Ive watched those video's in your examples and Yabbadabba is absolutely correct. The noise you hear is the shoe gear striking the con rail ramps. At speed if you watch them, you'll see them...