Topic: I drove a BART train (Read 8807 times)

Minime · « **Reply #25 on:** July 03, 2008, 15:02:18 »

do you have license for that thing

llamalord · « **Reply #26 on:** July 03, 2008, 16:13:47 »

Nope.

They're going to send me some manuals to read before I do it though.

trains · « **Reply #27 on:** July 03, 2008, 17:10:01 »

this is the engine i drove. very powerful. i drove two of them in a line of four engines. it was awsome. i couldn't go too fast as we were in the yard.

Minime · « **Reply #28 on:** July 03, 2008, 17:11:29 »

how do you manage to get to drive those trains, I thought they had very strong rules about trains

llamalord · « **Reply #29 on:** July 03, 2008, 17:12:34 »

That looks more like an SD90-Mac loco. $:-\$ I'll trust you though.

That has upwards of 4,000 hp if I'm right about the type.

trains · « **Reply #30 on:** July 03, 2008, 17:21:07 »

Quote from: Minime on July 03, 2008, 17:11:29

how do you manage to get to drive those trains, I thought they had very strong rules about trains

they do. i was forutnete enough to get to drive it. i will get the pic of me standing on the front of the engine. i got to wear a hard hat

Quote from: llamalord on July 03, 2008, 17:12:34

That looks more like an SD90-Mac loco. $:-\$ I'll trust you though.

That has upwards of 4,000 hp if I'm right about the type.

where do you see one of those here in MA? i've only seen the SD40-2, AC4400, GP38, and shockingly, a Union Pacific Dash-9. it came into the CSX yard while two other trains were stopped right outside. it was cool. i saw my first real UP train then.

llamalord · « **Reply #31 on:** July 03, 2008, 17:33:45 »

I saw my first UP and SP locomotives in Arizona when I was on vacation.

llamalord · « **Reply #32 on:** July 03, 2008, 17:35:20 »

I was jumping up and down with joy when I saw them... But my parents didn't seem to get it. $:-\$

CaptainMike1 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 03, 2008, 17:36:12 »

Quote from: llamalord on July 03, 2008, 17:35:20

I was jumping up and down with joy when I saw them... But my parents didn't seem to get it. $:-\$

I am not surprised at your parents reaction, mine would have been the same!!

llamalord · « **Reply #34 on:** July 03, 2008, 17:43:04 »

Me and my dad are like clones we're so alike but he doesn't get it.

But at least he gets it more that my mom does.

pauljanaway1 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 03, 2008, 17:52:45 »

i once had a go in a A stock on a steam on the met day

Captain Best · « **Reply #36 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:12:53 »

Quote from: llamalord on July 03, 2008, 14:10:30

Every year I go to ride this beautiful "American Baldwin consolidation 2-8-2 steam locomotive"

Next year I get to drive it! It's all been set up.

Can you tell I'm really happy.

i have drived this train in 3-5 Minutes

it was realy cooool

http://www.jernbane.net/norge/bm/bm73/index.asp

and the conductor was there too and did watch me

llamalord · « **Reply #37 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:17:08 »

Quote from: captain best on July 03, 2008, 19:12:53

and the conductor was there too and did watch me

Makes you wounder what the passengers would have thought.

Captain Best · « **Reply #38 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:19:29 »

Quote from: llamalord on July 03, 2008, 19:17:08

Makes you wounder what the passengers would have thought.

hehe. it wasnt much passanger. about 200-300

pauljanaway1 · « **Reply #39 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:20:06 »

i would wait for the next one

i once herd a story that a tube driver for a lught as he came on shift put on sunglasses and had a white cane an tapped it along the ground as he walked down the platfort to to frount of the train to look as if he was blind and got in the train and drove off

Minime · « **Reply #40 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:21:05 »

Too bad we don't have any trainz here at home, well actually we have but it's for a litle coal mine, and the electric company also have something to make wholes in the montain with

MMMMMM · « **Reply #41 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:22:59 »

wow that train look fast the amtrak California was realy fast we were going 110 Miles per hour

MMMMMM · « **Reply #42 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:23:50 »

Quote from: Minime on July 03, 2008, 19:21:05

Too bad we don't have any trainz here at home, well actually we have but it's for a litle coal mine, and the electric company also have something to make wholes in the montain with

What contery do you live in

Captain Best · « **Reply #43 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:24:39 »

Quote from: pauljanaway1 on July 03, 2008, 19:20:06

i would wait for the next one

and i think its 20 of these in Norway. and its not heavy. so its dangourous so drive if you driving on a 5 m high snow. then the result it this!

MMMMMM · « **Reply #44 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:29:05 »

that must have been horrible for the passengers to walk down 5 miles

Minime · « **Reply #45 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:31:22 »

Why would they drive in those conditions, dum people

llamalord · « **Reply #46 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:47:02 »

Quote from: pauljanaway1 on July 03, 2008, 19:20:06

i once herd a story that a tube driver for a lught as he came on shift put on sunglasses and had a white cane an tapped it along the ground as he walked down the platfort to to frount of the train to look as if he was blind and got in the train and drove off

Thats almost as good as the start to this episode of "Wings."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZuAgFocuF8
To get it you must know that "He is the regular Pilot."

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #47 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:50:39 »

Quote from: trains on July 03, 2008, 17:21:07

i got to wear a hard hat

Yeah I get to every day also, except on VACATION. BTW the burgers were the best. My dad hated them but my mom & I loved um. The tracks in D.C. and New Jersey were horrible though.

Captain Best · « **Reply #48 on:** July 03, 2008, 19:57:28 »

Quote from: Agent|Austin on July 03, 2008, 19:50:39

Yeah I get to every day also, except on VACATION. BTW the burgers were the best. My dad hated them but my mom & I loved um. The tracks in D.C. and New Jersey were horrible though.

hi austin. was it a fun holiday?

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #49 on:** July 03, 2008, 20:17:38 »

Quote from: captain best on July 03, 2008, 19:57:28

hi austin. was it a fun holiday?

Yes leaving on the 5th. I got some great video of the plane landing, and tubing behind the boat. But the hotel internet is SOOOOOO slow.

And yet I still have to pay $40 for this **** internet.

Although I did buy a super cool fingerprint reader from the Spy Museum, no more passwords.

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