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Frequent poster 640 posts ferroequinologist1 Frequent poster 640 posts
ferroequinologist1

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To All: Here is a recently installed sign on the layout. A round about tongue-in-cheek nod to DCC control. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.
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Michael SD90 Regular poster 164 posts
Michael SD90

nice

I like it!

 

 

Michael 

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
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Moe line Frequent poster 631 posts
Moe line

Sign

Our club president found one of those signs, and posted it near our club layout also. The remotes on the real railroads are a dismal failure, but the executives refuse to admit they made a 49 million dollar mistake.
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Prof_Klyzlr Moderator 7,966 posts
Prof_Klyzlr

failure or otherwise...

Dear Moe,

Quote:

The remotes on the real railroads are a dismal failure

I'm intrigued, which specific RRs/operations are you referring to? 

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr
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Oztrainz Moderator 3,527 posts
Oztrainz

"Live" 1:1 scale narrow gauge remotes

Hi all,

Remotely operate locomotives and brake wagons are alive and well on 2' gauge in North Queensland in Australia. All cane wagons are unbraked - so you need remotely-controlled brake wagons as well to control the trains of loaded cane bins. In many cases the brake wagons are built on the frames of life-expired locomotives.

Here's a couple of photos of some of the units from 2013

signage detail on EMB-built 24 tonne bogie loco "Homebush II", parked in the maintenance shop at Victoria Mill near Ingham

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The brake wagon usually paired with "Homebush II" was out the back on shop bogies - A closer look at the chassis reveals it to be from a former Clyde-built 0-6-0DH locomotive that has been repurposed and rebuilt. 

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Another 24 tonn bogie locomotive, "Maitland", parked in the yard 

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and with its "matching" brake wagon, from a different angle

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I hope that this might be of interest for those here with remote-controlled trains, 

 

Regards,

John Garaty

Unanderra in oz

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HVT Dave Prolific poster 1,218 posts
HVT Dave

Another Remote Control Loco

Elvin,

You might notice a similar sign on this small layout that I take to train shows for kids to run. (and for the grandchildren between shows)    It does have the same wording. 

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Regards,

Dave

Dave

Member of the Four Amigos

 
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Jim at BSME Prolific poster 2,116 posts
Jim at BSME

From Precision Design Company

One of MRH sponsors (PDC) offers a pdf for download if you want to have your own sign:

http://pdc.ca/rr/freebies/RemoteCabSign.pdf, not quite the same as the metal version, but still neat.
- Jim B.
Baltimore Society of Model Engineers, Estd. 1932
O & HO Scale model railroading
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Moe line Frequent poster 631 posts
Moe line

Failure

Prof Klyzir, The only place the real remote control locomotives shine is in humping operations. As an engineer, I will concede to them on the hump, but for flat switching, the remotes are usless, the most cars handled in one shift by remotes is 200, with an engineer and switch men on the same job we would handle over 600 cars in a shift, therefore way more productive. The other issues are all the wrecks caused by remotes and fatalities that are caused by remotes that would not have happened with regular jobs. My experience with them is in the South Texas area, on the Union Pacific R.R. BNSF and KCS gave up on them in the same area, because they were proven to be unproductive.
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Prof_Klyzlr Moderator 7,966 posts
Prof_Klyzlr

Clarification appreciated...

Dear Moe,

Thanks for the clarification, it's greatly appreciated. 

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr
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