Locomotives, Maytag engines and Teaching in remote Alaskan Villages.

[carpetman]

Corresponded with a long time acquaintance from other forums. He is registered here (Maven) but has not posted. He is a college professor and one hobby is locomotives. Maybe if someone could post something about locomotives it would serve as bait to get him posting here.
Another forum acquaintance is a family doctor and has hobbies of slide guitar and old engines including Maytag washing machine engines. (Bet some of the young whippersnappers here didn't know Maytags were gasoline engine powered back in the days).
The third acquaintance and his wife are teachers in remote villages of Alaska. He is also into trapping.
Maybe some posts on these subjects could lure them in?

 

[Brad]

My daughter is working on becoming an engineer. Does that count? She won't be a train engineer but rather a mechanical engineer. She doesn't have the disposition To be a friendly, rather civil engineer.

 

[Winelover]

I still have my Lionel train from the 50's.......and a BIL that worked for them, before they moved to Mexico? Was stupid enough to go back to them, when they came back to Michigan...only to leave, again. And, yes, he's an engineer.

 

[KHornet]

Have been in a fair number of remote Alaskan villages. Totally different world, and totally different people. Most memorable was the town of "Chicken", for a newspaper article published every once in a while in a Fairbanks news paper. It was from Chicken by a woman by the name of Ann Purdey, and it was called "Chicken Pickens"!

 

[JWFilips]

Gee...If that would be all it takes to get Mavern to respond here I got lots of Train photos ( some from glass plate negatives in the 19th Century)
I live 5 miles from Steamtown , USA ( Scranton, PA)

I'm in a very historic Steam train area A long heritage in this part of PA
BTW this photo is the real "Big Boy"

 

[Ian]

I thought this was a cast bullet site?

Imagine who all would show up if we had a section for gardening, hot rod cars, ultralight planes, knitting..........

 

[JWFilips]

Yeah! I guess I should have asked first....Good thing I didn't post my Maytag Stuff!
Sorry Bout that!

 

[fiver]

I'm guessing number three is Ivan.
I'd like to see Maven post here too, he has some good working knowledge of casting too.

 

[John]

My daughter is working on becoming an engineer. Does that count? She won't be a train engineer but rather a mechanical engineer. She doesn't have the disposition To be a friendly, rather civil engineer.

Let her know the way to tell an extroverted engineer.............He talks to your shoes instead of his.

 

[Brad]

Let her know the way to tell an extroverted engineer.............He talks to your shoes instead of his.

That is funny. I will see if she knows.

 

[Maven]

All, Thanks for the warm welcome, but I haven't posted [here] because I only recently learned about and joined this forum.
With respect to CB's, I have been working with NOE 316-160-SP, a C.E. Harris design, in the SKS (Type 56) and have had good luck with it; but I've written about it on 3 other forums and don't think I need to repeat it here. Ditto for plain base CB's, primarily Lee's 30-150-TL with small charges of Clays, Blue Dot, or Unique.

As for my background, upon retirement from teaching sociology & anthropology in 1999, I became a volunteer for a local tourist RR, eventually becoming an engineer. I left that RR and became an engineer for another RR near Cooperstown, N.Y. After that, I went to Steamtown, but soon discovered the NPS personnel and the Operating staff had a distinctly different view of my chances of becoming an engineer there. I left in 2007 and haven't operated a locomotive or train since.

 

[Pistolero]

The most interesting locomotives I have been around were a pair of Shays and a Heisler
that were being run in a WVa historic train. Both geared for mountain logging work. Neat
machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Scenic_Railroad_State_Park

Hah! I was never one to talk to anyone's shoes. Get too deep in theory at times, no doubt, but head up and
looking them in the eye, or at least at the equation, bar chart or color contour plot that I am explaining.



Those days are past, although I recently went to a party with my old simulation group. They hired 4 newbies
to replace me. Really. Adding more supercomputers, too. After 35 years of pushing for
a spot in the design flow, we made it and are saving them a lot of time and money.

For me - I "save" 40 hours of work, at least, each week. ;-))

Bill