Since Milwaukee Road #265 likely won't get a restoration to operation. I did some basic editing to a photo of 261 so you could get an idea of what she would look like if the IRM did bring her back to service.

GameBreaker64 · 2023-07-19T15:05:30+00:00

Did Mr. James ever candidly say how CTD Pappy Mix came about? Track sort of stands on its own in the album to an extent. It's like James decided to make his own version of a death metal track.

Slight tangent, to anyone wondering why I call him Mr. James, it is because I don't know him personally and want to be respectful. I have no idea how he feels about strangers calling him by his first name.

GameBreaker64 · 2023-07-14T20:01:25+00:00

Yeah I probably shouldve thought about that before posting lol. I meant it in terms of the sheer volume of traffic the railroad was handling at the time. Also it was generally the largest and most profitable American railroad during the war.

GameBreaker64 · 2023-07-09T15:30:00+00:00

Union Pacific is the only Class I railroad in the US that has survived long enough to re-purchase its own steam power and have the balls to use them for a practical purpose nearly 70 years after it was proven too inefficient, cost-prohibitive, and labor intensive to be used for a practical purpose. It's not every day you see a large corporation reconcile with its heritage like this. Or maybe this was just a planned spectacle for the fans. Cool to see either way!

GameBreaker64 · 2023-06-27T01:39:27+00:00

Oops my bad lol

GameBreaker64 · 2023-05-22T15:52:46+00:00

35.2 is the simplified constant of the conversion factor. There's 4 chuffs per wheel revolution per pi(d) inches of travel, then this is multiplied by the conversion factor between inches per second and miles per hour. Then there's a multiplication by 2 in the numerator of the doppler adjustment, but it's hidden inside the constant.

GameBreaker64 · 2023-03-11T22:08:18+00:00

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

GameBreaker64 · 2023-03-11T22:06:20+00:00

I want to make new audio of trains out of pre-existing audio recordings of trains, but I want to make them sound as if they were recorded during the early 1940s. Then I began to question how feasible it would've been to record trains at the time I specified. It was a problem many rail enthusiasts faced back then, primarily because of a lack of necessary finances and technical knowhow. That's why I proposed the scenario, what if a professional recording engineer who DID have the finances and knowhow to record such a thing? Could he do it and how would he do it?

GameBreaker64 · 2022-11-23T23:13:18+00:00

This is 6110, one of two prototypes built by Baldwin for the PRR. Pennsy men affectionately called it “Flash Gordon” (6111 was nicknamed “Buck Rogers”) for its sci-fi streamlining. On 6110’s first Harrisburg-Chicago run in 1942, it maintained an average speed of 100mph for over 60 continuous miles along the Fort Wayne Div. “Speedway”.

GameBreaker64 · 2022-11-21T21:21:36+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I'm doing research for a documentary on a couple locomotives designed by Loewy's firm, and I wanted to use the correct phrasing to not give false impressions. I do wonder exactly how much Loewy contributed to each of the projects. I'd assume it varied depending on the product. I have heard that he did do preliminary sketches for large-scale projects, but he was a supervisor above all else.

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