I painted this trolley car last Sunday.

>>53803

That is an awesome trolley Ham, glad to see the "musuem" you work at is 100% accurate on accuracy.

>>53803

The car is not done getting painted it was covered in graffiti so I started out painting out that first (other side of trolley car only half done)

>>53804

paint wont fix that corrosion

>>53803

So Ham, why black out 2019s numbers when with about five minutes internet detective work I can work out these pics are taken at the Naugatuck Railroad?

>>53812
Aww, Beat Me To It.

>>53286
first thing i thought of.
xD

hey man that is cool I only work on trolleys too here is the view out one of them we only go 10 mph max oops we were speeding here lol

hear is a picture I took in 2007 when ridership was up we hauled maybe 100 trolleys behind us now we only carry 60

our trolleys aren't very high tech like yours ours are old too built back in 2000 the vacuum fluorescent display was put in to make it look like a newer trolley

hear is another picture from 2007 I am driveing the trolley around our 200 mile circle track unforteanetly some ass hole in California texted a trolley driver and crashed killing 25 people so now we cannot have cameras or other devices on the trolley sorry these are old pictures but thought you would like to see my trolley so bye for now

>>53818
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>>53820
>>53821

I fukkin lol'd

>>53818
>>53819
>>53820
>>53821

>>I'm in an air conditioned office sitting behind a computer that does most of my work. This is why I want to work for PanAm or something like that.

>>53835

>>I'm in an air conditioned office sitting behind a computer that does most of my work. This is why I want to work for PanAm or something like that.

>>I'm in an office sitting doing my work. This is why I want to work or something like that.

>>I'm doing my work. I want to work.

>>I work.

Do you have paid or otherwise valued employment Ham?

>>53835

>This is why I want to work for PanAm or something like that.
>I want to work for PanAm or something like that.
>work for PanAm or something like that.
>work for PanAm
>PanAm

ELL OH FUCKING ELL

PAN AM formerly Guliford Rail is the worst railroad in the country, it's worse than fucking CSuX.

Essentially, you want to work for a railroad run by a trust fund kid of the Mellon banking family who like true capitalists try to do everything on the fucking cheap.

That includes purchasing 20-year old used locomotives, leaving track in horrible condition leading to frequent derailments, abandoning lines whenever you fucking please and leasing former stalwarts such as the B&M, the MEC and the D&H to a tiny fucking shortline (Springfield Terminal) that was only a stub track about 100 yards long... of course that was good for Guliford because it gave them a super cheap and advantageous union agreement.

Pan Am wants to be a class I but it never will be... heck it had to form Pan Am Southern with a joint venture with NS Horsecock.

Blah blah blah blah.

Plus I don't think old, grumpy screwed over B&M and MEC workers want some fucking autistic foamer working for them. They'd most likely have the bull toss you out in the wilderness of Maine.

>>53846

could be worse, could be RailAmerica.

>>53846

The airline nerd in me can't help but feel insulted that the name of one of the world's greatest American airlines was slapped onto some subpar shortline railroad.

>>53850

the name was slapped on an illegally unsound connector airline too, if it's any consolation.

>>53855

Don't I know it. Every time some airline businessmen try to resurrect Pan Am, the endeavor fails. It was as if Juan Trippe's spirit reached from beyond the grave and said "Fuck that shit, and fuck you!" Sounds like he's doing the same to the railway.

Juan Trippe don't fuck around, man. He was such a fucking pimp, only Alec Baldwin could portray him as the guy who picked on that aspie we know as Howard Hughes.

>>53846

>I don't think old, grumpy screwed over B&M and MEC workers want some fucking autistic foamer working for them.

Pic Related

woops might as well throw in a quote.

>"The show is hosted by Matt Brown, who The Globe says was a student at the University of Maine when he realized his passion for trains wasn’t just a boyhood fantasy. He left the university and started working as a conductor for Conrail Boston, then on to what is now Pan Am Railways."

aaaaand scene.

>>53850
Same... however.

Subpar it is... but shortline it is not.

Pan Am practically controls freight in New England. As shown by this map here.

The only competitors Pan Am has freight wise is CSX which owns track from the border to Boston traveling along I-90.. the Class II Providence and "Woostah" (Worcester) and a Class III, RailAmerica's New England Central RR.

Although their shitty map says otherwise...
http://www.panamrailways.com/Maps/map.htm

>>53812
Uh there are a ton of FL9's out in New England

That may be so, but there's a rust hole that is the main giveaway... and other small clues, seems each FL9 has very subtle identification features. And I don't even consider myself to know anything about American locos... I'm just a modeller who looks for things I would replicate to present a loco as a given individual. Just like how you might recognise your car in a lot where there are other cars the same model and colour. Go on Hamcakes, tell me I've got the wrong railway. But I'd put $20 one the table to say I'm right.

Also, remember the good joke funny ha ha?

>>53850

Lolwut? This is no subpar short line...

>>53850

Just a reminder, 103>F40PH.

>>53921
>>53922

Lufthansa Airport Express and Pan Am Railway are apples and oranges.

>>53920

Who doesn't remember the day Hammy went full retard?

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>>53916
they must all have rusted the same way.

>>53924
Which reminds me, dose any one have that vid on YT of him going round telling random people "the game"?

>>53919

yo Ham549 If you read this If you work on trolleys Could you find a Birney axel? Ft Collins Trolley broke =(
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20107280343

>>53919
2 axles on front trucks
3 axles on rear trucks (one axle unpowered, had to do with the weight rating of the locomotive within NYC)
3rd rail shoes, early FL-9s had pantographs as well. Revenue trains are not allowed to enter the underground approaches into Penn Station or Grand Central Terminal under diesel power, electric only. The development of the FL-9 locomotive eliminated diesel-to-electric power swaps for the New Haven to enter into NYC.

>>53916
>>53938

Only 60 units were built in between 1957-1960.

>>54005

And now we have delicious P32AC-DM.

>>54006

60 were built but being the MTA's or Amtrak's only dual mode option until the P32 means that a lot were running until fairly recently, about 6 to 8 are still in running shape. You can probably still buy the things secondhand off the MTA. Only the Naugy runs FL9s in the NH scheme though, everyone else who operates them uses them as generic F unit stand ins.