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11 hours ago, james j neiweem said:

Storkmack:I thought I read somewhere on here that you are done with the new Macks. Was that right?

Brad stark told me last year his dad said no more antiques.

On ‎5‎/‎10‎/‎2018 at 7:53 PM, storkmack said:

I’m not a huge fan of Galberth trailers, as far as looks, but I like how that one  is set up.   Make it a smooth side and I really like it.  

I like the spring ride dual wheel set up on my trailer you can have those dog tracking super single air ride junk trailstar trailers the other guys pull at welch.

On ‎5‎/‎10‎/‎2018 at 7:15 PM, PeterMack said:

Pretty sure I followed Ranchhopper for a little bit this morning.

That would be me for sure.

Most I have seen around here including mine has pitted chrome.

Saw a lot of them years ago with redi mix drums on them.

I need a factory rear cab mount for my superliner 1 it has a home made one put under it from someone who owned it years ago anyone with one I would like to buy one.

Nice to see guys running the old iron and they take pride in their equipment its spotlessly clean.

For some reason the center air valve (yellow) leaks when its cold does anyone else have this problem? Its only below 40 or so degrees leaks pretty good out of the bottom where the exhaust port is the brakes do release but the light does not go off charges a full 120 PSI but gets pretty irritating.

I think this was a generator engine they are pretty big though.

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7 hours ago, j hancock said:

Some info to add to your design and engineering process data base.  A DD 12V71 weighs 3,300 lbs.  Just an FYI. 

DD music is like no other!

 

That's another hurdle to figure out how I'm going to manage moving it around short of an I beam A frame holding it up over the engine bay.

2 hours ago, Lmackattack said:

If you were not working the truck electric fans should work. lots of car guys use them and some of the newer fans a gairly quiet and push /pull the air needed. that being said I always like a truck that can work and show...

I think the KW A model Extended hood is 74" long you can use that as a reference to the superliner hood...

If I was to do it and had the $$$ to play with I think I would move the cab back a few Inches and have the hood re glassed the extra length. It would still look like a stock superliner until you started looking it over  closer.

 

just my .02

Good points I will give that some thought I do have a long frame the truck had a sleeper on it at one time.

I saw two RS700Ls with V12s in them cool trucks I have one of those too could do the swap into either truck.

I'm wondering if an electric fan will save a couple inches of room I used one in my 37 chevy master deluxe when I put a 350 in it to save room.

You guys may scare me into saving a crap load of money and just forget it.

I have a line on a running V12 Detroit I was kicking around the idea of putting it in the superliner. I know to some its just wrong to power a mack with a Detroit even though they did from the factory in the 70s. I'm no stranger to fabrication but am wondering how deep into it I will have to go. The truck has a fuller ten speed in it right now so the bellhousing should be right and I know exhaust and linkages will need to be changed. I should have enough room for the larger engine being a parade truck it should raise the cool factor a bit the truck has a newly done in frame rebuilt 300+ there should be a market for that to offset a little of the cost of the swap.

33 minutes ago, 57 bcr said:

I used to see a couple  of  those Marina trucks follow street sweepers and city crews around. I  think  the owner(s) got busted  in that "Operation  Silver Shovel" a few years  ago.  Al  

Big surprise there most of those outfits ie  palumbo in the "buddies" club with the Chicago unions and politicians end up in prision or slapped on the hand somehow for screwing the tax payers out of millions.

Been either single digit or below zero most of the last two weeks right now its raining and freezing on everything it lands on its global warming I tell ya ha ha.

3 minutes ago, Hobert62 said:

About 20 years ago dad hauled scrap in a dump trailer.   Guy had a baler, and he would by scrap yards tin piles.   They would bale it and sell it as prepared.    Guy he was leased to had quite a few fall over. Some just the trailers some the whole outfit.   One guy was standing on the fuel tank when the trailer went over then pulled the truck over after. It slung the guy like superman through the air.  He was lucky to only injure arm and shoulder.  

That's what happened to this guy he hit the ground head first on the other side of the truck.

Usually the trailer will go over then like in slow motion the tension in the frame will snap the tractor over in the blink of an eye I saw a guy get hurt pretty bad that way years ago. They were dumping fill in a marsh his trailer wasn't at the top of the second stage yet and it gently laid over on the passenger side. The guys name was Buddy he got out and was standing on the fuel tank on the drivers side and the spring tension in the trailer flipped the tractor over too one of the bad attributes of frame style dump trailers..

The soft fresh snow like the video shows isn't bad and if you hit something while pushing up that plume of snow you would never know it its the hard packed snow drifts that are dangerous for those you use one of these. You can hear how they notch it up a bit and pull back as not to pack the rotary tight with snow.

1 hour ago, mackey58 said:

Man I bet plowing with locomotives was damn cool

Its kind of like this if your the first down the line after a night of blowing snow tough to see the whistle boards coming up on the crossings in this video you can see one before hitting the heavy snow.

That lindahl truck is hauling snow I remember that storm we were punching holes through it with locomotives had to be careful not to ride up on the hard drifts and derail ourselves. Had to really watch and be ready with the brakes around bends you come up on a nine or ten foot drift the weight of the consist would push you right up on the snow hard to believe something as heavy as a locomotive could be derailed by snow.

2 hours ago, Lmackattack said:

when that old E unit walks right past the brand new diesels at 60 mph then bumps the throttle up 4 more notches. you can hear those twin EMD diesels start to sing in notch 8.   

 

this was filmed in 1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have had many a ride up front in old 9911A  its hard to believe that unit was built I believe in 1940 and still runs out the way it does they had her up to 80 MPH on that trip. That freight train was sided up to let the zephyr pass as it was on the main but its a real shame they didn't save that locomotives cab less B unit before it got scrapped.

2 minutes ago, Hobert62 said:

Ok after watching the video how close are  2 trains when passing each other?  Seams pretty damn close.   Gotta make your ass grab the seat the first few times.  

That was the hard part for me when I first sat on the conductors side of the locomotive while riding with a family member who was an engineer back in the 60s. Didn't take long to get used to though some of the lines in southern Wisconsin got bretty rough though.

Alcos were great locomotives the UP owns the only steam locomotive also an alco built in 44 never retired from service. Alcos were always great for pushing out the blackest diesel exhaust ruining the tree huggers day.