Nostalgia & History > Maroon Monday: Complete this caption!

“I can see the bottom, BUT………”

1. CRI&P wedge plow 95583 on the brink in Goodland, KS on May 2, 1983.
(Photo by James W. Watson)

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Lance Garrels (santafe199)
Jim Watson (UP6900)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/22 20:38 by santafe199.

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"dont do it !!!! "

"I'm ready to jump and end all this agony, but it doesn't look quite high enough to get the job done !"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/16/17 09:45 by perklocal.

I'll offer some adapted song lyrics from a 1971 tune that I'm sure "IC1038west" & rathole" and any other pre-1975 H.S. grad should remember. For all you younger types: your mileage may vary...

adapted lyric line: "I'm sittin' uptown in a railway yard, one toe over the line..."
actual lyric line: "I'm sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line..."

DJ Sir L

i can see the bottom, but there ain't nobody home

Jamie Yeager
Santa Fe, NM

Amazingly, the current Google Earth pass of Goodland, Kansas shows that plow to still be there!  It is pushed back some, and the turntable pit is mostly filled in now.  I don't know when the Google pass was taken.

In the 1983 shot above, notice the jack just in front of the rear truck and the shiny new truck springs, looks like a field repair underway.  I bet, in order to lift the back of the carbody without the plow hitting the ground, they had to push the tip of the plow out over the pit to gain ground clearance for the pivot.

Rick Bacon
Windsor, CO

I'm on the Rock,
Goodland Kansas knows me,
Gotta spin this plow,
On a Golden Oldie!!!

A Reunion kind of thought...

santafe199 Wrote:
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> I'll offer some adapted song lyrics from a 1971
> tune that I'm sure "IC1038west" & rathole" and
> any other pre-1975 H.S. grad should remember. For
> all you younger types: your mileage may vary...
>
> adapted lyric line: "I'm sittin' uptown in a
> railway yard, one toe over the line..."
> actual lyric line: "I'm sittin' downtown in a
> railway station, one toke over the line..."
>
> DJ Sir L

Brewer & Shipley, love it. Great song!!

Had a co-worker fail a drug test for pot in his system and that line was mentioned numerous times!


santafe199 Wrote:
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> I'll offer some adapted song lyrics from a 1971
> tune that I'm sure "IC1038west" & rathole" and
> any other pre-1975 H.S. grad should remember. For
> all you younger types: your mileage may vary...
>
> adapted lyric line: "I'm sittin' uptown in a
> railway yard, one toe over the line..."
> actual lyric line: "I'm sittin' downtown in a
> railway station, one toke over the line..."
>
> DJ Sir L

IC1038west Wrote: > ...  A Reunion kind of thought...

Love it!

DJ Sir L

santafe199 Wrote:
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> I'll offer some adapted song lyrics from a 1971
> tune that I'm sure "IC1038west" & rathole" and
> any other pre-1975 H.S. grad should remember. For
> all you younger types: your mileage may vary...
>
> adapted lyric line: "I'm sittin' uptown in a
> railway yard, one toe over the line..."
> actual lyric line: "I'm sittin' downtown in a
> railway station, one toke over the line..."
>
> DJ Sir L

"Waitin' for the train that goes home, sweet Mary -- hopin' that the train is on time.....sittin' downtown in a railway station.....etc."

Pat from Littleville, Colorado  (1972 H.S. grad)

Is this not the plow that the Kyle derailed several years back and then had it cut up later at the derail site? 

I finally figured it out, that plow doesn't have a reverse gear.

Jim

What does that lettering on the side say?  "Do Not...Jump?" ;^)

inNout Wrote:

> Is this not the plow that the Kyle derailed
> several years back and then had it cut up later at
> the derail site? 

Unless that scenario played out more than once on the Kyle, the plow you're thinking of was an ex-ATSF plow built out of an old flatcar, not an ex-Rock Island plow built out of an old tender:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1312325,1312325#1312325
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,2326814

I'd agree with both Rick and Evan here.

Rick/Loaf of Bread RI Plow:  Not sure what the incident was to damage the plow at the TT pit but appears heat was applied to the vertical shear wedges to some degree and a new plate of sheet metal on the horizontal elevating surface was applied below the draft gear pocket.  Also looking at the top surface above the wedges there was some damage there as well as the headlight is missing.  Some new hinges have been applied to the doors leading to the front truck's journal boxes.

Evan/Kyle ex-AT&SF:  As for the Kyle accident, it was one of the typical AT&SF plows that had the plow portion hinged from the end of a flatcar with large turnbuckles positioning at the proper height above the rails.  The rest of the car had a boxed area of ballast for weight.  As for weight on the Rock Island plow under repair, it was most likely filled with scrap concrete pieces for weight.  I saw this on a similar plow in the late 60's.