Model Railroading > A modeling opportunity? ....or not?

Always looking for real life railroad modeling opportunities....not sure how this will work in HO scale...... ;-)
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A nice way to get a standard gauge length of fire hose.

Watts local

I'd give the firefighters a break... and make two assumptions: the emergency dispatchers have called the railroad, and the hose jumpers are there because they're more visible red.

Still, it is pretty funny.

Thanks for the benefit of the doubt, but....after 34 years in the fire service the more likely scenario is...

"Hey, the fire is out and we're just standing by, let's throw the hose ramps down and take a really funny picture!" Knowing the sense of humor of the guys I've worked with, there is a good chance that's what happened.



RichM Wrote:
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> I'd give the firefighters a break... and make two
> assumptions: the emergency dispatchers have called
> the railroad, and the hose jumpers are there
> because they're more visible red.
>
> Still, it is pretty funny.

Wow.....great pic ! Love it

I was watching firefighters fight a brush fire in simi valley and they forgot to notify metrolink about the hose across the rails and u should of seen that charged hose fly the train got a shower then they learned to put the hose under the rail next time,

In the late 70's Safeway had a big warehouse in Richmond that caught fire and Richmond FD had their hoses over the SP tracks but forgot to notify the railroad. End result: many lengths of 4' 8-1/2" hose and a burned-out warehouse.

Get a model of Super Dave in a motorcar launching off the ramps.

It's made it's way all through facebook, and was on my page several days ago.....was wondering when it would hit TO.....

Given the style of crossbuck, this is clearly taken overseas somewhere....

hoydie17 Wrote:
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> Given the style of crossbuck, this is clearly
> taken overseas somewhere....


I think the consensus is mainland Europe.

toledopatch Wrote:
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> hoydie17 Wrote:
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> > Given the style of crossbuck, this is clearly
> > taken overseas somewhere....
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>
> I think the consensus is mainland Europe.


And that does look like a catenary pole on the right.....