Mudslides, FTW
Sep. 29th, 2010 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tehluggageOr, y'know, not.
Thirteen and a half hours in Field, waiting for the ES crews to clear a mudslide and repair the track, not more than two miles east of Field.
Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty good trip otherwise. Took a hotshot 115 west, passed a sulphur train at Ozada and fairly flew over the Laggan. We ended up bringing 400 home, which wasn't quite as awesome, due to the fact that we were 7810 for length by the time we hit Alyth, which guaranteed a double putting it away.
And it wasn't a double, oh no. The TYC was a twit, so it ended up being a triple, and I gashed my leg on a handbrake. Joy. The worst part about that move was that she got back to us once we were tying down the third part, and let us know that there had in fact been a clear alley, one that would have easily fit the balance of the train. So Yeah. I was not impressed.
On the bright side, Fuzzy's back! ...Again! He was gone for a month this time, and I continue to be impressed at his mad survival skillz.
Thirteen and a half hours in Field, waiting for the ES crews to clear a mudslide and repair the track, not more than two miles east of Field.
Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty good trip otherwise. Took a hotshot 115 west, passed a sulphur train at Ozada and fairly flew over the Laggan. We ended up bringing 400 home, which wasn't quite as awesome, due to the fact that we were 7810 for length by the time we hit Alyth, which guaranteed a double putting it away.
And it wasn't a double, oh no. The TYC was a twit, so it ended up being a triple, and I gashed my leg on a handbrake. Joy. The worst part about that move was that she got back to us once we were tying down the third part, and let us know that there had in fact been a clear alley, one that would have easily fit the balance of the train. So Yeah. I was not impressed.
On the bright side, Fuzzy's back! ...Again! He was gone for a month this time, and I continue to be impressed at his mad survival skillz.
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Date: 2010-09-30 03:05 pm (UTC)Here, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nds1T7U9FqY) have some funny.
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Date: 2010-09-30 08:22 pm (UTC)...Oh good lord, that's amazing. What is it about TF2 that inspires people to such amazing...lunacy?
"Oh, I guess you could have fit after all. Oh well. I'm cute. Tee hee."
Date: 2010-09-30 03:25 pm (UTC)I had 261 a while ago and we had to set out 2 bad orders. So I asked her where we should set them and she's like, "I don't know. Where's a good place?"
It could have been worse. I was on 218 the other day and we were trying to invent the most brutal ways of yarding the train. We lifted 50 at Exshaw (with 5 gondolas in the middle) so my personal favourite was head for V yard, blow and go, cut the gons off and set them to V12 for a work train, return and secure with 16, cut off, around the south wye, tie on the west end, make the cut at the lift and set the balance into W2 and W3, secure, then power back to the east end.
Re: "Oh, I guess you could have fit after all. Oh well. I'm cute. Tee hee."
Date: 2010-09-30 08:30 pm (UTC)...Jesus. That's kind of amazing, in an utterly horrible way. Is that what you ended up doing?
Re: "Oh, I guess you could have fit after all. Oh well. I'm cute. Tee hee."
Date: 2010-10-01 03:00 pm (UTC)A friend of mine once said that he knows he's going to hell, but his only hope is that, when he gets there, the devil will say "you're hired."
My philosophy at work is kind of the same: I like to think of effed up ways to do things and silly little arguments in case I ever end up in management.