[ARC5] Locomotives

[Michael A. Bittner]

I don't know, but I was making 55 cents/hour stocking shelves in the A&P supermarket after school.  Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Leslie Smith 
  To: Michael A. Bittner 
  Cc: ARC-5 List 
  Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [ARC5] Locomotives


  Hello Mike,
  In that time what would a bus driver or school-teacher earn per week or
  month.
  To put the $12.oo per set in financial context.


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    Leslie Smith
    vk2bcu at operamail.com


  On Fri, Dec 21, 2012, at 3:06, Michael A. Bittner wrote:
  > I've never been on a diesel-electric passenger train, but as a teenager,
  > I used to regularly ride the steam trains on the Erie RR between my
  > former home of Ridgewood, NJ and Hoboken, NJ.  At Hoboken, I showed my
  > train ticket to the the ferry boat ticket taker and got the free ferry
  > boat ride across the Hudson river to the Chambers Street terminal in NYC
  > and from there a short walk to Radio Row with G & G Surplus on Vesey St.
  > (Brand new ARC-5 receivers and transmitters for around $12, control boxes
  > for 95 cents, etc.) and all the rest of it.  Those were the days.  Mike,
  > W6MAB
  >   ----- Original Message ----- 
  >   From: Geoff 
  >   To: Michael A. Bittner ; ARC-5 Mail List 
  >   Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 5:54 AM
  >   Subject: Re: [ARC5] Locomotives
  > 
  > 
  >   Ive spent many, many hours watching videos and reading various blogs on
  >   the 
  >   restoration efforts and the returning to service of various steam
  >   equipment 
  >   over the past few years.
  > 
  >   The majority of the passenger cars have self contained electrical
  >   generators 
  >   driven off the wheels. These are either restored late steam era or
  >   later 
  >   ones that have been fitted.
  > 
  >    The diesel electrics are often hitching a dead head ride or used for a 
  >   particularly rough stretch when more power is needed at a minimal fuel
  >   cost.
  > 
  >   As more equipment is being restored and maintenance facilities provided
  >   Im 
  >   sure there will be other locomotives traveling the rails. Many were not 
  >   scrapped and are sitting idle in restorable condition.
  > 
  >   I grew up when the steam era was ending and fondly remember the rides I
  >   took 
  >   with my parents and then the dissapointment as they faded away. In the 
  >   Northeast it was the electrics that took over in several runs such as 
  >   NYC-Philly-DC and the eastern end of the LIRR.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  >   >
  >   > Totally off topic:  I see that in many of the steam locomotive videos, 
  >   > they lug along one or two diesel-electric locomotives with them.  As 
  >   > stated in one of the videos, this is to provide electric power to 
  >   > passenger cars and provide dynamic braking on down-hill runs.  Not stated 
  >   > is the obvious fact that the diesel-electrics can keep things moving if 
  >   > these ancient, restored steam locos have problems.
  >   > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xszdK0OMgnM
  >   >
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