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    I believe the butter is going on some ones order at Red Lobster.

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    I use a lot of butter on my waffles or pancakes but just 1 of those blobs of butter would last me a life time. But I could have used it to grease the train rails where I used to live to stop the dang trains

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    Moonshiner's Cow Hoof shoes used to throw off the authorities.

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    I debated if this went in "Vintage Work Crew Photos" but those guys had to work hard for their money!

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    Red Cross group. Washington, D.C., circa 1920.

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    They've caught drug smugglers trying this here on the SW border. Kinda hard to fool any trackers since bipeds can't really recreate a quadruped's walking gait.

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    At least this one is somewhat about woodworking and creating your own tools!

    Bootlegger's Delivery Truck:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker View Post
    At least this one is somewhat about woodworking and creating your own tools!

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    If that was such a FULL load of lumber on that single axle truck, it would certainly be sagging, and the tires squished unless they were solids.

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    Yea. old timber merchant, me, always calculated actual load weights...I get approx 15 wide x 26 high, look to be rough sawn 2x4s, assume 8', assume Doug Fir ...would be about 2.8 US tons!

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    Quote Originally Posted by skibo View Post
    I love those compound locomotives, this one looks to be a Challenger, with twelve drivers, it was smaller than the Union Pacific's Bigboy, but the Challenger had more traction effort than Bigboy's 16 drivers, due to less weight per driver!
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    Union Pacific Big Boy tractive force = 135,375 lbf
    Union Pacific Challenger tractive force = 97,300 lbf

    Usually you want more weight on drivers to increase traction (air foils on racing cars improved tractive performance when they were introduced).

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