Recent content by ranchhopper

I kind of like that centennial in the line up helping out.

Heck the first locomotive I learned to operate still had a deadmans pedal that had to be held down to run.

Living in california you probably couldnt get a good strong cleaner degreaser or it would be outlawed there for not being environmentally friendly.

I have been thinking about welding a chain step to the underside of the DS nerf bar.

Every once in a while they do let go we heard one let go in the dead of winter sounded like a rifle shot when it broke.

Glad I got out years ago most RRs are just about the money now easier to get fired that stay employed there now.

Most amtrak units here use P3s and P5s they are so shrill it sounds like someone got kicked in the nuts everytime I hear one.

I had a K5LLA on my old mack best sounding horn hands down other than an old leslie one of the singers posing in front of the truck ask if I would lite up the horn so she could hear what it sounded like. I told her to climb up in the truck and do it herself I had a locomotive horn valve in the...

I just finished putting the lift kit in had to add a couple nerf bars and grab handles to make it old guy accessible.

3M is what I use if you go to buy some get ready for the sticker shock when you see what its gone up to another sign of the "build back better" teams accomplishments.

The headliner is the stock fiberglass backing out of another truck I glued it to the backing and used the buttons to make sure it wont sag.

No I buy it in rolls already sewn.

I bought a 1031 without the service body on it so I installed a pick up body on it and like most military trucks its like riding around in an empty pop can because there is nothing inside to muffle the road noise. I made an interior kit for my GMC 7000 fire truck I custom made into a pick up so...

I have some of those rubber flips that go over the terminal and clamp I will use those and see what happens.

I picked up a set of group 31 batteries today and set them in the trays and they look pretty close to the underside of the hood. I figure I had better ask to see if someone had them in their truck before closing the hood on them.