10/10 Would Hoon

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 03/08/2020 at 22:28 • Filed to: None

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Down on the rails from my drive today. One LS swap away from throwing sick sparks yo

AestheticsInMotion > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/08/2020 at 22:42

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I suddenly want a train, and my own private track through the BC wilderness.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > AestheticsInMotion 03/08/2020 at 22:47

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These guys will hook you up.

http://www.sterlingrail.com/classifieds/Listings.php?type=Locomotive&fsw=FS

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/08/2020 at 22:53

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wafflesnfalafel > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/08/2020 at 22:56

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walked through SODO this morning - pic below is the conductor making sure the homeless folks don’t walk in front of the train at the crossing....

TheRealBicycleBuck > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/08/2020 at 23:05

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I’m sure it handles like it’s on rails.

Bah dum, tiss.

AestheticsInMotion > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 03/08/2020 at 23:12

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Somebody should buy this. Let's make project trains a thing 

Jim Spanfeller > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/08/2020 at 23:19

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Throw some sort of steering mechanism and some tires on that bad boy and it’d be an epic Lemons racer.

sn4cktimes > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/08/2020 at 23:24

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I rode a similar buggy in the 90’s on the track with my dad. Thing was pretty sketchy . We ga ve it a last hurrah at full throttle to the next yard where it was decommissioned and sold off. Everyone just uses pickups with highlift kits nowadays. Makes sense though. No longer need small sidings to tuck these into to allow the full-size trains to pass. And often getting off at a crossing/yard and taking a road with the truck is a much faster A-to-B scenario. All about saving them bucks I guess. 

Future Heap Owner > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/08/2020 at 23:25

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Does it really count as hooning if it’s on rails?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Future Heap Owner 03/09/2020 at 00:34

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Where there's a will there's a way

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/09/2020 at 06:44

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I remember seeing a few of these at a railway museum in Cape Breton when I was younger. Sadly, most rail lines are all pulled up here in Nova Scotia other than the freight line that runs from Halifax west to Ontario, etc that delivers freight that comes off the cargo ships at the port.

Check out Lawrie’s Mechanical Marvels on Youtube - great channel for car lovers, but Lawrie also loves trains and actually owns a narrow-gauge engine that he/the local society runs on a local historical railroad...his rail videos are pretty awesome too! I really enjoyed their recent ‘LMMons’ series :D

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcluqeOHYxdRhNPEEou5vBw/videos

Cé hé sin > AestheticsInMotion 03/09/2020 at 07:47

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Last used nine years after the last time they serviced it? Might explain the “Poor technical quality”.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Future Heap Owner 03/09/2020 at 11:30

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Try and say that again to my SPORTS TRAIN

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > AestheticsInMotion 03/09/2020 at 11:31

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Stoppit. You're giving me flashbacks to Riven.

Boxer_4 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/10/2020 at 09:24

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A local club runs them on occasion:

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/railroad-speeder-1833679669

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Boxer_4 03/10/2020 at 09:47

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That'd be fun as hell

Boxer_4 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/10/2020 at 10:40

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They run on a 10 mile stretch of railroad that was shut down in the mid 1970s. I don’t know how far they actually travel. The only other rail traffic is from train rides on a reproduction steam engine and an old Diesel engine. I believe they consist of  a lot of the same members between the two.