I was just trying to remember things off the top of my head. Sorry I made you yell “bullshit.”

Ah, here’s my video of 4014:

You’re correct in guessing that hp isn’t an accurate measurement of a steam engine’s power. Railroads preferred a measurement called tractive effort, and the Big Boy’s tractive effort was 135,375 lbs. A better sense of its power is knowing that it was used to pull 5 mile long coal trains solo over Sherman hill in…

Union Pacific almost always have a diesel running along with the steam locomotives because the steam engines don’t generate electricity for the whole train. Originally they would’ve had a generator car where the modern diesel engine is, and it serves the same purpose.

There’s almost nothing more exciting than being near a big steam engine going fast. I dragged my fiancé to go see the Big Boy 4014 on its first run in in 60 years up in Wyoming, promising her it would be cool while she patiently tagged along. Once we actually saw it, the sheer power of its presence made her start…

When I was a kid my family moved into a 1920s bungalow that someone had painted all of the woodwork brown in. My brother and I discovered that scotch tape would cleanly and perfectly pull the crappy brown paint off of the woodwork underneath, leaving the original stain mostly intact. My parents weren’t mad, and…

Well weathered models are incredibly satisfying. I follow a guy on Instagram by the name of @ bradleydcc_custom_models who does some impressive work.

Personally, Burnout 3 > any version of Need for Speed. The driving model in NfS always felt like driving a wet bar of soap compared to Burnout.

I have never had any experience in a video game as satisfying as squeezing a competing car against a guardrail until it explodes, followed by a surge of boost, in Burnout 3 Takedown.

I’m just here to say hi to someone else willing to daily a 50+ year old car.

“Unemployment Outsider”?

Before this all got quite so serious but after I knew I wouldn’t be working anymore I got really excited to camp my brains out come spring. Accepting that I both won’t be working and won’t be camping has been hard.

I can’t tell if you actually have a model T or not, but everything you said is true and it’s one of many reasons I love them.

That’s kinda what I was saying. At this point they seem innocent compared to what was possible for a similar company to do with more technology.

I’m sorry I’m assuming, but you’re talking about offroading the way people who haven’t done a ton of it do. Solid axles are well established as an advantage over independent suspension in every off road situation other than high speed desert stuff. People who don’t off road talk about how impressive the toque…

Modern Range Rovers are “supposed to be” good off road, but that’s just not backed up by my lifetime of experience in the Rocky Mountains. They have low profile tires and poor articulation, and no amount of computer torque vectoring gimmickry can overcome having only two low profile tires on the ground in a situation…

Its important to avoid needing jumpstarts if at all possible, every time the battery’s charge is allowed to get low its capacity decreases. If the battery is allowed to go completely flat, you often won’t be able to get it charged enough again for another start.

Parasitic battery drain is one small reliability victory my 52 year old Ford can claim over new cars. There’s nothing more electrically complicated on the car than an on-off switch for the radio, which means I’ve left it parked while out of town for months on end before and got back and the battery had the same…

Agreed from Colorado. Not sure where they think they’re going either, we’ve been urged to not leave our counties and all campgrounds and established trailheads are closed. Not to mention that it’s still fully winter anywhere higher elevation or further North than Denver.

That’s true.