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    Why we see so many coal trains

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    Fremo US inspiration needed :)

    Yes, that is what the PowerPoles look like. The 15/45 ones are the ones we care about. The bigger ones are useful for higher amperage applications like plug-in Prius modifications and electric subways (these connectors were developed originally for transferring power between cars on the BART...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    oldtanker: Global warming is not crying wolf. IT is a very real and serious threat to humanity. In fact, we have already seen effects of it, like Katrina's intensity, dying Coral Reefs, and storms and rising sea levels (at the moment they have risen 4" from pre-industrial times, which is...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    Renovo PRR: My resume is an informed Citizen who has done research from many different sources and actually knows real facts, not oil company lies about global warming. If you have done your homework, you would find that IPCC predictions for sea level rise are about 3 feet in the next century...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    wow. That Mikado looks like NYS&W 142. probably made by the same company. I think they stopped making steam locos in 1990, right around the time the three were imported to the US. Those things can't exactly be helping China's bad air pollution problems... Which is why NYC banned them like 100+...
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    Fremo US inspiration needed :)

    railwaybob: There was a misunderstanding between us on Free-mo. I was referring to the Free-mo standards that are associated with Free-mo.org, the national standards. HOTRAK's "Free-mo" standards are not the real Free-mo, but rather an improvement upon them that work only with HOTRAK's layout...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    Global cooling is linked to global warming. It was caused by high levels of particulate polution. While particulate pollution has been reduced substantially, at least in the US with tight controls on emissions, CO2 emissions have grown. As a result, global warming is occurring. Global dimming is...
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    How old are you? Revisited

    yeah! Thanks for adding that in.
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    Volcanoes do not spew as much CO2 into the air as power plants and cars and such. They may spew a lot, but compare that to huge coal power plants and hundreds of millions of cars. They may spew a lot of other stuff, more so than humans, like ash and soot. Volcanoes also have the effect of...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    While older coal trains would have stayed more locally, modern ones go all over the country, so check out your era and make decisions accordingly. There is a book from Kalmbach about coal railroading. Modern trains from Powder River end up as far as Florida, I think. That is because that coal is...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    While protypical (modern) coal drags are 125 cars, around 20-25 on a home or club layout that has a few cruves here and there looks huge. On a modular layout, if it is a large one, 150 cars would be huge, although 60-70 would look great as well. In that case, it also has a lot to do with the...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    Current warming is FAR faster than pervious warmings. For the past 500,000 years, the earth has gone warm---cold---warm---cold----warm, and then about 1950 it started to go warm-warm-warm, in a nearly straight up manner, causing temperature change that should happen over 1000 years over less...
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    Fremo US inspiration needed :)

    railwaybob, Free-mo is set at a nominal height of 50", NOT 37.5. Regular NMRA modules AND Ntrak are at 40" All heights are to the top of the railhead of the proper code, 100 for NMRA HO, 83 for Free-mo, and 80 *I think* for Ntrak. While trailer hitch connectors are better than Jones connectors...
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    How old are you? Revisited

    Ralph, well said. TruckLover, I feel better, I'm not the only one left out of this poll. :D :LOL: I can see how the author could easily miss a number set with that many. I took a class in computer programming, and man, there are a lot of numbers in some programs, and the littlest thing will...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    Oh, another thing. What it so bad about global warming is not the 1C, which by the way is HUGE for a global climate shift, even though it is very small for weather, and relatively small for a local climate shift, but the rate of change. Natural changes happen over 1000 years or more, this change...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    Thats a very good thought... and you're right about sea-based ice, BUT there is a lot of ice on top of Greenland and the South Pole, which, if it melts, the sea level goes up. Al Gore claims 20 feet if either one went, not too sure about that number, but it would go up.
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    How old are you? Revisited

    This is worthwhile. It is nice to know the general demographic you are talking to, although it probably varies from section to section.
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    The concentrations of CO2 are higher than they have been in hundreds of thousands of years, and there is a direct corrolatin between CO2 concentrations and the temperature of the earth. The debate about global warming is over. It is real. It is bad. We still don't know how bad the effects are...
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    The coal doesn't do anything about the rotation of the earth. That dam in China, the Three Gorges one, does, but it is not enought to actually effect anything, as it is like a 10th of a milimeter or something for the rotation of the earth. Coal is extremely damaging to Earth's atmosphere...
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    Update on my "N" track modules

    Awesome! When is it going to be in a layout?
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