Train plays an April Fool's

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Well, if you know I'm a Geocacher, you'll know that on April 1, I was out driving and hiking.....

One of the geocaches has a history theme and starts out at a railroad depot :)

Across the tracks is a historic building. Shown here:
 

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Now, if you have a Depot... and railroad tracks... Guess what "just happened" to come along.........sign1 sign1 sign1

Why?!?!?!? It's number 9294 running southward through Felton Delaware :) :) I'm looking NW and trying to keep calm :D :D :D

The specs of this picture say "Taken 04/01/07 11:10 AM"
 

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So - I drive to the next few areas... make a few more finds... and I come to a railroad crossing and the LIGHTS come on!!!! COOL!!!!!!!

Now... what do you think We See???????? :D :D :D :D

25.7 miles away... By rail... 29 miles by car and half a state South East.... and the Specs read: "taken 04/01/07 1:29 PM"

so it was 2 hours and 20 minutes later......................... Looking East - Train heading south......
 

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Now as for the "April Fool's Trick...... I expect to see a DIFFERENT train when I'm 26 miles and 2 hours away.... but it was the SAME train!!! I wuz tricked!!! :D :D :D I had the camera - and I got 2 sides of the same engine sign1 sign1 sign1 sign1 sign1

This stuff never happens in PA - - you see 2 trains - they are Different trains!!! :D :D :D :D :D


................ yeah - I know...............announce1 A P R I L ---- F O O L S!!!!
 
CNWman said:
What's a Geocache?:oops: :rolleyes: Sorry, but I really don't know what it is:oops:
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It's a GPS based Hide and seek game...... Someone hides something "Somewhere" and you try to find it with your GPS... there are thousands all over the US And the world.....

http://www.geocaching.com/faq/
A lot of them are historical... some are great views of interesting areas.......
 
GPS......Global Positioning System.
I sorta like Multiple Application Positioning Systems..........no batteries required!:D :D :D

Although, Computable Heading And Route Tracing Systems, also work well. :D

What ever happened to X marks the spot ? :D
 
sumpter250 said:
GPS......Global Positioning System.
I sorta like Multiple Application Positioning Systems..........no batteries required!:D :D :D

Although, Computable Heading And Route Tracing Systems, also work well. :D

What ever happened to X marks the spot ? :D
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sign1 sign1 sign1 Yeah - - This is such a cool thing.. My Doctor Loves that I'm doing this... Imagine... Exercising.. Lowering your BP... Losing a bit of weight... and having Fun doing it :)

And some of the places are really nice to see....

As far as the "X"... It's still there - but it's within 20 ft of where the GPSr (Global Positioning System receiver) takes you... Some take 2 minutes to find... some take hours because you have to hike a few miles through woods :) :) And when your finished - - you always learn a bit about the area.. or what your body and attitude are capable of accomplishing... My fav so far was a 2.2 mile hike each way - to learn about a lighthouse... On the way back (mile 3.5) I started thinking about how much pain I was going to be in the next day.... But i learned just how much I can force this 48 year old body to do..... :) :D :) :D No regrets!!!

and a side effect is you get to bond with family (children) and friends!!!!


~~ Using Billions of dollars worth of Government equipment - to find plastic!!!
~~~ That which doesn't kill me, makes me stronger......~ Niechie
 
cidchase said:
Mikey, that was too cool... I bet yer jaw dropped a notch:D
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Oh yeah!! Sure did - but not until i got home and was able to compaire the photographs. :D

I then traced the route of the train in Google Earth, to see how the heck it got 26 miles away sign1

.......... Then I decided to write the April Fool comments and post them here :) :)
 
sumpter250 said:
GPS......Global Positioning System.
I sorta like Multiple Application Positioning Systems..........no batteries required!:D :D :D

Although, Computable Heading And Route Tracing Systems, also work well. :D

What ever happened to X marks the spot ? :D
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oh and one more thing.... The act of Folding your "Multiple Application Positioning System" is very dangerous while driving at 65 MPH, I would rather use the Digital Multiple Application Positioning System inside the GPSr.. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
 
No Mikey, that's not what happened. As an April Fool's joke to railfans the NS temporarily numbered all of its locomotives 9294! You fell for it!!!! :)
That's OK I did too! :)

Cool story!

Ralph
 
Ralph said:
As an April Fool's joke to railfans the NS temporarily numbered all of its locomotives 9294!
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And renumbered all their Conrail engines 6736? THe conrail's # is visible in the second pic. Plus, do you have a source link for where you found that story out Ralph?
 
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