Coach Hank's FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO THREAD

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Pulp Fiction- Theme. Song: "Miserlou"

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z574WRiIlug" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z574WRiIlug</a>

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Cajon pass in southern California is a mountain pass between the San Bernardino Mountains and the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California.

BNSF ( Burlington Norhtern Santa Fe ) triple tracked their mainline thru the
mountains. One slope is 2.2 % and the other is 3%. They have run away tracks as well. Norfolk Southern has run away tracks in the Blueridge Mountains in NC.

1% is huge for railroads. Those 4400 HP GE AC4400 engines and the EMD SD70ACe engines weight 430,000 pounds ( 215 tons ). The engines are a little over 80 feetlong from coupler to coupler. A 3% grade is almost like jacking up one end of thos engines 2.5 -3 feet.

Most freight trains weight 10,500 tons. Double stacks are usually less. Helper engines are used at the rear for braking and pushing and use distributed power.

 Meaning they are controlled by the lead engine. Some have helpers in middle and rear. The modern AC diesels have so much traction effort they can break the best couplers. Break a train in half.

20 years or so ago they had a runaway that crashed and almost took out highway I-5.

Theses are pictures of the construction of the triple main line thru the mountains. There are many pictures at this link of the construction.

Click here for link

The new Triple Track Cajon

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67-WCPAu1Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67-WCPAu1Q</a>

Cajon Pass November 29, 2008

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSG43S0X6xc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSG43S0X6xc</a>

A 3% grade for a Shay is child's play. So much that if you ran a Shay wide open on mainline track, "it'd go all to pieces."

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Chuck Berry-- You Never Can Tell

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLZl6R7JGCc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLZl6R7JGCc</a>

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Jim Launderdale - Alligator Alley

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApyrMIc17Z8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApyrMIc17Z8</a>

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Marty Stuart - Burn Me Down

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzrkA1jMUnQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzrkA1jMUnQ</a>

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Dwight Yoakam - Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LuUYzdAgXg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LuUYzdAgXg</a>

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Traveling Wilburys - Tweeter And The Monkey Man

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQsRgQXgQY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQsRgQXgQY</a>

[Coach Hank Crisp]

WV

Weren't Shays 3' guage not 4 feet 8 and 1/2 inches?

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WV

Weren't Shays 3' guage not 4 feet 8 and 1/2 inches?

Std gauge. They travel main line to the "Forest Festival" each fall. Also, top end is about 14 MPH.

[Coach Hank Crisp]

For about the last 20 years or so the Class1 railroads are replacing the wooden ties with the 800 pound concrete ties.

[Coach Hank Crisp]

The Highwaymen - Highwayman Music Video

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VST2KKIYn50" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VST2KKIYn50</a>

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Robert Earl Keen, Wireless In Heaven

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmvjk5Lnmf0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmvjk5Lnmf0</a>

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Robert Earl Keen - I Gotta Go  (Live)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxk5WdfeLY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxk5WdfeLY</a>

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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz8U4zJ2_RQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz8U4zJ2_RQ</a>

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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi0D9JizqWw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi0D9JizqWw</a>

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