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#1 tram mechanic

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Posted 06 May 2008 - 05:51 PM

Grand Junction is nice and warm this year, the ski area people mix well with the hobo's along Main street. It's a pretty gritty town actually.
On monday, Dave Quigley from Breckenridge ran a welding class out at the POMA yard, where we scabbed together lots of stuff to create this masterpiece(not really, but it's a pretty cool thing called "Chrome on the Range".
Chuck was on the phone at the lunch table too.

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Posted 06 May 2008 - 09:46 PM

Where's Chuck's bluetooth?!
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Posted 08 May 2008 - 10:30 PM

View Postlastchair_44, on May 6 2008, 10:46 PM, said:

Where's Chuck's bluetooth?!

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Been faked out a few times with that dreadful invention.
Actually thought he was paying attention to me but oh no...talking to someone else!

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 04:19 AM

Did you guys see the two railroad car axles that were bent into a sculpture, several blocks down from the 'Chrome On the Range'? Imagine the force it took for that one!
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Posted 09 May 2008 - 08:49 AM

All it would take to bend a train axle, would be a derailment by the train.
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Why couldn't they of come up with "Global Cooling"?

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 12:52 PM

True, but, you haven't seen what John is speaking of. The axles are completely intertwined and someone did it on purpose!
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Posted 09 May 2008 - 01:26 PM

Virtual tour of Art on the Corner, it's called "End of the Line"

http://www.downtowng.../aotc/aotc.html
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#8 Carl

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 02:11 PM

Hey, I just missed you guys....got in last evening......where's the Party?

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 07:57 PM

View Postlastchair_44, on May 9 2008, 02:52 PM, said:

True, but, you haven't seen what John is speaking of. The axles are completely intertwined and someone did it on purpose!


Here's a shot of the train axles, I like to refer to them as true "Industrial Art"

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#10 Snoqualmie guy

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Posted 09 May 2008 - 08:52 PM

Maybe they're fake. I don't rember the axle comming that far out past the wheel. It could just be an early model wheel and I could be completely wrong though.
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Why couldn't they of come up with "Global Cooling"?

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Posted 11 May 2008 - 05:13 AM

That's probably because the axles have been separated from the trucks. If you see them in the trucks the part 'sticking out' sits in a bearing block which is also attached to the truck's suspension.

You guys have a good time down there?
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