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Old 08-25-2021, 05:11 PM   #926
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Looks like an AD pickup in the line of vehicles behind too.
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Old 08-26-2021, 08:12 AM   #927
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Wow!
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Old 08-26-2021, 10:43 AM   #928
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That locomotive doesn't look like it was strapped down.
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Old 08-26-2021, 07:34 PM   #929
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That locomotive doesn't look like it was strapped down.
"we're only going a mile down the road, no big deal"
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Old 08-28-2021, 10:01 PM   #930
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Headline News ....

Train derails on overpass ... Lands on a line of trucks !

Traffic was spared delays as derailing train on overpass fall onto a line of Flatbed trucks going under in perfect timing to catch all the cars as they fell .

Police and train employees astounded , no injuries reported .

The trucks kept going to a site farther down the rail line so the train could be craned back onto the track . The train continued on with a new crew .
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Old 09-07-2021, 02:06 PM   #931
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"This may work for one or two trips but I still think we need to figure out how to fix the brakes so the locomotive can pull the train back down the mountain."

"That's the legendary Narrow Gauge of Poughkeepsie, cursed to travel the country in search of the line that never was."

"The engine looks good, sure, but have you checked out that caboose?"
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Old 09-08-2021, 10:42 PM   #932
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Oh damn do I love this one!

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Wow!
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Old 09-09-2021, 11:08 AM   #934
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Wow!
Right? I love seeing those seams on the cowl and the A pillar isn't even installed yet. Damn I want to see more of these photos.

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Old 09-09-2021, 11:19 AM   #935
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i'd certainly like to see more of those assembly pics
flip down 2x4 welding helmet... he has to flip it up to reposition the spot welder every time
nothing like todays body shop, conveyor cycles and 50 robotic welders come in at once
it's pretty wild if you've never seen it happen
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Old 09-11-2021, 10:26 AM   #936
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hardly a vintage picture, as it was taken this week...
this was sent to me by my bro-in-law from great basin national park
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Old 09-11-2021, 10:39 AM   #937
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Now THAT is a set of mirrors and side pipes too!
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Old 09-11-2021, 06:55 PM   #938
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Getting there is half the fun!
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Old 09-16-2021, 09:35 AM   #939
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hardly a vintage picture, as it was taken this week...
this was sent to me by my bro-in-law from great basin national park
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i'd certainly like to see more of those assembly pics
flip down 2x4 welding helmet... he has to flip it up to reposition the spot welder every time
nothing like todays body shop, conveyor cycles and 50 robotic welders come in at once
it's pretty wild if you've never seen it happen
I'm guessing after he's done it 3 or 4 hundred times he can reposition the spot welder without looking or flipping his helmet up and down.



Now that I think about it: my guys didn't even wear a helmet or goggles, or coveralls. Just street clothes.

I had a sweater that had a bunch of holes burned in it, because they could control the direction the sparks would shoot and they would aim them at me (just for fun).

Flint Line 2 (Blazer and Suburban) cab shop shown. Line 2 was an old school manual process. Flint Line 1 (pickups) was highly automated; you fed panels in one end and a pickup cab popped out the other.
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Old 09-16-2021, 10:15 AM   #941
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Oh damn do I love this one!

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I always wondered how they assembled cabs especially the door openings. I needed to replace a door on mine and found many variations in door fit. Had to try like 5 or 6 and finally found one that was close but not perfect. BTW never back up with your door open, especially around trees!!
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I always wondered how they assembled cabs especially the door openings. I needed to replace a door on mine and found many variations in door fit. Had to try like 5 or 6 and finally found one that was close but not perfect. BTW never back up with your door open, especially around trees!!
The doors should be pretty stable, since they were all stamped in one piece (ie, one die line for the inner; one die line for the outer).

The variation would be in the door opening as a result of piecing it together from all the separate bits. That's why vehicles today the door opening (or entire body side) is stamped from one piece: to minimize that variation.

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I always wondered how they assembled cabs especially the door openings. I needed to replace a door on mine and found many variations in door fit. Had to try like 5 or 6 and finally found one that was close but not perfect. BTW never back up with your door open, especially around trees!!
The doors that are on my truck are a quarter inch different in length at the body line! Yep, they can be goofy fit for sure!


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I had a 5x7 of this printed out and it's on my garage wall.


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The doors that are on my truck are a quarter inch different in length at the body line! Yep, they can be goofy fit for sure!


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Maybe why so many of us have difficulties fitting weather-stripping. Had i known it would cause problems i woulda kept original door.
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Hey, that ain't workin'. Or maybe that is a traveling work unit. I'm thinking yes.
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Damn I love this thread!

Thanks for posting guys.

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Leading the seams.

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