How to Keep the Outside Windows Clean
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I saw that show too! Funny!
Devil's Advocate
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$400 to get out of cleaning your window? Dear goodness we sure are lazy. The fall of Rome can't come soon enough.
BCL
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I was riding the Capitol Corridor past the Oakland maintenance yard. They had a "train wash" similar to this one:
A lot of commuter and subway lines just use the equivalent of automatic car washes.
I wonder if the various cleaning agents and constant moisture affects corrosion on the rails.
A lot of commuter and subway lines just use the equivalent of automatic car washes.
I wonder if the various cleaning agents and constant moisture affects corrosion on the rails.
VentureForth
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Automation spurs productivity. I have a Roomba at home and love it. I can do other work while that thing wanders around my living room like a drunk hockey puck.
VentureForth
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Fort Worth uses the same " Machine" on the Flyers and the Eagles!
OlympianHiawatha
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FTW has "hit or miss" window crews that at least get the Lower Level windows on the Eagles and I imagine the Heartland Flyer when it is penned up for the day. But like the Hot Dog Guy sometimes you see them and other times you don't.
andersone
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As a child I remember all the falderal of them running the train through a washer at Denver,,,,,
I used to sit in the dome and marvel ,,,
ahh to be that young again
I used to sit in the dome and marvel ,,,
ahh to be that young again
I use a magnetic cleaner on my big aquarium--the cleaner side goes into the tank, and you move it with a magnet outside the tank. Quite a lot of fun actually, and if you lose it floats to the surface. Now if I could get one of those attached to my roomette window, maybe rig something to remotely squirt some windex....
Which makes me think: Would they have a fit if you magnetically mounted a Go-Pro camera to the outside of your window? Would they notice, even?
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George K
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That's clearly not in Chicago, of course. Had that photo been taken in Chicago, one guy would have been holding the squeegee, and the other two would have been watching.
andersone
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Born and bred in Illinois back in the day of Hiz Honor (Sr)
we used to pass by a road job and mother would declare state, county or city based on these criteria
four guys working, one watching - State Job
two guys working, three watching Cook County Job
five guys watching, City of Chicago Job
(my uncle was one of the City guys)
we used to pass by a road job and mother would declare state, county or city based on these criteria
four guys working, one watching - State Job
two guys working, three watching Cook County Job
five guys watching, City of Chicago Job
(my uncle was one of the City guys)
Andersone: you forgot to mention the 10 that had "no show" jobs on the Chicago crews!
Devil's Advocate
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That gave me a hearty laugh. It my experience once the window is truly clean it rarely needs to be cleaned again unless the train passes through bad weather or a heavily industrialized area. Conventional Windex cleaning once a day during an extended stop would seem to be enough in my experience. The main issue is that I'm often on the upper level where reaching the window with easily packed instruments is virtually impossible. From a practical standpoint this is an Amtrak problem that requires an Amtrak solution. Which I suppose is why it's so hit or miss and probably always will be.
Yeah...I remember that. They also did it at Portola (sigh).....
Whatever, but it sure is a problem I'd like to see fixed. I'm on the train for the scenery first, socializing second, and the food 5th. Clean windows help mainly (only?) with the first, but that's my highest priority. Of course,I've also ended up seated on planes next to literally opaque windows. Best I not get started on that subject.
Phil
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