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(Boing Boing) Silly Three old-timey inventions to keep livestock off train tracks. They won't steer you wrong   (boingboing.net) divider line 18
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dletter [TotalFark]
2011-12-29 02:04:33 PM
"This is relevant to my interests"
 
dletter [TotalFark]
2011-12-29 02:05:54 PM
Crap HTML...

www.amctv.com

to his interests
 
I_Am_Weasel [TotalFark]
2011-12-29 02:09:06 PM
This keeps them off the tracks as well

www.redoxsteakhouse.com
 
stuhayes2010
2011-12-29 03:40:29 PM
I guess using words to describe the pictures and perhaps a little history would have been too much trouble.
 
netringer [TotalFark]
2011-12-29 03:45:16 PM
I think it's funny that the idea is it's fine to hit the livestock as long as you hit them 20 feet further away. Maybe it's more amusing for the crew in the locomotive to have it further forward so they can witness the moment of slaughter.

BTW, that little mustache on the front of a steam locomotive is called a "Cow catcher."
 
Treygreen13 [TotalFark]
2011-12-29 03:46:10 PM
Every once in a while a link is greenlit for no reason. This is one of those times.

/although it would be interesting to be "guy who bangs on a cymbal to scare cows off train tracks" as a career
 
groppet
2011-12-29 03:46:26 PM
I thought that was the point of the cow catcher. You hit an animal and it gets pushed violently out of the way with little damage to the train.
 
Beaver Dimples
2011-12-29 03:50:20 PM
still one of my favorites

Link (pops)
 
IntotheAbyss
2011-12-29 03:57:12 PM
Old timey-wimey things tend to be wibbly-wobbly.
 
zato_ichi
2011-12-29 04:10:15 PM
Great article, great greenlight.

Hi fives for everyone.
 
WordsnCollision
2011-12-29 04:38:51 PM
#4...

www.trainsarefun.com
 
shanteyman
2011-12-29 04:41:19 PM
In the old days, railroads had a steak in keeping livestock off the tracks. With the smaller size of the engines, the train would've derailed and then everybody would have to hoof it.
 
Foundling
2011-12-29 04:59:05 PM
My example of an engineering failure is the style of locomotive pilot called the "Cowcatcher".

Failure? Hell yeah! Never has one of them come back home proclaiming, "I caught a cow!".

// got nothin'
 
Mikey1969 [TotalFark]
2011-12-29 06:28:15 PM
shanteyman: railroads had a steak

Was that intentional? Because it's funny as Hell...

Yes, they had a stake in it, but these are just stupid, overly complicated inventions, the cow catcher is simple and effective, yet not as interesting as these, that's for sure...
 
Benjimin_Dover
2011-12-29 08:35:44 PM
Mikey1969: shanteyman: railroads had a steak

Was that intentional? Because it's funny as Hell...

Yes, they had a stake in it, but these are just stupid, overly complicated inventions, the cow catcher is simple and effective, yet not as interesting as these, that's for sure...

In the old days, railroads had a steak in keeping livestock off the tracks. With the smaller size of the engines, the train would've derailed and then everybody would have to hoof it.


Obvious answer is obvious.
 
Dudley_Nightsoil
2011-12-29 10:00:16 PM
Bet you never had to clean up after a locomotive rolled over a cow, or a person. Even when the pilot works, usually a leg or so gets under the wheels, the animal being so close and the wheels being so many. Damn what a mess. Small cars are bad too. Looks like a battered can of tomato sauce.

Look both ways and live you fools!
 
shanteyman
2011-12-30 10:53:54 AM
Mikey1969: shanteyman: railroads had a steak

Was that intentional? Because it's funny as Hell...

Yes, they had a stake in it, but these are just stupid, overly complicated inventions, the cow catcher is simple and effective, yet not as interesting as these, that's for sure...

In the old days, railroads had a steak in keeping livestock off the tracks. With the smaller size of the engines, the train would've derailed and then everybody would have to hoof it.


Obvious answer is obvious.


Obviously !
 
Cerebral Knievel
2011-12-30 04:10:27 PM
WordsnCollision: #4...

[www.trainsarefun.com image 600x370]

That little booger right there is actually a snow plow. But I'm sure seeing it interact with a cow could prove to be amusing.

Use this one if want Hamburger.

farm4.static.flickr.com
 
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