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What does Cal do with older/collector cars & trucks? Thousands of them over there don't have long digit VINs...

Good advice, Simp.

Only if your trailer has good brakes. Best if they are air w/spring brakes, as your truck is designed to work with them. If so, install a "Johnny bar" to be able to use them without pedal. That really helps in some cases like fishtailing or loading/unloading. If not, there are cylinders...

Emery cloth is not good to use with contacts, the residue can lead to intermittant shorts and increased contact wear. In the field, plain old fine sandpaper is better. A dollar bill pulled thru the contacts with light pressure on them is actually a good cleaner. The best is a diamond...

I did it with a bunjee on the wheel, military towbar behind a large U-haul van. All the way from Phx to Oakland, no problems.

You might check with a mechanical gauge just to verify what is going on. Sounds like it might be ominous...

Off we go in the Wild Blue Wanderer!

The wiper blades are No. 9 in the diagram.

All the fun with the stuff, and no reveille or saluting! So there...

Your schematic shows the early turnsignal system with a control box. Mostly unreliable, parts are unobtainium, and requires a special signal switch. The second series uses the same signal handle and flasher unit found on new tacticals (a lot easier to) source. I keep my trucks long enough...

If you're using a duckbill hammer, little dish soap around the where the ring meets the rubber, It makes the wedging action much easier.

I thought the technique of splicing the rail occasionally with a diagonal cut was pretty neat. Sort of a slip-joint.

https://worldwiderails.com/how-do-railroads-deal-with-thermal-expansion/

UP's ribbons appear to be around a mile long, dispensed from a special consist paying them out as they go along. With 10 or so layers of rail on those special cars, there has to be a lot of cornering stresses bending all that as it rolls around corners... Automated machines pull up the old...

Like most modern RR's, the old "Clickety-clack" is no more, with very long ribbon rails and seamlessly welded together.

A bit of history: https://historyoftherails.com/sp-up-unmerger-1912-1913/ Scroll down to 1912 date. UP then bought SP in 1996. https://www.up.com/timeline/index.cfm/up-sp-merger

First get all the old-timer union guys to go. They then hire the "any job will do" crowd. Just what you want driving a mile-long consist thru towns...

When Union Pacific bought Sufferin' Pacific back (They sold it off many decades ago), a lot changed. I saw many things that happened, some good some bad: Using GPS to enable multiple engine locations in the consist is good. Continuing monetary support to keep big steam on the main lines is...

I just use a Hi-Lift.

UP has been in the news lately.