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I think that's called "smoke" not "froth" though?
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 18:42 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 12:49 |
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Oh shoot. Hope everybody is okay.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 19:41 |
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 20:42 |
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Interesting that there is a modern concrete rail bridge right next to the old trestle on fire. That’s convenient.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 00:51 |
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smackfu posted:Interesting that there is a modern concrete rail bridge right next to the old trestle on fire. That’s convenient. That looks like light rail or a subway system to me, not heavy rail. I don't know the city, though, so I could be wrong. And yes before you ask I am fully in favor of routing freight trains over light rail. It's the same gauge, I'm sure there won't be any terrible and foreseeable consequences at all.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 01:23 |
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Good call: https://www.valleymetro.org/images/uploads/lightrail_publications/METRO-light-rail-line.pdf
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 02:24 |
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Log082 posted:That looks like light rail or a subway system to me, not heavy rail. I don't know the city, though, so I could be wrong. And yes before you ask I am fully in favor of routing freight trains over light rail. It's the same gauge, I'm sure there won't be any terrible and foreseeable consequences at all. The most pressing issue, should they choose to do that for some bizarre reason, is that I'm not even sure there's a connection to the UP anywhere. They'd have to cut in some switches and make a shoo fly. (But that mixed traffic auto and light rail bridge is TOTALLY rated for freight trains, guys. Trust me, nothing will go wrong.)
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 03:49 |
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Tex Avery posted:The most pressing issue, should they choose to do that for some bizarre reason, is that I'm not even sure there's a connection to the UP anywhere. They'd have to cut in some switches and make a shoo fly. Ah. I was going off the light rail in my city, which has a connection to the mains in at least two places which I'm pretty sure is used exclusively for the delivery of new train sets and maintenance supplies. That said, just because it isn't used to run freight trains through the middle of the city doesn't mean you couldn't recreate that scene from Inception with enough motivation. Probably.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 04:16 |
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Log082 posted:Ah. I was going off the light rail in my city, which has a connection to the mains in at least two places which I'm pretty sure is used exclusively for the delivery of new train sets and maintenance supplies. Street running freights are absolutely a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vLxozuU2Vc&t=70s Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Jul 30, 2020 |
# ? Jul 30, 2020 17:42 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFTkgupgRpw&t=122s
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 21:11 |
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uhhh did they run out of sand?
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 22:28 |
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Log082 posted:Ah. I was going off the light rail in my city, which has a connection to the mains in at least two places which I'm pretty sure is used exclusively for the delivery of new train sets and maintenance supplies. The light rail system I work for has an interchange connection too, but I don't think it's been used since we shipped some of our cars to Salt Lake City and back to help SLC during the Olympics.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 23:49 |
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Tex Avery posted:The light rail system I work for has an interchange connection too, but I don't think it's been used since we shipped some of our cars to Salt Lake City and back to help SLC during the Olympics. That checks out with what I would expect but it's not like I had any firsthand experience so confirmation is cool. Thanks!
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 00:19 |
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Am on a road trip. Stopped by the North Platte, Nebraska "Golden Spike" Observation Tower. This is the world's largest classification yard and is run by UP. (Picture attached). I have a map somewhere of this yard, if someone is interested in it, I could scan it, but I think it's available online. Our next day, we passed through Alliance, NE, which is BNSF's yard. I have video and photos of this. I'll work on getting those videos uploaded. We're still on an air card right now, so data is limited. Here's the imgur link of both yards. I have a couple more photos of North Platte, but nothing really great. I have all of the alliance ones in raw, these are jpg for compression. https://imgur.com/a/T4jVIq6 And here's the pano first picture of North Platte
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 07:11 |
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meltie posted:uhhh did they run out of sand? Im going to guess they had no sand system in the first place.
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 08:54 |
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https://twitter.com/tvtuners/status/1291869092312473601?s=20
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# ? Aug 7, 2020 23:53 |
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Dun like diesels Dun like trucks Dun like getting dirty Luv the express Luv being very useful Luv Annie & Clarabel Simple as
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# ? Aug 9, 2020 11:45 |
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https://twitter.com/TheDreadShips/status/1293493646168391681
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 18:30 |
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53751678 Not a good day. Been along there loads of times.
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# ? Aug 12, 2020 18:55 |
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sincx fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Mar 23, 2021 |
# ? Aug 14, 2020 22:31 |
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I always assumed that when the train is long enough it can be going over both a hill and a valley at the same time, so breaking alone wouldn't keep the tension within limits throughout and a little thrust would be required at the midpoint. The dudes on here who drive them all day would have a better idea though.
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# ? Aug 14, 2020 22:56 |
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sincx posted:Is there ever a benefit to putting additional locomotives in the middle of a train versus all at the front? Not a train driver, but this was covered a long time ago in the thread I believe. In short, absolutely. As was said, putting engines spaced out in the train can be used to control slack when going over hilly terrain or around very windy corners. Would love an engineer to go more in depth on it.
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 16:00 |
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This is old, but cop clearly doesn't know what a foamer is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIkmeZS1Lg
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 19:29 |
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ACAB
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 05:37 |
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Kilonum posted:ACAB All Cabooses Are Beautiful.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 13:13 |
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Not a train driver, but this was covered a long time ago in the thread I believe. In short, absolutely. As was said, putting engines spaced out in the train can be used to control slack when going over hilly terrain or around very windy corners. It's also done to avoid breaking knuckles on very long trains by having too much of the power at the front of the train.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 13:49 |
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From GBSekuNNN posted:The Billups neon crossing signal The Real Amethyst fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Aug 19, 2020 |
# ? Aug 19, 2020 23:35 |
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That doesn't look like a period-accurate locomotive for the mid-1930s? Also, now I want to listen to trap.
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# ? Aug 20, 2020 13:04 |
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https://twitter.com/GarethDennis/status/1297841129761787906 I'm not sure if the insanity is the content or the insomnia which apparently led to the guy thinking about this.
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 20:03 |
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[/quote] This is metal as gently caress
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# ? Aug 25, 2020 06:47 |
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One of those time when you wish you could reach through the internet and just loving smack someone. Thankfully, the train did it for me.
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 05:31 |
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Shoulda kicked her out of the way
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 07:05 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:One of those time when you wish you could reach through the internet and just loving smack someone. JFC the stupidity on display is astounding.
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 10:37 |
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 22:04 |
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Paint it black and it's the Bat-train.
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 22:25 |
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drat the police come by rail now too?
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# ? Sep 1, 2020 22:43 |
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Charles posted:drat the police come by rail now too?
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# ? Sep 2, 2020 13:13 |
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https://twitter.com/TomColetti/status/1303624640837890050
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# ? Sep 9, 2020 14:42 |
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Did this get posted here yet? I have no idea where this is from. I found it posted on a different forum. Automotive train cars getting scalped on a low bridge. https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=kWtkE_1599678102
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 19:23 |
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first guess is they ran triples (3 layers of cars) on a route that was only OK for doubles (2 layers of cars)
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 21:51 |