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Minto Took posted:I'm growing to like the new cars on the CTA. I dont like how the doors lock so you cant walk between cars. I found it handy when some bum smelling like piss and poo poo stumbles into your car and starts screaming at demons. (for those of you not familiar with the city, this happens often.)
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Minto Took posted:I'm growing to like the new cars on the CTA. i liked the old ankle eater cars with the blinker doors, because im a foaming rail tourist and not a rush hour commuter Preoptopus posted:I dont like how the doors lock so you cant walk between cars. I found it handy when some bum smelling like piss and poo poo stumbles into your car and starts screaming at demons. (for those of you not familiar with the city, this happens often.) thats really any metro in the states
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Preoptopus posted:I dont like how the doors lock so you cant walk between cars. I found it handy when some bum smelling like piss and poo poo stumbles into your car and starts screaming at demons. (for those of you not familiar with the city, this happens often.) Red or Blue Line?
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Jan 15, 2013 06:42
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Blue line in the middle of the night is a rolling homeless shelter, not to say I havent seen my fair share of bullshit on the Redline. Also cubs fans puking on the redline sucks too.
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I like the new CTA cars too because they give off the same AC inverter sound as my Prius does in electric only mode.
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So apparently a stolen train crashed into a house in Stockholm yesterday...
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I hope those two beat cops weren't the only guys they sent to respond. Looks a bit heavy to push. 
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Willfrey posted:So apparently a stolen train crashed into a house in Stockholm yesterday... Maybe he just didn't want to walk from the station to his home, in the snow?
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Willfrey posted:So apparently a stolen train crashed into a house in Stockholm yesterday... Here's the full story: Cleaning lady steals train and crashes into house "It shouldn't be possible for unauthorized people to drive our trains," Christer G. Wennerholm, a Moderate member of the Stockholm County Council's traffic committee, said in a statement. Yes, you could say that.
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bytebark posted:The one "advantage" listed there which I disagree with is "smoother ride." I've ridden a few rubber-tired transit operations (mostly those running at airports) and they're never smooth. A few years ago I went to Disney World and made it a point to ride the Monorail (rubber tired on a concrete beam) so I could compare it to the CTA in Chicago. Without a doubt the CTA (operating on a 100+ year old elevated structure in some places) has the better ride. Really? I've ridden Montreal and NYC in my youth (no real comparison there, NYC could jar your loving teeth out), and CTA this June. The rubber-tired ones were always smoother from my recollection. Regarding airport 'metro' systems: Keep in mind that the little trains at airports aren't really a metro system. They were a gee-whiz thingamabob stuck underground sometime between 1970 and 1990 and probably given the absolute minimum necessary maintenance to keep them dragging rear end around their tiny circles of track. They've probably run up more working hours than a real metro would, under harsher stop-start-stop intervals because there's like four trains to cover the whole airport, 24/7/365.
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Brother Jonathan posted:Here's the full story: Cleaning lady steals train and crashes into house Someone has put up an Imgur album of images from the crash.
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http://goo.gl/maps/gjc3Y This does seem like a rather unfortunate place to build a nice house.
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I wonder if train joyriding is really common and nobody reports on it because it generally doesn't end up in photos this good.
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Rubber tire train that runs it self at San Francisco International Airport http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Trains-without-track-2-car-rail-vehicles-on-2872540.php
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I wonder if train joyriding is really common and nobody reports on it because it generally doesn't end up in photos this good. I don't know about joyriding, but my best friend and I found an idling MOW train after hours once. We knew how to work the switch for that siding but were't stupid enough to make the thing go. We did blow the horns a few times and crawl all over the locos. Another time we almost lost control of a flat car we found on the same siding. We could get it moving a whole lot easier than stopping. Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jan 16, 2013 |
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Yeah, that poo poo is looked down upon. Especially in dark territory (no signal system) could mean a life and death situation for people who work out here. And it could also mean a gigantic gently caress off huge boom as well. We get unit propane trains from the north that head south. God drat if one of those derails, I could begin to imagine the size of the boom.
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I'm not saying that people should do it, just that it happens. We were teenagers. The caboose on that train has been a coffee shop for over 10 years. Iron Horse Espresso. Edit: http://www.alaskarails.org/pix/caboose/AMHA-1776.html http://www.alaskarails.org/pix/caboose/RT-1776.html Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Jan 16, 2013 |
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Filthy Luker posted:http://goo.gl/maps/gjc3Y Are full-size SUVs really that common there? I see at least one.
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In Sweden in general? No. In Saltsjbaden? Yes. Cause you need a vehicle that large to survive that 20 km commute into the city.
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Som guys have a train in their basement, this guy HAS a train in his basement. Watch this video. This guy built a perfectly detailed portion of a scale sized CN Via Rail passenger car down to the last rivet, screw, carpet, and seats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjMnWdIWjWs
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A few pages from an old National Lampoon I liked enough to save for years:  
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I want to believe.
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The train on the cover is multi-track drifting! 
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Jan 20, 2013 05:46
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How did they get inside my six-year-old head 
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Jan 20, 2013 05:55
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I think that art would make great art for the man room.
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dee eight posted:A few pages from an old National Lampoon I liked enough to save for years: Please tell me that this is available on Google Books or something similar. It looks like it'd make a fantastic coffee table book.
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Jan 20, 2013 12:55
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It's from the March 1977 issue, which can be found on Ebay or Amazon.
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London Underground turned 150 this month and I'm surprised nobody posted about them doing something awesome / dirty    They ran this poo poo during normal service hours and smoked out the tunnels 
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Jan 21, 2013 22:42
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There's a video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Qvb2npctk That is so badass and the best way to celebrate the anniversary of the Tube. Edit: I found another longer video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu-kQ5NLRm0 The sparks flying from Sarah Siddons (the electric locomotive at the other end) are just as badass as the steam from Met no. 1.
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Bucephalus posted:It's from the March 1977 issue, which can be found on Ebay or Amazon. Ordered this so hard. One less copy on eBay, sucka! This should go nicely with my other favorite railroading book, "Scalded to Death by the Steam."
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I've started a little tumblr for the London Underground. It'll focus less on the trains (because you can only really say so much about them) but details of stuff like station architecture, all the exposed hardware, period fittings, etc, basically the beauty of the infrastructure. http://tfldetails.tumblr.com/
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 Didn't this actually exist as weaponry in WWII or something? I think I remember seeing a rail cannon like this before. Zeether fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Jan 24, 2013 |
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Also known as the weirdest level in Wolf:ET, yeah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav
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They most certainly did. One of Hitler's many superweapons that wasted the Nazis' industrial resources and probably helped bring about the downfall of Germany earlier than it otherwise would have happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav At 800mm they were the largest guns ever built. They fired ~7 ton shells 24-29 miles at a rate of about 1 per 30-45 minutes. Gotta love Nazi superweapons. Edit: wow, beating by 3 seconds. Good show!
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Our own Zach Parsons wrote a book about bizarre WWII military inventions called My Tank is Fight. Pretty sure this gets a chapter in it.
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I'm been visiting Tehachapi, CA, and I had a chance to drive out to the loop today. The lighting sucked; so, I'm going back when the clouds clear.
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I really do need to take a trip out west to film me some trains sometime. This is about as close as we get to that kind of scene on the east coast, and this required a long rear end hike to get to. Climbing a 200 foot hill of loose leaves at a 45 degree angle with a tripod and a camera bag isn't fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1FXCj8_DI
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Wikipedia posted:On 25 July 2010 a maintenance train collided with a buffer stop at the station. The train rammed a small shop, passed through it and stopped at the square behind it. Only two people were injured, out of four people on the train. The accident happened late at night, when passenger services had already finished.[1] Aerial photographs of the accident show several wagons dispersed across the platform, indicating the collision took place at high speed.[2]
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Zeether posted:That is so badass and the best way to celebrate the anniversary of the Tube. I used to work in the building on the other side of the tracks with a great view into the depot. It would have been awesome to look out of the window and see that.
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