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Magnetic field leakage from an electric motor on a Japanese train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnNmX2gT78
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Looks like I will be joining the big orange railroad (you know the one) in California as an MOW laborer. Received conditional offer last week, and I was just notified that I passed the medical. I am excited and nervous at the same time. I have done heavy labor before (distribution center). Anyone here work MOW? Can't wait to start!
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What exactly do transportation managers(on NS in particular) do? I expected it would be like: go to terminal, deconflict train/maintenance/track work schedules, set schedule for employees, ensure proper train makeup. The recruiter said it would be more like: you own this section of track. You are responsible for everything that goes on in this section of track. In that same vein, what do trainmasters/yardmasters do?
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Feb 24, 2013 05:59
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Preoptopus posted:I thought it was Top Gear
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Feb 24, 2013 18:24
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Zeether posted:I just saw this picture on Tumblr with people saying "Oh my god, imagine how great this would be" and all I could think of was "This won't work at all and I can give a million reasons why":
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Feb 24, 2013 19:14
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I see the pink line going through my area to Montreal and Boston and it just depresses me that this will never happen. People were asking earlier where that map came from, and Frank Jacobs's Strange Maps blog featured it a couple of weeks ago: Fast Train to... Quincy? A Mirage Map of U.S. High Speed Rail
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Veins McGee posted:What exactly do transportation managers(on NS in particular) do? I expected it would be like: go to terminal, deconflict train/maintenance/track work schedules, set schedule for employees, ensure proper train makeup. The recruiter said it would be more like: you own this section of track. You are responsible for everything that goes on in this section of track. Got to the last round of interviews for the job. Anyone have anything they can say about the job?
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Feb 25, 2013 20:35
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took this the other day, westbound at sunset.
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Oh Russia, I love you so much but I'm glad I don't have to live there   Gas turbine jet engine, inside the body of a commuter bus, on top of a stripped down rail car.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Oh Russia, I love you so much but I'm glad I don't have to live there That is the most hosed up snow plow. poo poo, that eclipses the jet-tanks/trucks they've got for airport duty.
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Feb 26, 2013 17:58
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Brother Jonathan posted:Magnetic field leakage from an electric motor on a Japanese train: Heh. If you look in the background, some guys legs pop up at the same time as the paperclips around the 10 second mark. That is very neat though, I wonder if it's enough to affect personal electronics.
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Feb 26, 2013 18:35
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I really like in-depth court quality accident reenactments and analysis - anyone got any more like this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0nb1g3xXP4
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Feb 26, 2013 18:46
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Wow, that's pretty intense, but certainly worth watching, if only to  at the line "The coach [car] bent in half"
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Feb 26, 2013 19:41
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madeintaipei posted:That is the most hosed up snow plow. poo poo, that eclipses the jet-tanks/trucks they've got for airport duty. Jet-powered snow removal isn't unheard of in the western world.
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A train thread?! I LOVE TRAINS! A love that I specifically inherited from my dad and my uncle as a child. Some of my happiest memories from being a kid go back to day trips like bicycling to the railway museum in Nördlingen (the same town of Willy Wonka fame), or going on a special steam train ride organised by Deutsche Bahn and the German Museum (Museum of science & technology). One of my favorites for some reason has always been the war locomotives that were churned out en-masse by Germany during the second world war. These things were pretty much built to be disposable, as Allied aircraft were just about bombing them as fast as they could be built. As such, the factories (and sadly slave labor camps) that built these machines generally didn't put in too much of an effort, and just sort-of slapped them together. Turns out these things were designed well enough that the East German, Czech, Turkish, Bulgarian, Soviet, Romanian, Norwegian and Polish railways used them; with some serving up into the 80's with a bare minimum of what could be construed as 'maintenance'. My dad remembers boarding East German steam trains in the 60's and 70's when he would be sent to visit his grandmother, and apparently the Bosnians were using these things as recently as 2008.  These things were pretty much the equivalent to liberty ships on rails. Built to serve as expendable cargo haulers, and pressed into service en-masse in the post-war era where they just wouldn't die. Awesome. Space Wizard fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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They still are. Lukavac colliery, near Tuzla, has four and operates one or two at a time. See http://20329.foren.mysnip.de/read.php?27802,813891 for pictures from 2012.
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At 5:09: "The line had recently been electrified, and as part of this electrification, along either side of the track, there had been erected steel stanchions which are there to support the overhead line equipment—which we call "the knitting" sometimes—which provides the power to the electric trains." "The knitting." That's such a perfect name for the overhead line equipment that I'm going to call it that from now on.
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Veins McGee posted:What exactly do transportation managers(on NS in particular) do? I expected it would be like: go to terminal, deconflict train/maintenance/track work schedules, set schedule for employees, ensure proper train makeup. The recruiter said it would be more like: you own this section of track. You are responsible for everything that goes on in this section of track. The recruiter lied. Basically your going to work about 60 hours a week for a meager salary when the train crews you supervise will work less, earn more, and enjoy better benefits. You can and will be called at all hours of the day and night and live on little sleep. The crews will hate you for not having any ground experience and the superintendents will bitch up a storm on a regular basis. Your job will it include bullshit tests and firing crews. So to be honest don't expect much love from the work force. Railroaders are an interesting bunch, and be prepared to deal with some unsavory characters. I know, I am a conductor/set back engineer.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:The recruiter lied. Basically your going to work about 60 hours a week for a meager salary when the train crews you supervise will work less, earn more, and enjoy better benefits. You can and will be called at all hours of the day and night and live on little sleep. The crews will hate you for not having any ground experience and the superintendents will bitch up a storm on a regular basis. I get that management and labor have a pretty antagonistic relationship. I've read about crews bitching about managers hiding in the weeds in order to hammer people for minor rule violations or being retarded or whatever in the series of articles by Tucci(I can't find the link right now). I appreciate your response, but I'm trying to get a handle on what the job actually entails.
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Checking outbound train lists, testing, and getting yelled at. Seriously, that's to the extent of what management does. Maybe call for an extra train or annulment if the tonnage warrants. It also depends on the terminal. If its mostly run through traffic your life will be easy. If its a switching yard (yarding more than 3 trains a day or handling over 750 cars a day) your life will be more stressful.
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Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:took this the other day, westbound at sunset. This is a great photo, have it in desktop size?
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Das Volk posted:This is a great photo, have it in desktop size? What's your desktop size?
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Feb 27, 2013 05:53
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Choo Choo mofo's.
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Speaking of managers yelling at people, I got to meet Hunter Harrison a couple weeks ago. I know his methods, but the guy is very charming. Hope it works out for CP. Somebody told me that he's called the Seagull: "He swoops in somewhere, shits all over you, and flies away."
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Lovie Unsmith posted:What's your desktop size? Mine's 1440x900! I'd love to have that.
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N is for Nipples posted:Mine's 1440x900! I'd love to have that. 1080p or whatever would be swell. That's a nice picture. 
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SouthLAnd posted:1080p or whatever would be swell. That's a nice picture. who ever would like it, please email me at dan.kleman AT gmail.com I'm not sure how to put it on here in full size. If there are any specific things you would like to have a picture of, paint schemes extra let me know and I will keep a look out.
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Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:who ever would like it, please email me at dan.kleman AT gmail.com You can put it up at imgur.com
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bisticles posted:Wow, that's pretty intense, but certainly worth watching, if only to The highlight for me was the construction worker (or whatever he was) who decided the best course of action was to run towards the trainwreck in progress. 
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Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:who ever would like it, please email me at dan.kleman AT gmail.com Yeah, just put it on imgur then link it instead of embedding it.
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Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:took this the other day, westbound at sunset. Wait a moment, I remember you. You're that track worker for BNSF that I chatted with in my A/T thread months back. Are you still working with the two dudes that I used to work with at GCR?
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Tex Avery posted:Wait a moment, I remember you. You're that track worker for BNSF that I chatted with in my A/T thread months back. Are you still working with the two dudes that I used to work with at GCR? That's me! And no I am not working with them anymore, last I talked to them they had headed back up north to Williams. So you might see them around up there. I have been thinking about heading back up to Williams once it warms up a bit and work there for the summer. Get away from the Southern California heat!
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The Brookings Institution has just come out with a major report on improving Amtrak: A New Alignment: Strengthening America's Commitment to Passenger Rail (PDF). Along with the report, they have a handy Web application for browsing current Amtrak routes.
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Huge_Midget posted:http://www.fireup611.org/main/index.php I remember that coming through my hometown pulling the Autumn Leaf Special when I was a kid. It would be great to see it running again. It would be a real coup if they could get the 1218 again too!
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I was just reminded the other day of one of the coolest narrow gauge railroads ever: Durango & Silverton. I used to have a VHS tape set from a company called Pentrex titled "Great American Railroads" that showcased scenic railroads across the US and this was on there. They operate some seriously badass steam locomotives on there like this K-28: This thing is so  looking sometimes, like some metal smoke belching beast on the rails. Also, crosspost from the GIF thread of one of them blowing off steam:  The video it comes from is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9zNeaIs_2M If I ever get back into model railroading I'm going On30 and seeing if I can find one of these (or its sister the K-27) in that scale, because holy mother of gently caress are they the coolest looking narrow gauge locomotives ever. edit: Oh god $400 for a K-27 model  I thought On30 was cheap to get into, apparently notZeether fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Mar 2, 2013 |
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Heres a cool train pic, care of NatGeo. The Lethbridge Viaduct.
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Zeether posted:edit: Oh god $400 for a K-27 model
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Another RR goon here. (Junior) Signals & Telecommunications engineer working in NZ. Geoj posted:Are you a follower of choo choo logic? Clearly high speed rail won't work because the fast bullet train will collide with a slow freight train at some point. How do we know this is true? Because the budget office says it will be too expensive Apparently American high speed trains are going to go so fast down that one track they will transport themselves into the path of a New Zealand freight train. That stock picture was one of ours (in old livery). How hard was it to find a stock picture of a American freight train  ? Zeether posted:This thing is so
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Just a couple of random pics: And this cross-post from the Bad-rear end Pictures thread, from a couple weeks back: Brother Jonathan posted:Here is a GE AC6000CW locomotive, featuring a 6,250 horsepower diesel engine:
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