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What is even the deal there? Someone running from the police?
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She was apparently at someones house and they didn't want her there and called the cops. Then when they spotted her vehicle, they turned on their lights and she ran, driving into the side of a train. Then the second train finished what the first had started. As for the Reading diagrams, I will get them as soon as I can. The book is currently at my Mom's in storage. I also have diagrams for a proposed Reading Steam Turbine.
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Oct 16, 2013 02:06
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I almost turned that video off after about a minute. That would have been a mistake 
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Oct 16, 2013 14:17
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Good job, p-way mushroom installers. 
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Oct 16, 2013 16:32
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jadebullet posted:She was apparently at someones house and they didn't want her there and called the cops. Then when they spotted her vehicle, they turned on their lights and she ran, driving into the side of a train. Then the second train finished what the first had started. Wow that's pretty messed up. There has to be more to that story, I can't imagine someone would run from the cops at those speeds over something so minor. I'd love to see the steam turbine as well. The ones that actually got built were crazy enough, I'd love to see a design that never made it.
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Oct 16, 2013 16:53
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Ryand-Smith posted:Yep, thats point read operate method of operations, which forces one to see, acknowledge, and understand. They do a little bit of this on the NYC subway. Conductors are required to point at the striped sign in the station before opening the doors.
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Oct 16, 2013 17:34
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  quote:Diesel-Pneumatic More Here
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Oct 16, 2013 22:28
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Gorilla Salad posted:I almost turned that video off after about a minute. That would have been a mistake I watched that and thought that the second cop was a lazy, fat useless lump as he sat on his rear end while the other guys did all the dangerous, hard work. Turns out that he was the brains of the operation.
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Oct 17, 2013 14:13
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So I just found out today that a girl I went to college with had an accident in which she lost one foot. I thought maybe it was a car or motorcycle accident, but nope: http://www.wvec.com/my-city/norfolk/1-injured-after-being-hit-by-train--220041741.html
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Oct 18, 2013 02:06
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Wilford Cutlery posted:So I just found out today that a girl I went to college with had an accident in which she lost one foot. I thought maybe it was a car or motorcycle accident, but nope: Remember kids, don't drink and sleep (on busy rail lines).
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Oct 18, 2013 02:19
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Wilford Cutlery posted:So I just found out today that a girl I went to college with had an accident in which she lost one foot. I thought maybe it was a car or motorcycle accident, but nope: 
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Oct 18, 2013 03:41
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https://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/community_ties/2013/october/1016_portraits.shtml That was just a big thing at our work. Trains are not things to gently caress around with folks.
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Oct 18, 2013 04:02
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Here's some black and white archive newsreel of the very first British Rail Class 81 (or E3001 for the pre-TOPS era), featuring some amazing voiceover work: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/BRITISH-RAILWAYS-LATEST/c2a6d93686f9475d8aa12a15bbc26be1
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Oct 18, 2013 14:20
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The ZigZag railway in New South Wales has been burnt in bushfires yesterday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_Zag_Railway http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-19/fire-causes-millions-in-damage-to-zig-zag-railway/5033444 quote:NSW bushfires: Blaze causes millions of damage to Lithgow's iconic Zig Zag Railway RIP Thomas the tank engine (and others) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kASUPa3qiBs  Edit: hahah... quote:In 2003 the railway was used in the production of the Hollywood film Stealth.[7] The area stood in for mountainous regions in North Korea and locomotives were specially painted with Korean Chosongul (Hangul) characters. drunkill fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Oct 19, 2013 |
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Oct 19, 2013 07:03
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 Going back a couple of pages but this little fellow was nuclear powered for a while. It was one of two Andrew Barcley fireless steam engines that worked on Heysham Nuclear power station for a while in the 70's. They use high pressure steam from the power station in order to run around the sidings
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Oct 19, 2013 17:58
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There's been an update about the two people killed by a BART train. According to reuters they were investigating a dip in the track when they were run over by an automated train.
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Oct 20, 2013 03:22
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We had a guy in a backhoe fatally injured after a train hit him. Stay safe out there everyone.
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Oct 20, 2013 03:26
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Strawberry posted:We had a guy in a backhoe fatally injured after a train hit him. Stay safe out there everyone. Where are you working at now?
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Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:Where are you working at now? RP18, San Bernadino sub, getting close to Pico Rivera.
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Last page someone promised drawings of a proposed oversized steeplecar. Now in Europe those design is called Krokodil-style, after the famous swiss heavy fright steeplecar. I was at the libary today and picked up a book about those, and there are a few drawings of unrealized designs. The Swiss boilt a lot of articulated fright locomotives to get those heavy fright trains around the tight corners of the Gotthardbahn. Here are three steam based steeplecars:   Remember we are talking about people who seriously built this: 
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Oct 21, 2013 15:24
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What the gently caress is going on here.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:What the gently caress is going on here. I'm not joking. There's a whole article on it here: http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/swisselec/swisselc.htm One of them is still in service apparently but without the electric components.
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tonberrytoby posted:Remember we are talking about people who seriously built this: At first I looked at it and thought "What's so weird about a little steam locomo... OH. WHAT?". My initial conclusion was that it was a dual mode locomotive, like an FL9. I mean, electric locomotives have been around longer than diesels, so why wouldn't there be a steam-electric dual mode? I'm happy that the actual reason is even crazier.
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That steam thing is a steam locomotive that was "cost effectively" refitted for electric power when Switzerland was low on coals during the war. Here are two more fun drawings:  A design from 1931 by Maschienenfabrik Oerlikon with C+C+C drive. Each 3-axle-group is coupled by a rod and driven by 4 motors. Here is the one that I actually remembered. Turns out I remembered wrong, it is a diesel-electric not an electric lok.  1934 designed by Sulzer. The frame has five units (the motor-blocks are separate units as with a classic Krokodil ). In the floating cabs are diesel motors. Each of the wheel-cabs has a single e-motor driving the wheel group with rods, like in the classic.
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Oct 21, 2013 17:33
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Zeether posted:The pantograph powers a heater that heats the boiler to make steam. Seems so foreign to me.... But in the US, the GG1 used fuel oil to power the steam generators on them.
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Oct 21, 2013 17:40
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tonberrytoby posted:Remember we are talking about people who seriously built this: Ok this is probably one of the coolest loving things I have ever seen. I bet it is/was badass to see in motion. wilfredmerriweathr fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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As promised, here is the diagrams I was talking about. Also, an added treat, and the reason for my delay in posting them. My one friend is actually working on making it for Trainz. 
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Strawberry posted:RP18, San Bernadino sub, getting close to Pico Rivera. Right on your kinda close to me. Stay safe out there.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmSclbRE Youtube video of a Steam Locomotive being built.
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CommieGIR posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmSclbRE Seeing that video made me miss my grandfather. He worked for the Lima Locomotive Works before WWII building steam locomotives. Unfortunately he died when I was 5 so I never really got to talk to him about the trains that he helped build.
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I went out to Winter Park today and got some shots of an Amtrak service pulling in. They're building a new station because of SunRail.  
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One of the new locally built E-Class trams went down my street half an hour ago, driver training/testing  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-class_Melbourne_tram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgqXeZ2DYZ0 Pretty darn quiet trams, just wish they had the old bells like on the W/Z/B classes. Sadly, they probably won't run on this route until around 2030. We get all the old trams, not even the last two new classes in the early 2000's run here except for late at night driver training. 
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Speed camera and train related for total AI goodness http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=398_1382782728
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Wind happened 
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Wind happened Did the old fat sleeping guy die?
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Oct 29, 2013 21:17
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Apparently the guy driving it survived! Bastard trees, they stay in the same place for 100 years then jump out at you.
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Yowsers. That's pretty freaky.
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Zeether posted:I went out to Winter Park today and got some shots of an Amtrak service pulling in. They're building a new station because of SunRail. Where is it in relation to the old train station / current farmer's market in Winter Park? That's where my brother got married, and it's a beautiful space but a bit rustic.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Where is it in relation to the old train station / current farmer's market in Winter Park? That's where my brother got married, and it's a beautiful space but a bit rustic. Right on top of it/across the street from it respectively. If that's shot at the angle I think it is, the farmer's market is behind the train. Also, sup fellow Orlando goon. 
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ExplodingSims posted:Also, sup fellow Orlando goon. Miami, actually.
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