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B4Ctom1 posted:We were just talking about quality van moves ight? Tell me one of the stickers on the back of that van says. "This vehicle stops at all railroad crossings." 
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B4Ctom1 posted:We were just talking about quality van moves ight? Now that's service! Door to door!
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May 29, 2014 01:58
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Ah Kiwirail - we're used to late/non existent services but this is a new one:   http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10088128/Train-crashes-beyond-end-of-the-line
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May 29, 2014 07:30
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So, a rail line in my town is being reactivated for freight. Currently, only the northern part is going to be in use, which goes through business areas, not residential. But there's rumblings in towns south of us that since it's being reactivated that far, it's now more tempting to reactivate it down to them. If and when that happens, I'm going to be stuck arguing about quiet zones, aren't I?
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May 29, 2014 11:25
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My building is between two rail yards and regularly shakes while heavily loaded freight trains go by. I find it soothing, but then again I am a giant child inside and trains still make me giddy as gently caress.
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May 29, 2014 11:44
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Keiya posted:If and when that happens, I'm going to be stuck arguing about quiet zones, aren't I? I would be way more concerned about the inevitable derailment(s) and what hazmat spills are coming to an area near you.
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My old house is next to the Cheyenne Yard. Standing on the porch greeting a guest or seeing one off after a visit and a string of hoppers rolling free makes a rough joint and my guests jump out of their skin yelling, "oh my god did something just blow up what the gently caress!?!?!?"SocketSeven posted:Tell me one of the stickers on the back of that van says. "This vehicle stops at all railroad crossings." Well if I use railroad agreement interpretation logic to such a sticker, it doesn't say "which method" would be used to stop the vehicle at crossings so all is well here. B4Ctom1 fucked around with this message at 16:46 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 16:43
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dissss posted:Ah Kiwirail - we're used to late/non existent services but this is a new one: Obviously, the driver needed some coffee.
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May 29, 2014 16:54
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 Japanese suicide jumper hit by bullet train http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=04f_1401284614
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May 29, 2014 17:36
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B4Ctom1 posted:
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B4Ctom1 posted:
That's one of the cleanest suicide cab videos I've seen. Luckily the train looked like it was only going 30 to 40mph
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May 29, 2014 19:14
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Just take some sleeping pills in a bathtub, naked, ffs 
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Brother Jonathan posted:
Is the U.S. rail system really growing? If so, aren't most of the optimal routes taken already (either in use or used and abandoned)? If you wanted to retrack an abandoned line, do you have to buy the land up all over again, or do states control the line?
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That depends. Some places they lease the track to other rr's and others they pull up the tracks but still own the land. The rail system is growing, but not additional branches, but by the additional mainline for double/triple track.
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May 30, 2014 00:49
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Cygni posted:Dude interrupted my enjoyment of a perfectly rad foamer cab vid. I like those videos, I just zone out to them. Like highway hypnosis, except intentionally induced and embraced. And then some jerk offs themselves in a way that makes another person take all the guilt. Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Is the U.S. rail system really growing? If so, aren't most of the optimal routes taken already (either in use or used and abandoned)? If you wanted to retrack an abandoned line, do you have to buy the land up all over again, or do states control the line? It depends! The track here was actually sold to the village (well, the village and a 'city' that is 90% farmland... there's weird political reasons), and they just transfered it to a state agency. It had minimal maintenance done since 1997, but was still largely intact when they reactivated it.
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Is there any easy way to look up what track is in use online? There is a LOT of rail around the neighborhood I grew up in from a steel mill that recently got shut down, and it'd be interesting to see what of that is abandoned, what's still used to make occasional drop offs to the factories, and what isn't used at all.
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Log082 posted:Is there any easy way to look up what track is in use online? There is a LOT of rail around the neighborhood I grew up in from a steel mill that recently got shut down, and it'd be interesting to see what of that is abandoned, what's still used to make occasional drop offs to the factories, and what isn't used at all. Reported to department of homeland security.
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Log082 posted:Is there any easy way to look up what track is in use online? There is a LOT of rail around the neighborhood I grew up in from a steel mill that recently got shut down, and it'd be interesting to see what of that is abandoned, what's still used to make occasional drop offs to the factories, and what isn't used at all. B4Ctom1 posted:Reported to department of homeland security. He just wanted to know about train tracks, no need to go put him on the no-fly list. 
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Log082 posted:Is there any easy way to look up what track is in use online? There is a LOT of rail around the neighborhood I grew up in from a steel mill that recently got shut down, and it'd be interesting to see what of that is abandoned, what's still used to make occasional drop offs to the factories, and what isn't used at all. B4Ctom1 posted:Reported to department of homeland security. I laughed. It really is annoying how tight lipped people are about this stuff. A friend of mine had to go to some weird foamer club meeting to find out who actually owned the old, original transcontinental railroad tracks by my old house in Sacramento, because nobody else would tell him.
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JFC people http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5401689
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'WERE GONNA DIE' Dude's been watchin too many lovely Michael Bay movies.
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• Got to haul some tanks • Unavoidable collision, crew wasn't at fault • Nobody got hurt • Get a couple days R&R at the tail end of May • Lifetime supply of trail mix Paperwork aside, seems like a drat fine day to be a trainman.
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Some dumb bastard got hit by a train at the crossing right next to work the other day. I heard what sounded like an empty truck hitting a speed hump in the yard and found out a few minutes later it was a truck that tried to beat the train. The train was only going 5-10 mph when it hit. This is about the best photo I could get from the inside of the fence.  The article from the local paper... http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_25847220/911-crash-involving-train-tractor-trailer-reported-springettsbury Thankfully nobody was hurt but in the 15 years I've worked there I've never seen anybody dumb enough to get hit at that crossing.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:I would be way more concerned about the inevitable derailment(s) and what hazmat spills are coming to an area near you. That's only along CSX lines silly. If they are reactivating a line, it sure as hell isn't CSX so he should be safe.
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Ok, so say you have to stop your train on an incline. How do you start the train again without letting all the slack run out? Don't you need to keep the slack in when starting so you aren't pulling the entire thing at once?
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IANA Engineer Probably not a good practice to park on a hill (especially for  reasons)
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I am an engineer . It is the other way around. You would usually prefer to start with the train "stretched". When the slack is already all out, the greatest danger is past. "Taking the slack out" of a train is the most likely time to break things. Like when you climb on a train and all the slack is in an unknown or maybe all bunched. This is because each bit of slack that is stretched out as you take it up is amplified because of how much mass you have going 2, 3, 4, 5 mph already. The last cars have to go from zero to that speed the rest of the mass is going. This is bad if you are really going at it aggressively. You can break a knuckle with an empty train if you ham fist it like that. Gentle stretching modulating the locomotive independent brakes and power to control that stretch.
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I know the Dutch railways have a special signal for freight trains only. The regular signal may be set to safe, but the freight train one may still be set to danger. This is to prevent it from having to stop in a tunnel, in which case it may not have enough power to get out on its own again, at least not in a timely manner. That said, Dutch freight trains are short compared to US ones (the maximum is around 600 metres), and probably have weaker/smaller engines because the country is pretty flat. Although the majority of the network is electrified, for heavy trains it's more effective to have multiple weaker diesels instead of one strong electric locomotive, because it spreads the driving force across more wheels.
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Of course, there's also nothing that keeps you from running pairs of electric freight locomotives.
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I have received this "crowbars fired!" message on the integrated control display a few times from a couple different locomotive models. Usually during times of wheelslip and heavy grade but never knew what it meant. I knew it was a protective function, and understood the electro-mechanical idea, but not as it applied to my locomotives or why. So I looked it up and I share it here: http://www.okthepk.ca/dataCprSiding/articles/200307/alternat.htm
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Hey guys! Today, June 3rd, is International Level Crossing Awareness Day! Check out the local events! And here is the latest Operation Lifesaver ad: https://vimeo.com/91195034
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I'm quite pleased with this photograph I took of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cruising through south Oakland.
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darknrgy posted:I'm quite pleased with this photograph I took of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cruising through south Oakland. Great photo, although that's a pretty scary part of Oakland to be shooting in at night.
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I'm pretty sure even the most violent criminals are scared of foamers. Just make yourself look like one of 'em and you're fine.
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Das Volk posted:Great photo, although that's a pretty scary part of Oakland to be shooting in at night. Yeah, the police will murder you.
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Keiya posted:I'm pretty sure even the most violent criminals are scared of foamers. Just make yourself look like one of 'em and you're fine. A white dude walking around the ghetto at night will be left alone unless you are flashing cash or drunk. I know this, because I was that white guy bangers steered clear of for about a year. I wouldn't call across the street from the Oakland Coliseum the ghetto though.
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Hmm... Oakland is interesting to this thread because of how much physical commerce flows through the city. I took the photo on the roof of my residential building. To the east of my building is BART and a freight line. To the west is a couple of shared lines that host Amtrak and more freight. Just northwest of here is the Port of Oakland, which serves up freight to Union Pacific and BNSF. As far as crime goes, I just moved here and so far I have not been shot in the dick.
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Thats because the particularly violent people have all been pushed to Richmond now. Oakland is gentrified by the hills to the east, Berzerkly to the north, and San Leando/Hayward the south. The area between fruitvale and high street between 580 and 880 is the place to avoid. You'll know you're in the ghetto when the houses have bars on the windows, Gates on the doors, and wrought iron fences around the yards. Richmond is one of those places where the handles for the gated doors have their own gated doors it's so bad.
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I saw the Union Pacific Mobile Laboratory in Oxnard while driving. I wasn't able to get any pics of it though.
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I would like to share this picture I saw on imgur. It is a nice picture.
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