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That's weird. The loco really really looks like a UK InterCity 125. I spent a while trying to work out which network operator that was 
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Of possible interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxMaokedlUE This is a late 80s promotional video produced by the Indiana Hi-Rail Corporation, apparently to showcase their services to potential customers. It makes the railroad look pretty slick and modern. In reality, Indiana Hi-Rail was an outfit run on shoestrings, and operated several disconnected lines throughout Illinois/Indiana/Ohio as well as contract switching services at large manufacturing plants. Much of their track was purchased at fire sale prices from class-1, to whom it was secondary trackage that hadn't been maintained in years. IHRC's own practice of deferred maintenance rendered much of the railroad economically impassable by the mid '90s (cost of dealing with derailments exceeded revenue). Some track was pulled up to salvage rail, which was sold to pay off debt. Other segments were bought by other operators, still remaining in the same (poorly maintained) state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4VGbEz5E6E
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Keiya posted:Why do you not, like... have a freaking stick cut to the right length? It's not like sticks are expensive... you shove it up against one rail, and if it's not touching the other you have a problem. There is such a stick, but in the design on this dual gauge turnout the smaller gauge (standard gauge) has to ride on the outer edge of the tread for about 1m by design, the oversight in the selection of this design being that rolling stock with a smaller tread width will have issues. This photo shows the wheel on the standard gauge rail and the 'leap' it has to make to get onto the continuation of the standard gauge rail  A proposed temporary solution is to weld in a check rail to push on the back of the wheel flange to keep it in the correct position, this will only work for the trains with wider wheels though, for a more permenant solution the manufacturer will have to come up with a new deisgn
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meltie posted:That's weird. The loco really really looks like a UK InterCity 125. I spent a while trying to work out which network operator that was http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_South_Wales_XPT
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Cat Terrist posted:1831, Newcastle. Yeah wagons moved by gravity - basically a Funicular. The first railway was in SA.
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Got a proper video of a train ride today. This is on a motor going from the yates shaft to the ross shaft (roughly) at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. 4850' underground, and we were doing a blazing 2 mph (they were actually mapping out the drift with a laser system bolted on the front of the motor, and I was hitching a ride instead of walking). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR4fJLPCpF4
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Yes, it just took me a while. They really hosed up Kenneth Grange's aesthetics  http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/09/how-we-made-intercity-125
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So, I have a stupid question brought on by Guild Wars 2. Which came first, actual trains, or rail for things like minecarts? I speak of 'modern', metal rails, of course, not things like the Diolkos Rutway.
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I've read that rails were originally made of wood, with strips of iron nailed on top. Back in those days though, trains were still pulled by mules or pushed along the track with poles like barges.
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ijustam posted:https://gma.yahoo.com/two-women-survive-being-run-down-freight-train-171545896--abc-news-topstories.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory I've never been that stupid. Used to walk on the one that crosses Lake Houston out over the lake about 300 yards, but either side was 8' from the water that was 12-20' deep. Those women were facing an 80' drop... Why in the hell would walk out to the center of a fucklong train bridge escapes me. R-Type fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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R-Type posted:I've never been that stupid. Used to walk on the one that crosses Lake Houston out over the lake about 300 yards, but either side was 8' from the water that was 12-20' deep. Those women were facing an 80' drop... Why in the hell would walk out to the center of a fucklong train bridge escapes me. Well it happened in the movies and everything turned out fine! What could possibly go wrong? 
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sincx posted:Does that actually work? Lying down in the middle between the rails? If you are lucky, sure. But you might stub your toe.
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It appears UP donated one of their rotary snowplows to roseville, cali: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Riem2R7xiA I had subscribed to their channel to catch big boy updates, which is silly since there won't be any for quite some time as they figure out the innards and the condition it is in.
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OUCH! http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?road_number=UP%206759 it happened a long time ago http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/12561636.html but sill
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Keiya posted:So, I have a stupid question brought on by Guild Wars 2. Which came first, actual trains, or rail for things like minecarts? I speak of 'modern', metal rails, of course, not things like the Diolkos Rutway. IIRC the first real railroad in the modern sense was a manpowered minecart track in an English colliery. I'll be damned if I can remember which one though.
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I loved How Green Was My Valley. First movie that ever made me cry.
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What do y'all think of this new north Bay Area train thingy?
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Anyone know where this is? http://imgur.com/gallery/3MuzW
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B4Ctom1 posted:Anyone know where this is? Looks like the Columbia. BN on the north side of the river, UP on the south.
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B4Ctom1 posted:Anyone know where this is? It seems to be this. http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/26174805/13-empty-union-pacific-rail-cars-derail-on-hwy-730
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atomicthumbs posted:What do y'all think of this new north Bay Area train thingy? I have no idea how they plan to squeeze the necessary ridership from the North Bay area for this to be anything but an expensive boondoggle. IMNSHO, the west coast cities (LA excluded) just aren't dense enough outside the city cores for something like long-range commuter service to make much sense.
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That's was one of my emoticons I used when I was dispatching. When I needed recrews or the subdivision was melting down.... This would pop up on same time.
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atomicthumbs posted:What do y'all think of this new north Bay Area train thingy? Gonna help me avoid driving the terrible 2-lane bottleneck on 101 just south of Petaluma, so I am a fan of it.
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I never expected cat gifs in a train thread. That's cute though.
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This is related to our discussion: From here: http://www.ble-t.org/pr/newsletter/ Back page of June edition: http://www.ble-t.org/pr/newsletter/BLET-June14-pgs1-8_web.pdf voila! 
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So you are a new train driver, you have just finished your training and it's your first month working at the company. What could go wrong? Well you can get ~blinded by the light~, miss a signal and then drive an ER20 CF straight into the buffer stop at 40 km/h.   Lucky enough for him LG decided that instead of charging him money for this they will use other means to teach him that he should take a little more care with heavy equipment.
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I made a video about my Amtrak trip. Warning: effort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn1aRrfODpw
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drat, a head-on collision of two trains. Apparently no one knows (yet) why it happened. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/18/2-dead-2-hurt-in-arkansas-freight-train-collision/?intcmp=latestnews
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:drat, a head-on collision of two trains. Apparently no one knows (yet) why it happened. Was curious after reading this, does anyone have that write up some (engineer?) goon wrote after that derailment in Quebec last year about a train derailment from the perspective of the engineer? I was telling a friend about it and can't find it. EDIT: \/\/ Thanks! Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Handsome Ralph posted:Was curious after reading this, does anyone have that write up some (engineer?) goon wrote after that derailment in Quebec last year about a train derailment from the perspective of the engineer? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3394711&pagenumber=22&perpage=40#post407153083
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Apparently this steam engine ate something that made it throw up.
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McDeth posted:Apparently this steam engine ate something that made it throw up. Its the Cthulhu Express!
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It looks like one of those bugs that gets colonized by a fungus. Except everything is made of metal.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:http://bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2013/r13d0054/r13d0054.asp Whoa wait a minute, they used jb weld to fix a cam bearing on one of the locomotives??? Please tell me that's not a typical repair.
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McDeth posted:Apparently this steam engine ate something that made it throw up. poo poo, we've thrown a rod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsO9WEwitfo
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