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east/west mains in Wyoming (41.8359885,-106.6808689) last night at 0230, likely not opening track until AM 9/22
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B4Ctom1 posted:east/west mains in Wyoming (41.8359885,-106.6808689) last night at 0230, likely not opening track until AM 9/22 Overland route? Explains all the detours on my chunk of RR.
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Also thisquote:9/2014, If you're out railfanning the Pittsburgh Line today, I'd go grab a pizza and find some good friends to shoot the breeze with. Not much will be moving over the next day or so. 18N is derailed in CP-Altoona interlocking blocking all tracks. We recommend avoiding the area due to 'rubber neckers' and police shooing folks away. We're not going to speculate on a cause. There were no injuries.
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B4Ctom1 posted:aww how cute I see those trucks all the time in georgia. No idea why, now that you point it out.
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Vaporware posted:I see those trucks all the time in georgia. No idea why, now that you point it out. Progress Rail provides inspection/repairs at two big intermodal ramps in Atlanta. While there is rail service to intermodal ramps, getting a non-intermodal car into an intermodal ramp and then back out again would be a pain in the rear end.
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That looks like something the French could have constructed.
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Did those turbojet trains ever work?
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They did, but I think their purpose was more to research the aerodynamics of high speed trains rather than to ever be brought into normal use as such.
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Zeether posted:Did those turbojet trains ever work? Imagine, for a moment, a pair of J-47s on a pylon, at max continuous power, thundering through the middle of a city at ~80mph. The noise complaints would be phone-meltingly hilarious.
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The US rail speed record is still held by one of those experimental jet powered trains. The Pennsylvania railroad bult M-497 (a Budd car with a Convair booster engine glued to the roof) to determine whether the track could handle high speeds, and after taking it up to 183.68 mph, concluded that it could. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8ZIJFlU_pA
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Computer viking posted:That looks like something the French could have constructed. That one was Russian. The French went one better: a hovercraft jet train.  250 kph version  350 kph version (430kph top speed)
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joat mon posted:That one was Russian. The French went one better: a hovercraft jet train. If this was a just world, that would have been the TGV.
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joat mon posted:That one was Russian. The French went one better: a hovercraft jet train. By a weird coincidence I stumbled onto this cache of jet-powered-monorail porn last weekend, including footage of the Aerotrain in operation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k1m9TevgJM&t=70s After the first segment ends there's a little bit more starting around 3:35 or so, including what looks like a rocket-powered version.
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Oct 2, 2014 07:07
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We need some schienenzeppelin in here.  
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After reading this thread and the aeronautical insanity one, I would like to see a train with two GE90's mounted on top of it. For science.
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Elukka posted:We need some schienenzeppelin in here. I can't help but think that that thing's arrival at a platform is heralded with a thin red mist made of anyone who stood too close to the platform edge.
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Maximum speed: 230 km/h (140 mph) I imagine if it hit, say, that steam locomotive there, the whole thing would turn into a thin grey mist.
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Elukka posted:Maximum speed: 230 km/h (140 mph)
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drunkill posted:
Highlight of that video: "We need to get out here, there's a leak" "Look at all that smoke" *rolls window down*
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New tube train designs revealed: http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/09/the-new-tube-london/ Looks a lot better than the Siemens concept.
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lol they're never going to be driverless unless there's a huge redesign and re-tunnelling project through the entirety of the deep lines, which would cost more billion pounds than I can imagine.
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railroads spending tons of money to fight laws requiring an adjustment for the set rest for Canadian train crews http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rail-companies-fight-new-rules-to-prevent-crew-fatigue-1.2785581 oh wow what timing http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/10/08/canada-train-derailment-forces-evacuation-dozens/
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B4Ctom1 posted:railroads spending tons of money to fight laws requiring an adjustment for the set rest for Canadian train crews We (the conductors anyway) supposedly came to an agreement on our last contract to try out ``scheduled on call``, where you can only be called for a certain period every day, but haven`t heard anything about it since.
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Scheduled on-call may cut down on your potential weekly earnings, but would do wonders for your quality of life by giving you a resting period you could count on.
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No railbed? No problem. loving Spain. http://vimeo.com/104870648.
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Wow... that could have gone wrong. ^^^ Now, don't cross train tracks in the middle of nowhere at night.  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-12/4wd-dragged-by-freight-train-along-adelaide-darwin-track/5807360?section=nt quote:A young man has had his new four-wheel drive dragged more than a kilometre by a freight train after trying to cross a track in the Northern Territory.
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I saw something horrifying yesterday while on a train in Melbourne. An intact Hitachi sitting off on a siding. They were supposed to be dead, dammit. They promised they killed them all  .
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They are supposed to be dead but are brought in for Summer because they're the only train that can run at 45c if the tracks haven't melted. E: Or it is the VicRail heritage trainset, the one that got graffitied while people were on board for the last time the set was used on the metro network. drunkill fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I saw something horrifying yesterday while on a train in Melbourne. An intact Hitachi sitting off on a siding. They were supposed to be dead, dammit. They promised they killed them all Tell me more, what's so bad about a Hitachi (locomotive?/car?/trolley?)
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Tell me more, what's so bad about a Hitachi (locomotive?/car?/trolley?) They're the most despised trains in Melbourne. No AC and thirty years past their prime. And in a Melbourne summer past 40C, with trains often packed to standing room in peak hour, utter hell to ride on.
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This happened semi-locally http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/article_976dac28-50d6-11e4-b13e-001a4bcf6878.html Paging Canna Happy
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B4Ctom1 posted:This happened semi-locally http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/article_976dac28-50d6-11e4-b13e-001a4bcf6878.html The most exciting thing to happen on the joint line in years! My pool went to work about 8 hours sooner than we had been averaging on Thursday, but I just figured traffic was backed up due to track work. I think we were on duty at around 1800 for a load out of a northern mine and by the time we got south, everything was cleaned up and taken care of. He didn't put anything on the ground, or really do much damage. He was lucky that the Form B was on main three and he was on main one or he might've actually killed people or ran into some machinery. I guess he didn't side swipe that other train at Nacco, just coupled into it or something. The only real damage he did was taking out the scales at North Rochelle, but that mine only loads a handful of trains daily. Rail Link Guy posted:He got mad and said was not an Apple fan and smashed the phone for something to do.
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The first of 175+ Kinki Sharyo light rail cars (they are really more like 'medium rail', if that was a thing) for LA's Metro showed up this weekend.  Just in time for a union 'greenmail' attempt to backfire and move all of the construction jobs out of LA county, while potentially delaying the opening dates of the 4 rail lines under construction that need these cars to operate. http://www.avpress.com/article-detail.php?articles_id=34753505 http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2014/oct/13/after-labor-dispute-kinkisharyo-kills-plans-palmda/ (Don't mean to start a union/anti-union debate. They hosed this up bad regardless of your feelings on unions)
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Gragh. Power imbalances always lead to poo poo like this.
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Zeether posted:New tube train designs revealed: http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/09/the-new-tube-london/ Hope they take forever to install the PEDs. The paris metro retrofit looks OK, but it's going to totally destroy the aesthetic of the smallish deep-level line stations. Guess I don't know what the one-under stats are to make it worth it.
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I'm kind of surprised they don't have dedicated entry and exit doors, even if they are on the same side. Shouldn't that help speed things up.
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Ika posted:I'm kind of surprised they don't have dedicated entry and exit doors, even if they are on the same side. Shouldn't that help speed things up. there is zero chance anyone would ever observe those. noone's squeezing down a carriage to get to the exit when they're already closer to the entry
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Cerv posted:there is zero chance anyone would ever observe those. I know it is different, but wouldn't one being delayed help? At the Orlando airport, the trams would open one side to depart passengers for a few minutes before opening the entry doors for new riders.
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