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JuffoWup posted: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. Well they can't do that without building new stations / tunnels everywhere. I know the buses here switched from FFA entry exit to only enter at the front / only ext at the back a few years ago, although I suspect that was mainly to make sure everybody buys a ticket.
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JuffoWup posted: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. At MCO (TPA and LAS too) the stations are structured so that you can board either train from the same platform (to support both trains running, and provide a useful fallback for when only one train runs). Having the passengers getting off the train to the waiting platform would make it more of a clusterfuck than everything at MCO already is. Public transit stations don't have two trains going to the same place from parallel tracks; instead they generally run in opposite directions. Instead of building a platform for each side of the train (and massively increasing the amount of excavation or construction necessary), stations are built with one platform serving two different trains. Even opening the exit doors first wouldn't help, because yokels and other people that don't know how to behave in public would just try and jam their way in anyways.
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Canna Happy posted:The most exciting thing to happen on the joint line in years! My coworkers have been talking about the total lack of mainstream media coverage on this.
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B4Ctom1 posted:My coworkers have been talking about the total lack of mainstream media coverage on this. The article reads more like an onion article than real life.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:The article reads more like an onion article than real life. Works well for goons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAOhBBEQwE8
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fuckin leafers http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/us/arkansas-train-collison/index.html
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quote:The trains collided Thursday morning when the passenger train stalled on a small grade, apparently because of excess leaves on the track, according to police. Leaf by the sword, die by the sword.
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kastein posted:Leaf by the sword, die by the sword. I'm going to leaf that one alone.
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Going to school for Dispatching, pray for me. 120 day probation also. 
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Seems your hobos declared war on Winnemucca last night and tried to burn the place down. http://silverpinyon.com/index.php/breaking-news/fires/4196-fast-moving-brush-fire-lights-up-nighttime-sky So it's going to be a bit ugly for awhile there. How many horses do you guys smack between Fernley and Reno anyway? I've counted like 6 different herds in that area, and I'm sure I'm missing some.
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http://elkodaily.com/news/man-killed-in-train-vs-vehicle-accident/article_ab990476-f3ce-50a8-a567-7220d7bb117c.html ELKO -- A man died Friday morning when his vehicle was struck by a train near Elburz, according to the Elko County Sheriff's Office. Detective Sgt. Nick Czegledi said it appears the man was in his truck and got stuck on the train tracks. He was actively trying to get off the tracks when his truck was hit by a train, Czegledi said. Although the man has not been identified, it is believed he is not from this area. He is a white male. “If you get stuck on the tracks, get off right away,” Czegledi said. “Don’t try to get unstuck. It’s your life or your car.”
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Yeah, the odds favor the train in any train/car confrontation. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/31/3-die-when-train-strikes-suv-in-southern-illinois/?intcmp=latestnews
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Routes are being planned for Texas' bullet trains: http://blog.chron.com/thehighwayman/2014/10/routes-for-proposed-houston-dallas-bullet-trains-unveiled/#27788101=0 Photo makes me think they're considering N700 Shinkansen stock but we all know politics will cause them to turn it down for stupid reasons.
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Yeah, they will def get forced into US made trainsets at some point, private bux or not. Both Amtrack and CHSR have to buy US assembled HSR sets (although apparently now different sets), so maybe they can buy the same design as one or the other.
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I saw we were hauling passenger locomotives to someplace that uses a big one of these on the side of them
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B4Ctom1 posted:I saw we were hauling passenger locomotives to someplace that uses a big one of these on the side of them Boston's MBTA, I think. No idea why their logo is a T in a circle. Or, I might have known, but forgot ten years ago.
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B4Ctom1 posted:I saw we were hauling passenger locomotives to someplace that uses a big one of these on the side of them Without cheating and using Google, I'm assuming they are cars for the MBTA (Boston), which is called 'The T' Edit: I checked my answer. I am correct. Word.
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If they're the big purple ones with the rounded front, those are currently the most powerful passenger locomotives in the US right now!
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I ride those trains occasionally. Cool. Wonder if they'll sell me one of their old locos to park in the yard and use as a backup generator. 
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kastein posted:I ride those trains occasionally. Cool. I take them every. drat. (work)day. They're currently replacing the screamers which true to their name idle at a high RPM.
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Shampoo posted:If they're the big purple ones with the rounded front, those are currently the most powerful passenger locomotives in the US right now! Highest HP 4 axle diesels ever built, but they don't hold a candle to electrics. Funny part is that ridiculous paint scheme was chosen through a vote on their website, that's actually the one I voted for.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Highest HP 4 axle diesels ever built, but they don't hold a candle to electrics. Funny part is that ridiculous paint scheme was chosen through a vote on their website, that's actually the one I voted for. Thanks for the clarification! I voted for it too. 
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B4Ctom1 posted:I saw we were hauling passenger locomotives to someplace that uses a big one of these on the side of them The holy sign of Our Ford!
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Shampoo posted:If they're the big purple ones with the rounded front, those are currently the most powerful passenger locomotives in the US right now! Those are the ones. We hauled 5 in one consist behind two of our loco's and then the whole nasty train behind that.
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StandardVC10 posted:Boston's MBTA, I think. No idea why their logo is a T in a circle. Or, I might have known, but forgot ten years ago. 
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Is that why they have to add leap seconds every so often? That thing looks like it'd have enough torque to change the Earths rotation... I know they aren't all powered
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Captain Postal posted:Is that why they have to add leap seconds every so often? That thing looks like it'd have enough torque to change the Earths rotation... They're just slowing continental drift a bit.
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I hope that at the very end there was single flat car loaded with a single pallet of kleenex.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I hope that at the very end there was single flat car loaded with a single pallet of kleenex. That's almost as bad as me hauling a single broken floor buffer from Silver City NM to DFW TX. God Bless Walmart.
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So those of you in the industry, what are your feelings regarding GE vs EMD?
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New EMD stuff is terrible. New GE stuff is awesome, except for those ones that use the 4 powered axles 6 axle engine. They can't pull a wet fart if the rail is remotely slick.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:New EMD stuff is terrible. New GE stuff is awesome, except for those ones that use the 4 powered axles 6 axle engine. They can't pull a wet fart if the rail is remotely slick. That did strike me as a weird choice. I mean, I get why they did it, AC traction motors are expensive so lets offer less of them! However, I thought locomotive manufacturers figured out A1A trucks don't work back in the 60s.
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It's a BNSF thing thank god. We get them here and there in my little chunk of the world, but they absolutely suck. The new SD70ACe are terrible. They vibrate so bad even with the isolated cabs. The NVH on GE isn't a huge margin better but it's better. Still would rather have a nice rebuilt SD40-2.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:So those of you in the industry, what are your feelings regarding GE vs EMD? Pre-80s(roughly) EMD is god tier if maintained properly. My only experience with GE is ALCo, which was basically GE Lite, and they suck. God only knows why railfans love locomotives that seem to actively try to kill the operating crews.
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Since winter is getting close: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365218614/ Good mini-documentary on rotary snowplow operations on the UP through the Sierra Nevada.
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Tex Avery posted:Pre-80s(roughly) EMD is god tier if maintained properly. My only experience with GE is ALCo, which was basically GE Lite, and they suck. God only knows why railfans love locomotives that seem to actively try to kill the operating crews. In the case of Alco it's because they sound cool and make lots of smoke. Also, because Alco made steam locomotives.
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