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drunkill posted:The American space shuttles were rolled to the pad upright on the mobile crawlers. Which, while not trains, were rad as gently caress and also huge:  Check out that fire truck next to the treads for scale.
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ToxicFrog posted:Which, while not trains, were rad as gently caress and also huge: Are, not were. They're still around and will be used for the SLS and I believe for some commercial launch vehicles. They are also incredibly impressive, although super claustrophobic inside (as tight as old submarines, though you don't have to live in it.)
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Kalman posted:Are, not were. They're still around and will be used for the SLS and I believe for some commercial launch vehicles. I keep wanting to think it is dumb they plan to do that with the sls, but then I have to remind myself that the crawlers were built and used to move assembled saturn 5 rockets to the pad as well.
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http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/02/10/train-derailment/ Maybe a washout? https://twitter.com/tlomedia/status/830168633452081152
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Fun fact: the two NASA crawler-transports are among the very few mobile things considered big and permanent enough to merit a listing in the National Register of Historic Places. They're big enough transport vehicles to be considered locations in and of themselves.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Russian version: i know that it isnt but it looks like an american motor. the russian/chinese knockoffs ive seen dont have walkways on the side. hunter harrison is down in jacksonville freaking everyone out. it seems like he probably got a place on the board but, what remains to be seen, is how much of a free hand he'll be given to reshape the network and how long of a timeframe he wants to act on.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:i know that it isnt but it looks like an american motor. the russian/chinese knockoffs ive seen dont have walkways on the side. I honestly thought it was a repainted version of the engines they use for shunting here, but it turns out only 4 of those were ever built.
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Don't think they're so much knockoffs as similar requirements leading to similar designs. There's only so many ways you can sensible arrange the bits of a diesel locomotive.
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Not saying that at all. Probably built during the same time with roughly the same requirements lead to them looking very similar.
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Elukka posted:Don't think they're so much knockoffs as similar requirements leading to similar designs. There's only so many ways you can sensible arrange the bits of a diesel locomotive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_locomotive_class_TE3 this is what i was referring to when i said 'chinese knockoffs'. china built these under license or something and then seemed to have used them as the basis for the rest of what they built.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:i know that it isnt but it looks like an american motor. the russian/chinese knockoffs ive seen dont have walkways on the side. How does Hunter Harrison keep on getting hired by people?
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iospace posted:How does Hunter Harrison keep on getting hired by people? because he/his team made a lot of money for the shareholders of cn and then cp. switch points may be the self aggrandizement of a management consulting company but, nonetheless, he has a vision and the skills to make that vision real.
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incentive pay. i'd kill for contracts with incentive pay. incentive pay at both the terminal level and the individual level. then, not only do you have employees policing themselves, you have employees policing the rest of the workforce and thats an effective tool. but lol at any union bargaining dude agreeing to that.
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If only BMWE members could unite like the trainmen seem to do.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:incentive pay. i'd kill for contracts with incentive pay. incentive pay at both the terminal level and the individual level. then, not only do you have employees policing themselves, you have employees policing the rest of the workforce and thats an effective tool. but also lol at the company paying out anything meaningful
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Elukka posted:Don't think they're so much knockoffs as similar requirements leading to similar designs. There's only so many ways you can sensible arrange the bits of a diesel locomotive. True to a degree I am sure, but Russia did use the ALCO RSD-1 as the basis for a number of their home built diesels. They got 70 of them from the US during WW2. The TE1 was a straight out reverse engineered Alco RSD-1. I believe the TEM2 is of that lineage, which I think might be the loco hauling the Soyuz rocket.
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e_wraith posted:True to a degree I am sure, but Russia did use the ALCO RSD-1 as the basis for a number of their home built diesels. They got 70 of them from the US during WW2. The TE1 was a straight out reverse engineered Alco RSD-1. I believe the TEM2 is of that lineage, which I think might be the loco hauling the Soyuz rocket. That isn't the only instance of the Russians doing that. Many of their road locomotives use an opposed piston engine design very similar to those made by Fairbanks Morse. The US loaned a number of icebreakers to Russian during WW2 which had FM diesels in them. The theory I've heard is that the Russians reverse-engineered the FM OP diesel and have used it ever since, long after FM exited the locomotive business themselves. Russian diesels are pretty awesome anyway, mostly because they don't exactly maintain them properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_zC7QK64Ks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhZJ0ReTSLo&t=34s Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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choo choo motherfuckers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FrYCP0amAE Intercity train going 140-160Kmh hits a dirtbike. On another line, also today, another Vline train hits an abandoned 4wd on the tracks and is derailed. http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/4470299/bendigo-train-car-collide/ drunkill fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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drunkill posted:choo choo motherfuckers: Pretty sure they aren't fixing that bike. That was a drat close call for that guy.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:i know that it isnt but it looks like an american motor. the russian/chinese knockoffs ive seen dont have walkways on the side. That is a variation of TEM2 and that along with ChME3 made up the wast majority of soviet union shunting force. It's as russian as it gets. Here's an earlier, less angular TEM2:  Over 6 thousand of these things got made: And ChME3:  My guess is you can tell which ones they are in this amusing picture of exUSSR equipment meets american freight locos in Estonia. Over 8 thousand ChME3 got made in the end, so again impressive numbers.
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TheCoach posted:It's as russian as it gets. http://locomotives.com.pl/Diesels/SM48.htm
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Vasily, she is running a little rich. Da. but she is running!
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PremiumSupport posted:Yeah, but it's not just about braking capacity, it's friction that actually stops the vehicle. I think you might be confusing rolling resistance/lossage and friction on some of this. You want as much friction as you can get between the wheels and the road, because it's what lets you actually move, but as little rolling resistance as possible. Steel on steel is pretty alright when you've got that much weight on top of it. The other issue is, the rails aren't even secured that well (friction wise) to the sleepers. They can support the weight fine, but if you try and slam on the brakes really hard and you've made it so you can grip the rails real well, I wouldn't be surprised if they simply get ripped off the sleepers and carried along with the train. For that matter, trains going into emergency sometimes derail when the slack in the couplers gets taken up abruptly and cars sorta seesaw side to side, hell if I'm remembering an engineer's story correctly, sometimes the train will bunch up enough that wheels get lifted off the rails. It gets even uglier if the train is going around a corner when this happens. Also, remember that (barring extreme circumstances like a locomotive going to full power while the rest of the train is stopped with the brakes on, which is what caused that great pic of the rails with notches ground in them from a loco burnout) locomotives have enough traction to pull so drat hard they can actually break the knuckles on the railcars - it's not really a matter of needing more traction on the rails, but more... can the train stay on the rails while decelerating that quickly (and unevenly, given how the brake signals are propagated back via air pressure) and can the rails stay attached to the ground at the same time. It's just an awful lot of mass and energy to dissipate so quickly.
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An empowering commercial for a protein supplement came on, and this little scene flicked by;   It's obviously fake at second glance, (otherwise the golfers would smoke the skylights directly in front of their tees) but still, what the hell makes you think this is okay, Boost? e: posted from mobile, sorry for huge NoWake fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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NoWake posted:An empowering commercial for a protein supplement came on, and this little scene flicked by; Considering that is Port Metro Vancouver and the accompanying rail yard (they're shooting from 503 Railway St), you wouldn't get away with it.
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NoWake posted:It's obviously fake at second glance, (otherwise the golfers would smoke the skylights directly in front of their tees) but still, what the hell makes you think this is okay, Boost? whats not okay with hitting golfballs at longshoreman?
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:whats not okay with hitting golfballs at longshoreman? Never gently caress with people who have the means to send you halfway around the world in a metal box that only opens from the outside.
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MikeCrotch posted:That picture of the Buran on rails looks like it coulda come straight out of Thunderbirds I was thinking either Metal Gear Solid 3 or an Ace Combat boss battle
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inkjet_lakes posted:Ace Combat boss battle needs to be in a tunnel for that
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Never gently caress with people who have the means to send you halfway around the world in a metal box that only opens from the outside. I want to get this stitched on one of those cutesie throw pillows like you see in grandma's house.
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Well it is old western technology being used way past it's prime. As Russian as it gets my friend.
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inkjet_lakes posted:I was thinking either Metal Gear Solid 3 or an Ace Combat boss battle The original Xbox Ace Combat-alike Airforce Delta Storm had a mission that sent you after a space plane mid-launch, which I considered unbeatable for a good chunk of my childhood until I realized that picking a supersonic plane would probably help 
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:That isn't the only instance of the Russians doing that. Many of their road locomotives use an opposed piston engine design very similar to those made by Fairbanks Morse. The US loaned a number of icebreakers to Russian during WW2 which had FM diesels in them. The theory I've heard is that the Russians reverse-engineered the FM OP diesel and have used it ever since, long after FM exited the locomotive business themselves. The TE-10 series are really interesting locos. Each unit (the 2TE-10 is 2 units permanently coupled, the 3TE-10 is 3) have opposed-cylinder prime movers, based on the Fairbanks-Morse units installed in American warships given to the USSR in World War II. Each engine generates 3000Hp so the 3TE-10 has 9000hp on tap, not bad for the early 70's. Opposed-cylinder engines require careful maintenance, and even when well-maintained can be a bit claggy. And of course the Russians don't bother with all that (also there are issues with Siberian locals drinking the brake fluid), resulting in this kind of awesomeness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wsnrhdmR_c&t=170s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEETEOcQW90 My dad has always been more into aircraft than trains, but I showed him that last video and he agreed that "that's a loving amazing train and I want one". EDIT - had to add this one. Keep your eye on the driver - I'm not sure it's even legal to enjoy your job this much.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITZAkd2wv7o Axeman Jim fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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An interesting article about an abandoned English railroad and decaying town in... Brazil http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4222838/The-abandoned-British-train-station-Brazilian-jungle.html
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:An interesting article about an abandoned English railroad and decaying town in... Brazil Well that is a very disorienting article to try to read. It keeps repeating itself in the image captions and body text, what the hell.
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Raluek posted:Well that is a very disorienting article to try to read. It keeps repeating itself in the image captions and body text, what the hell. Aah it's the old 'we don't know anything about this so just rewrite the agency copy' classic.
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So, I told one of my regulars who's worked on semis about GM's brilliant idea to squeeze 500 more HP out of the 645 by upping the RPM by 50. His immediate response? "Oooo, that had to be a decision someone in an office made."
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Raluek posted:Well that is a very disorienting article to try to read. It keeps repeating itself in the image captions and body text, what the hell. first time you've read a daily mail article??
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