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Munkeymon: Aug 14, 2003; Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

with a Doomtree av you might live here, so: it's along 46th street in Minneapolis, east of the Blue Line station. I have actually never heard of this so it must be either (a) new, or (b) really early in the planning process. it would be a cool place to run a streetcar though imo

50th would be better because you wouldn't have as many lakes in the way

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Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

i want trolley-bus systems to come back. they suck just as bad as buses but at least they're non-polluting and quiet.

if you're going to spend tax dollars on poo poo only poor people will use, and then only grudgingly, it might as well not make my neighborhood a worse place to live in

# ? Mar 6, 2017 00:04

Lutha Mahtin: Oct 10, 2010; Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

Munkeymon posted:

50th would be better because you wouldn't have as many lakes in the way

"east of the blue line station on 46th" means there are zero lakes in the way, just the river. and that street is where the ford pkwy bridge over the river is

# ? Mar 6, 2017 01:09

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

i want trolley-bus systems to come back. they suck just as bad as buses but at least they're non-polluting and quiet.

if you're going to spend tax dollars on poo poo only poor people will use, and then only grudgingly, it might as well not make my neighborhood a worse place to live in

trolley-buses own

# ? Mar 6, 2017 02:44

Munkeymon: Aug 14, 2003; Motherfucker's got an
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Lutha Mahtin posted:

"east of the blue line station on 46th" means there are zero lakes in the way, just the river. and that street is where the ford pkwy bridge over the river is

oh derp I misread as 'east into the blue line'

still thinking long-term you'd want to extend it west eventually but yeah ford would be a good street to run a train down

adding a train crossing to where 46th intersects Hiawatha would make that intersection even more of a clusterfuck :unsmigghh:

# ? Mar 6, 2017 03:50

Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

What if you made a bus line, except make it for longer distances and carry more people

You could give it its own space to run, so it doesn't have to travel with other traffic, and it can be more efficient.

Since you know the path it will take, you only have to make one narrow path for this long-range bus

Since it's only going to travel along that path, you could make the road surface more suitable for the type of wheel that is used. You could use metal, since it's stronger than concrete, and then you could also reduce tire wear on this metal road by using metal wheels.

The path is fully set, so you don't need a steering wheel or anything, you could just automate that part (or have one person press buton)

# ? Mar 6, 2017 04:59

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Lutha Mahtin posted:

with a Doomtree av you might live here, so: it's along 46th street in Minneapolis, east of the Blue Line station. I have actually never heard of this so it must be either (a) new, or (b) really early in the planning process. it would be a cool place to run a streetcar though imo

its this

they also wan to extend the green line to Eden prairie

# ? Mar 6, 2017 05:01

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

Wild EEPROM posted:

What if you made a bus line, except make it for longer distances and carry more people

You could give it its own space to run, so it doesn't have to travel with other traffic, and it can be more efficient.

Since you know the path it will take, you only have to make one narrow path for this long-range bus

Since it's only going to travel along that path, you could make the road surface more suitable for the type of wheel that is used. You could use metal, since it's stronger than concrete, and then you could also reduce tire wear on this metal road by using metal wheels.

The path is fully set, so you don't need a steering wheel or anything, you could just automate that part (or have one person press buton)

but i need to be picked up no more than 100 feet from my front door because i am fat and hate walking

# ? Mar 6, 2017 05:17

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

aside from the risk of being robbed and/or murdered at night

Trip report: Rode the red line both nights while shitfaced, didn't get mugged or murdered. Gave a homeless guy the loving dollar coin a Metra machine spat out at me. A+ would ride again.

Addendum: B.L.U.E.S is incredible, but what remains of my hearing hasn't really come back yet.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 06:23

Lutha Mahtin: Oct 10, 2010; Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

hobbesmaster posted:

its this

that is on the complete opposite side of downtown from the place I'm talking about. im on my phone but it looks like a streetcar along 46th/Ford is an option for this project: http://riverviewcorridor.com/

# ? Mar 9, 2017 02:43

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

aside from the risk of being robbed and/or murdered at night

I have taken the bus home at like 2 am so many times and never been concerned about this

# ? Mar 9, 2017 17:50

minivanmegafun: Jul 27, 2004

bump_fn posted:

I have taken the bus home at like 2 am so many times and never been concerned about this

same. some hobo tried to sell me socks once on the #49, and a fight broke out post-pride on the Pink Line while very, very packed, and that's pretty much the end of the drama I've experienced on the CTA after living here for like 8 years

e: I also forgot the homeless guy on a subway platform who asked for money for Pepsi and then propositioned me for sex. that was just weird.

minivanmegafun fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Mar 9, 2017

# ? Mar 9, 2017 21:21

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

hey if anybody wants to pretend they're driving a Japanese maglev train, there's a mini Japan expo at grand central rn

# ? Mar 9, 2017 21:21

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

theflyingexecutive posted:

hey if anybody wants to pretend they're driving a Japanese maglev train, there's a mini Japan expo at grand central rn

the train museum in tokyo is cool as gently caress and has a real outdoor mini-train for kids complete with switches and signaling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nMFCBjzdrM

# ? Mar 9, 2017 21:53

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

toronto renamed their subway lines to numbers for whatever loving reason:
yonge university: line 1
bloor danforth: line 2
scarby rt: line 3
sheppard: line 4

after council poo poo the bed when ford was mayor, they agreed to replace the rt with an extension of the bloor line, rather than replace it wholesale with a new lrt line which would make far more sense

so now it's gonna be lines 1, 2, 4, and I guess 5 when the eglinton lrt is done

good jerb folks! 💯

# ? Mar 10, 2017 00:46

Elder Postsman: Aug 30, 2000; i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Lutha Mahtin posted:

that is on the complete opposite side of downtown from the place I'm talking about. im on my phone but it looks like a streetcar along 46th/Ford is an option for this project: http://riverviewcorridor.com/

i drive that way most weekday mornings. i know the a-line goes that way too but i'd def. like a streetcar there. and also running down snelling.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 05:31

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

Chris Knight posted:

toronto renamed their subway lines to numbers for whatever loving reason:
yonge university: line 1
bloor danforth: line 2
scarby rt: line 3
sheppard: line 4

after council poo poo the bed when ford was mayor, they agreed to replace the rt with an extension of the bloor line, rather than replace it wholesale with a new lrt line which would make far more sense

so now it's gonna be lines 1, 2, 4, and I guess 5 when the eglinton lrt is done

good jerb folks! 💯

why didn't they rename it the blood line

# ? Mar 10, 2017 16:20

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

I was late to work because a bus broke down and caused a big traffic jam. Fortunately I had AC, and coffee in my car and wasn't stuck on the side of the road waiting for another bus.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 16:23

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

blugu64 posted:

I was late to work because a bus broke down and caused a big traffic jam. Fortunately I had AC, and coffee in my car and wasn't stuck on the side of the road waiting for another bus.

up against the wall

# ? Mar 10, 2017 17:47

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

blugu64 posted:

I was late to work because a bus broke down and caused a big traffic jam. Fortunately I had AC, and coffee in my car and wasn't stuck on the side of the road waiting for another bus.

buses are a blight

# ? Mar 10, 2017 19:56

Cygni: Nov 12, 2005; raring to post

having to use AC in march while commuting alone, its like those two things are related

# ? Mar 10, 2017 20:19

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

global warming is ftw

# ? Mar 10, 2017 20:24

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Shaggar posted:

buses are a blight

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=much+like+your+posting

# ? Mar 10, 2017 20:28

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Shaggar posted:

global warming is ftw

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=much+unlike+your+posting

# ? Mar 10, 2017 20:28

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

Cygni posted:

having to use AC in march while commuting alone, its like those two things are related

# ? Mar 10, 2017 20:46

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

my car is electric and is wind powered, unlike that broken bus which runs (ran heh) off of natural gas produced by fracking.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 20:50

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

our buses here run off of cornohol

# ? Mar 10, 2017 21:14

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

I need cornohol for my bushole

# ? Mar 10, 2017 21:15

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

Chris Knight posted:

I need cornohol for my bushole

# ? Mar 10, 2017 21:15

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Chris Knight posted:

I need cornohol for my bushole

# ? Mar 10, 2017 21:21

angry_keebler: Jul 16, 2006; In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?

Wild EEPROM posted:

What if you made a bus line, except make it for longer distances and carry more people

You could give it its own space to run, so it doesn't have to travel with other traffic, and it can be more efficient.

Since you know the path it will take, you only have to make one narrow path for this long-range bus

Since it's only going to travel along that path, you could make the road surface more suitable for the type of wheel that is used. You could use metal, since it's stronger than concrete, and then you could also reduce tire wear on this metal road by using metal wheels.

The path is fully set, so you don't need a steering wheel or anything, you could just automate that part (or have one person press buton)

okay but if it isn't free to build and also ride then i will just buy a car because a hot babe will hug and kiss me if i have a car but will laugh at me if i ride a big bus that i have to pay for but don't even own

# ? Mar 10, 2017 21:21

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

Chris Knight posted:

I need cornohol for my bushole

pm me

# ? Mar 10, 2017 21:46

Share Bear: Apr 27, 2004

theflyingexecutive posted:

hey if anybody wants to pretend they're driving a Japanese maglev train, there's a mini Japan expo at grand central rn

oh cool im gonna try that out

# ? Mar 10, 2017 22:14

Moist von Lipwig: Oct 28, 2006; by FactsAreUseless; Tortured By Flan

Chris Knight posted:

I need cornohol for my bushole

# ? Mar 11, 2017 04:20

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

they should make coal fired buses

# ? Mar 11, 2017 05:08

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Silver Alicorn posted:

they should make coal fired buses

they did. wood fired, too

popular in pre-war uk and japan and other places with high industrial development but little oil

# ? Mar 11, 2017 05:26

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

I'm just thinking about steam locomotives and how they required human people to shovel coal into the boiler. like, otherwise the engine stops. p. weird compared to today's technology

# ? Mar 11, 2017 05:35

Syncopated: Oct 21, 2010

Silver Alicorn posted:

I'm just thinking about steam locomotives and how they required human people to shovel coal into the boiler. like, otherwise the engine stops. p. weird compared to today's technology

really makes u think...

# ? Mar 11, 2017 23:33

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Silver Alicorn posted:

I'm just thinking about steam locomotives and how they required human people to shovel coal into the boiler. like, otherwise the engine stops. p. weird compared to today's technology

only not

i have literally never seen a steam locomotive without a mechanical stoker, because they stopped making them before my grandfather was born.

literally all 20th century steam locomotives had'em

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# ? May 14, 2024 04:53

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

looking for the word "mechanical stoker" led me to wikipedia and the article is cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_stoker

quote:

The confined working conditions of a locomotive footplate meant that the earliest development of the stoker took place in this application. Designers sought to maximise power output in the locomotive by feeding coal at a rate faster than a man could shovel.

In locomotives the stoker was usually powered by a small steam engine located in the tender which drew its steam from the main boiler.

In early designs the coal would still be shovelled by the fireman into a hopper which would feed into a crusher and then a screw or bucket elevator would lift the pulverised coal to a position where it could be mechanically scattered across the burning coals of the furnace by a spreader. The spreader could be jets of steam, mechanical arms, or a fast rotating plate.

Later designs also mechanised the retrieval of the coal from the tender using steam ram powered pushers and/or a helical screw.

it is pretty badass to think about secondary, smaller steam engines distributed around the locomotive to do work unrelated to the main propulsive task

just a central "bus" of steam driving various engines, with the stoker and spreader given priority

# ? Mar 12, 2017 01:22

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