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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Speaking of locomotive insanity, a guy in Phoenix was released from jail in the morning, ended up going to a rail yard and trying to steal a locomotive. Busted again. Is it even possible to steal a locomotive by yourself?
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Nov 22, 2017 00:01
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You came to the wrong neighbourhood, Pacer.
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Nov 22, 2017 00:01
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Is it even possible to steal a locomotive by yourself? I have to say I'd be interested to see (in a simulator so I couldn't actually break anything) whether I could manage to start a train and drive off. I know the basic principles but I'm sure there are dozens of little details which could easily prevent me from progressing or cause problems. Not sure why someone would try to steal one though (aside from drugs/booze, as the mugshot sort of implies), it's not like you can really evade a pursuit when the pursuers know exactly where you're going and have at least partial control over that depending on the level of automation in the area.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Speaking of locomotive insanity, a guy in Phoenix was released from jail in the morning, ended up going to a rail yard and trying to steal a locomotive. Busted again. Can I smile? Sure, if you want. OK
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This was a lengthy video, but it held my interest the entire time. Very fascinating stuff to someone that knows the basics of steam locomotives, or even someone that doesn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx9Q8PphAVo Mental Hospitality fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Nov 27, 2017 |
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Nov 27, 2017 22:01
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Mental Hospitality posted:This was a lengthy video, but it held my interest the entire time. Very fascinating stuff to someone that knows the basics of steam locomotives, or even someone that doesn't. Yeah, that was amazing to watch to see all the effort that goes into firing up a locomotive like that.
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Nov 28, 2017 02:45
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Mental Hospitality posted:This was a lengthy video, but it held my interest the entire time. Very fascinating stuff to someone that knows the basics of steam locomotives, or even someone that doesn't. https://youtu.be/ttMN2iQCH1o
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Mental Hospitality posted:This was a lengthy video, but it held my interest the entire time. Very fascinating stuff to someone that knows the basics of steam locomotives, or even someone that doesn't. Did they use a recirculation pump back in the day, or just rely on convection currents?
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~Coxy posted:Did they use a recirculation pump back in the day, or just rely on convection currents? Just convection, although some of the cutting-edge locos of the 1940s had thermic syphons built into the firebox to help the water circulate more effectively, but there was no active pump. You didn't really need it as the loco would be 'hot' for most of its service time, so the benefit of reducing the warm-up time from a pump was not worth the extra complexity and cost. But when you did start from cold it usually paid to build up the fire gradually to prevent building up stresses in the firebox or the boiler barrel from several tons of cold water with a big fire at one end. In fact Tornado, the new-build steam loco in the UK, suffered a run of broken firebox stays and leaking fire tubes after her first year or two in service because she was running much more haphazardly then she was designed to. Because she wasn't in daily service there were a lot of cold-hot-cold cycles (something like the equivalent of three years regular service in the space of nine months) and the thermal stress got to some of the parts. I used to volunteer on a steamship (Nautical Insanity, rather tha Locomotive Insanity) and firing up two boilers each with about 20 tons of cold water in them was a delicate affair, and then you had to very carefully warm up the entire steam plant - letting hot saturated steam straight into a cold cylinder can crack or distort it. The main engines had to be 'rocked' back and forth about a quarter of a turn on just enough steam to get the pistons moving until the cylinder casings were warm, then you could slowly turn them over at about 5 rpm on 10psi of steam.
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If someone so much as looks at the drone on company time, ground the drone and be punished for distracting staff by your two supervisors?
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Mental Hospitality posted:This was a lengthy video, but it held my interest the entire time. Very fascinating stuff to someone that knows the basics of steam locomotives, or even someone that doesn't. My train-loving kids friggin LOVE that video. Their train-loving dad (me) is fascinated by it. I give credit to the museums still running those amazing machines.
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I'm the squiggly spellcheck underlines in this Word document that was, gently caress I don't know, screen shotted and pasted into another document then printed? Also I don't know what FTX is but a rail yard seems like the perfect use for drones.
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Those nerds need to read up on flight guidelines. Current UAS弾s are basically a pipeline of single points of failures, and using them near soft targets is a recipe for disaster.
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evil_bunnY posted:Those nerds need to read up on flight guidelines. Current UAS’es are basically a pipeline of single points of failures, and using them near soft targets is a recipe for disaster. you don't need to get hit by a drone to fake an fmla claim
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https://www.up.com/customers/announcements/intermodal/allintermodal/IM2017-456.html
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B4Ctom1 posted:http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/nation-and-world/growing-length-of-freight-trains-in-federal-crosshairs-after-crashes-20171206 I like the picture they used for this one.
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Dec 10, 2017 06:33
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its a ramp that did 15k lifts a year.
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vains posted:its a ramp that did 15k lifts a year. Is that busy or slow?
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iospace posted:Is that busy or slow? an average size ramp is probably doing 70k-100k in a year.
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vains posted:an average size ramp is probably doing 70k-100k in a year. Ah, ok. So basically "yeah, this ramp is underperforming, so we're cutting it."
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jamal posted:I like the picture they used for this one. I kind of hope this was done ironically, but I have a feeling it was more like "Eh it's a loving train, print it."
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Never realized how bendy railroad tracks are. Капитальный ремонт ж.д. часть 6/8 - Выгрузка рельсовых плетей / Track repair 6/8 - Long rails 1 (18:35)
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Saukkis posted:Never realized how bendy railroad tracks are. the space noises they make!
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I predict he'll be officially out before the end of the year.
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George Zimmer posted:I predict he'll be officially out before the end of the year. You may be right. Trains magazine just busted out on the newswire that he died.
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Yeah, it's on various news services that he died from unexpected complications from illness.
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vains posted:https://www.wsj.com/articles/csxs-first-class-ticket-to-chaos-1513366319 But the investors are happy! 
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vains posted:https://www.wsj.com/articles/csxs-first-class-ticket-to-chaos-1513366319 loving love our shifts right now. not sure what the english term is but the time required for a "brake test" in the summer is the same as in knee deep snow right? e: local schadenfreude; my old company lost the contract to a firm that literally calculated doing the same amount of work with half the people in half the time. It's been glorious to watch them burn and deliver 6h+ delays on a fairly short route. They topped off the week with derailing and loving up every train in the regions biggest yard. Klaus Kinski fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Dec 17, 2017 |
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Amtrak 501 derailed in Washington, crashing into I-5. "Multiple injuries and fatalities" reported.  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amtrak-derailment-train-crashes-near-tacoma-washington-n830751
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Was today's Amtrak derailment the first day of the new Cascades route?
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Wilford Cutlery posted:Was today's Amtrak derailment the first day of the new Cascades route? According to WSDOT's website, it sure looks like it. https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Rail/PNWRC_PtDefiance/default.htm
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hailthefish posted:According to WSDOT's website, it sure looks like it. Looks like they were less than a mile from the end of the new route, and given that it happened at the point where the track jogs across the highway I'm going to bet lack of attention + too much speed.
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