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Diesel Railcar Sim has me watching weird videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5xiM0LYtA
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Five minutes walk from my house this morning, I think I someone shouted hello from the cab (excuse shaky phone vid, I was balancing on a fence): https://youtu.be/3d-9n3-k_uU
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Apr 20, 2018 10:36
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inkjet_lakes posted:Five minutes walk from my house this morning, I think I someone shouted hello from the cab (excuse shaky phone vid, I was balancing on a fence): I think this might be the only modern video of a steam train I've seen where they haven't been overfuelling it and/or running the blowers to make an impressive column of smoke and/or steam.
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IPCRESS posted:I think this might be the only modern video of a steam train I've seen where they haven't been overfuelling it and/or running the blowers to make an impressive column of smoke and/or steam. I think they save that for arriving at stations
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IPCRESS posted:I think this might be the only modern video of a steam train I've seen where they haven't been overfuelling it and/or running the blowers to make an impressive column of smoke and/or steam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-b4Ce4Mf4
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IPCRESS posted:I think this might be the only modern video of a steam train I've seen where they haven't been overfuelling it and/or running the blowers to make an impressive column of smoke and/or steam. They save it for a. inkjet_lakes posted:I think they save that for arriving at stations and B. specified photo op areas. Or the long and short of it: the excursions plan out several spots where they're going to run rich for the big clouds, so the railfans who aren't on it can figure out where to set up for the "classic" steam picture of a big cloud coming out of the stack.
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stevewm posted:Relevant....
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pr0craztinazn posted:Thank you for linking to this. It's surprisingly fun to watch. Geoff also has his own personal channel where he posts some random train/transport related videos regularly. https://www.youtube.com/user/geofftech2
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Apr 21, 2018 21:17
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Another poo poo train. Literally, a train full of poo poo. That sat in a luckless Alabama town for 2 months due to a bureaucratic deadlock: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/nyregion/poop-train-alabama.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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Apr 22, 2018 16:40
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stevewm posted:Geoff also has his own personal channel where he posts some random train/transport related videos regularly. He also runs/hosts the Londonist channel which is often mostly about trains too or just former and upcoming infrastructure in london https://www.youtube.com/user/Londonistvids
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Axeman Jim posted:Another poo poo train. Another? That's the same one I posted about on the last page. Glad it's resolved! TITTIEKISSER69 posted:
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drunkill posted:He also runs/hosts the Londonist channel which is often mostly about trains too or just former and upcoming infrastructure in london Yep! That is how I originally discovered him and all the stations.
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inkjet_lakes posted:Five minutes walk from my house this morning, I think I someone shouted hello from the cab (excuse shaky phone vid, I was balancing on a fence): Watching that got me this in the recommendeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9mDv-QR0eo Not the sort of thing you'd expect down a little alleyway between two houses.
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Saukkis posted:This could contain few interesting pictures, "Taking the Train from China to Switzerland (or How to Avoid Jet-Lag)". Currently four parts have been posted. quote:
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Not sure if this belongs in here, the people you share the road with, or cycle asylum. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-train-motorcyle-crash-white-marsh-20180508-story.html quote:A motorcyclist reportedly tried to outrun a CSX train in White Marsh Tuesday afternoon but crashed instead, according to Baltimore County Police.
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Itzena posted:Watching that got me this in the recommendeds: I bet the trespass figures for that line are interesting.
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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/05/08/only-on-2-angry-drivers-forced-to-wait-while-train-engineer-brakes-for-food
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B4Ctom1 posted:http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/05/08/only-on-2-angry-drivers-forced-to-wait-while-train-engineer-brakes-for-food that train driver is alpha as hell I love that the guy who reported it is all "I was pretty angry at the time but looking back it was actually pretty funny"
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hey when it's time for a lunch break, it's time for a lunch break
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When the yard master tells you to go to beans, but they have special instructions saying you have to eat it in the cab.
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We did sort of the same thing when they made our paid 30 min lunch break into an hour of unpaid. This was during a shunting(?) shift at a yard so when it got close to lunch time we just left poo poo wherever, took the engine to its parking spot a mile or so away, shut it down by the book (which is a 20 min or so process) and walked to the break room, changed to civilian clothes then clocked out. gently caress yo lunchbreak.
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As expected the UK government has been forced to re-nationalise the East Coast Main Line for the second time in a decade, presumably permanently this time since there's no talk of it going back out to tender. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44142258
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May 16, 2018 13:18
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Hopefully that doesn't mess with my Virgin Trains East Coast ticket that I bought for my trip in August.
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In the US it would be a case of "lol free market has spoken, no more train service!"
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:In the US it would be a case of "lol free market has spoken, no more train service!" Counterpoint: Conrail
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iospace posted:Counterpoint: Conrail We're talking about passenger service. Before you reference Amtrak, how many passenger service routes have been shut down since Amtrak's inception?
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iospace posted:Counterpoint: Conrail like bovine noted, there is a massive difference between a passenger line curtailment or shutdown and the penn central bankruptcy. gigantic differences. penn central serviced something like 50% of the population of the united states. had the govt not stepped in to form conrail, the economy would have been wrecked. further, the penn central, as conrail, proved that the market it serviced could be profitable but it was constrained in such a way that it couldn't make money until legislation changed. read: the men who loved trains and the great railroad revolution. they both do a much better job of explaining the situation.
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vains posted:like bovine noted, there is a massive difference between a passenger line curtailment or shutdown and the penn central bankruptcy. gigantic differences. penn central serviced something like 50% of the population of the united states. had the govt not stepped in to form conrail, the economy would have been wrecked. further, the penn central, as conrail, proved that the market it serviced could be profitable but it was constrained in such a way that it couldn't make money until legislation changed. Also, if you're into it, the "Rail Act of 1980 Background Materials", which was prepared for the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce during the build up to the Staggers Act, is interesting reading into how the whole mess evolved and how bad it got. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015081188693;view=1up;seq=22
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MikeCrotch posted:As expected the UK government has been forced to re-nationalise the East Coast Main Line for the second time in a decade, presumably permanently this time since there's no talk of it going back out to tender. Unfortunately not- from that BBC article: Auntie Beeb posted:"For the next two years the operator of last resort, overseen by the Department of Transport will operate the East Coast Main Line. So the private sector will have another crack at running it. Although that 2020 timescale is an election year, and Labour's preferred process of nationalising the railways is to simply take back franchises as they expire...or not give back the ones the government already has, perhaps? I'm also liking the fact that the branding for the ECML in Government Ownership Take #2 is London & North Eastern Railway, since the original LNER was nationalised by the 1945 Labour government to form British Railways. Shadows from history? vains posted:conrail, proved that the market it serviced could be profitable but it was constrained in such a way that it couldn't make money until legislation changed. Was that removal of common carrier legislation, by any chance? One of the things which hamstrung British Railways was that it laboured under Victorian-era common carrier laws put in place when the railways had a complete monopoly on large-scale long-distance transport, which BR inherited from the private companies. So BR was legally required to transport any goods, of any amount, between any two stations on the network at legally-enforced and publically published rates. It was originally supposed to prevent the railways price-gouging, cherry-picking only maximally-profitably traffic, failing to serve sparsely-populated rural areas or simply ignoring small-scale businesses and individuals who needed to transport small amounts of cargo. But when rail freight was struggling under booming road transport and the growth of the motorway network that just locked BR into a death-spiral, since the road carriers could adjust their prices on the fly (and simply undercut BR's published rates) and turn down business that made no (or too little) profit to be worth their while. As the roads took more and more freight traffic BR was still lumbered with having to provide, maintain and staff goods depots all over the country which were generating less and less revenue but were legally required to exist. BR didn't get rid of those legal shackles until 1962 when it was given legal freedom of contract, immediately leading to BR almost overnight ceasing to bother with piece-load, wagon-load and even mixed-load traffic. It was all about block trains moving between dedicated and mechanised loading/unloading facilities. The private rail companies had repeatedly asked for the repeal of the common carrier legislation in response to the Great Depression and rising road competition in the 1930s and the failure of the government to do so was one of the reasons that the two big companies were in such a delicate financial state even before WW2.
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BalloonFish posted:I'm also liking the fact that the branding for the ECML in Government Ownership Take #2 is London & North Eastern Railway, since the original LNER was nationalised by the 1945 Labour government to form British Railways. Shadows from history? This is far from the first time that this has happened - in fact, if this goes ahead, every Big Four member except the LMS will have a franchise using it's name, logo and or scheme; Great Western Railway  Southern 
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BalloonFish posted:Was that removal of common carrier legislation, by any chance? One of the things which hamstrung British Railways was that it laboured under Victorian-era common carrier laws put in place when the railways had a complete monopoly on large-scale long-distance transport, which BR inherited from the private companies. So BR was legally required to transport any goods, of any amount, between any two stations on the network at legally-enforced and publically published rates. It was originally supposed to prevent the railways price-gouging, cherry-picking only maximally-profitably traffic, failing to serve sparsely-populated rural areas or simply ignoring small-scale businesses and individuals who needed to transport small amounts of cargo. But when rail freight was struggling under booming road transport and the growth of the motorway network that just locked BR into a death-spiral, since the road carriers could adjust their prices on the fly (and simply undercut BR's published rates) and turn down business that made no (or too little) profit to be worth their while. As the roads took more and more freight traffic BR was still lumbered with having to provide, maintain and staff goods depots all over the country which were generating less and less revenue but were legally required to exist. BR didn't get rid of those legal shackles until 1962 when it was given legal freedom of contract, immediately leading to BR almost overnight ceasing to bother with piece-load, wagon-load and even mixed-load traffic. It was all about block trains moving between dedicated and mechanised loading/unloading facilities. a big piece of it was deregulation of railroads. distilled down to a paragraph: by the 1960s, the north eastern railroads were being outcompeted by other modes for passenger traffic. as the northeast began to deindustrialize, the railroads were competing for an ever shrinking share of freight with trucks who were faster and more responsive. the icc, as a body appointed by congress, was heavily influenced by the demands of constituents and generally moved at a glacially slow pace. the nyc/prr were unable to increase revenue by raising rates because those were set by the icc. they were unable to reduce costs by abandoning lines, curtailing service or reducing crew sizes in response to technological advances because the icc also regulated service and crew size. the icc also regulated mergers and prevented some from occurring that might have forestalled, but not prevented, the collapse of the penn central.* by 1970, the penn central had been locked into a vicious cycle where they weren't making enough money to reinvest and maintenance was deferred. deferred maintenance led to slow orders, derailments, stopped trains and bad order locomotives/cars. these lead to poor velocity and congestion which increases costs which further reduces money available for maintenance. between 1973 and 1981, 3 acts were passed(3-r, 4-r and the staggers act) which deregulated the railroads and created conrail. the two books i suggested above, both available on kindle for a reasonable price, cover this in much more detail. *the c&o had courted the prr or nyc as a merger partner. this would have created a network with little duplication and strong coal revenues. further, as part of the nrc/prr merger, the prr had to sell their stake in the virginian, a highly profitable coal hauler. the penn central also had to take on the failing new york, new haven and hartford as part of the terms of the merger. edit: might not have been the virginian, but they had a stake in a profitable coal hauler that they were forced to divest. vains fucked around with this message at 22:47 on May 18, 2018 |
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Tram lines? Its even got the different animal enclosures at the zoo I take the train to get to in Holland labeled correctly. (And I know I'm months behind, but still! )
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hackbunny posted:
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I guess locomotives get bondo too.
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Patch jobs are the best.
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These are the bicyclists you share a tunnel with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTEry6zdyBo
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Amazing. Although a curved tunnel with no recesses for people is a bit dangerous. Recesses for workers though, not cyclists.
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drunkill posted:Amazing. He probably could have laid down in the bottom corner of the tunnel and been fine, but panic is a hell of a drug. Edit: Got to see some steam locomotives a couple weekends ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJyIADihTtg Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 00:35 on May 31, 2018 |
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