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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Awesome, I'm hoping to go see it this Sunday. They blew the whistle constantly. You can feel it as it goes off
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# ? Jul 24, 2019 05:20 |
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Here's some other footage from my trip in May, this time not of the Big Boy but a couple of BNSF trains in Wind River Canyon. I'm pretty sure this is one of the first times I've been able to actually utilize the 4K support on my TV. (Though I don't think it supports 60fps, sadly). Good video! This has also reminded me that Wyoming is a place that exists and is apparently beautiful as gently caress.
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# ? Jul 24, 2019 06:34 |
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pseudorandom posted:I'm pretty sure this is one of the first times I've been able to actually utilize the 4K support on my TV. (Though I don't think it supports 60fps, sadly). Good video! Beautiful as gently caress and empty as gently caress. It has the second lowest population density next to Alaska and coming from the third highest population density state (Massachusetts) being able to drive 80 mph and not see another car for 3-5 minutes at a time was amazing.
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# ? Jul 24, 2019 17:02 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDEjZsNdq3Y edit: DSLR shots mekilljoydammit fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jul 25, 2019 |
# ? Jul 25, 2019 20:02 |
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More please.
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# ? Jul 26, 2019 03:18 |
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Livestreams caught a train derailment on horseshoe curve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LedfGZCz7t0 Timestamp is 16:08 by the time at the top of the video (not youtube's time.)
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# ? Jul 27, 2019 00:40 |
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That's the second stringline derailment there in the past few weeks. Someone's in trouble.
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# ? Jul 27, 2019 04:03 |
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:That's the second stringline derailment there in the past few weeks. Someone's in trouble. Chatter from the youtube watchers is that they had light cars at the front of the train, which is bad because of the way the forces build up? I'm not really knowledgeable on the subject but it makes sense to me, and it IS the light centerline cars that derailed.
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# ? Jul 27, 2019 04:28 |
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Yep, basically the train behind the empty cars is too heavy and the inward pull on the curve is stronger than their weight keeping them on the track so they lift off the track on the inside of the curve. It was the exact same thing that happened in almost the same spot 2 weeks ago.
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# ? Jul 27, 2019 04:45 |
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Log082 posted:Chatter from the youtube watchers is that they had light cars at the front of the train, which is bad because of the way the forces build up? I'm not really knowledgeable on the subject but it makes sense to me, and it IS the light centerline cars that derailed. B4Ctom1 posted:It is hard to explain not just the physics, but the amounts of forces involved.
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# ? Jul 27, 2019 04:45 |
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Yep, basically the train behind the empty cars is too heavy and the inward pull on the curve is stronger than their weight keeping them on the track so they lift off the track on the inside of the curve. It was the exact same thing that happened in almost the same spot 2 weeks ago. This was a problem with my brio trains when I was a kid.
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# ? Jul 27, 2019 05:10 |
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nm posted:This was a problem with my brio trains when I was a kid. Probably should have hired a competent yardmaster.
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# ? Jul 27, 2019 14:36 |
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Log082 posted:Livestreams caught a train derailment on horseshoe curve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LedfGZCz7t0 wha? The video goes from 00:30 to 12:30 for me, so there's no 16:08. Could someone post a timestamped link for the YT video, or a trimmed version? Thanks.
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# ? Jul 28, 2019 17:38 |
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:wha? That link was the livestream, and it only goes about 12 hours back. There's a video of the derailment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsE9mOohSB8
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# ? Jul 28, 2019 18:04 |
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Ah! Thank you!
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# ? Jul 30, 2019 03:29 |
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So I went and saw Big Boy on Sunday, and posted several pictures to Facebook. An older (70s?) friend of mine posted this on one of the pictures:quote:My dad was a machinist for the UPRR. When they first decided to resurrect a Big Boy, they found some parts that needed to be replaced. Engineers from HQ brought plans to the shops and asked my dad if they could be made in house because they couldn't find anyone to make them. They still had an old vertical mill that had a bed big enough to handle a 6' dia., 3" thick chunk of steel. Dad had to get up on the steel to layout various features. The engineers documented what he did because if those parts needed to be made again, there is no one around who has made them.
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# ? Jul 30, 2019 06:56 |
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GBS OSHA thread didn't seem to think there was anything OSHA about this. Although something tells me there should have been at the very least a speed restriction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8r8c4x8PQY
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 22:49 |
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With standing water over the head of the rail, there definitely should be a speed restriction if for no other reason than trying to about frying the traction motors.
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# ? Aug 21, 2019 00:23 |
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The Real Amethyst posted:GBS OSHA thread didn't seem to think there was anything OSHA about this. Although something tells me there should have been at the very least a speed restriction. 3/10. If you're going to film something like this you need to commit and not turn around to miss the most important part of this video. To add some kind of content: How would a massive body of water like this effect a train? Surely passengers would feel a good thud, but would an engineer need to be do anything to compensate for rolling through something like this (at any speed)? pseudorandom fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Aug 23, 2019 |
# ? Aug 23, 2019 05:11 |
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pseudorandom posted:3/10. If you're going to film something like this you need to commit and not turn around to miss the most important part of this video. That train is doing a good 80-100kph and as you can see it is not affected at all. The crew and passengers probably felt a minor lurch upon entry but that is about it. Trains are incredibly massive and all that weight is concentrated on very small contact points so it would take a lot of speed to make one hydroplane. That locomotive is north of 100,000kg alone.
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# ? Aug 23, 2019 11:28 |
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the train should have blown its horn more than once
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# ? Aug 23, 2019 17:09 |
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Stairmaster posted:the train should have blown its horn more than once Pretty sure that's in India, they don't give any fucks.
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# ? Aug 23, 2019 17:17 |
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Well that's different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sstRJcaFU9U
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# ? Sep 4, 2019 01:23 |
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Well that's different. There's also another bridge south of Greymouth on the same NZ island with that setup
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# ? Sep 4, 2019 02:01 |
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I've been on that train, decent tourist route for a shortish trip.
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# ? Sep 4, 2019 12:23 |
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The Whittier tunnel in Alaska is a dual use single-lane rail/motor vehicle tunnel. They turn the tunnel around every fifteen minutes or so for car traffic, and have fifteen minute blocks set aside for scheduled Alaska Railroad trains in and out of Whittier.
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# ? Sep 4, 2019 13:16 |
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A customer of ours made this work; not exactly cheap, but a lot cheaper than building a bridge.
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# ? Sep 4, 2019 15:32 |
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Few years back I had a 2 week vacation in Iceland. We drove around the whole island, total of 4400 kms, mostly on the Ring 1 main road. Majority of the bridges we came across during the trip were single lane. I understand that road is quite low traffic outside the few biggest cities, but how much can you really save compared to a dual lane bridge.
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# ? Sep 5, 2019 22:00 |
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sincx fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Mar 23, 2021 |
# ? Sep 22, 2019 07:18 |
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https://i.imgur.com/iRTkHIl.mp4
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 03:33 |
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If this is near Fort Drum in upstate NY, it wouldn't be the first time their cars have gotten loose
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 06:32 |
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Someone's head is REALLY gonna roll for losing custody of military hardware like that. Do the patriotic thing and call in those missing
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 06:49 |
Neddy Seagoon posted:Someone's head is REALLY gonna roll for losing custody of military hardware like that. probably not train crew related... if the cars became seperated in transit, it would have dumped all the air in the train and alerted the crew. railroad cops usually follow these shipments around, anyways. they probably rolled out of the ramp at ft drum.
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 20:26 |
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sincx fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Mar 23, 2021 |
# ? Sep 24, 2019 21:45 |
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I like the slow pan to reveal that there are no leading cars or locomotive. Is there any news article about this? I searched for "train IFV", "unattended IFV", "unattended train", etc.
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# ? Sep 25, 2019 05:43 |
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https://popularmilitary.com/man-shocked-to-find-armys-armored-vehicles-accidentally-left-behind-on-railway/
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# ? Sep 25, 2019 16:20 |
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:https://popularmilitary.com/man-shocked-to-find-armys-armored-vehicles-accidentally-left-behind-on-railway/ I love how the citizen who's route to work was blocked by these cars cleverly implied that BNSF was at fault and had to come back to pick up the military equipment cars they lost.
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# ? Sep 25, 2019 20:56 |
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Crossquotin' rail insanity
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# ? Sep 26, 2019 18:21 |
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drunkill posted:Crossquotin' rail insanity Hands up if ou saw that coming. Wow thats a lot of hands
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# ? Sep 26, 2019 20:15 |
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Hands up if ou saw that coming. saw it coming still loved it
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