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There's something about large-scale live steam which is just incredibly calming. It's probably the most anglo-boomer of hobbies but it's really cool to watch. I wish i had enough money to buy a mamod.
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i get my live steam fix (and my hobby machining fix) vicariously through Blondihacks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Jf7t6BL4e74O53dL6arSw
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So, err, today i learned about South Africa's coal trains. They work on 50 kilovolts. They can be 340 cars long, with 10 locomotives. With a total mass of 41.000 tonnes. I've never heard about it until now, and i've always been kinda interested in trains. Is the existence of this bizarrely huge train common knowledge and am i living under a rock? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sishen%E2%80%93Saldanha_railway_line
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Brief snippet of the Soviet Army building a pontoon bridge and then running a steam train over it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyGRKRKOst8&t=206s Skip to 3:26 if that link doesn't work, or watch the whole thing because it's cool
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NoWake posted:The C&O operated car floats across Lake Michigan, and it's the only way railcars get to Alaska, too. There is no overland link to Canada or the lower 48. I should have some photos from an Alaska Railroad terminal in a month or so, heading up there to guide an installation of some track material we made. ARR has a twice-weekly barge in the summer; both came in while I was in Whittier last month. I just went looking through my photos and I swear I took pictures of the rail barge but can’t find them. Skagway lifts everything off the barge with cranes now.
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Advent Horizon posted:Skagway lifts everything off the barge with cranes now. Laaaame
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Some days you get lucky. Today was that day. 
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For a while, the Netherlands held the record of the longest *passenger* train in the world. A single bog standard 1600 locomotive was used (1,5kV, 4600kw, DC traction motors with thyristor choppers), with type ICR carriages. (length over buffers 26,4m) It is a really weird sight to see such a long passenger train. Even freight trains aren't usually this long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeVN9nSxwDs There were significant problems in getting this to work. Not relating to the tractive effort - the locomotive could handle it just fine. Braking, however, was a whole different story. Firstly, filling the whole train brake pipe took ages. But worse, at first they didn't manage to get the brake command to travel further downtrain than about 400m or 17 carriages... They don't usually pull more than 12 carriages. Neither the carriages nor the locomotive was designed to be able to brake such long trains. They didn't find a way to solve that problem. However, they did manage to find a way to make the carriages go in emergency brake mode, with a very specific process: - The electronic-pneumatic brake controller had to be in its hardest brake setting - the emergency brake button had to be pushed - An auxillary, manual emergency brake valve had to be fully opened. This made the brake pipe empty with incredible speed, so the pressure wave would ripple through the whole train. This was a viable way to get the train stopped in case of emergency. In the test, the pressure shock waves bouncing through the continuous air line were big enough to make some brakes actually start to brake again, for a very short while as the shock wave passed. They had to pull a lot of strings to make sure the whole route of the train through the country, would be guaranteed to have green signals. This was quite a big thing, because the dutch main rail net is incredibly busy. Busy enough to occasionally create a traffic jam if things go wrong in rush hour. If you're dutch (or use google translate), here's a very nice and long report by a train driver about the whole event: http://www.feijenoordsemeesters.nl/LRtW/index.html LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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LimaBiker posted:For a while, the Netherlands held the record of the longest *passenger* train in the world. A single bog standard 1600 locomotive was used (1,5kV, 4600kw, DC traction motors with thyristor choppers), with type ICR carriages. (length over buffers 26,4m) ok but how long was the train
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luminalflux posted:ok but how long was the train Erg lang. 1601.58m
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joat mon posted:Erg lang. that's 5,209ft for north american railroaders that is indeed one long-rear end passenger train
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OMGVBFLOL posted:that's 5,209ft for north american railroaders WTF Did it service three station simultaneously when it finally stopped?
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Wtf, i swear i wrote down the length of the train. Oh well. 60 carriages, each 26,4m over buffers, and a locomotive. So heel erg lang. monsterzero posted:WTF Did it service three station simultaneously when it finally stopped? I looked to see if it was possible, but best i can do is service 3 stations with a single train movement! I don't think there's any place here that has 3 stations within 1600m. Amsterdam:  Purmerend:  Distance measurement is not totally accurate, i put it to the side of the rail line on the map to make it easier to see the route and stations. Edit: Ooh, we also once had the world's longest city tram, on 7 april 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U32VJtg8J8k&t=617s Total mass 184 ton, length 158m. Not extremely long, but it looks quite silly in the narrow streets of Amsterdam. For some reason they chose to use only one tram to pull the whole thing. Not bad for a total power of about 200kw. In the end, they snapped a coupler and the tram couldn't continue to the destination as one piece. LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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What was the point? Just a commuter train that filled up from one end or something? Seems way more inefficient than just having another train. I have been on trains in the UK which were too long for the platform but the doors unlocked anyway, so the driver was very careful to announce over the tannoy which doors to get out of so you didn't fall onto the embankment.
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MikeCrotch posted:What was the point? Just a commuter train that filled up from one end or something? Seems way more inefficient than just having another train. what was the point of having the longest passenger train ever? i'm gonna guess: have the longest passenger train ever.
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Sounds like an infrequent train to relocate accumulated rolling stock to me.
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150th anniversary of Dutch Rail. The record was broken by the Belgians a couple years later, as a fundraiser for cancer research.
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Does India actually run any passenger trains that come close to using the full platform at those stations that have 1200m platforms?
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Jonny Nox posted:what was the point of having the longest passenger train ever? Yep. It was a '150 years of dutch rail' event. It wasn't very practical cause it couldn't brake 'regularly' (either full emergency, or nothing, no other options (except for the tiny bit of dynamic braking) and the locomotive's electric system could only supply power for the heaters of the first 17 carriages. They solved the brake problem by throwing off the schedules of all other trains, and give this train guaranteed green signals on the whole trip. Stopping the long train would mean having it sit for 15 or 30 minutes or whatever to get the brakes back up to pressure, and to occupy 2 or 3 blocks of track while it's sitting there, causing serious traffic jams on the rail. So it was never intended as a means of travel, just a 'hey, let's do something spectacular'. They had 900 people aboard of the first 17 carriages - the rest of them only had some staff in them to help with the technical side of things (like making sure the rat tailing/bumping on acceleration wasn't too violent, see if the brake command reaches the carriage etc)
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This is pretty unimportant, but I figure if anyone would know it would be here. Channel-surfing on youtube got me to a video about Broad Street Station and the North London Railway. There's a shot of the NLR What is going on in the bottom-right segment, the sailing ship mounted on a huge brick arch?
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It’s the Hibbert Gate
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Ah! Thank you very much.
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Some days you get lucky, part 2
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I visited a rather large "model" railroad last weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ5jqqD9G_w
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I visited a rather large "model" railroad last weekend. How are they powered (the two different gauges)?
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The locomotives they ran while I was there mostly had gas engines with hydraulic transmissions. On the train I rode the lead unit had the engine while the second unit was a slug getting hydraulic power from the first unit. The larger 15" gauge train was also gas but it had a big 4 cylinder Winton engine I believe. There were a couple live steam engines there as well but unfortunately neither was fired up.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:The locomotives they ran while I was there mostly had gas engines with hydraulic transmissions. On the train I rode the lead unit had the engine while the second unit was a slug getting hydraulic power from the first unit. It’s so drat impressive. Really loved that video. The bridge and trestle work was just outstanding.
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Last weekend I went up to the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington railway museum for a photo charter and got some really good footage of the three operating Maine 2-footer narrow gauge locomotives running together. From a quality perspective I think this may be the best video I've made yet, even if the Big Boy footage was more compelling. This is a pretty neat little operation, they've rebuilt more than 3 miles of the line on the original right-of-way over the past 30 years. A lot of progress has been made in the past 10 years and they just opened a new section of the line with a 3% grade and a partially enclosed bridge. Unfortunately they probably won't be extending the line any further because they'd have to cross a state highway to do so. That said, they'll be refocusing their efforts on equipment restoration and they announced while I was there that they will be restoring two additional steam locomotives (#4 & #8) to operation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCB2jBl87d0 If you're ever up in Maine on a Saturday (or some Sundays) I highly recommend checking it out.
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From the schadenfreude thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/WashletJP/status/1423881474579734533
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https://twitter.com/mayama_kodomo/status/1423486325353709569?s=20 lol
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I can't understand anything being said, but those gnkkaaaaa noises transcend language. Beautiful.
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This guy fucks.
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This man has strong opinions on the PRR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3K5-GOtku0 Edit: gently caress, only viewable on youtube. Go there, it's worth it.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:This man has strong opinions on the PRR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP9D1e0cH_U I WOULD RATHER HAVE A MOTHERFUCKING SISTER WORKING IN A WHOREHOUSE THAN A BROTHER WORKING FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD!
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Syrian Lannister posted:He likes the horseshoe curve too He needs to play Archie Bunker on a Netflix remake of "All in the Family".
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Otteration posted:He needs to play Archie Bunker on a Netflix remake of "All in the Family". "All in the Penn Central"
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