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Looks more like UP colors to me. Which makes sense because this is the same company that has a George Bush loco.
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For anyone around Northeast Ohio, the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad is doing Steam in the Valley again this month. https://twitter.com/CVSRR/status/1432729603530010624 I live right next to the tracks, so it'll be interesting to see how different it sounds/feels when that goes by.
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Zeether posted:Looks more like UP colors to me. Definitely UP. Turns out that the funeral train for the guy was just a ritualistic token. Now every one of their trains has the Spirit of
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Stumbled across a youtube video from someone filming inside the big boy while it is running down the tracks. Description says it was taken from facebook. However, the guy unkindly didn't link back the source on facebook. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-SAotxuFg And from there, a related video of some more inside footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kh4mtJU1RM
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I meant to post this a while back but never got around to it. I went to Lake Superior Rail Museum up in Duluth a few months back and took some pictures. Some neat stuff there. The outside was closed for construction so I wasn't able to get any of the outdoor stuff. Click this picture for the rest of the album: 
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That display that turns the drivers on the steam locomotive is pretty neat! I wonder how much a set up like that costs.
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Following up on my own question:wolrah posted:I live right next to the tracks, so it'll be interesting to see how different it sounds/feels when that goes by. Neither my girlfriend nor my housemate are train people or even gearheads but they both found it really cool to see up close, and then feel from in the house later that afternoon because we forgot it was coming until it was on top of us. Everything shakes so much more than the even a fast and heavy pass with the diesels. Also we caught it on their first night run while out biking (thus my heavy breathing at the beginning). My phone doesn't do well with the dark but we were at a park trail crossing so they blew the whistle which was of course cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auPpYkXT02U They're going to have it out again this weekend so I'm hoping to catch a few more passes at some other locations. Would it be going too far to set my GoPro between the rails? There's a crossing right down the street from me that would be perfect to do it at with a great view and a good whistle blow, but I don't know if that's one of those things that's frowned upon. It'd be well below the level of the road surface at the crossing so there's absolutely no chance of contact, but I'm sure the railroad's official position would be no placing any foreign objects within their right of way so I'm wondering what you guys think. wolrah fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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shortspecialbus posted:I meant to post this a while back but never got around to it. I went to Lake Superior Rail Museum up in Duluth a few months back and took some pictures. Some neat stuff there. The outside was closed for construction so I wasn't able to get any of the outdoor stuff. That's a nice set of photos, thanks for sharing. That building looks amazing.
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wolrah posted:Would it be going too far to set my GoPro between the rails? There's a crossing right down the street from me that would be perfect to do it at with a great view and a good whistle blow, but I don't know if that's one of those things that's frowned upon. It'd be well below the level of the road surface at the crossing so there's absolutely no chance of contact, but I'm sure the railroad's official position would be no placing any foreign objects within their right of way so I'm wondering what you guys think. Top of tie to top of rail will be between 5 1/2" to 7", nothing will be positioned below that mark but there could be a hanging hose or chain so keep that in mind. Alone It'll look like a dark stone from 20 yards away, but I'd say popping it in a piece of innocuous trash like a mcdonald's cup would keep it from throwing up too many flags.
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Is cremation via steam locomotive a thing? (it should be)
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moparacker posted:Is cremation via steam locomotive a thing? It's certainly been done before (sort of) https://kslnewsradio.com/1905305/english-engineers-final-wish-to-go-out-with-a-train-is-granted/
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It's not unusual for someone's ashes to go into the firebox.
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Clarence posted:It's not unusual for someone's ashes to go into the firebox. That is equal parts weird and metal as hell. 
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:That's a nice set of photos, thanks for sharing. That building looks amazing. Yeah it's really neat. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area, and you can often catch ore/timber ships coming in or out of the harbor (they post the schedule to make it easy) and you can find agates on the beaches sometimes. Most of them in that area are pretty picked over but my wife found a really pretty one at Wisconsin Point when we were up there. OMC Smokehouse is pretty decent BBQ as well, at least for what you'd expect in northern Wisconsin/Minnesota. Corktown Deli is across the street and has pretty tasty (if expensive) sandwiches as well. This has been your post from the Duluth Tourism Board.
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wolrah posted:Also we caught it on their first night run while out biking (thus my heavy breathing at the beginning). My phone doesn't do well with the dark but we were at a park trail crossing so they blew the whistle which was of course cool. Why does it look like the headlight is wobbling/waving/moving around? Is that a low-light effect from the phone or is that something that's actually happening there?
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pseudorandom posted:Why does it look like the headlight is wobbling/waving/moving around? Is that a low-light effect from the phone or is that something that's actually happening there? Yup that's the Mars Light, old but not exactly historic as it's something still in regular use by Metra at least.
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Clarence posted:It's not unusual for someone's ashes to go into the firebox.
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I remember seeing a Tumblr post where they shoveled a whole birthday cake into a loco's firebox to celebrate its birthday
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If you want to see what it looks like to get run over by a steam train, here you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwyg51gyLhY
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I took a ride on the mighty Portage Flyer this summer.  This locomotive pulls two open carriages on a one way 1km route out of the Muskoka Heritage Park in Huntsville, Ontario. The train was originally run on a mile and half portage route between two lakes to link steamboat services together. The engine was originally built for a gypsum quarry, the carriages are converted trolleys.
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A pretty good look at the Iron Horse Roundup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xhujBHBLf0 My parents were there and spent a bunch of time in the workshop taking pictures of "anything complicated or greasy" by my request. They've got a 1TB flash drive full of .raw images on its way to me for curation. I may post some pictures in the thread.
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Looks like the Empire Builder derailed in Montana. https://twitter.com/EllenDibble/status/1441927773321371648?s=20 https://twitter.com/jacob_cordeiro/status/1441901489937543168?s=20 Lake of Methane fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Sep 26, 2021 |
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Sep 26, 2021 01:55
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Last I saw, 7 dead.
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Kilonum posted:Last I saw, 7 dead. Think it's only 3. https://www.havredailynews.com/story/2021/09/27/local/three-killed-in-amtrak-derailment-near-joplin/535523.html
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Youtube recommendation came out with a cool video. A video about the training simulator germany has for their signalmen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TLcaJdsRr0 They use a model railroad to simulate the trains on a rail network while using actual equipment they would be using to control it. JuffoWup fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Sep 29, 2021 |
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British Railways had a very similar setup for training signalmen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDFYtMpN-yQ And the idea goes back even further - a couple of the old pre-grouping companies built models for their signal schools. The old Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway training model (used up until the 1990s by BR - it might well be the one in the Pathe film, although that looks like it's based on LB&SCR/Southern equipment) is now in the National Railway Museum and they run it for demonstration purposes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1MTaPwuDAqg BalloonFish fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Sep 30, 2021 |
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Some days you get drat lucky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXlW1Jun5-s
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iospace posted:Some days you get drat lucky IDGI
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iospace posted:Some days you get drat lucky Hey - that reminds me of the last time I got lucky like that. One less lucky than you, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOK_kBrjzk NoWake fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Oct 2, 2021 |
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Was out biking and happened to catch a bunch of deadheading locomotives on a manifest, with a good variety of them. Wasn't even trying.
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iospace posted:Some days you get drat lucky they're heading to the breeding grounds
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Does anyone have a link to the engineer description of a derailment that was posted on the forums long ago?
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Abongination posted:Does anyone have a link to the engineer description of a derailment that was posted on the forums long ago? This should be it https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3394711&pagenumber=22&perpage=40#post407153083
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Derailment chat: new London Overground train hit the buffers at Enfield today. Minor injuries only fortunately but looks like the buffer almost launched it into a passenger circulation area. https://twitter.com/LondonFire/status/1447851951266439168
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I went down to Strasburg to film 611 before it goes back down south for the winter and I think the video turned out really well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_CEeKMJvHk
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I went down to Strasburg to film 611 before it goes back down south for the winter and I think the video turned out really well. Beautiful. That's really nice.
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JingleBells posted:This should be it https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3394711&pagenumber=22&perpage=40#post407153083 "The drawbar is angry" is always the search string I use to find that post. One of the best. 
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Do buffer and chain couplers, as used in Europe and some other places, have any benefits regarding the complexities detailed in that post? I think they're tensioned together to not have so much slack, but I'm not sure how that would change things. I know the reason these are used is that railways are turbo-conservative about new technology, even when "new" means "a century old". It honestly boggles the mind that there is no widely adopted automated solution to coupling trains, since even the "automatic" couplers require manually attaching the brake hoses.
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Watch the car at the back of the top rack.Elukka posted:Do buffer and chain couplers, as used in Europe and some other places, have any benefits regarding the complexities detailed in that post? I think they're tensioned together to not have so much slack, but I'm not sure how that would change things. I'd wager a problem is anything new has to interface with everything old.
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