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An anorak of foamers.
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May 16, 2022 21:37
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A suppository of Trainspotters. Also that movie was flagrant false advertising
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May 16, 2022 21:46
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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A century old railroad buried under beach sand was exposed after a storm: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/116-year-old-ghost-tracks-unearthed-following-coastal-storm-on-jersey-shore/1188072
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hailthefish posted:An anorak of foamers.
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A day-release of foamers
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:A century old railroad buried under beach sand was exposed after a storm: Infrastructure Week came early this year
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In Australia foamers or anoraks are gunzels
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quote:The COVID19 action restrictions were lifted for the first time in three years, and on April 29, 2022, the first day of a major holiday weekend (known as "Golden Week" in Japan), many tourists took the bullet train, making it crowded.The Shinkansen also ran a large number of trains to meet the demand.This video shows the Tohoku, Joetsu, and Hokuriku Shinkansen running every 4 minutes. Although the Shinkansen has only four platforms, which is poor equipment compared to Europe and other countries, the Shinkansen runs almost precisely.
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The 500 series was the most beautiful shinkansen and if you disagree you're wrong and have bad taste and you were adopted and nobody likes you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuAqNehSn9A
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GotLag posted:The 500 series was the most beautiful shinkansen and if you disagree you're wrong and have bad taste and you were adopted and nobody likes you nooooooo Original > N700 > whatever else N700: I love the extruded cube train
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lol at calling the shinkaisen poor compared to europe
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I mean, really, it is? Keeping an intensive service running using just four platforms is a marvel of staffing, signalling, and scheduling; but it doesn't leave much in the way of redundancy, as noted by the uploader.
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I'm not an expert on scheduling, but from reading reports from people who are, Japan has a different philosophy to running trains compared to the west. The west has a sort of fatalism when it comes to delays, so schedules always include running time supplements on the order of 10–15% and people will say "nah, you can't run that many services without at least 10 platforms." In Japan, on the other hand, railways go out of their way to eliminate sources of delay. Signalling is maintained to a very high standard and often built with duplicate or triplicate redundancy, rolling stock life cycles are only 20–35 years (in the west it's common to see 50–60 year old units kept in service by cannibalising parts) and staff rostering is kept simple, so that a single staff member getting sick in the middle of the day doesn't mess up a several services they were supposed to switch between. This allows scheduling with low running time supplements, on the order of 5%. You could summarise that the western philosophy is to keep the money maker running, but not spend too much on maintainance, while the Japanese philosophy is to keep the money maker really well oiled and run it right up to the limit.
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GotLag posted:The 500 series was the most beautiful shinkansen and if you disagree you're wrong and have bad taste and you were adopted and nobody likes you Sorry but I'm an E4 series kind of guy. Absolute beast of a train.  e: I should post this. It's mesmerizing seeing how active the line is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOjmvL3e7Lc The Real Amethyst fucked around with this message at 13:29 on May 22, 2022 |
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:You could summarise that the western philosophy is to keep the money maker running, but not spend too much on maintainance, while the Japanese philosophy is to keep the money maker really well oiled and run it right up to the limit. I don't think it's a particular Pokemon Red vs. Pokemon Blue philosophy as such - just that, in the given example, it's possible to operate an intensive service using 'just' four platforms. Still, thinking about the rapid rolling stock replacement, I'm curious as to whether it's a hypothetical 'best by' date being passed - like there's still a decade or two left in the set - or if the set is genuinely clapped-out after 'just' two decades on the track (compared with high-speed trainsets elsewhere).
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The Real Amethyst posted:Sorry but I'm an E4 series kind of guy. Absolute beast of a train. A big, ugly, graceless box 
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It should be noted that Japanese demand for very tight timetables has led to accidents in the past, as drivers have been severely punished for any delays which leads to unsafe speeding to make up time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment Wikipedia posted:Immediately after the crash occurred, some of the mass media pointed to the congested schedule of the Fukuchiyama Line as an indirect factor. In fact, cumulative changes over the previous three years had reduced the leeway in the train's schedule from 71 to 28 seconds over the fifteen minutes between Takarazuka and Amagasaki stations.
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GotLag posted:A big, ugly, graceless box  
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MikeCrotch posted:It should be noted that Japanese demand for very tight timetables has led to accidents in the past, as drivers have been severely punished for any delays which leads to unsafe speeding to make up time: i cant believe a capitalist nation would overwork and treats it laborers like trash (please do not own me by posting horrific soviet union rail accidents)
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Stairmaster posted:i cant believe a capitalist nation would overwork and treats it laborers like trash (please do not own me by posting horrific soviet union rail accidents) I still can't believe that we privatised the company doing track repairs in the UK and thought that would end well Spoilers: it did not end well
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CLAM DOWN posted:japan's trains make me hard The Shinkansen is just so drat good. Used to take them from Tokyo to Kyoto to visit Nintendo in the late '80's.
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If you don't think the Hello Kitty 500 Series is the coolest shinkansen you're wrong
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it will never not be funny to me that shinkansen is now fifty year old technology and the best that the us has managed is like fifty miles of high speed passenger service nationwide
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OMGVBFLOL posted:it will never not be funny to me that shinkansen is now fifty year old technology and the best that the us has managed is like fifty miles of high speed passenger service nationwide Remember what they took from you
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Chicago content: viaduct.mp4 - seven minute video of an alderman (alderwoman) candidate with a structural engineer reviewing the bad shape of a railroad viaduct next to the White Sox stadium. You can find it on the map at 430 W 35th St, Chicago IL
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OMGVBFLOL posted:it will never not be funny to me that shinkansen is now fifty year old technology and the best that the us has managed is like fifty miles of high speed passenger service nationwide that implies they tried
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OMGVBFLOL posted:it will never not be funny to me that shinkansen is now fifty year old technology and the best that the us has managed is like fifty miles of high speed passenger service nationwide California's effort shows how grift and basic stupidity dooms HSR efforts in the USA. The RIGHT thing to do was to take the existing route (San Diego to Oakland, Coast Starlight) and eliminate at-grade crossings, fix rail bed, and electrify it. Even a 120mph speed would make LA to SF competitive to the hell that is air travel. Instead we get Victorville. Woop.
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While I want that too, a large public project should benefit the most needful population first, instead of rich coastal communities.
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Amtrak's new Acela that's coming out next year: https://thepointsguy.com/news/first-look-new-acela/
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Amtrak's new Acela that's coming out next year: I mean at least the train will be a prettier place in which to still go 30mph through northern Connecticut.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Amtrak's new Acela that's coming out next year: It's been coming out "next year" since like before the pandemic.
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VideoGameVet posted:California's effort shows how grift and basic stupidity dooms HSR efforts in the USA. ehhhh idk about that. building an elevated ROW on that route would probably be even more expensive in spite of having less land to secure, and while the jokes about linking merced and bakersfield to each other practically write themselves, the value in linking both to the bay area and LA/OC is undeniable
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Log082 posted:It's been coming out "next year" since like before the pandemic. Yeah, Amtrak acknowledges that it was delayed from 2021 to 2023 due to the pandemic.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:ehhhh idk about that. building an elevated ROW on that route would probably be even more expensive in spite of having less land to secure, and while the jokes about linking merced and bakersfield to each other practically write themselves, the value in linking both to the bay area and LA/OC is undeniable They have done the elevated or lowered train thing at several locations in San Diego. Lowering isn't as pricy.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:... the value in linking both to the bay area and LA/OC is undeniable Will that happen? I pine for not having to fly from San Diego to San Francisco. An 8 hour train ride would be preferable.
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VideoGameVet posted:Will that happen? I pine for not having to fly from San Diego to San Francisco. An 8 hour train ride would be preferable. well, that's the plan. hopefully the actual work is far enough along for the grift to have shifted from the "delay this forever while collecting checks" to "run up the costs and slow down the construction"
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JohnCompany posted:I mean at least the train will be a prettier place in which to still go 30mph through northern Connecticut. It’s southern CT!
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JohnCompany posted:I mean at least the train will be a prettier place in which to still go 30mph through northern Connecticut. I travel the New Haven to New York Penn route fairly regularly and I don’t really see any difference in business class between Acela and Northeast Regional. Acela is a few minutes faster and usually more expensive. (Usually I just travel coach since it’s half the cost and not very crowded.)
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