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SwimNurd posted:This YouTube channel has a few decent videos on the history of the short lines in Oregon. https://youtube.com/channel/UC3G510Eh35CTWGzzYDU_eiw These are great. Thank you!
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Looks like the USG Plaster City railroad will be out of commission for a while. This is the last operating industrial narrow gauge in the USA.  
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"Train derails, railcars fall into Wabash River from bridge at Lafayette" This seems ... pretty bad.
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bennyfactor posted:"Train derails, railcars fall into Wabash River from bridge at Lafayette" This seems ... pretty bad. Absolutely. Not like it's a competition, but I'd say this one in Iowa recently was a bit worse. Still no loss of life thankfully. What's crazy is all the cars carrying dry goods made it over the bridge just fine, which allowed the tankers behind them carrying hazmat their best chance to jump in the river for playtime.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HpL0Xk9jTI&t=287s
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Justin Rozniack made a guest appearance to the This Machine Kills podcast to talk during the week before the potential Sept 16th strike about the state of the freight rail industry. https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/192-why-the-trains-dont-run-on-time-ft-justin-roczniak
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the coast starlight is fantastic in every way except transit time. seattle to portland to sacramento to oakland to LA, all downtown stops
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Dreadful photo, but a nice surprise to find we'd rolled into London alongside a celebrity: The old fella gently steaming away on the left - famous for being the first steam locomotive to (officially) reach 100mph - is 100 years old in a few months, and Kings Cross is celebrating its 170th birthday this weekend as well.
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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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In case anyone wanted to start collecting donations for the Goon Train... The Utah Transit Authority is selling their 1970 Pullman rolling stock for pennies. https://www.proxibid.com/TNT-Auction-Inc/Rail-Cars-from-the-Utah-Transit-Authority/event-catalog/229752
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SeaborneClink posted:In case anyone wanted to start collecting donations for the Goon Train... The Utah Transit Authority is selling their 1970 Pullman rolling stock for pennies. Goons buy private passenger train -> derail it into suburb within a week taking a turn way too fast.
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Gonna buy one, get it shipped to the rail yard I work out of, and THEN ask permission to store it in the yard after it shows up
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SeaborneClink posted:In case anyone wanted to start collecting donations for the Goon Train... The Utah Transit Authority is selling their 1970 Pullman rolling stock for pennies. Can a private individual even go to UP and ask them to move the thing as a one-off in the 90 days, or are there brokers you go through?
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Qwijib0 posted:Can a private individual even go to UP and ask them to move the thing as a one-off in the 90 days, or are there brokers you go through? If you actually bought the train car, I'm sure someone in this very thread knows exactly who you need to call to get it moved.
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Ha, fair enough-- I guess this is indeed the right place for a sanity check on this ridiculous idea. Is cheap train car for sale a common thing in general, or is this an oddity that I don't want to miss out on if I think it might be neat someday to turn it into a private car for Amtrak to haul? So I buy this thing because I want to own a train car, now I need to get it and store it *somewhere*, what does that cost to do and then annually? Definitely feels like "boat but on wheels" territory.
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spincube posted:The old fella gently steaming away on the left - famous for being the first steam locomotive to (officially) reach 100mph - is 100 years old in a few months, and Kings Cross is celebrating its 170th birthday this weekend as well. This got me to look it up and I had no idea the City of Truro's 100 mph record was so much in doubt, at least according to Wikipedia. Huh.
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SeaborneClink posted:In case anyone wanted to start collecting donations for the Goon Train... The Utah Transit Authority is selling their 1970 Pullman rolling stock for pennies. ex NJT cars - when I looked at the photos I got a blast of early 2000s nostalgia
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Qwijib0 posted:Definitely feels like "boat but on wheels" territory. I've dipped my toes into the private car world and had some long and serious discussions with people involved with the industry. "Boat on wheels" is a very common and incredibly apt analogy.
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RoastBeef posted:ex NJT cars - when I looked at the photos I got a blast of early 2000s nostalgia That interior looks quite a bit like the Arrow III EMUs with the wood veneer and those brown seats (not exactly the same because you can flip the seats on the Arrows as well as the Comet II and newer) but they are still being used particularly on the Northeast Corridor, Morris & Essex, and Montclair Lines. I don't think I've seen an Arrow III on the North Jersey Coast Line. Probably because we've been saddled with Comet IIs (with a Comet V as a cab car) as those can travel on any part of the line by changing engines since the line is only electrified up to Long Branch. I hate those loving things; they're so old, crummy, and uncomfortable. I always try to ride in the cab car whenever possible if that's what I'm stuck riding on.
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spincube posted:Dreadful photo, but a nice surprise to find we'd rolled into London alongside a celebrity: what are the bits on each side of the front of the steam locomotive that look like giant horse blinders?
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bennyfactor posted:what are the bits on each side of the front of the steam locomotive that look like giant horse blinders? Smoke deflectors (those are German pattern ones, IIRC). They lift the smoke from the chimney so the driver's view isn't blocked.
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 Caught the Royal Gorge Railroad moving while hiking in, you guessed it, Royal Gorge.
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Yesterday, the Rhätishe Bahnen in easter Switzerland ran a world record length narrow-gauge train. It made for some pretty neat footage : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_rM3GcYp4U In regular service, they run 1-2 ABe 4/16 EMU consists, but for the purpose of this record attempt they hooked up 25 EMUs (or a little under half their entire stock). In other news, I'll be starting work next year for SBB Cargo. It's been a long time dream of mine to work in the railway world. So once I get settled in, expect more bad posts here 
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Itty bitty EMU comittee!
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GotLag posted:I wonder what the record is for the longest passenger train you can traverse internally Probably The Ghan, longest regular passenger train, Adelaide to Darwin, average length is 780m but can get upto 1.09km on special trips. Although given it has gold and premium carriages you can't walk the length, but staff can. 53 hour trip to go 3000km and costs about four-six times the airfare.  
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Clarence posted:Smoke deflectors (those are German pattern ones, IIRC). They lift the smoke from the chimney so the driver's view isn't blocked. Thanks, makes sense. Figured they had something to do with the driver's view but could quite figure out if it was like a sight hood somehow. Air deflection is a lot more reasonable. Noosphere posted:Yesterday, the Rhätishe Bahnen in easter Switzerland ran a world record length narrow-gauge train. It made for some pretty neat footage : Making a train that is half your total rolling stock is hilarious, and congrats on your new job! Really enjoyed the Swiss trains while I was there. Even got a watch that has the same face as the train station clocks which is really a smart design and easy to read. Really thought of everything. And the big flip board in the Zurich HB is incredible (was incredible? Probably a flatscreen by now.)
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bennyfactor posted:Even got a watch that has the same face as the train station clocks which is really a smart design and easy to read. post that poo poo
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Raluek posted:post that poo poo Here's the clock face, and a wikipedia article explains some stuff about it.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock The article reminds me that the real clocks do this little funky dance with the second hand where it speeds up a bit and then pauses at the top of the clock until it gets the exact new minute signal from the master clock. The clocks in my elementary & middle school did this on the hour because they were controlled master clocks, and there are probably a lot of buildings out there built before cheap quartz wall clocks were common with those sorts of things still. But the Swiss train station clocks are the only ones that do it every minute that I've ever encountered. As for the watches, I just got whatever one with a men's size face and black strap they were selling 15 years ago in like Spiez or maybe Interlaken but there is now a whole line of them in every shape in size you might desire. https://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/at-the-station/services-at-the-station/gift-ideas/mondaine.html
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Chinese watch brand Berny also makes a very affordable knockoff. It's a classic timeless clean design.
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Strasbug 475 hit a parked MoW excavator after running an open switch while running around an excursion train this morning. The accident was caught on livecam and is all over twitter: https://twitter.com/Thunderhead925/status/1587845150755135489 (No one was hurt or I obviously wouldn't be posting it.) The damage should be repairable but still, ouch.
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Log082 posted:Strasbug 475 hit a parked MoW excavator after running an open switch while running around an excursion train this morning. The accident was caught on livecam and is all over twitter: Looks worse from the side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h060-zhhDD8
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bennyfactor posted:Here's the clock face, and a wikipedia article explains some stuff about it. Pretty sure the Dutch Railway clocks (and maybe the French but my memory is more hazy here) have the same system of one revolution of the seconds hand taking 58 seconds and then a 'pause' at 12 o'clock.
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biglads posted:Pretty sure the Dutch Railway clocks (and maybe the French but my memory is more hazy here) have the same system of one revolution of the seconds hand taking 58 seconds and then a 'pause' at 12 o'clock. I read the Wiki page and I question if that is the best way to implement that. Every minute the clock will show almost a minute wrong, before the minute hand moves. I feel it would be better if the second hand stops at 59, then it moves simultaneously with the minute hand.
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GotLag posted:Looks worse from the side: it got copyright struck lol
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Tex Avery posted:Yeah, Virtual Railfan has been oddly protective of that footage. The side view that got copyright struck appeared to be phone footage from someone on the train, I think. VR is being protective of their own footage, though; they usually upload clips of derailments and such and keep the cams on through the recovery process. The difference is probably because these cams are located on Strasburg's property and VR wants to maintain a good relationship with them so the cams don't get taken down. UP doesn't give a poo poo if VR films a derailment recovery, but a small excursion railroad has a lot more of a stake on their reputation, I guess.
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