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Currently stuck at Paddington with every train on the board being delayed, cancelled or "Pls wait". Best one is the train that is cancelled due to "More trains than usual needing repairs at the same time".
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Clarence posted:Currently stuck at Paddington with every train on the board being delayed, cancelled or "Pls wait". It's not Paddington without the existential terror of whether your train will depart on time, be late, or be cancelled ten minutes after it was due to depart. I go from London to Hereford leaving around 8pm quite often so get the fun dilemma of opting for the last direct train that takes three and a half hours and is often cancelled, or going via Newport which takes an hour less but is often late departing and only has a 7 minute changeover time , potentially resulting in several hours spent on a platform in Wales' shittiest city in the dead of night. And of course you only learn whether your train is cancelled or delayed about five minutes before departure.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:21
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King's Cross is my favourite London station - easy access to the Underground, a so-so first-class lounge and a pleasant standard-class lounge ( ), and its bricks make it glow in the summer sunshine: LNER will finally be retiring the InterCity 225 sets in a few years as well, replacing them with a microfleet of CAF-built tri-mode MUs ... shame they never made it to 140mph running in their service life, but it's just not worth retrofitting the new signalling gubbins to locos that'll either be preserved or scrapped shortly after.
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Dec 2, 2023 13:38
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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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Might have been a few years ago but I swear this thread title referenced a video I'm currently looking for. It was an American shouting about how this is the greatest moment of his life as a train approaches before his view is cut off by another train in the opposite direction. Can anyone help or did I invent that video amongst all the other similar types?
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Dec 3, 2023 15:25
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freelop posted:Might have been a few years ago but I swear this thread title referenced a video I'm currently looking for. It was an American shouting about how this is the greatest moment of his life as a train approaches before his view is cut off by another train in the opposite direction. I think you're thinking of these two videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lutNECOZFw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBK2hjcPuA
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Dec 3, 2023 15:55
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aeiou posted:I think you're thinking of these two videos I wish I could be as excited about anything as the guy in the first video
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Dec 3, 2023 20:59
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I get that excited about things, but keep it on the inside where no one can make videos of me to post online/my wife realized what she married and runs away. Just kidding about the second one. She knows and will have to bear that cross for the rest of her days. I once ran clear out of a restaurant to go watch a train.
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Dec 4, 2023 05:02
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which train
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Dec 4, 2023 06:06
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Dec 4, 2023 06:46
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I was having lunch with my wife, mother-in-law, sister-in-law and her husband, my then one year old nephew, and some of their family friends. The meal was more or less over and the women were women talking and such about things that aren't sports or whatever. Immediately across the street, there's a small two track interchange between the Georgia Central and the Heart of Georgia. As soon as I saw the grade crossing flashers start, I told my wife "I'll be right back" and off I went. I watched them work the interchange. Lots of boxcars, but also a few loads of telephone poles.
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Dec 4, 2023 18:53
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The mark of a 
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Dec 4, 2023 20:27
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The joke's on them. It is my wife's favorite restaurant in her home town!
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Dec 4, 2023 20:28
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Choosing your wife based on her favorite restaurant and hometown just so you could see a train… wild
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Dec 4, 2023 21:50
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In all seriousness, she is a good sport about it. For our fourth anniversary, she tracked down an antique lantern from a railroad that ran through my hometown (Bessemer & Lake Erie) on the logic that a lantern is a lamp and a lamp is an appliance and four years is appliances. She likes hunting for antiques and I kinda started collecting railroad stuff when I started going out on trips with her.
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Dec 5, 2023 17:28
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I can't find it for the life of me right now, but that first video that aeiou posted is a parody of the original foamer screaming about seeing a heritage unit.
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Sash! posted:In all seriousness, she is a good sport about it.  spouses that toleratecouple years back we were planning a trip to the UK, and my wife let me build the itinerary around the london transport museum's depot open days.
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Tex Avery posted:I can't find it for the life of me right now, but that first video that aeiou posted is a parody of the original foamer screaming about seeing a heritage unit. This is the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhYXNwvcl6A
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Dec 5, 2023 18:08
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Oh my god that video is 11 years old 
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Dec 5, 2023 19:42
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:This is the original video: Big "Get a load of that dog" vibes
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:This is the original video: Ah drat, I didn't realize the one I posted was a parody. It was the only one I saw years ago. Still, I appreciate the genuine excitement and enthusiasm real guy has. Kinda a bit jealous.
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Dec 5, 2023 19:55
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Along these lines: https://youtu.be/jdA0u3WKx1c?si=63au_kwcsRbr_HSV
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Frankly, I think that guy displayed a remarkable amount of restraint in his profanity and screaming.
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Sash! posted:Frankly, I think that guy displayed a remarkable amount of restraint in his profanity and screaming. When the train tooted its horn  There's a brewery at the rail yard in my Dad's hometown, where my fiancée and I were having a drink after casing some wedding vendors. I joked that if the family farm didn't work out, we could always get married at the historical society (which is in the train station)- maybe we could invite the train to come! I then explained that I was just kidding, we aren't going to invite the Amtrak to our wedding. She nodded and remarked that "most people don't anthropomorphize trains" and "if we knew what we know now when you were a kid, you would have been tested" and handed me my beer. A keeper.
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bloody ghost titty posted:"most people don't anthropomorphize trains" METX #210 desperately wishes this were true
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NoWake posted:METX #210 desperately wishes this were true I see you're familiar with the land whale.
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I'm not sure if that's worse or better than the lady that's in love with the Eiffel Tower, but I can't decide.
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Posted this is in the capitalism.png thread but thought you guys might also get a kick out of it: Meanwhile in Poland Maintenance company SPS successfully bids for the overhaul contract for trains made by a company called Newag, beating out Newag itself to get the contract. It carries out the first few overhauls fully to-spec, and to everybody's surprise, after being put back together the trains just do not start. After several dead ends, out of desperation someone at SPS googles "polish hackers" and they hire an infosec company to have a look. What they find when they break into the onboard computers: quote:The numerical values 53.13845 and 17.99011 found in the computer code seemed familiar at first glance. It soon became apparent that these were GPS coordinates pointing to the vicinity of Bydgoszcz Główny Railway Station, specifically the PESA (another Polish train producer and maintenance center) site located next to it. Soon the coordinates of other maintenance centers that could carry out train repairs and maintenance in Poland were also found. Below we show the pseudo-code of the algorithm (the names of the variables or functions are given by the researchers for clarity – we do not know what the original names were): quote:A rather funny situation was encountered on another train that refused to work on November 21, 2022, even though it was not in maintenance at the time. The computer reported that the compressor had failed, although the mechanics said that everything was fine with the compressor. Unfortunately, the train still did not raise the pantographs. Analysis of the computer code detected a condition forcing the failure, which sounded like this: quote:Surprises lurked not only in the software of the computers. In one train set, researchers discovered a device signed as a “UDP<->CAN converter”, presumably enabling remote communication with the train. Removing it did not make anything stop working. Analysis showed that the on-board computer was sending lock status information to this device, and that the device itself was connected to a GSM modem.
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Pretty good summary of the problems with PSR for normal people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ2keSJzYyY Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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GotLag posted:Posted this is in the capitalism.png thread but thought you guys might also get a kick out of it: This is so crazy… So are we to assume that the manufacturer did this to prevent 3rd party or others from performing maintenance? Also the last one was to keep tabs on the trains use? Ffs The era of ownership is coming to an end; ironically, capitalism killed it off
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namlosh posted:This is so crazy… It's not the end of ownership, just capitalism continuing its ultimate goal of shifting all ownership to a few rich dudes. Nothing new or ironic about it.
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I agree with that totally… I meant it in the way that all of OUR stuff is going to be a subscription and you can no longer OWN something in the sense that you can do anything you want with it
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GotLag posted:Posted this is in the capitalism.png thread but thought you guys might also get a kick out of it:
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Centzon Totochtin posted:https://twitter.com/NYC_DOT/status/1735341152847458658?s=19 Do any railroads still run with cow catchers?
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Every train has a cow catcher, once.
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evil_bunnY posted:LOL they should sue Newag into the loving ground. Newag is suing them. https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/
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I'm sad because my wife saw the CSX Veterans unit and I was in the car, but too busy paying attention to the road while driving like a moron. I've never seen any of the CSX special paint schemes and only got a bad view of the NS Erie heritage unit once. Seen basically all of the Amtrak ones though.
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Metra in Chicagoland has started using SD70MACH locomotives, which are rebuilds of the SD70MAC with the addition of HEP. They are six-axle units but the two axles nearest the fuel tank are inactive. Here's one on a test run, there are now four in revenue service, the initial delivery will be 15 units, with an option of up to 27 more:
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its cool and good that we basically use the same locomotive everywhere now time doesn’t go forward and our brains just get more smooth
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Chenghiz posted:its cool and good that we basically use the same locomotive everywhere now I mean hello from Stadler FLIRT-opia, formerly known as “Europe.”
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What's HEP?
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