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Some Truckfuckling happened this morning here. Somehow, a truck and dog went down a one way road which only leads to a trainstation staff carpark and platforms 4 and 5 of a station, somehow, and then managed to almost fall off a bridge while trying to reverse, in the process dumping soil onto the only pair of dual gauge tracks leading into the Port of Melbourne and the city, which meant The Overland train had to be replaced by buses while interstate freight was also delayed. Some A grade truckfuckling    The incident occurred here, on McNabb avenue, on the bridge over the freight tracks that dive down into a tunnel. Normally the truck incidents in Footscray are oversize loads hitting the Napier st bridge 200m to the South and causing trains to be delayed until the bridge is inspected. https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.8021884,144.9014127,121m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu
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is the dog OK
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Dec 18, 2023 20:42
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I choose to believe the dog was driving
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Dec 18, 2023 21:03
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:is the dog OK The dog is the trailer hanging off the bridge, so no.
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Dec 18, 2023 22:58
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So the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board recently published its intermediate report on the Gotthard Base Tunnel accident. It's available in german here : https://www.sust.admin.ch/inhalte/BS/2023081002_GBT_ZB_D.pdf Based on the report, the Swiss national TV station modeled the course of the crash (it should start at 03:01) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bawc_gtUpg&t=185s It's in german, but the sequence of events is pretty clear. While the broken wheel on the freight wagon caused a lot of damage, something happened to the switch at the Faido multifunction station, which broke the train in half and derailed and crashed the rear half of the train.
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Dec 19, 2023 13:20
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In "German". Pretty funny that the main narrator seems to speak the most swiss German of all the people in the video. Pretty cool video though. Don't miss out on the poo poo burning toilet.
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Dec 19, 2023 23:03
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drunkill posted:Normally the truck incidents in Footscray are oversize loads hitting the Napier st bridge 200m to the South and causing trains to be delayed until the bridge is inspected. Bridge strikes cause drama in Melbourne every second day it seems. The other day someone managed to strike every single individual structure underneath Richmond station before getting stuck around 1pm. No trains for an hour. 3/4 of the network was hosed until sunset. The frequency of strikes is remarkable
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drunkill posted:Some Truckfuckling happened this morning here. WITHOUT TRUCKS AUSTRALIA STOPS
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Thought I'd share this video of steam trains decked out with mappable LED strings for Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTCJpyTiiY Also: Today (Christmas Eve) is the anniversary of the Hawes Junction Disaster, one of the key moments in British railway history in the development of safe practices. The Wiki article does a pretty good job in outlining it, as does this article from the Settle Carlisle Railway Trust. It's also portrayed in this extremely 1970s-BBC documentary. In brief, a signalman at a busy remote station on the Midland Railway's main line to Scotland, near the end of his 10-hour shift in terrible weather in the early morning of Christmas Eve, 1910, forgot about a pair of locomotives he had previously positioned on the northbound main line behind the starter signal. As they waited there, he accepted and cleared the signals for a northbound express sleeper train. When the signals cleared, the pair of engines set off into the next section, unaware of the express approaching behind them at more than twice their speed. The express caught up and collided with the engines about 2.5 miles further down the line. The initial collision was not especially destructive - the light engines were pushed along the rails, derailed and then fell against an embankment. The express was also pulled by a pair of engines which derailed and the carriages piled up around them, with severe 'telescoping'. A post-crash fire, fuelled by the wooden-bodied coaches and leaking gas cylinders, added to the destruction and hindered rescue efforts. Although the death toll (12 persons) was by no means the highest for the era, the nature of the disaster caught the public's eye and its emotions. The timing - Christmas Eve - obviously added to the tragedy. So did the location of the accident, on the Midland's famously beautiful, grand and difficult route across the 'roof of England', in the midst of wild and remote fell country on a night of howling wind and lashing rain. That one of the drivers, despite serious injuries, walked over a mile through the storm to get help. And that the signalman who unknowingly made the fatal error, as he waited for the 'out of section' bell from the next signal box that never came and first saw the growing flames of the crash silhouette the looming fells against the low clouds, said "...I am afraid I have wrecked the Scotch Express." It had all the hallmarks of a Victorian dramatic novel. That it was due primarily to human error - a forgetful signalman - also stoked demands that something be done. There were numerous contributory factors, ranging from the failure of other railwaymen to follow the laid-down regulations to the weather. The Midland Railway shouldered much of the general blame; for its refusal to issue signalmen with lever collars to prevent them from clearing signals were trains were standing, for its similar refusal to consider installing track circuits to remotely indicate the presence of trains and for its policy of using multiple low-powered engines even on difficult, steeply-graded routes which resulted in signalmen being distracted by extra work as pilot/banking engines were removed, turned, repositioned and attached. The Hawes Junction Disaster gave impetus for the fitting of track circuits (already in widespread use in America) at busy junctions and stations in the UK (the Midland very quickly installed them at Hawes Junction) and added further weight to a long-standing campaign by the Railway Inspectorate to push for safer rolling stock with steel bodies and electric lighting. The signal box where the disaster unfolded is still in regular use and was recently restored and refitted. It is also now protected as a Listed Building in recognition of its historical significance as the last traditional signal boxes are being rapidly replaced by modernisation projects - in 1910 there were over 10,000 signal boxes on British railways, now there are around 800 and by 2045 they will all be gone, replaced by no more than 14 fully digital remote regional control centres. Ironically, by so clearly demonstrating the need for track circuits and ushering in the means of automated control, the Hawes Junction Disaster started the process which will lead to the signal box's own obsolescence in a few years.
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Dec 24, 2023 15:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYzuAJeg3M A self balancing monorail/train that is rankly amaing
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Dec 24, 2023 21:07
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYzuAJeg3M Combine this with the flywheel bus and we could have emissions free busses that can drive in bike lanes.
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Dec 24, 2023 23:52
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Merry Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doBPp3ZfgLc Jolly Good!
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYzuAJeg3M That is absolutely amazing, thanks for posting it.
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https://twitter.com/SarahJMcConnell/status/1741310277994549676
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Dec 31, 2023 06:22
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The truck driver has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-01/truck-driver-charged-over-crash-that-killed-train-workers/103276656
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Jan 4, 2024 09:42
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75 year old truck driver shouldn't be a thing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlrbfGZo2k
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Look, I get that normal people don't pay attention to trains, but even a normal person should have noticed that there is something wrong with this image. That is Netflix's preview image.
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Jan 14, 2024 03:14
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Orient Express operated by... BNSF?
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Jan 14, 2024 13:07
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Apparently Netflix generates a dozen or so images for each movie so they can target them at different audiences. So I bet it’s all just done by AI now. “Train” is a train, right?
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Jan 14, 2024 16:31
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Nobody watching will care, the railfans will wait for Murder on the Orient Local for the spotting at the smaller stations.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Look, I get that normal people don't pay attention to trains, but even a normal person should have noticed that there is something wrong with this image. “Murder on the BNSF Mixed Consist” doesn’t have the same ring.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:“Murder on the BNSF Mixed Consist” doesn’t have the same ring. I'd watch it.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:“Murder on the BNSF Mixed Consist” doesn’t have the same ring. new thread title candidate
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I would say something about at least getting the railroad correct, but frankly it's fitting that you didn't.
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Jan 17, 2024 14:13
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Murder on the Union Pacific Coast Starlight
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Jan 17, 2024 16:02
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Currently riding the City of New Orleans all the way in a roomette. It’s pretty nice.
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Full Collapse posted:Currently riding the City of New Orleans all the way in a roomette. It’s pretty nice. Hell yeah. I did that up from visiting family in Florida in June and it kicked rear end. Best way to travel.
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The only downside is you can’t choose your neighbors and Hell is other people. The roomette across the hall had the biggest loving Karen being obnoxious.
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LOL. LMAO. https://sfist.com/2024/02/02/barts-fleet-of-the-future-trains-still-glitchy-as-heck-whenever-it-rains-may-require-expensive-repairs/
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Have occasion to cross the alps this spring. Thinking of taking the bernina pass but lots of places online say just take the regional trains and change in St Moritz, reserving a seat in the special tourist car isn’t worth it. Anyone confirm/deny?
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Nope, totally worth it. The second or third time in your life, maybe, maybe not. The first time? Why deny yourself? I've done the Bernina Express before and would recommend anyone do it at least once.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:“Murder on the BNSF Mixed Consist” doesn’t have the same ring. Posters need to report good thread title suggestions in threads like this where a mod might only wander in every month or so  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCc839UL8po This one might interest and def not something you will see everyday
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The orange TGVs look so incredibly dated, but at the same time are unambiguously the correct color.
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Orange is also the best color for mass transit and light rail
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Speaking of color, is cream yellow and green some kind of traditional color for trams? That has been the color scheme for Helsinki trams, but I have also seen pictures of Japanese trams with identical coloring.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Orange is also the best color for mass transit and light rail I feel the same way about WMATA updating things. DC metro should be brown, orange and carpeted.
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Saukkis posted:Speaking of color, is cream yellow and green some kind of traditional color for trams? That has been the color scheme for Helsinki trams, but I have also seen pictures of Japanese trams with identical coloring. I've never seen anything that declares that, but green and cream was all over the US too. Cream and red was really common too. If you look up the PCC streetcars, most are one of those two. DC was a slick cream and teal though.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was a consequence of what paints lasted the longest at the time, sort of like how stop signs used to be yellow.
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I'm pretty sure it was one of either new york or chicago that painted their cars that way and then sold off the old ones when they got new ones and those got entered into service elsewhere and cream over green became the default color. Now they both use boring stainless steel
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