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You Am I posted:Wasn't that the same engine used in the Top Gear race to Scotland vs. Jaaaaaag XK120 and the Vincent motorcycle? Yes, yes it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZsb32AAuNI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGcabLmG30 etc. some very great images in that episode of the train from above in the countryside.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffing_Billy_Railwayquote:The railway was originally one of five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways opened around the beginning of the 20th century. It runs through the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges to Gembrook. Being close to the city of Melbourne and with a post-preservation history spanning over 50 years, the line is one of the most popular steam heritage railways in the world,[1] and attracts tourists from all over Australia and overseas. They run a few engines and what is remarkable about the line, you are allowed to sit out the window, you see kids with their legs hanging out as it goes by which is really cool (or open air flatbed like cars with fences aorund the side) Here is a typical video, you can find them all over youtube they are pretty similar, this one is quite sharp though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAHETqdnRhY (Not my photos)   It's a narro guage railway
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Rio Tinto and BHP are two of the worlds richest companies that help haul millions of tonnes of ore out from the mines to the ports in western australia. They both have very, very long trains. Video of a train going over the bridge while another train below it waits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFHAQNepGHU Train from a mountain-top snaking through the country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CbVVDYTHFg Neverending train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4-iFIafUo BHP even has a record for the worlds longest cargo train quote:BHP Run on 21 June 2001, comprising 682 wagons and hauled by eight 6000 hp General Electric AC6000CW diesel-electric locomotives controlled by a single driver with a total length of 7.353 km on the 275 km iron ore railway to Port Hedland in Western Australia – total weight 99,734 tons  
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minivanmegafun posted:I hate to be a spoilsport, but the RailPictures.net guys are cocks. Unless you took all of these photos, expect these to get DMCA'd when they finally find them. Welp... that sucks then. It's not like I edited them and removed the watermarks or hotlinked from them. Oh well.
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auzdark posted:I found this on my daily surfing on the internet, but I was not able to find a story for it, looks like a terrible case of buffer over run! (I always wanted to see what a train would do to a road haha) The driver saw Inception and thought he could pull off that sequence without CGI.
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That somehow looks like a model or a set. Cool picture though.
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The tram that runs outside my house decided to go a bit fast around the corner up the end of my street this afternoon. Apparently the black car seen in the photo hit the tram as it was turning (right track, heading towards camera) which somehow got the pantograph caught in the wires. That tore off and the tram rolled to a stop ~30 meters down the track. Must have been taking the corner at some speed for it to go that far.
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 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3513877&pagenumber=44#post410717178 Soyuz rollout, launch today at Baikonur, Kazakhstan temperature is a high of -17c.  
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Advent Horizon posted:It's not like it's a normal railway. It's actually pretty darn similar to the US setup, just on rails instead of tracks. Most of the railways there are pretty much 'normal' of course they would be super heavy duty but for the soyuz it's normally one or two locos pushing it around. The N1 moon rocket mover is what you are thinking of being similar to NASAs Crawler. That was a monster, towed by four locos on two tracks. The russian way of rolling something out horizontally then lifting it into position was faster then NASAs crawler, which back then in the cold (-17c is the expected high for the Soyuz launch in 45 minutes) was probably better for everybody to get it to the pad ASAP.   N1 moon rocket rollout  The vehicle transporter moving the Soviet shuttle Buran and it's Enrgia booster to the launch pad.  
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The ZigZag railway in New South Wales has been burnt in bushfires yesterday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_Zag_Railway http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-19/fire-causes-millions-in-damage-to-zig-zag-railway/5033444 quote:NSW bushfires: Blaze causes millions of damage to Lithgow's iconic Zig Zag Railway RIP Thomas the tank engine (and others) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kASUPa3qiBs  Edit: hahah... quote:In 2003 the railway was used in the production of the Hollywood film Stealth.[7] The area stood in for mountainous regions in North Korea and locomotives were specially painted with Korean Chosongul (Hangul) characters. drunkill fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Oct 19, 2013 |
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One of the new locally built E-Class trams went down my street half an hour ago, driver training/testing  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-class_Melbourne_tram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgqXeZ2DYZ0 Pretty darn quiet trams, just wish they had the old bells like on the W/Z/B classes. Sadly, they probably won't run on this route until around 2030. We get all the old trams, not even the last two new classes in the early 2000's run here except for late at night driver training. 
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I was linked to this guys youtube channel. He has a ton of videos of trains and trucks and such. Anyway, his 'promo' video for the channel is nice and short and pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_xunXQhcK8 Seems like he has some good cinematography skills.
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Just a reminder about trains vs cars in the worst case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue61c6MZNQw
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Skeeber posted:That's massive, I'd hate to be the poor shmuck who has to check a hotbox or something. Our intermodals are upwards of 14000ft, but not nearly that heavy obviously. Doesn't help that we have a limit of 24 driving axles, and by the time they get down here to us it's usually down to 18. There's a 1.1 grade right in town that is kinda dicey if you haven't got a good run at it. For the record-setting special train, long enough: quote:Australia BHP Run on 21 June 2001, comprising 682 wagons and hauled by eight 6000 hp General Electric AC6000CW diesel-electric locomotives controlled by a single driver with a total length of 7.353 km on the 275 km iron ore railway to Port Hedland in Western Australia – total weight 99,734 tons[17] Half of a typical ore-train. As you can see, Western Australia is flat enough.  Our most famous passenger train isn't short either. The Ghan can pull upto 49 coaches, approx 1.2Km. drunkill fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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Not coal, but some smaller iron/bauxite mines in Australia run road trains to the closest railhead.  Not just ore either:  or hydrocarbons, sometimes you've got to move some steaks:  or army Bushmasters:  But sometimes a normal roadtrain just isn't enough. You need a 'Powertrain' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train#Rules_and_regulations quote:K represents the largest road trains operating in Australia and the world. Called a "Powertrain" or a "Body and six", these machines operate at the Granites gold mine in the western Northern Territory, and are used in place of 200t dump trucks, because of the distances involved on the haul run. A 600 hp (450 kW) 19 L (1,200 cu in) Cummins engine powers the prime mover, while a 400 hp (300 kW) Cummins engine is installed in the rear trailer of the B-double, driving through an automatic transmission, giving a total of 1,000 hp (750 kW). Weights of 460 t (453 long tons; 507 short tons) are achieved with ore loading in side-tipper bodies on a 100 km (62 mi) round trip. As these trucks operate on private property, they are not subject to governed weight and length rulings, but instead are used in the most efficient way possible.   But speaking of proper trains in Australia. The last of the remaining few Hitachi sets were retired from the Melbourne rail network, one of the heritage orginizations ran a special train for fans to ride on the Hitachis one last time. Although a bunch of dickhead vandals tampered with the airhoses of the train and forced it to stop, allowing them to tag the side of the train while passengers hurled rubbish and abuse at them: quote:What was expected to be a fond farewell of the Hitachi Electric Train in Melbourne (Australia) was today marred by an attack on the train by vandals near Rushall Railway Station in Melbourne’s inner Northern Suburb of Clifton Hill. 
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At least you could open the windows.  bit then it'd be super loud down in the city loop.Although the Comeng with original brown/orange interiors were the superior trains.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I swear on summer days in the 90's you could hear the collective bargaining echoing across the platform praying for an air-conditioned Comeng to pull up Speaking of Melbourne trains... Heisenberg heading to Heidelberg.  Public Transport Victoria is looking to update the maps for the train network (Metro and V/Line), with the zone changes coming up and the way the system will operate in the future if we get the Metro tunnel through the city, trains will no longer just terminate at Flinders Street and go through the loop, instead some lines will continue on to the other side of the network eg: 'the bay train' Frankston to Williamstown. Also the fact that some lines don't go around the loop, the current map makes you think everything does. Daniel Bowen from the Public Transport Users Association has a good writeup on his blog: http://www.danielbowen.com/2014/04/16/new-train-map-coming/ Current Map  PTV Metro train map, 2013 by Daniel Bowen, on Flickr New Map  PTV Rail network map: concept design, April 2014 by Daniel Bowen, on Flickr Neddy Seagoon posted:On a side-note apparently they're also looking to scrap the Y-Class trams. And nothing of value was lost there either Route 67 gets shafted with rolling stock, they only recently put the B1 and B2 class trams on the line since they were replaced by the C and D classes on the Preston routes because those were replaced by the E class on the 109. The newest trams in the Glenhuntly Depot are the six B2's which are from 87-1994.
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Melbourne is better set up for it since Trams were popular before cars anyway, you just didn't have horse drawn carriages going much faster then the cable (or horse drawn) trams at the time. Melbourne, blessed with it's wide streets has the middle two lanes as Tram only for most of the city, which give rise to a Melbourne institution, the Hook Turn. If you want to turn right (left driving country) you do so from the left lane. This is so no cars block the tram tracks in the middle of the road. Plus a whole other load of road rules about trams, cannot pass stationary ones, you must stay level or behind the back door if the doors are open etc. Once you get out into the suburbs most routes are share-ways, with a tram-way in peak hours in the inner suburbs. Plus, cameras fitted to most trams and fines help dissuade people from being dumb around trams, although it doesn't stop them fully. Performing a hook-turn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua0j4ztvQWQ Vic Roads, driving with trams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDeHPrYxKCc As for trains, have a time lapse of a level crossing removal in Melbourne, we have like, 180 level crossings or something ridiculous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w13UxWzfR_w drunkill fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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FISHMANPET posted:I had no idea what was going on here until they started digging down for the train tracks. Isn't it usually easier to change the elevation of the road than the train, since cars can handle higher gradients than trains can. Though maybe passenger trains can handle higher gradients than freight trains. When I took a train out west (USA) I saw plenty of nothing towns where the roadway was buried under the train tracks. Road over rail is often seen as ugly and very unfriendly at street level, of course this happens for freeways and further out of the city but in the suburbs they are trying to remove road bridges over rail in a few areas to help activate the street. That line in particular may carry a lot more freight then it currently does if the current port is shifted west of the city, that line will be duplicated to have four tracks too in a decade or so.
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I wish. That'd require public transport funding :v most of the line probably has enough space for a quad alignment but that is a lot of earthwork. Even selling off the air rights to develop above probably wouldn't cover the costs. That Intersection is pretty far out of town too but still busy. That line in particular is close to Dandenong road which causes a lot of congestion when the gates are down all along that line. near Springvale VIC 3171 http://goo.gl/maps/zVOy3
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So a pretty huge rail infrastructure project here that should be finished in 2016. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Rail_Link The Regional Rail Link, is a $5bn grade/line separation project that is designed to give regional trains dedicated tracks into the city from the north and west. Speeding up services is not actually an outcome of this project but because they are no longer held up by the suburban network it allows a higher capacity to run on both the regional and suburban lines. Anyway, they have a neat flyover video of the entire line: Before/After (After being March 2014) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcN-eeBGkLA March 2014 video (no split screen): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcN-eeBGkLA
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This is why you don't drive onto a level crossing without clearance on the other side. Found on reddit, a station a few stops down the line from mine. 
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I saw an old train, and a neat poster.     http://www.yarravalleyrailway.org.au/
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I would like to share this picture I saw on imgur. It is a nice picture.
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This is some heat damage on the hottest recorded day back in 2009 (when we had all the bushfires, Black Saturday) temp of 46.9C, you can bet the rails were a bit warmer though. Melbourne, Australia.  
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Crossquoting from aero thread. Some planes fell off the back of a train.MrChips posted:Found another picture of the mass-abortion of 737s (click for large):
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Oh russia... what a lovely tram you have planned.quote:Tomorrow Yekaterinburg UralVagonZavod unveil its new tram RUSSIA ONE. Today I was allowed into the exhibition hall and one of the first to show the new Russian tram. Tram really ours - design, development and production - all done with us. Foreign only some components - accordion and door mechanisms. Tram looks very cool. If the production model will not vary significantly from the car, it will be the first domestic tram, for who is not ashamed. Cities that stupidity by their mayors have time to destroy the tram system will now bite your elbows.  https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fzyalt.livejournal.com%2F1112328.html     Probably not designed the best for car collisions but hey. It'd look nice in silver. drunkill fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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When a gearbox dies and you are unable to tow the tram with another:
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Haha, holy poo poo. Lucky it wasn't one of the segmented trams or it would be a hell of a headache. For the filthy 'mericans Swanston Street is the busiest tramway in the world. It is where the majority of the Melbourne tram routes end up though the city, more like 3 trams per minute in peak. It was blocked for an hour or two, lazy sunday so not too bad. Also it wouldn't have happened with a segmented tram because they are newer and not un(in?)maintained 70's Z class. drunkill fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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, that's on the main line just on the edge of the Melbourne CBD that all the various routes out into the south suburbs branch off from. They'd have to work very fast to get that cleared before a backlog builds up (there's a tram on that line about every two minutes or so at peak, if not sooner). Though thankfully it's on the line going into the City rather than out, or you'd have enough disgruntled commuters on-hand to toss the tram off the bridge and into the Yarra River come 5PM.
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It was listed as that a few years ago, probably still is because most cities don't have a central route like that but a network which criss-crosses.CrazyOldGuy posted:
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Came across a video of the Victorian steamrail Snowtrain departing FLinders Street STation (main city station) via the viaduct and running through the city on the way up to the snowfields last month. The start has a couple of the flamethrowers outside the casino, although you only see the smaller warm-up flames. http://youtu.be/i4TjTYP0fvA quote:http://www.steamrail.com.au/ The wall of skyscrapers on either side of the river make for a pretty awesome echo of the whistle. A photo of the two locos on some other trip around the state:  Snow Train by phunnyfotos, on Flickr
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Wow... that could have gone wrong. ^^^ Now, don't cross train tracks in the middle of nowhere at night.  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-12/4wd-dragged-by-freight-train-along-adelaide-darwin-track/5807360?section=nt quote:A young man has had his new four-wheel drive dragged more than a kilometre by a freight train after trying to cross a track in the Northern Territory.
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They are supposed to be dead but are brought in for Summer because they're the only train that can run at 45c if the tracks haven't melted. E: Or it is the VicRail heritage trainset, the one that got graffitied while people were on board for the last time the set was used on the metro network. drunkill fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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I was driving up in the hills yesterday and passed by the Puffing Billy tourist railway, a narrow gauge one. Decided to wait around the trestle bridge for 15 minutes for a train to come past. Sadly it was the end of the day so it was backwards. They're currently doing some maintenance works on the bridge, replacing some cross beams and such.   Drove a few minutes up the road to Emerald where another train was just departing the station. Apparently they had the 'Thomas & Friends' day earlier at Emerald station where you could ride their Thomas the tank engine engine.  Edit: One from their twitter - PuffingBillyRailway @puffingbillyr Nov 11 What a sight- this hasn't happened for 15 years! All 5 NA locos fired up. #happydays #trains #holysmoke 
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I saw a story pop up on my feed about some locals who have found some of the track from the original Ghan route (The (Af)Ghan is Australias interior north-south railway) and the story had this image of one of the original locomotives crossing some floodwaters in the outback http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-01/old-ghan-rail-line-find-excites-ghost-town-volunteers/6512548 c1870's 
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No clue about podcasts but I just caught an episode of Dan Snow's History of Railways on tv, very good show, great presentation. This episode (episod 2 of 3) talked about the establishment of railways in Britain and how they changed the cities and lifestyles of the citizens then the expansion into Canada, which then set off a 5 year recession as the British banks collapsed due to the cost of the grand trunk railway. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q16wj
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Locomotive derails after colliding with bus stuck on level crossing, no video, only two gifs. Slowmo of crash http://imgur.com/gallery/n2LA5ht full gif http://imgur.com/gallery/WJ1vPb9
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