Locomotive Insanity: Murder on the BNSF Mixed Consist doesnt have the same ring to it

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Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

ExplodingSims posted:

And then there's Tegachapi Loop. Something that I never knew existed outside of model rail roads. They track loops over itself. Leading to trains crossing over themselves. Wierd

Interestingly, the Tegachapi Loop also exists inside model railroads. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum has a display with a lot of the SoCal Union Pacific line including that loop.

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Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Tracked funicular drydock with turntable... that's incredible.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2011 16:14

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

McDeth posted:

I love trains, but the way that California High Speed rail is being implemented is so hosed it boggles the imagination. That's not to mention the fact that the company that won the contract, Tutor-Perini, has direct ties with Senator Diane Jewstein's husband. Cronyism capitalism at its finest.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 22:13

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

B4Ctom1 posted:

Do you think people in the future who hear about 21 hour flights in just a chair will think we were crazy as well?

Probably. I already do.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2013 15:35

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

B4Ctom1 posted:

I was told by a friend that worked in the Oakland yard that he carried an old wallet with 5 bucks, an expired license, and an expired credit card in it.

If someone says, "hand over the wallet or I will shoot and kill you". You better not tell them that you left your wallet in the locker so that you couldn't be robbed.

I did that all the time in high-pickpocket areas overseas.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2015 04:18

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

About ten minutes into the May 1 broadcast is a 20 minute segment with Sim Webb, Casey Jones's fireman, describing the famous accident.

# ¿ May 2, 2016 03:31

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

The Locator posted:

I'm sure that they were very careful to source concrete and wires that did not use any resources from mines or factories, and managed to somehow get to the location of the sabotage using no highways or gasoline which would have been delivered in a pipeline.

I then assume that they somehow managed to post their actions to the internet without somehow using any fiberoptics (or those pesky control centers... that's kind of vague), with a magical computer (or tablet or phone) that wasn't made in a factory or transported using fuel or a highway (or railroad track for that matter).

Eco terrorists are such loving hypocrites.

Also, what the gently caress is a 'proppants'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing_proppants

Also, they themselves are made of carbon.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2017 01:38

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Delivery McGee posted:

To oversimplify: works pretty much like a 2-stroke gas engine, except the rapidly-expanding gas that pushes on the piston is steam made by an external boiler instead of an explosion in the cylinder. Steamships' engines used the same principle as locomotives (but on a much larger scale) until around the end of WWII, when giant diesels became the norm. Steam turbine-powered ships (nuclear or oil-fired, though the first one was built in 1894, and coal-fired) are like a turboshaft but with steam instead of the compressor/burner stages.

To be more accurate, from the late 19th century to the mid 20th, steam ships used triple expansion engines which send the steam through three different pistons to extract as much energy as possible from the steam. In 1906, the HMS Dreadnought was the first warship to use a steam turbine and instantly all piston powered warships were obsolete, triple expansion was almost exclusively used by civilian shipping.
Also, all steam ships use condensing engines under vacuum for increased power and efficiency rather than discharging steam to the air like most locomotives.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2017 23:45

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Tex Avery posted:

Legally, UP owns the locomotive. They got permission to paint it up in the Loewy scheme for the commemoration of the presidential library in College Station, TX, but then rarely used it after that. The last decade or so it's been at some shop in Arkansas to 1) keep it out of the reach of vandals and 2) have it on stand by for this event they've been planning for years. Apparently, every time Bush Sr. got sick, they'd rush it to Houston on a hot train and have it waiting.

The rumor now is that it will be gutted and put on permanent display outside of the library. Gutting it would make sense because that's probably the lowest mileage SD70ACe in the US, so those parts will be in great shape.

Is there a particular connection between UP and College Station or GHWB that inspired them to do this?

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 22:25

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

So when Trump dies will there be a presidential funeral truck?

It would make sense

# ¿ Dec 11, 2018 12:44

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

FuturePastNow posted:

supposedly they're painting over that soon because Donald doesn't like it

Trump wants the replacement jets to have a flipped version of his own Trump livery, basically:
https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/1139153329769123840

However Congress has legislation filed to prevent it from being changed without Congressional approval so we'll see where that goes.

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Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

How much Nazi gold does Texas have?

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 19:16

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