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 This is a Union Pacific GTEL: a gas turbine-electric locomotive. Most of them burned gas. This one was an experimental design. The thing in the back is a converted steam locomotive coal tender; it's a coal crusher. This thing ran off coal dust.
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Hezzy posted:Please tell me they don't have live overheads on the street ones?? Line trespass must be a massive bitch! San Francisco has a shitload of overhead lines criscrossing a lot of the major intersections for the electric MUNI buses. Sometimes you see them pulled over with the driver trying to reseat the pantograph.
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 This South African Class 9E Series 1 locomotive is both a cool train and cool high voltage electrical equipment. 50 thousand volts!
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They're in/near my county. I had no idea any of those ancient Northwestern Pacific rail lines were still in remotely usable condition.
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Method Loser posted:just taking a shortcut Haven't you ever head of road trains? 
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Huge_Midget posted:For more information about air cooled nuclear reactors, see this awesome (and terrifying) wiki entry. I am all for a nuclear ramjet train that poisons everything around it with fission products. EXTREME TRANSPORT.
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Axeman Jim tell us about the Deltics  ExplodingSims posted:Good grief, after reading all this it's hard to believe British Rail has survived as long as it has. British Rail: confusion and delay
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an irreplacable treasure
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:The only way that you're going to be able to top this is by driving a humongous steam engine through Iraq in wartime. I feel like that's the point at which this becomes relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcB43bQl5gI
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What do y'all think of this new north Bay Area train thingy?
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You'd think they'd be built with spring-loaded hinges so it could pivot away from the tracks when pushed.
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SybilVimes posted:LMS drivers used to do that a lot, I don't know why because it's badass
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Hyperriker posted:Christ, see them scrambling just before the impact i heard from somewhere that the driver was drunk and when the gates came down he mistook the level crossing for a parking lot
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for a moment I didn't know what thread I was in and was about to start defending Pacers, but nope, wrong Pacer
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Brovine posted:Mechanical coal feeds were trialled on certain designs, but partly due to bureaucracy (appropriate coal was rarely provided, and the locomotives they were trialled on were barely big enough to be worth it) they weren't considered a success. When they didn't work properly, it made firing the engine manually even harder. Plus if the fireman got his arm in the way, it'd take it off, just like that. This was a problem in Soviet locomotives.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Can someone tell me what happened at 1:40, because I'm pretty sure rails aren't supposed to do that. I want to know what exactly that smell was that that dog loved so much
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apparently some mysterious force is burning out the electrical components on BART cars that go through the Transbay Tunnel, taking 40 of them out of service last Monday alone
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