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Gorilla Salad posted:Oh Russia, I love you so much but I'm glad I don't have to live there That is the most hosed up snow plow. poo poo, that eclipses the jet-tanks/trucks they've got for airport duty.
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Veins McGee posted:One of my trains is delayed 2 hours because there was a portashitter on the mainline. How, uhh. What needs to... why? Fell off a truck, maybe?
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Well, I see BroJo and Grover are getting along famously. 
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Das Volk posted:Someone's been to Museum Sinsheim! I love that place. I haven't been to Germany in 14 years, but I'll probably go to Sinsheim when I go back. Last time it took my father and I two days to see everything we wanted to see. It's only an hour and a half away from the village. e: drat, the village doesn't even show up on google maps  Pretty sad when Mönchsroth over shadows your town.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Armored trains. The "Krajina Express":  That is not just an M18 turret, that's a whole Hellcat.   
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:To expand on the answer already given, diesels rely on the heat created during compression to ignite the air/fuel mixture. Because of this, you can't kill the ignition to turn one off like you could on a car - you have to starve it of either fuel or air. If your turbo starts leaking oil into the intake, then the engine will run on that and will rapidly climb to waaaay above redline, stopping only when either air or fuel runs out or when the engine disintegrates/seizes. You'd figure a big, expensive diesel like that would have a mechanism to shut off the air intake. There are mining/oil field trucks with air shut-offs to prevent run-aways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NRaqgab0_w&t=90s
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Stairmaster posted:Do any model railroaders gently caress with making setups based off the soviet railways? or do the model companies not produce much in the way of stock for that? If you could find Soviet train bodies and mount them on Western bogies, that would be awful realistic. I think my father has a few old o-scale East German locos, I'll ask if he can dig them out of the attic. Oh hell, those would be great for an African set-up. Savannah to jungle. Good opportunity to practise "weathered" paint, too.
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Remember us talking about train wheels w/ axle on semi-trucks? Found one in the wild: This Swedish trucker hauls them on a regular basis. Starts at about 4:50. Still don't understand it.
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Shoes came off. He ded.
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Kilonum posted:ACAB All Cabooses Are Beautiful.
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Tex Avery posted:Back when I was a bright eyed, bushy tailed brakeman trainee, I was doing a trip on the head end one day and we nearly hit a cow. It was close enough, in fact, that I put my foot up on the front wall of the cab to brace myself for the impact I imagined we were about to feel. I'm reminded of a video from some frozen hell-hole, where the people in the cab started taking bets on which way the downed branches and trees they banged into would fall. Right *THUMP* Right again *THUMP* Mayyybe left *BANG* Loud noises, but no concern whatsoever in their voices. I'm also reminded of a bizarre safety meeting we got when I was a teamster (bread delivery). The company brought in a railroad guy who started his spiel by downing a coke, crushing the can flat beneath his foot, and saying, "That's the difference in weight and momentum between a train and a semi-truck. It's also the difference in weight and momentum between a semi-truck and your little box trucks. Any questions?" Dude taught us a lot about trains, crossings, and caution in fifteen minutes, all with the aid of a wooden Brio toy train set (and one coke can).
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Full Collapse posted:Given that Bavaria is the Kentucky of Germany, I always figured Austria was Europe’s Alabama. My dad, a Middle Franconian who carries his accent through four different languages, once made fun of my living in Alabama. "...Hicksville". "Dad. You are a villager from the middle of nowhere yourself. At least we have an airport." "I never denied that. There's always the Austrians." "That you share most of your dialect with." "gently caress."
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