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wow... Damages were estimated at: equipment, $4,932,528; track and structures, $392,000; no damage to signals. also:
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Bolognious Assault posted:What does the guy in this video mean by "can't stop a train"? It looks like it stopped okay to me. Can someone explain what's happening in this video? Particularly curious about the message displayed on the terminal towards the end.
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People often don't grasp just how big... the Big Boy is.  Photo - Joe Fontana Model - Karyn Karabec MUAH - Cheryl Crist From a set of shots that a friend of mine did out at Steamtown in Scranton, PA. Check out more here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150423223554031.388230.85440539030&type=3
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trouser chili posted:There's gotta be some sort of forced perspective going on here, the top of the rail is nearly at her knee. Not that I'm saying the big boy is small but the perspective makes her look 3 foot 5. The rail might be taller than usual, and I believe the ballast slopes down pretty drastically, but the wheels are 5.5' wide. I had a hard time believing it was real as well. Plus, the fact that the plumbing goes halfway up the tank kind of makes you feel like you're looking at the undercarriage of the thing. Plus, I believe the sharpness of the picture does a bit of a reverse-tilt-shift type of effect.
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This is exactly what you think it is AWESOME
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CharlesM posted:I thought we had pictures earlier in this thread of a locomotive that suffered a similar impact? This one? an AOL chatroom fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Nov 7, 2012 |
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Our own Zach Parsons wrote a book about bizarre WWII military inventions called My Tank is Fight. Pretty sure this gets a chapter in it.
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Wow, that's pretty intense, but certainly worth watching, if only to  at the line "The coach [car] bent in half"
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edit: didn't realize that was what you were linking to already
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I was out trying to grab some early-morning photographs along the river when this rolled by.
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Veins McGee posted:Hudson River? Pretty sure that is in New York state since that train is somewhere in northern Ohio right now. Yup, on the West side of the Hudson, across from Poughkeepsie.
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I posted this before, but it warrants reposting. The Big Boy is Big.
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Here's a picture of a choo choo I took this morning: Highland, NY, across from Poughkeepsie, heading North at 9:08am
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I have Trainz on my iPad. It's a pretty clunky port of the PC version to a touchscreen interface, but it's fun to dick around in, and has (for the most part) kept me from sinking thousands of dollars into an actual model train layout in my basement.
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It was a Metro North train, though they share the tracks with Amtrak. Metro North goes as far north as Poughkeepsie, while Amtrak continues on up to Albany and parts beyond. Pretty nasty wreck, though could have been a whole heck of a lot worse had it been on a weekday. edit: One of my friends posted this http://myinwood.net/the-spuyten-duyvil-railroad-disaster-of-1882/ which is worth a look if only because of this: 
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Just wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86PUB4u2s2A
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TheCoach posted:Lithuanian train post. Absolutely, very cool. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you very much for the info, everyone.
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We just had a pretty gnarly derailment in Newburgh, NY. Doesn't looks like anyone is hurt and nothing got spilled, but this'll take a while to tidy up. http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/2017/03/07/train-derailed-newburgh-police/98865806/  
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 That must've made quite a sound
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I grabbed this shot on my way to work this morning. CSX #5382 heading North along the River Line in Highland, NY (opposite Poughkeepsie). 
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That's the spot! edit: that little back-and-forth section on the North side of the bridge is pretty lol
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I used to have a fairly large n scale layout in my basement, but I found that temperature variations really affected the tracks to the point where I just couldn’t run anything in the winter without poo poo derailing all over the place. I still might do another layout, but it’ll be a small switching layout I can control via jmri or something.
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