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Guy Axlerod posted:Yeah, cause screw the blind, deaf, elederly, mentally challenged and children. The blind, who should have guide dogs, the deaf, who can still see, the elderly, who should be in a home or have someone helping them if they're so incapacitated they can't tell there's 100 tons of metal about to shatter their osteoporitic bones, the mentally challenged who should have minders or people helping them, and children whose parents should have the good goddamned sense to teach the kids not to die the way grandpa did. It's called responsibility, what the gently caress is wrong with you?
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Fixed Gear Guy posted:Every time I hear stories of people like that, my mind just goes The Onion is hit or miss these days, but this is so spot-on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInDH2FeXaM
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and wonders what type of person actually gives a poo poo about those minute details.
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Nerobro posted:They have dedicated fans. Huge ones. I remember as a kid standing on a footbridge that preceded the nicer, protected bike bridge to Elliot Bay Park in Seattle back in the late 80's. It was just an open metal grille bridge without even so much as a handrail and I stood on it as a large freight configuration went under, the power of the fans blasting upward at me enamored me with trains for the rest of my childhood.
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InitialDave posted:Wait, this isn't a parody? 
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Gotta put things in perspective... they look like ancient poo poo to the Europeans, we Americans look at a future we never had 
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Here's more train porn from both ends of the spectrum: The US finally has some form of high-speed rail now? And it's with Amtrak? 
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We really need something like that to connect SF LA and Sacramento in California.
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Watch out, he'll attack you in a meth-fueled rage!
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I saw this parked up at Paddington the other day. I know they don't go as fast as the trains on the continent but they still look cool.
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Cops really run the gamut just as everyone else does... what amazes me is how one department can employ the bitterest, angriest rear end in a top hat in the world and next to him will be the complete opposite. You'd think they would have some method for dealing with that.
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kastein posted:I love the faux bloodstain on the rear deck edge. Who says it's fake? 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I fly like 100-140 segments a year and while airport security is annoying, I have never managed to experience one of these multihour horror stories. Wonder what I'm doing right? You don't fail the attitude test, I'm guessing. Making dumb/bored people angry by being openly defiant is a fast way to get the nitrile gloves out. Also since you're going for business I imagine you aren't bringing the entire contents of an Origins store with you or a camping stove (I've seen this at LHR) onto a goddamn airplane.
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Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:took this the other day, westbound at sunset. This is a great photo, have it in desktop size?
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Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:who ever would like it, please email me at dan.kleman AT gmail.com Yeah, just put it on imgur then link it instead of embedding it.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:My favourite Somehow this doesn't surprise me at all.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Every thing in Russia just has .... such a look about it. I cant ever describe it, but every thing looks the same, buildings, trains, cars, women, etc. You mean how the whole country has the post-apocalyptic, bleak, lonely, decayed feel of Half-Life 2? Which, by the way, was basically a video game set in post-Soviet Russia.
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madeintaipei posted:Well, I see BroJo and Grover are getting along famously. Someone's been to Museum Sinsheim! 
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FISHMANPET posted:Yeah, I'm the guy that took a first class sleeper Minneapolis to Portland for my honeymoon, I think it's an experience that everybody should have, but the train was a part of the trip rather than just a way to get where I was going. CDG on its own is the size of a small city, so you're probably right travel-time wise.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:That is associated with revenue, more places to run longer, bigger, and heavier trains. When it comes to safety, its bare essentials to avoid lawsuits. Are the rail unions not able to negotiate sane hours for their workforce?
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BrokenKnucklez posted:And don't tell me its that "union lazy rear end" worker. I did work in a non agreement jobs in the past, and there are just as many lazy asses out there in offices that really do their job half rear end because they just didn't care/lazy/incompetent/etc. They are just way better at covering their laziness up. I think the real issue with unions these days is they're a politically charged force that only make news when they're being assholes. BART is a great example of this, I'm pretty sure we'll see some voters swinging to the right here just because of those strikes.
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jammyozzy posted:Yes. No really, MIND THE loving GAP Although still not as bad as Southwest trains and the 2 foot drop to the platform at Clapham Junction 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Sure, sure, but spend some time ogling an InterCity 125 with that swallow paint job and then try and tell me the British never made one good train. I had plenty of trips to Reading and beyond to experience the unique musk of the IC125's resistor banks under heavy braking. Every stop the things smell like a 1950s world's faire exhibit make entirely of Bakelite being set ablaze.
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Cygni posted:Man, people give the US a lot of poo poo (sometimes rightfully) for not getting with the times on stuff like the metric system... and then I see a picture like that and remember that all of Europe outside the high speed stuff still uses fuckin' buffer-and-chain coupling. Don't let them get too uppity about it either, they may have high speed trains but the Germans and the French are the only ones who can make it run reliably.
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Axeman Jim posted:British crap Thanks for bringing this to us, I kept forgetting to dig up your other thread for updates. I enjoy much schadenfreude reading about how awful BR is after experiencing it.
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What I never understood was what is the point of first class in the 159s? They're the same seats with different colour cloth and that's it. The price difference isn't justified by anything, really. East Coast had the best first class, and although FGW had a first as well it wasn't as nice (nor as well utilized) as the rest, let alone what Virgin had going before FGW came along. I have to wonder how things will look now that Virgin lost their Pendolino contract.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Well you seem to be conflating railway madness of the victorian era with This Is Why Nationalised Railways Are poo poo so I thought better to get it in sooner than later. How about you go back to D&D and keep your autism to yourself? I think we all would prefer to read Axeman Jim's effortposts.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Is that St. Pancras? That hotel is fuckin' decent these days. I couldn't stop myself from calling it St. Pancreas. King's Cross manages to be a charming My favorite journey was Reading, which could either take 45 minutes from Fulham Broadway, or 3 hours. Always depended on things like leaves on the track, or mice in the belfry, or whatever ridiculous excuse they came up with at the moment. I always assumed delays were the result of hung over union employees myself.
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Bozza posted:If you pop over to D&D I think we all know better than to do that.
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LiquidRain posted:My terrible cell phone recording of this moment MUST NOT BE DISTURBED BY YOU SAVING MY LIFE. I've never seen someone so oblivious, he kept right on recording even when the 4014 was completely blocked by the diesels. Apparently exposure to old trains can cause paralysis.
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darknrgy posted:I'm quite pleased with this photograph I took of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cruising through south Oakland. Great photo, although that's a pretty scary part of Oakland to be shooting in at night.
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Keiya posted:Alegedly was not stolen, was actually built for a peaceful protest? Makes me wonder if it's a reference to this: 
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Tex Avery posted:I got bored at work last night and decided to play with my new phone. This is the end result. Do you work in 1915?
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