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MrChips posted:it would literally cost a trillion dollars.
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Brother Jonathan posted:82 mph in a 30 mph curve, and the engineer had twenty years of experience.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:If it costs money, we dont want to do it.
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If you're wondering what it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V250_%28train%29
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Boiled Water posted:They probably underbid everyone else and governments love that poo poo. This is all after the DSB debacle got well underway, so there's really no excuse. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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That seems 100% par for the uk rail course.
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Train friends what's dis machine? http://www.mingor.net/images-large/kewdale-rail-building-2011.JPG
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Thanks for the info!
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Post war british engineering is a thing to behold.
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Cygni posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqZwDTToH5o
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I've been in a train as it hit a car and you legit don't feel a thing, that's the extent of the energy differential. Sure felt the emergency braking though.
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Axeman Jim if you didn't exist someone (not british) would have to invent you.
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Jim, don't be a nancy and write the drat post. It'll be funny, which is all we can really ask for. Also Mahmoud is literally hitler E: :-]
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Also, ansaldobreda.
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Literally designed to crush pedestrians and get derailed by vehicle collisions.
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Graceful degradation wasn't in the design brief, or got dropped under budgetary/delivery pressure? Nobody act surprised!
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He's a railroad CEO, of course he would.
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Feb 15, 2015 23:00
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Holy loving hell that first car got annihilated.
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ijustam posted:Did it take a bunch of people dying to convince railroads that x is a bad idea?
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I love the thought of people with dubious driving ed barreling next to the unprotected bike lane. They drive 7% of kilometers but are responsible for a third of cyclist fatalities. In the UK foreign drivers also kept killing people on the highway cause they couldn't/wouldn't check the right side blind spot.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Hahaha even British Rail wouldn't be dumb enough to order AnsaldoBreda products.
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That stupid welding helmet probably saved a bunch of bones in his face too. What a moron.
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B4Ctom1 posted:Yep
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CharlesM posted:Yeah, like this, I meant from the electric motors The dutch double-deck intercity coaches do that kind of thing.
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PremiumSupport posted:Video of the crash from both the lead power units, the actual collision occurs around the 2:35 mark: https://youtu.be/ZhraoVIJ1OE
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Terrible Robot posted:lol NoWake posted:As far as obvious goes, I think the 'Schwellenpflug' trumps retro-rockets: evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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iospace posted:Momentum is a hell of a thing. And inertia.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:On the flipmode, how are (modern) trains in the Netherlands so drat quiet? I've been on Acela, Amtrak Silver service, and UK West Coast and they were all loud or at least not quiet, while on every Dutch train I felt self-conscious about the tack-tack-tack noise the iPhone keyboard made before I muted it. Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah, usually what I see on the news are poo poo-tons of people on the roofs because the cars are so packed. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Aug 21, 2017 |
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Those nerds need to read up on flight guidelines. Current UAS’es are basically a pipeline of single points of failures, and using them near soft targets is a recipe for disaster.
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Taking that at 80mph seems a little suicidal.
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More stuff on that high speed fuckup: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...logy-was-ready/ Incompetence and greed are a flawless recipe
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NoWake posted:To have spring-operated brakes that require air pressure to release, you'd need each car to have an engine, compressor, battery and fuel, to make them reasonable to move around on a moment's notice. They also need the ability to sit in the same spot, in every kind of weather, full shade or full sun, for years on a storage track, and then be ready to go with next to no maintenance, so a lot of ancillary braking methods won't be both cost-effective and feasible.
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pointsofdata posted:And once you've got the equipment wouldn't 30% increased lifespan be a pretty big improvement? I would be surprised if the cost of the ties was significant compared to the total cost of replacing them.
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iospace posted:Ahhh management. Gets a defined set of rules on how to fire someone who is in a union, whines when they get told to follow those rules.
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vains posted:engineers, contrary to what they would have you believe, are the dumbest people on the planet.
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VictualSquid posted:I think the rod driven electric locomotives replicate the important cool parts well.
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TheFluff posted:e: I may actually have found a reason for the tie rods - apparently it was hard to make a gearbox that was durable enough to handle the torque.
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Kilonum posted:Is there an electric train equivalent to "foamer"?
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Nebakenezzer posted:Would you believe there's another corrupt Canadian company based in Quebec that is bad at rail? "The SNC-Lavalin bid failed to include a signalling and train control system, had no plan for snow removal and, at one point, appeared to believe the trains that run on the Trillium Line were electric, not diesel." My good bitch what are you doing
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Kilonum posted:Nationalize all passenger rail I'm so glad our regulations specify best value instead of lowest price. It makes it trivially easy to dismiss lowball shitbag bids.
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