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I don't know much about trains but I bet fans would love Japan. The electric train network is really neat. I really liked getting around on the trains and subway.
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I never even heard of "Unstoppable" before now. drat.
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Geoj posted:
Too bad they didn't release #2. What about the other train games?
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May 27, 2011 18:54
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B4Ctom1 posted:and this http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/20/local/la-me-metrolink-ntsb20-2010jan20 The NTSB report was posted in another thread a while back. The guy was sending text messages to high school kids (kinda creepy) up to a few seconds before they crashed. They also detail how it's extremely unlikely the light could have been green due to the way the electric system is designed.
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Two Ton 21 posted:And people wondered what aspies did before the internet. I remember reading about some guy who knows a lot about the NY subway, sometimes more than the staff and he would pose as one or something. I think he really was autistic or something.
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tehsid posted:
Those look like the BART subway trains in San Francisco, California.
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Jul 31, 2011 02:14
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I have a strong feeling that is something of Soviet design.
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Nov 24, 2011 08:55
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Come on, it's Japan.
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Dec 13, 2011 04:53
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bytebark posted:Mostly unrelated but interesting coal train video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFiV55zohC4&feature=related (good GE diesel sounds in this one too) Pretty good timing. Looks like it gets sprayed twice.
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Apr 21, 2012 10:03
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Is it normal to record those phone calls?
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Oct 11, 2012 08:41
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B4Ctom1 posted:I assumed these must have much weaker diesels than the giant freight trains which I watched pass over the massive steel trestle next to John Muir's old historic house in Martinez, California. Cool, I went to high school in Pleasant Hill (College Park).
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Oct 22, 2012 08:38
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I thought we had pictures earlier in this thread of a locomotive that suffered a similar impact?
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Nov 7, 2012 06:47
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Yeah, I think that was it.
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Nov 8, 2012 08:27
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Pretend I don't know anything about electricity... why don't those trains short out?
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Dec 6, 2012 13:10
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I watched the video of how to set up a garden railroad and they use 24VDC. I guess it's just the fact it's low current and snow is not a good conductor. I thought snow = water meaning short circuit but I guess not 
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Boomer The Cannon posted:So who mentioned G-scale trains? When I have a ton of extra money and a big yard I so want to do this. So...when I'm about 70? In fact, I still have a lot of n-gauge stuff from when I was a kid. Hmm. InterceptorV8 posted:http://youtu.be/6xSzU0oM4mM I loved abandoned buildings, especially things like subways.
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Dec 22, 2012 07:38
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I've had train derailment as a status too. I think when I posted here it was said most likely it just means it went down the wrong track or something. Neat how detailed of a message it is compared to a generic "exception" error or whatever. edit: http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/hundreds-of-complaints-surface-about-ups-mysteriou/nD5Bj/ Kia Soul Enthusias fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Mar 19, 2013 |
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Veins McGee posted:For companies that love talking about safety so much, this seems kind of dumb. Mission statements and reality are not always the same thing.
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Apr 9, 2013 00:09
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BrokenKnucklez posted:trip rates will give you the incentive to get over the road quicker. If you don't go on over time after 12 hours for a 197 mile run, then there is no incentive to get out of the yard. This is literally the kind of work environment that crushes creativity and innovation. Not saying someone here should try to stick their head out, as the change has to start at the top, which is hard too.
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Apr 13, 2013 06:24
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This happens a lot with people on cell phones / with headphones.
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Apr 28, 2013 05:32
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It's not possible to tell by the video, as the comments point out.
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May 13, 2013 08:42
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B4Ctom1 posted:No surprise here The cab cameras I can understand, but CN putting a camera in a locker room? What the heck were they thinking?
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May 18, 2013 11:05
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The "CSX track" is in California, there are Eucalyptus trees in the photos in the link in the video description. I suppose it could actually be Australia, but I don't think so. In the PDF, there are some photos that say "mark every 9'6"." What is the circumference of a train wheel? Maybe the wheel was rotating but was damaged.
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May 25, 2013 04:54
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Glad it was 2:30am. I imagine it would be more than 7 injured otherwise.
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Jun 1, 2013 06:59
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I'm surprised that doesn't short out or something.
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Jul 26, 2013 19:02
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I think I remember that used to sometimes happen on the DC Metro when I rode it, but that would be > 15 years ago.
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Jul 27, 2013 09:25
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Das Volk posted: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. Actually, the art director was Bulgarian so much of it is modeled after buildings and locations like Sofia. I think one of the Episode 1 or 2 settings was modeled on a Russian building though.
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Aug 27, 2013 06:19
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Are there any simulators / addons that model Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner line?
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Sep 26, 2013 01:05
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That's cool. I would say Santa Barbara is my favorite place in the world, pretty much. I need to move back there someday.
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Sep 26, 2013 01:22
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bytebark posted:In defense of IRM's mostly electric operations, it costs the museum a helluva lot less to give people real train rides using an assortment of old "L" cars / interurbans / streetcars than using diesels every day of the week (let alone steam). I can't believe they're making another loving Transformers movie.
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Oct 7, 2013 11:53
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stealie72 posted:I've wondered about that, but would continent-spanning electric rails have their own massive set of downsides that keep them from being practical/safe? It would be awesome if everything could run off a third rail or a transit-type overhead wire. Japan is all overhead wire including freight and was nuclear powered.
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It's true that Japan is smaller and has more dense cities, but they have plenty of rural areas too, but honestly I don't know how many of those areas are electrified when you get to smaller routes. Along the main corridors though it all is. I was just answering what was closest to the hypothetical of what was asked. I thought it was cool to see electric freight trains . Europeans may have that too but I dunno.
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Oct 8, 2013 05:36
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I've spent a fair amount of time in Europe, mostly in your neighbor the Czech Republic, but wasn't really paying attention to that :P
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Oct 8, 2013 09:53
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Yowsers. That's pretty freaky.
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Oct 31, 2013 19:03
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Well, the union said he "nodded." Not quite sure what that means.
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Dec 4, 2013 03:25
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25556061 Is that on the same track as the Amtrak Empire Builder (Chicago to Seattle)? They were already complaining the rails are completely congested due to the oil boom in ND.
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Here are some train pictures for you guys. Taken in Seattle, here-ish http://goo.gl/maps/8OijI     I determined this car had Toyota Siennas inside.
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Jan 5, 2014 00:57
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How is he taking a picture from the rail without getting squished? Or is the train not actually moving?
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Jan 5, 2014 10:08
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That looks like it may take a while to fix! Edit: I don't understand. Why was an engineering team pouring concrete there?
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That's really good. I didn't expect it to clean up so easily.
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