Preoptopus posted:

I dont like how the doors lock so you cant walk between cars. I found it handy when some bum smelling like piss and poo poo stumbles into your car and starts screaming at demons. (for those of you not familiar with the city, this happens often.)

Das Volk posted:

This is a great photo, have it in desktop size?

Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:

who ever would like it, please email me at dan.kleman AT gmail.com
I'm not sure how to put it on here in full size.
If there are any specific things you would like to have a picture of, paint schemes extra let me know and I will keep a look out.

Brother Jonathan posted:

Here is a GE AC6000CW locomotive, featuring a 6,250 horsepower diesel engine:



The horsepower arms race ended with this engine in the 1990s when it was discovered that they aren't efficient. Bummer.

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She added that the stranded seem to be embracing the situation, "Everyone's drinking. Mouthing off to cops. Stuffed collars in $10,000 suits sitting on the ground drinking lovely beer and eating pizza."

Ofaloaf posted:

You see, having the drives wheels run against a set of smaller wheels instead of directly contacting the rails creates a gearing effect which totally speeds up the locomotives, and if you could just invest in a few hundred of



then I could totally sell these efficient locomotives to the railroads and make us all rich! No, why on earth would you think this is a scam?


But the damndest thing is that two of these things were actually built.

Ofaloaf posted:

They were built by the Holman Locomotive Company. I've no idea if they had any fancy name associated with them, but I'd be surprised if they didn't.


In a less-scammy vein, railway engineers in the early 20th studied steam-powered ships and thought to themselves "Gosh, these steam turbines are pretty powerful and efficient in ships! I bet they would do wonders for a locomotive!" The results were failures across the board, but produced some pretty rad designs nonetheless.

The German steam turbine locomotives were just





Whereas the American steam turbine locomotives look like they belong in some caricature of the 1950s:





I think there's a couple steam turbine locomotives preserved in Sweden, but all the super rad designs have long-since been scrapped.

Kidney Stone posted:

Did we just hear people clap?

B4Ctom1 posted:

Foamer pro-click. Train Breaks in two on video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB_pB7lDDpI

BrokenKnucklez posted:

most of the time, old farts keel over 3-5 years after retirement. Your body really doesn't like the life style but adapts. Do this poo poo for 35 years then all of a sudden stop doing it? Not looking good.

Handsome Ralph posted:

Was curious after reading this, does anyone have that write up some (engineer?) goon wrote after that derailment in Quebec last year about a train derailment from the perspective of the engineer?

I was telling a friend about it and can't find it.

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DrBouvenstein posted:

Art Deco = Best Deco.

Edit: Timg'd it, though that seems like sacrilege.

Weltlich posted:

Tables can't handle art deco trains.