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  • Registered Users Posts: 24,462 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    What about the difference between the tractive effort of the UK class 59 and 66. They both have about the same hp give or take 300hp but the 59 can haul way more than a 66.

    Is the calculation really that simple, and is gear ratio not taken into account? Also weight of the loco. CSX in the US ordered some of it's locos with extra ballast in a sub class of it's locos to enable them to haul heavier trains than other exact same models that didn't have ballast installed.

    There just seems to be a lot of other factors to be taken into account to me.
    Like, can the loco get all that power to the rails without slipping and what not. I read an account in an IRRS journal about an 071 unable to haul 7 or 8 Mk2s up the small incline out of Mullingar station in poor rail conditions and was delayed for a considerable time. It could have been having an off day or not all of it's traction motors were working but still.

    well I did state my calcs were simplified, yes there are definitly other factors involved, gearing, adhesion, weight etc... I dunno, maybe tak my figures x 70% to account for those factors on a level track???


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    well I did state my calcs were simplified, yes there are definitly other factors involved, gearing, adhesion, weight etc... I dunno, maybe tak my figures x 70% to account for those factors on a level track???

    Oh right. I read it as that you just stated the calculations are simple to work out, not that you just simplified them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,573 ✭✭✭lord lucan




  • Registered Users Posts: 9,573 ✭✭✭lord lucan




  • Registered Users Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    i know this has been posted many times but still, this is probably the best rail video, best locos in my opinion, back to the days when we actualy had real proper trains, the railway is just not the same these days, RIP to the old growlers and how the railway used to be

    shut down alcohol action ireland now! end MUP today!



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  • Registered Users Posts: 39,366 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    I have several VHS videos of RPSI trains taken around late eighties early 90s. How can I get them digitalised I wonder?


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,218 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Some (proper) camera shops do it.

    I'm sure there are lots of places on the internet also.


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    I have the hardware to do it; you need a video capture device for a PC or laptop. I'm not local though. :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,309 ✭✭✭dowlingm




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  • Registered Users Posts: 39,366 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/radio-documentary-the-permanent-way-trains.html

    RTE documentary from 1985 which I found interesting.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    lovely sounding locos, apparently not very reliable though?

    shut down alcohol action ireland now! end MUP today!



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    dowlingm wrote: »

    Excellent stuff,and somthing we could well do here....IF we had the interest level and confidence.


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured




  • Registered Users Posts: 24,462 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    lovely sounding locos, apparently not very reliable though?

    Initially they experienced a fair few problems but since have been sorted out and settled down to near perfect reliability.
    One of the guys in the model club works for KiwiRail and says they're no prob these days.

    I've seen a couple myself when driving from Auckland, nice looking beast on the front of 3-4 dozen freight wagons. Have seen 4 in 5 mins at Ngaruwahia crossing on 3 trains :)


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    Karting? Chocolate Mountain? Sounds like Mario Kart. :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Initially they experienced a fair few problems but since have been sorted out and settled down to near perfect reliability.
    One of the guys in the model club works for KiwiRail and says they're no prob these days.

    I've seen a couple myself when driving from Auckland, nice looking beast on the front of 3-4 dozen freight wagons. Have seen 4 in 5 mins at Ngaruwahia crossing on 3 trains
    good to hear, their certainly a lovely sounding machine

    shut down alcohol action ireland now! end MUP today!



  • Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭metrovick001


    [URL="[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIiFrYxW6WA"]Here[/URL] [/URL]is 074 making a bit of EMD sound on a DFDS liner in Feb '11


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,573 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Fantastic video from Ballina featuring 112 and small yanks in the form of 121's and 141/181's.

    Funny to see the small yanks hauling the timber and Liner and 112 hauling 2 Cravens and a MKI Gen van!!



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,573 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    [URL="[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIiFrYxW6WA"]Here[/URL] [/URL]is 074 making a bit of EMD sound on a DFDS liner in Feb '11

    Is it this one?



  • Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭metrovick001


    Thanks Lord Lucan, thats the one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Fantastic video from Ballina featuring 112 and small yanks in the form of 121's and 141/181's.

    Funny to see the small yanks hauling the timber and Liner and 112 hauling 2 Cravens and a MKI Gen van!!


    How things change in a few years! Back then my job took me to Ballina every week and I nearly crashed my truck when I spotted 112 there!


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    Notice how the 111s sound different to the 071s. Apparently the 071s sounded like that when new but their engines have been modified over the years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Karsini wrote: »
    Notice how the 111s sound different to the 071s. Apparently the 071s sounded like that when new but their engines have been modified over the years.
    yeah i've always wondered about that, personally i prefer the sound of the 111s

    shut down alcohol action ireland now! end MUP today!



  • Registered Users Posts: 713 ✭✭✭islanderre


    Bit off topic from the Irish Rail scene but these may be of interest to some.
    Took these in North Korean last year. Subway cars..... they are ex Berlin appartently

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    One of the street cars too...... some of them are really, really old and Very slow to accelerate.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    You had a camera in North Korea and got out alive! :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 713 ✭✭✭islanderre


    North Korea....... tis a grand spot!!!!!!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭topnotch




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