Train porn

cml387

Fratello wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12CAFX2O95c&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is good turn off the lights and turn up the volume.
Apologies if this has been posted before but this thread is a bit too long at this stage to check.

That is amazing. Thanks for posting.

dowlingm

I posted a picture of the new Toronto streetcar pre-production unit in the photo thread a while back but the TTC, who really are pushing social media these days, have just added a video with some timelapse footage of delivery through the streets from the CP railyard to the maintenance yard. They will be starting with static systems testing and next year starting to do some test runs as the Toronto streetcar system has some very tight turns, a non-standard gauge and a few bits of tunnel/portals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdN7Y2hPQ-0

http://www.damninteresting.com/building-the-bam/

Now for something completely different from one of my favourite websites.
If you ever hate your job.....read this.

Cookie_Monster

dowlingm wrote: »

I posted a picture of the new Toronto streetcar pre-production unit in the photo thread a while back but the TTC, who really are pushing social media these days, have just added a video with some timelapse footage of delivery through the streets from the CP railyard to the maintenance yard. They will be starting with static systems testing and next year starting to do some test runs as the Toronto streetcar system has some very tight turns, a non-standard gauge and a few bits of tunnel/portals.

it's a very outdated looking, ugly machine, maybe its the red and white scheme...

dowlingm

CM: Not a fan of the front end with that band around the front but for some reason that's what Bombardier offered. The tight spec required plus Canadian content requirement meant a short list of contenders for the tender - I would have like to have seen Alstom chosen because of their design flexibility.

4400 series is part of the Flexity Outlook famility. They are single end single side doors turning at loops. Track gauge is 1495mm and 600v DC traction power. The new cars have trolley poles and pantographs as the existing overhead is not fully panto compatible yet.

murphaph

Fratello wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12CAFX2O95c&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is good turn off the lights and turn up the volume.
Apologies if this has been posted before but this thread is a bit too long at this stage to check.

I watched something similar from our balcony about 2 months ago here in Berlin. We can see the S-Bahn tracks from here and one night I heard this rumbling which didn't sound normal at all (there's some freight movement beyond the S-Bahn, but never at night, so I knew something weird was going on). Got out of bed and stared at the thing for 20 mins. It was moving waaaay slower than that US example and was shorter, with fewer grinding heads, but it was pretty cool to see the sparks fly at night.

Probably never see it again-doesn't happen very often from what I gather.

ardmacha

This video came up on the youtube link for the rail grinder. They need a rail relayer for this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11qWro1LzQ

dowlingm

New Jersey Transit had 21 multilevel coaches at Bombardier's facility awaiting delivery. After the floods they decided they were needed RIGHT NOW, so sent Amtrak to fetch them in one shot. A P40DC and a P42DC hauled them to Albany and two P32AC-DMs took it from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiSO-XlODBo

ardmacha

This track might need the weed sprayer before the grinder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b86QYaVXv5M

Our man in Havana

Athlone-Mullingar inspection car run?

ardmacha

ardmacha wrote: »

This track might need the weed sprayer before the grinder

So you could send a train from Mullingar to Athlone then? :pac:

Edit: Didn't see the previous reply...

roundymac

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Athlone-Mullingar inspection car run?

That's one way to clear a line.Let's hope the bean counters in I/E don't see this or they might try and get rid of the weed sprayer as a cost saving measure.:D:D

Apanachi

murphaph wrote: »

Probably never see it again-doesn't happen very often from what I gather.

Aaaarrgggh, we get tha A LOT where I'm living (way too much in fact, cost me quite a few night's sleep )

dowlingm

A little front end video of Calgary's new West LRT line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGhOd6SMp4M

CIE

Maumee & Western, in Napoleon, Ohio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrvLK24VlEs

newmug

What rail travel in Ireland will be reduced to soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJAczgfmHk

CIE

HTML cannot be used here. Go to "Go Advanced" and use the Youtube buttons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJAczgfmHk

corktina

CIE wrote: »

Maumee & Western, in Napoleon, Ohio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrvLK24VlEs

Monthly cattle special?

corktina

CIE wrote: »

HTML cannot be used here. Go to "Go Advanced" and use the Youtube buttons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJAczgfmHk

a proper community railway

CIE

This is from Brooklyn, New York; not sure what year. Peter Witt tram (8000-class) waits for an interesting-looking work engine with boxcars to pass, on Second Avenue near the junction with 39th Street.

dowlingm

Speaking of which, here is Toronto's remaining Peter Witt bracketed by a PCC leading and a CLRV trailing at the Beaches Easter Parade. There's an issue with the Witt braking system so it doesn't get let out solo any more.

Losty Dublin

A little piece of action from Saturday's RPSI movements in Dublin. If you have the luxury of an HD output then tick it on Youtube before you play it as you will LOVE it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDa2qY1yWA4

101sean

TV train porn this week and next week assuming you can get BBC4 and Channel 5

Weds 5th 9pm Channel 5 Extreme Railways
http://www.channel5.com/shows/chris-tarrant-extreme-railways/episodes/episode-1-482

Mon 10th 9pm BBC4 Small is Beautiful
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p8w38

dowlingm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyP46_H4Elc

Bit of a stretch but this is a dual breakthrough of two parallel TBMs on a subway extension in the northern end of Toronto.

Stonewolf

Ran across this cute little vid today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7buTCULLeY

steamengine

101sean wrote: »

TV train porn this week and next week assuming you can get BBC4 and Channel 5

Weds 5th 9pm Channel 5 Extreme Railways
http://www.channel5.com/shows/chris-tarrant-extreme-railways/episodes/episode-1-482

Mon 10th 9pm BBC4 Small is Beautiful
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p8w38

The BBC4 programme repeats to tomorrow Wed 12th at 10pm - The Golden Age of Steam - concentrating on narrow gauge preservation with a truly awesome section on the Ffestiniog railway - not to be missed. How volunteers engineered a section called the 'Deviation' and dug a cutting, blasted a tunnel and built a bridge, just like the navvies of old.

CIE

"Night Express" train between Berlin and Lund, Sweden. Crosses the Baltic Sea on a ferry. (Of course, if Ireland was on 1435 mm gauge, trains could have been doing this to/from Britain already.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xl_zX9UE2w

CIE

One of the best photos I've seen of the former elevated tramway in Hoboken, New Jersey (Frank Sinatra's birthplace). This would be the approaching the highest point of the tramway, which ran towards Jersey City Heights and Union City. Apparently, this photo was taken on the second-last day of service prior to its abandonment, according to the source.

CIE

Another big US tram station. This is of the two-level Public Service terminus in Newark, New Jersey prior to opening in 1916, showing upper level. After converting trams to buses, the lower level remained in use until 1966, and the upper level until 1978; the structure was demolished in 1981 instead of refurbished, which kinda shows the short-sightedness of the then-new operator, New Jersey Transit.

This tram was one of the furthest-travelling routes that operated out of the above tram station: the Newark–Trenton "Fast Line" interurban tram, which had its own dedicated alignment between New Brunswick and Trenton. The alignment is still in evidence, although it is currently used for high-voltage power lines.

Cookie_Monster

nice looking vehicle, much better than the modern plastic fantastic

AlekSmart

Interesting piece here dated 17th December on the blog of Transport for Londons Managing Director for Surface Transport.

http://leondaniels.blogspot.ie/

Reckon there'll be more than a few goin straight to RyanAir's website after that !!

101sean

There's an excellent pic of the train in this week's Railway Herald as well, can't copy or link to it though. This was the second trial train but the first with newly restored Met No 1.

Fair play to LUL in allowing steam underground given their paranoia about fire after Kings Cross.

A couple of Class 20s have been painted in LU colours as well, they regularly deliver new stock to LU at West Ruislip.

Will be back in UK in Jan myself looking for work off my old employer, a lot of which is on LUL

Cookie_Monster

Kiwirail DL Class.
I was unlucky enough to have my Auckland to NP flight cancelled on Tuesday and a 5.5 hours bus ride instead, though on the plus side got to see 4 of these hard at work at the Ngaruawahia crossing. Double headed northbound cleared the single lane bridge, followed immediately by a single loco on a container and car train heading south over it to be further followed by another northbound on hauling mostly empty container wagons. Busy times, the 2 northbound ones couldn't have been more than 6-7 mins apart

flazio

I thought the photo thread was for photos and the 'porn' thread was for videos?

ardmacha

I thought the photo thread was for photos and the 'porn' thread was for videos?

This thread is more the international and unusual, e.g. the trams above, the photo thread is more Irish stock. Bring it on, either way.

AlekSmart

ardmacha wrote: »

This thread is more the international and unusual, e.g. the trams above, the photo thread is more Irish stock. Bring it on, either way.

Yea,you tell'em Ardmacha......:)

Just to underline it.....

Here's how to Drive a Left-Hand Drive Loco,in one hour...in French....Wesht on Track how are ya :eek:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLSNhm1_1Hg

Pull up a chair,pour a drink and enjoy

Eiretrains

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

That's a master shot there, where you find the picture?

flyingsnail

Eiretrains wrote: »

That's a master shot there, where you find the picture?

Its on the kiwirail home page http://www.kiwirail.co.nz/

Cookie_Monster

flyingsnail wrote: »

Its on the kiwirail home page http://www.kiwirail.co.nz/

there but found via google, there aren't too many decent photos of the DLs as yet...

ardmacha

Something Christmas-like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwqQN_sNX_8

I saw the steam locos on this line in the 80s, albeit in the summer, but did not film it then during the Martial law period in Poland as this was probably a capital crime!

Tabnabs

If anyone has a spare 10 hours, the latest train porn project from Norwegian state television is now online

http://www.nrk.no/nordlandsbanen/

end of the road

this class 14 loco was rebuilt from the frames up, i think she sounds fantastic to be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ZiXIVLWZY

topnotch

tv programme filmed around 1997 may have been posted before.
http://www.videopediaworld.com/video/55037/Rail-Away-Europe-02

dowlingm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR_lPC8C_ug

Follow up to the tunnel breakthrough video above, showing the tunnel liner being installed and the muck trains bringing out spoil.

topnotch

There are some interesting photos in the planes trains automobiles section of this collection on flickr.

www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/8089570753/

www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6633962763/in/set-721576267434

CIE

Detailed film from October in 1937 showing the former New York, Westchester & Boston Railway, which had two branches serving White Plains and Port Chester in New York state's Westchester County. Electrification was 11,000 volts 25 Hertz AC OHLE, the same as the New Haven Railroad.

Unusual for this railway, it was built with high platforms and gated fare control versus low platforms and conductor fare control (Metro-North converted the former New Haven to high platforms in the 70s, though). Also, the NYW&B's EMUs had a centre door for high platforms only whereas all EMUs up until the 1960s elsewhere in the states had doors at the ends of the cars only; modern EMUs that follow its door pattern are operated by New Jersey Transit and on the South Shore Line (Chicago-South Bend) today. In addition, during the period of this railway's operation, the "Northeast Corridor" was six tracks between New Rochelle and Port Chester, with the NYW&B's tracks being operated separately from the New Haven's.

What wounded this railway's operation was the fact that its southern terminus was in the Bronx rather than Manhattan. There is only one operating remnant of this railway, that being part of the number 5 (IRT) service between East 180th Street (Bronx Zoo) station and Dyre Avenue station near the border with the Bronx and Mount Vernon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Hnmae2cHU

ardmacha

A sort of 1950s health and safety video. Not sure if the guy standing on the roof at 1:45 is entirely safe.

csd

Köln Hauptbahnof and its iconic 4711 advert. by csd75, on Flickr

Itssoeasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MonfXuKuDU

Sweet jaysus.

Cookie_Monster

all the UP's have the name covered over, any idea why? on the way to the scrappies?