Train porn

foggy_lad

I have looked again and the person appears to be on the railway side of the gates at several farm/accommodation crossings as trains are passing, Remember that the gates at such crossings are back quite a bit from the fencing that can be seen in the video. and the last clip is definitely taken from the track.

monument

foggy_lad wrote: »

I have looked again and the person appears to be on the railway side of the gates at several farm/accommodation crossings as trains are passing, Remember that the gates at such crossings are back quite a bit from the fencing that can be seen in the video. and the last clip is definitely taken from the track.

foggy_lad wrote: »

Is the person holding the camera in this video trespassing on the railway?

Please quit the trolling.

Everybody: Do not reply to this and please back on topic.

Losty Dublin

Some action from Sunday's Dublin based RPSI trips. If you have good broadband then make use of the full HD picture.

Nibs05

Nibs05 wrote: »

Some more EMD 567 magic, someone know what a transition is ?

It's the change in traction motor configuration from pairs in series to all in parallel. Comparable to a gear change in a car. Irish GMs use it but the Metrovics used field diversion.

See here http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_locomotive under transmission types for possibly more detail than you require!

Rud

Excellent stuff as always from Metro Vick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-AiVx1RnA8

Chinese steam, velly old rails!

http://player.vimeo.com/video/2578284

islanderre

Took these a good while ago.

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dregin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018wf9g

MGWR

How many tram systems had sleeping cars...? The Oregon Electric Railway was one, at the very least.

Cookie_Monster

MGWR wrote: »

How many tram systems had sleeping cars...? The Oregon Electric Railway was one, at the very least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Electric_Railway

It's not really a tram system though is it? Interurban railway that even Amtrak considered running on it.

MGWR

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Electric_Railway

It's not really a tram system though is it? Interurban railway that even Amtrak considered running on it.

Sometimes former private alignments of interurbans are rebuilt for diesel operations. IINM, Metrolink (Los Angeles, California) operates on a significant portion of the former Pacific Electric's line to San Bernardino, albeit not on the now-nonexistent tramway in San Bernardino which was on Rialto Avenue (below), going to the Santa Fe station instead. (Pity this service didn't remain; it ran on the rather unique 1200 volts DC system.)

ardmacha

Big stream on broad gauge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_AS0gQn4Q

101sean

Whole night on Beeching and the UK railways since on BBC Parliament channel now if you can get it. The 1960s John Betjeman prog on the Somerset and Dorset is on now, unfortunately they seem to have lost the sound!

Good, sound's back!

steamengine

Old Trams of Dublin 1868 - 1959

I have this dvd out on loan from the public library at the moment - well worth a view for those who may be interested. The following is a demo !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9akTZj1T8

LivelineDipso

steamengine wrote: »

Old Trams of Dublin 1868 - 1959

I have this dvd out on loan from the public library at the moment - well worth a view for those who may be interested. The following is a demo !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9akTZj1T8

Thanks for allowing me the decision not to buy this.

146 being started in Downpatrick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzzSRPx-j1M

n0brain3r

Great video what was he doing with the bar? Priming it?

n0brain3r

n0brain3r wrote: »

Great video what was he doing with the bar? Priming it?

It's called barring over the engine. I believe it's done to dissipate any water that might be lurking in the cylinders that could cause a hydro lock.

islanderre

Yep, Barring over is always done to ensure the cylinder space has not filled with water when the engine was shut down....... standard practice on the marine engines I once worked on.........

Here's another one, albeit an American GP30. This is a now rare example of a turbocharged 567 engine, the 567D3. The 567 turbo is very different to the more common 645 turbo, so a lot of the 567D3s were refitted with roots blowers later in their lives.

You can see how they open the power assembly torque valves above each cylinder and then bar over the engine.

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

GBOA

Karsini wrote: »

You can see how they open the power assembly torque valves above each cylinder and then bar over the engine.

It's done with a spanner on the Irish GMs. Not quite so elegant...

danotroy

Southern cross railway station melbourne. Taken today!

metrovick001

Union Pacific No.8095 running along highway 99 east between Halsey & Harrisburg, Oregon 12-May-2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7DtELmiAeE

WAGR X class, same Crossley engine as the A class. Starts around 1:21.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEn-eos8wnE

Eiretrains

This chap has similar footage, the Australian's never replaced the Crossley engines, so they are authentic. Note the very familiar 'A Class' horn sound as the train heads out of shot at 0:50.

081 looking and sounding healthy in these 1995 clips. The track is in terrible condition in the first clip, badly needed a weedspray.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seSP5fxLw3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLxY8ql0bMA

dowlingm

Siemens Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS-64) #601 on test at the FRA test facility in Pueblo, Colorado

1. In cab - showing acceleration to 125mph on cab display. Blue bar is apparently tractive effort ordered vs effected (difference probably due to wheelslip prevention systems)

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

2. Exterior shots from rail and train mounted cameras of high speed operation

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

3. News report with shots of passing ACS-64 with 8 Amfleet trailer coaches. Apparently more were wanted but Amtrak is flat out equipment wise at present

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

Fred Swanson

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GMKK96

073 hauling the CPW DFDS liner past Balllyreddin level crossing today at speed and very lightly loaded.

MGWR

This video from 1994 shows a cab ride in an Amtrak (originally New Haven Railroad) FL-9, travelling from Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx to Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. Most of this is on a former New York Central freight line which originally went all the way down to Spring Street in lower Manhattan, but was converted in 1991 to allow Amtrak to stop using Grand Central Terminal and run all of its upstate New York trains out of Penn Station. The engine still had its original supercharged 567C sixteen-cylinder diesel motor so the sound is very familiar, and of course the engine operates in all-electric mode on third rail into the then-new connector tunnel and in the station itself. (Unfortunately, the poster plastered annoying text all over the video instead of putting it at the bottom, and the cameraman seems to have had a fetish for skyscrapers, pointing the camera upwards and to the side a number of times.) Engine number is 488; number under Penn Central was 5016; original New Haven engine number was 2016. These engines had the (AFAIK) unique wheel arrangement of Bo-A1A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7EblXyJh2g