Train porn

SeanW

Nice find MGWR.

It is perhaps coincidental that when Metro North Railroad took over its share of the Fl-9s, they numbered them starting from 2000 as well.

MGWR

The Connecticut Department of Transportation painted all of the FL9s they owned back into the colours of the New Haven (since they apparently own the design) from the era when Patrick McGinnis was president. I'm not sure if the loco numbering scheme was part of that, myself.

Metro-North also rebuilt some of their FL9s into FL9ACs, with AC traction motors and turbocharged 12-710G3As rated at 3,000 horsepower (versus the 1,500 horses of the 567 engines). Some of these ran on the Long Island RR, pulling the C-1 double deckers. You can hear the difference in the engines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1rofsjgvQA

MGWR

Some of the Blackpool heritage tram photos from 2013 posted by one Alan Robson on the BlackpoolTram.com site.

A lot of these photos, especially from the special tour back on 20 July, made me wonder why there has been no effort to do a Dublin Tram heritage operation on Luas tracks; the height clearances shouldn't be a problem (after all, balloon cars run side-by-side with the new and rather homely Flexity trams).

The gauge would be an issue because the heritage trams are 5'3" and the Luas is standard gauge. Possibly electrical differences too. Probably not impossible to get around but probably costly.

CaptainFreedom

Karsini wrote: »

The gauge would be an issue because the heritage trams are 5'3" and the Luas is standard gauge.

DUTC was not even 5'3" - it was 5 ft 2 3⁄16 in (1,580 mm) gauge......

MGWR

CaptainFreedom wrote: »

DUTC was not even 5'3" - it was 5 ft 2 3⁄16 in (1,580 mm) gauge......

That's one millimetre narrower than Pennsylvania tram gauge, interestingly enough. Still in use in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, too.

As far as heritage operations go, San Francisco's Market Street Line (route F) has a number of former Philadelphia SEPTA PCC trams; those had to be re-gauged to 1,435 mm to run on their new home rails. Whatever cost it may be to re-gauge any former DUTC trams cannot be too exorbitant.

lord lucan

GTE

From about 2.30 mins in on that video, when the loco is coupling with the ballasters, what are the engine rev fluctuations about?

bbk

bbk wrote: »

From about 2.30 mins in on that video, when the loco is coupling with the ballasters, what are the engine rev fluctuations about?

Building up air pressure I think.

TheBandicoot

lord lucan wrote: »

Based on comments in this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycuMF3pCse8, I wonder why this guy feels so justified in trespassing on the line?

flazio

You learn somethin new, I always thought those yellow containers were for liquids.

Fred Swanson

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dowlingm

The CP freight was shunting and exceeded its movement authority in an unsignalled area.

Cookie_Monster

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I guess drivers don't go down with the train unlike their maritime counterparts :P

MGWR

Genuine roadside railway here (i.e. versus full tramway or tram-train; uses UIC-compliant EMUs). The Seetahlbahn in Switzerland (Luzern–Lenzburg). Parts of this were re-aligned due to high number of level crossing accidents, but most of the railway is still all roadside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNuZC3N1-lY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPehGq5-TIc

Losty Dublin

Yesterday's wrong road working by RPSI's 461 and Cravens. View in full HD to make the most of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTMJT3IL7ok

Rud

First time i've seen 084 in the grey.No more orange to be seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4hg1XgogKI

MGWR

Two very different Pacifics; LNER's 4472 next to the Savannah & Atlanta Railway's ALCO-built 750 (originally for the Florida East Coast Railroad). Picture is from 1969; location is Mableton, Georgia, USA.

MGWR

ardmacha wrote: »

The good ol' US of A , a place where you can sue for spilling coffee on yourself, but you can drive enormous great trains down the middle of the street.

This caught my eye: Sorry for the off-topic continuation, but someone in California is at the same trick as the original woman from New Mexico (who died back in 2005).

Sheldons Brain

Maybe a model for the South Wexford line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0pY78jKU4

corktina

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

Maybe a model for the South Wexford line

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entirely sensible idea from a simpler world.

Tabnabs

A reminder that winter has returned to Europe

Tabnabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RvgfoXGTs

A historical ride (camera mounted on the front of a cable car) down Market Street in San Francisco in 1906. It was one of the first 35mm films ever taken. The clock tower at the end of Market Street at the Embarcadero wharf is still there. The film was originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn, with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, figured out exactly when it was shot. New York trade papers announced the film showing the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall. Shadows indicated the time of year and actual weather conditions on the historical record. The records even provided when the autos were registered and who owned them according to the issued plates. Supposedly, the street scenario was filmed only four days before the quake, and the film shipped by train to NY for processing.

flyingsnail

Be-leaf it or not

CaptainSkidmark

flyingsnail wrote: »

Be-leaf it or not

So thats why it costs so much for a return ticket to Dublin :rolleyes:

101sean

Not exactly train porn but.....

Obviously didn't save that branch as most of it is under the M25 now!

MGWR

This is a "Dampfdraisine" (hand car converted to steam power) on the Werdauer Waldeisenbahn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjA5R7ibIgc

ardmacha

Early Kodachrome colour shot at Clinton, Iowa. April 1943. "Chicago & North Western Railroad. Women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant H-class locomotives." In the red bandanna: Marcella Hart, seen here in a few other posts. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the US Office of War Information. Click for full size.

flyingsnail

073 trying to Jumpstart 074, sorry about the quality all I had was my phone.

MGWR

ardmacha wrote: »

Early Kodachrome colour shot at Clinton, Iowa. April 1943. "Chicago & North Western Railroad. Women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant H-class locomotives." In the red bandanna: Marcella Hart, seen here in a few other posts. 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the US Office of War Information. Click for full size.

Not visible in the photo, but the CNW's H-class' wheel arrangement was 4-8-4. The type was one of the few that could do dual service duties (both freight and high-speed passenger).

This railway also ran left-handed (like Ireland, Britain, France etc.); when Union Pacific took over, they retained the left-handed running, and the former CNW Metra commuter service in Chicago still runs that way.