Train porn

GTE

flyingsnail wrote: »

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

Not in a place to look but did they manage to start it?
SPOILER ALERT!

flyingsnail

bbk wrote: »

Not in a place to look but did they manage to start it?
SPOILER ALERT!

nope

lord lucan

flyingsnail wrote: »

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

I'm sure there's a joke in there about how many IE employees it takes to start a loco!:pac:

metrovick001

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

From a warmer climate - two BNSF west bound stack trains race alongside each other through Ludlow, California on the BNSF transcon back in May 2010.
The temp was hovering around 35 degrees C!

corktina

now THAT's a railway

corktina

corktina wrote: »

now THAT's a railway

Probably the entire daily freight movements of Ireland could be moved on those two trains.

corktina

full boxes on one, empties on the other

flazio

corktina wrote: »

now THAT's a railway

Nope, it's a Railroad.

metrovick001

LOL, the BNSF call it a railway believe it or not!

Www.BNSF.com

MGWR

metrovick001 wrote: »

LOL, the BNSF call it a railway believe it or not!

www.BNSF.com

Lots of US "railroads" were called "railways" and still are. Norfolk Southern Railway is another, and their predecessors also called themselves "railways" (Norfolk & Western Railway, Southern Railway, Virginian Railway).

ardmacha

MGWR wrote: »

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).
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Another H Class getting a wash in 1943, full size image


This giant steam was already being replaced for freight by the likes of this diesel in Arizona. full size image

metrovick001

Another overtaking video, this time a hot shot is overtaking an oil train at Goffs CA.
http://youtu.be/Ses1xc9b6U4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ses1xc9b6U4

h.gricer

Great video Metrovick, I thought that oil train had ceased with the building of a pipe line, maybe I'm wrong, love bogie oil trains, what time of year was it and when was it taken, I douth you'd stand at Goffs in high summer in 45degree heat getting ya brains fried, maybe it was spring or autumn, great place for trains.
Regards
hg

corktina

metrovick001 wrote: »

LOL, the BNSF call it a railway believe it or not!

Www.BNSF.com

yeah I knew that :-)

101sean

NZ Rail special train today for a scout jamboree, I've a nephew in the vintage carriages at the back. Their gear was picked up at Fielding by a traction engine!

metrovick001

Hi HG.
The oil train that the SP ran carried crude oil, the wagons were connected in gangs of thirteen by a ten inch flexible pipe. A pipeline did bring that oil can operation to an end as far as I know. Im not too sure if this train here was bio ethanol or an empty heading to the LA basin for loading, I'll enquire on the socal railroad forum. It was close on 45 deg C when I shot this in May 2010, it must have fried my brains LOL.

MGWR

ardmacha wrote: »

Another H Class getting a wash in 1943, full size image


This giant steam was already being replaced for freight by the likes of this diesel in Arizona. full size image

Interesting that first pic; shows disc driving wheels on the front axle and spoke drivers on the axle with the main driving rods attached.

The EMD FT was actually considered an articulated unit, which made them Bo-Bo-Bo-Bo, with two 16-567s. Two FTs together made about 5,400 horsepower.

dowlingm

Oil trains are huge at the moment in northern US because of bottlenecks in pipeline capacity unable to absorb Alberta and North Dakota oil into the Gulf of Mexico refining complexes. The disaster at Lac Megantic Quebec was a Bakken Field oil train heading for refining on the Atlantic coast because the price of east coast oil is higher at the moment.

metrovick001

Thanks dowlingm.

MGWR

Video showing a journey from top station to bottom on Stuttgart's Zahnradbahn (rack railway), nicknamed Zacke ("Spike"); route number U10. Mostly roadside. Steepest gradient is about 1 in 5.7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9cy2EEoTJY

GMKK96

Some footage I took in Kildare yesterday of some passenger trains and the first liners of 2014.

Fred Swanson

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MGWR

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Norfolk Southern stopped all traffic over this grade back in 2001, but they keep the line officially open to this day.

Maximum grade is 1 in 18.5; average overall grade is about 1 in 23. Still the steepest part of the USA's general railway network. Only old logging railways are steeper in terms of relying on pure adhesion, and those are only open as tourist railways these days, using geared steam engines (usually Shay or Climax) to go up and down grades as steep as 1 in 9.

xtradel

Not sure if already posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmOBgBtu-U

metrovick001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDxjN3EENU

MGWR

metrovick001 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDxjN3EENU

Very nice. That train would indeed need the pushers on that 1 in 33 grade.

Trick of the Tail

No train in this per se, but isn't this part of Baker Street underground station amazing?

dregin

Not seen this before... QUITE the set up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQ-2mnODCo

GBOA

It's for sale too. Better get the piggy bank out.

topnotch

BIG BOY COMING THROUGH STEP ASIDE!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AjAMMq-y06o

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 has left the Ponoma Fairgrounds in Los Angeles and is on her way to Cheyenne Wyoming for restoration scheduled to take between 3-5 years to complete.