Train porn

Itssoeasy

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

BeardySi

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Part time tabloid journo or what? such drama....

Oscar Bravo

Early 1990s from Limerick Junction and Cork

Itssoeasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEfx5T3G4NQ

Itssoeasy

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

Itssoeasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSGOqDo1JM

A recording of the A Class when they had the crossley engines in them. I think someone posted a video of a crossley engined loco from Australia but this is from Ireland. Yeah give me the beautiful sound of GM anyday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2B8WzmrZTk

Eurostar RIP (Rust in Peace)

Fred Swanson

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tabbey

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2B8WzmrZTk

Eurostar RIP (Rust in Peace)

It is sad to see Eurostars prematurely stored / abandoned.

In 2015 I did see a TGV set on a scrap line at a station between Metz and Verdun, but the earliest TGVs were more than 10 years older than Eurostar.

end of the road

it is sad but i believe high speed trains like that don't tend to have as long a life span as classic trains due to the speeds they travel at day in and day out.

Oscar Bravo

there was nothing nicer than the sound of a mark 3 going over jointed track,I remember between the coaches,they would hop about so much. here some footage from 1997

Stephen15

end of the road wrote: »

it is sad but i believe high speed trains like that don't tend to have as long a life span as classic trains due to the speeds they travel at day in and day out.

Could be true although it's hard to know just now as most high speed lines have only been running for the last 5-20 years so none have been running as long as regular trains. Another thing is the technology for high speed trains is constantly changing and being updated meaning that they may to be replaced more often in order to be up to date and run at the highest speeds possible further backing up your point which is not as much of an issue for classic trains.

Fred Swanson

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Cookie_Monster

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Almost new still, simply swap out the generating gear and they could be used anywhere, rather than just rotting away.

tabbey

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They ran on 25kV AC through France and Belgium and could continue to do so throughout the Eurostar network.

Just because they had dual voltage capability does not preclude them from operating on one voltage exclusively.

Lots of locomotives and EMUs were built with multi-voltage ability, but generally stick to the principal voltage.

The main disadvantage of multiple voltage stock, is that the more complex = more unreliable. Also the additional equipment adds to the weight.

I think the main reason that Eurostar are phasing out earlier trains, is that the newer ones from Germany have higher passenger capacity.

CarlosHarpic

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Ahh Mary O'Rourke.
That special breed of yoke that would show up at the opening of an envelope and at the same time would have just as easily closed the whole network down.

A truly repugnant entity. She gave a press conference on funding a few hanging baskets and handed out Lima Irish Rail 00 coaches to the media in attendence.

topnotch

There are some great videos up on YouTube of EMD action from Croatia featuring G26C’s. Definitely worth checking out.

MGWR

Short colour video showing the narrow-gauge trams of the Los Angeles Railway (3' 6"/1067 mm), a.k.a. the "Yellow Cars". The system had PCC cars on it too when the LA MTA took it over. Some trolleybuses are featured.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAPMvhD62kA

Eiretrains

Some film footage of the late Joe St Leger's showing PWD operations at Cobh Junction in 1981, featuring steam crane, 6-wheeler, passenger and ammonia workings.

MGWR

Photo from the Bronx, 1915 showing the Jerome Avenue elevated railway (today's 4 train in the NYC subway system) being built over what will become River Avenue; actual location information is a bit hazy (all I got is "south of 167th Street", so the only clue to the station being built in the foreground on the left is 161st Street, where the new Yankee Stadium is today. If further north than that, then what will become Mullaly Park is on the left instead. Would the Bronx be better off as it was in 1915 than as it is today? (This el currently serves a lot of neighbourhoods with recent Irish immigrants, BTW.)

dublinman1990

Youtube footage from 2007 of a runaway GM GA-8 locomotive, which is the same locomotive for the 121 class in IÉ, on a 90 mile unmanned chase by trainspotters & authorities in Argentina. Luckily no damage was caused & hauled back home to safety afterwards.

Fred Swanson

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MGWR

CIE's 121 class was a GL8 rather than GA8. Main differences in design are the GA8 having its two traction motors attached to the underframe driving Cardan driveshafts (thus making it a B-B) versus four on the axles of the GL8 (Bo-Bo), and no multiple-unit capability (i.e. between engines) on the GA8.

Fred Swanson

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MGWR

This photo depicts the short-lived New York IND's World's Fair line, which ran from 1939 to 1940. The alignment is now part of the Van Wyck Expressway (thanks to Robert Moses) and the surrounding area is very heavily built up; the line itself was a branch off the Queens Boulevard subway. The train is part of the "GG" line, which today is the "G" train (Brooklyn-Queens crosstown).

Oscar Bravo

156 and 149 Farranfore, 1997

MGWR

This photo dates from late 1950. Pennsylvania Railroad track clearance car no. 497125, nicknamed the "porcupine car" for the projections designed to verify clearances.

Fred Swanson

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This train ain't stopping for a broken bridge..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqUhKK0pnU

MGWR

Short film showing a steam-powered demonstrator railcar built by George and William Besler of Davenport, Iowa, USA.

The steam engine had a flash boiler made from designs acquired from the Abner Doble Steam Motors company: these could go from cold start to being able to move a car within about five minutes, and they were explosion-proof due to not needing to make huge volumes of steam but vapourising small volumes of water into steam as needed (about two litres at a time in the automobile version) and were very quiet due to having advanced condensation technology. The biggest problems related to them had to do with heat fatigue: the temperature inside the boiler went up as high as 3,000 degrees Celsius (three times as hot as a normal steam locomotive firebox), so steam pipes would crack and boiler jacketing would melt/burn through, problems that Jay Leno in particular (who owns two Doble E-types) has attempted to solve by using modern ceramic materials inside the flash boiler.

The Besler brothers made a larger two-car streamlined version for the New Haven Railroad, called the Blue Goose, which ran from 1936 to 1943. Despite its streamlined appearance, it was limited to branch-line operations, and later superseded by railcars with either petrol or diesel engines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t7RpdM-ODw