Train porn

cocoshovel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YktGLK77zU

Judgement Day

Another one for Corktina of his branchline! G601 on an 'overload' freight at Kanturk circa 1957. It's a Colourail slide - currently for sale on eBay.

corktina

i thinjk I might steal that fro the new facebook page .Thanks JD

shanered

Read this thread purely because its called train porn!

Cookie_Monster

Raurimu Spiral

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

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

also, crazy bridge

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

CIE

That last one is of the Taramakau River road/rail bridge between Hokitika and Greymouth on the South Island in New Zealand. FWICS, there are plans to build a road-only bridge next to the single-lane bridge, which would then be converted to rail only.

There was a similar bridge over the Arahura River. It got replaced in 2009; you can see the new bridge being built to the right. Shared traffic is no more, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E53XZuTsQ

Here's a Raurimu Spiral video at normal speed, and with real music (with all due respect) generated by the train...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYR3f6p5W30

Cookie_Monster

CIE wrote: »

Here's a Raurimu Spiral video at normal speed, and with real music (with all due respect) generated by the train...

didn't even realise it had music, I generally don't have the speakers on

flyingsnail

This video looks at the different types of signalling on the BR network.

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

Jehuty42

flyingsnail wrote: »

This video looks at the different types of signalling on the BR network.

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

Anyone notice the HST driver smoking around 23:05? Seems very unusual to see these days.

Stonewolf

Jehuty42 wrote: »

Anyone notice the HST driver smoking around 23:05? Seems very unusual to see these days.

I think it's from the 80s

CIE

Not only are there road-rail bridges; there are also road-rail tunnels. The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel (aka the Whittier Tunnel) in Alaska opened in 1943 as a railway-only tunnel; it was actually converted to combined road and rail in the 1990s. It connects the Seward Highway south of Anchorage with Whittier. There are lay-bys in the tunnel presumably for emergency stopping while a train passes; but given the traffic control at either end of the tunnel, it's not likely that any mixed traffic of that sort would end up in the tunnel at the same time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJA50rjcJQ

Almost forgot about the Mount Washington Transit Tunnel in Pittsburgh, USA; shared tram and bus operation, with occasional emergency vehicle use (police, ambulance, etc.). Built originally as tram-only tunnel; opened in 1904. This video was taken from the rear of a PATransit tram. Rail gauge is 1588 mm. Shared use continues in part on the South Busway.

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

foggy_lad

CIE wrote: »

There was a similar bridge over the Arahura River. It got replaced in 2009; you can see the new bridge being built to the right. Shared traffic is no more, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E53XZuTsQ

So that is where all the Irish Rail sleepers went:D

highlydebased

Fairly interesting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kErujlih0zE

Itssoeasy

Itssoeasy

ardmacha

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

Our man in Havana

Itssoeasy wrote: »

The track layout in Heuston didn't really suit loco hauled trains.

center15

also, crazy bridge

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

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I drove over this bridge when I was in NZ. It's really odd!

dowlingm

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Not the best picture in the world - it was a grim day and my Blackberry 9300 has a crap camera - but here's a shot of the F40PH (s/n 6417, GPA-30H spec - separate engine for electrical). Top speed on an F40PH in VIA Rail spec is 95mph.

This loco took me to and from London, Ontario yesterday (where the picture was taken) with a rake of LRC model carriages behind which had not yet gone through refurbishment. Note how low the platform is to the rail, you have to step up to the train using trapdoor steps - very few Canadian railway platforms are high-floor because of the interests of freight lines and their outsize loads. That's salt on the ground, it was snowing that day.
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I'm posting this for two reasons. One Craven and a Mk1 van? Was this commonplace? Second of all, this loco obviously had a 645 engine rather than the standard 567, I can hear the higher idle.

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

Our man in Havana

Karsini wrote: »

I'm posting this for two reasons. One Craven and a Mk1 van? Was this commonplace? Second of all, this loco obviously had a 645 engine rather than the standard 567, I can hear the higher idle.

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

It was a common configuration on Ballybrophy-Limerick, Manulla Junction-Ballina and Waterford-Rosslare trains before DMUs took over.

CIE

dowlingm wrote: »

very few Canadian railway platforms are high-floor because of the interests of freight lines and their outsize loads

Honestly, for North America, high platforms on their general railway network make no sense, especially if you have low-floor commuter cars and low-floor long-distance cars available. Pity that in the northeastern USA, the high platforms weren't all torn down (they used to be in the tiniest minority) instead of built up from low to high in a building frenzy as they were through the 60s and 70s; that way, the predominant high-speed train on the Northeast Corridor could have been the low-floor Talgo. (One can compare the Bronx's Botanical Garden station, from New York Central days and Metro-North days, for example; even with third-rail electrification, using low-floor EMUs would have been safe enough, or perhaps the money saved from not building up the platforms from low to high could have been used on an electrification system conversion to OHLE.)

dowlingm

CIE - ideally VIA would bin the high door HEP, LRC and Nightstar stock for something like the 125mph Kawasaki bilevels MARC uses on the Northeast Corridor but the shekels just aren't there for that. The Nightstars (Renaissance in VIA usage) are proof of that - they bought surplus rolling stock from the UK rather than ordering new, purpose built stock and have now been obliged to spend a fortune on winterisation and accessibility because of penny wise and pound foolishness in the Government of Canada's bureaucracy.

Judgement Day

Karsini wrote: »

I'm posting this for two reasons. One Craven and a Mk1 van? Was this commonplace? Second of all, this loco obviously had a 645 engine rather than the standard 567, I can hear the higher idle.

Note the Fastrack being unloaded. Only complete idiots would do away with this traffic. Those three cartons probably cost as much as three passengers in terms of the amount charged. In most cases the staff that would have handled the parcels are still in situ, and spend their days reading the paper, watching TV and keeping a sharp look-out for local managers.

I remember regularly getting the 20.40 (?) from Heuston to Mallow back in the 1980s and it often consisted of an 071 + a single Park Royal + gen.van - great if you wanted a thrash but not so good if you fancied a kip.

Our man in Havana

I didn't know they did such small consists on the Dublin-Cork route. Amazing.

Tabnabs

Brand new trains being tested in Norway at the moment from Stadler Rail AG. A local and shorter distance regional train.




If you're going to test a train, may as well be in difficult conditions.







source http://www.lokmartin.net/

Our man in Havana

Sexy!

A vending machine, such a thing could eliminate the dreaded trolley on the 22000's.

Judgement Day

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Sexy!

A vending machine, such a thing could eliminate the dreaded trolley on the 22000's.

Careful what you wish for - this is the future of IE catering on any lines that retain a catering service. And, they will be up to the usual standards of Iarnrod Eireann - overpriced, poorly stocked and badly maintained. The logical and inevitable progression to the Soviet era railway that CIE aspire to.

roundymac

Judgement Day wrote: »

Note the Fastrack being unloaded. Only complete idiots would do away with this traffic. Those three cartons probably cost as much as three passengers in terms of the amount charged. In most cases the staff that would have handled the parcels are still in situ, and spend their days reading the paper, watching TV and keeping a sharp look-out for local managers.

I remember regularly getting the 20.40 (?) from Heuston to Mallow back in the 1980s and it often consisted of an 071 + a single Park Royal + gen.van - great if you wanted a thrash but not so good if you fancied a kip.

Was that not the mail train?

Our man in Havana

Were there not cattle wagons also?