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    #182
    CIE
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    Another fav of mine is the tram that runs underground. Boston, Massachusetts' Green Line, Boylston station (the Green Line has the distinction of being the first underground urban railway in the USA):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDAz0Ogoew

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. SEPTA's "subway-surface" system, with the Market-Frankford metro line on the middle tracks. AFAIK, track gauge is 1588 mm for both metro and tram. Market-Frankford line uses bottom-contact third rail.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xPH8ueHAE0


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    #183
    CIE
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    Trams in Toronto, Canada. This video is from the 1980s; lots of PCC cars. Also shows trolleybuses operating, and some views of Toronto's underground.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXiT2LSk7ek


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    #184
    dowlingm
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    CIE wrote: »
    Trams in Toronto, Canada. This video is from the 1980s; lots of PCC cars. Also shows trolleybuses operating, and some views of Toronto's underground.
    Only two PCC cars and one Peter Witt remain for special events - the Witt only comes out about once a year. Trolleys gone entirely (big mistake having seen how well they work in Vancouver during the Olympics). The red subway cars are gone since 1991 ("Gloucesters"). The first streetcar in frame is a "CLRV" - to be replaced by custom gauge/curve radius 100%LF Bombardier Flexities over the next decade.


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    #185
    the_syco
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    From the Photo forum;
    zt-OctaviaN wrote: »
    impressive stuff for that time!
    http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/148458/20110519/rare-color-photos-from-depression-era-part-2.htm

    an example of why you should look at the thread:

    A colour image of Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas 1943 March
    100542-rare-color-photos-of-depression-era.jpg

    /edit
    Holy crap, this is awesome: http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/05/18/100244-rare-depression-era-photos-in-color.jpg - I'm spotting 8 to 11 locos!


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    #186
    ardmacha
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    impressive stuff for that time!

    Size isn't everything. Perhaps the WRC could do with something like this....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X80o6y3TCGQ


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    #187
    corktina
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    Damn you Clarkson!


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    #188
    dowlingm
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    A 1950s Rail Diesel Car having been stripped back to the frame being rebuilt in Moncton, New Brunswick
    2_IMG_3938.JPG.

    Details of project here.


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    #189
    highlydebased
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzCGBYcCta0


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    #190
    lord lucan
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    #191
    corktina
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    great but whats with the non genuine green livery?


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    #192
    lord lucan
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    corktina wrote: »
    great but whats with the non genuine green livery?

    A few paragraphs down in this article explains why the RPSI went with 'CIE Green'.

    http://www.steamtrainsireland.com/locomotives/loco461.htm


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    #193
    corktina
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    to make a change from grey or blsck.... lets have red next then


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    #194
    lord lucan
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    One of my other loves aside from 'regular' trains is the New York Subway. I became fascinated with it after my first visit some years ago and always make a point of adding to my mileage on it whenever i return.

    I was over last week and wanted to cover another one of my strange interests,ghost stations. There's a station beneath City Hall that's been closed since 1945 but is an absolutely beautiful station that is rarely seen by the public. The only way of seeing it these days is by becoming a member of the New York Transit Museum and trying to get a place on one of their tours. This is obviously a bit awkward when living in Dublin,so the only other option for getting a glimpse of this jewel is by staying on a Downtown 6 train after it terminates at Brooklyn Bridge and riding around the loop it takes to bring it back to the Uptown platform. This loop brings it through the old City Hall station and gives you a chance to get a brief glance at the once lavish station. I did this last week and thoroughly enjoyed it.

    This blog features a tour by the NYTM and gives an excellent idea of how majestic this station looked.

    http://newyork.untappedcities.com/2010/09/26/touring-the-old-city%C2%A0hall%C2%A0station/

    And here's a fairly crap video i took through the carriage window.



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    #195
    CIE
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    The City Hall station certainly is rather majestic-looking. Given the short-radius curve (it was okay to board the older IRT cars that had the doors at each end of the car, but when they moved to three doors per side and moved them away from the car ends, the gaps were too much) and the fact that you can't fit a full-length train (longest IRT trains are eleven cars long), it's not really practical for typical subway train use.
    img_95278.jpg


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    #196
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    This pic gives you a good idea of what the curve is like at City Hall station with a modern Subway car.

    4638052272_ebb200a643_o.jpg


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    #197
    lord lucan
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    #198
    lord lucan
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    #199
    Itssoeasy
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    #200
    demanufactured
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    lord lucan wrote: »

    Why is there smoke coming from the DVT at 1;30???
    Generator?


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    #201
    demanufactured
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    lord lucan wrote: »

    In ts video what is going on at the start???
    I know its something to do with tokens...but i dont understand the whole token thing.....can anyone explain?


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    #202
    Our man in Havana
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    Yes. It is the generator.


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    #203
    Our man in Havana
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    demanufactured wrote: »
    In ts video what is going on at the start???
    I know its something to do with tokens...but i dont understand the whole token thing.....can anyone explain?
    On single track lines, tokens are used to stop 2 trains being in the same section at the same time.

    So say a train wants from station A to Station B, the signal man will issue a token to the driver of the train to show that he has sole use of that section of line. Once the token has been issued no trains can enter that section. So the signalman at station B would not be able to issue a token going to A as the instruments and signals are interlocked. Once the train arrives at B he hands the token over and the signal inserts it into the machine which then releases the line. So then signalman B can send a train back to A or A can send another train towards B.

    Hope that makes some sense.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling)


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    #204
    foggy_lad
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    demanufactured wrote: »
    In ts video what is going on at the start???
    I know its something to do with tokens...but i dont understand the whole token thing.....can anyone explain?
    The tokens were a way of locking signals and points in a certain configuration so that only one train could be allowed or cleared for any section of track, Afaik it also blocked the section before the track that the train was on to allow a safety buffer. when the token was used it locked signals in place and was then passed to the train driver who would give it to the signalman at the end of the section he was travelling on, the token is then put in a machine which unlocks the signals and points on the cleared track and the train cant proceed without a new token for the next section.


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    #205
    majwal7
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    The token system dates back to Victorian railways, but is still in use in Ireland today. Though it's an old system, it's reliable and it works. Does anyone know if other countries still use this system?


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    #206
    lord lucan
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    Enough to give the environmentalists a heart attack!:pac:



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    #207
    Our man in Havana
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    majwal7 wrote: »
    The token system dates back to Victorian railways, but is still in use in Ireland today. Though it's an old system, it's reliable and it works. Does anyone know if other countries still use this system?
    Parts of the UK and Australia still use tokens.


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    #208
    foggy_lad
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LgJI3MwqCc


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    #209
    Itssoeasy
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    someone was excited.


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    #210
    flyingsnail
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »

    someone was excited.

    Nothing like a bit of 141 action at the end of a long day of Santa trains. :D:D:D


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    #211
    Rud
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    Don't know if this is considered train porn but still

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-iV2nDopvY


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