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Train porn

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  • #62
    CIE
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    Thought this was interesting. Tram-train at Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, sharing the facility with the big double-deck regional trains (visible) and ICE trains (not shown here). From there, they either go further along the main line, or onto Karlsruhe's tramways (depending on direction of travel). They operate on both 15kV AC and 750V DC, and can switch between the two systems while in motion.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dke3BFdKL30


  • #63
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,468 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    are all the tram station built up high also, it seems the doors would be very high off the ground for a tram system


  • #64
    CIE
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    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    are all the tram station built up high also, it seems the doors would be very high off the ground for a tram system

    Not all of them. This video shows the same type of tram-trains in the street environment. (I've seen other tram systems with high platforms, e.g. Los Angeles, Calgary in Canada, although those aren't tram-trains.)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh9NTKfl4Jk


  • #65
    murphaph
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_8MJcz-QSU


    This is S and U Bahnhof Wuhletal in Eastern Berlin. Trains from 2 different companies offer cross platform change here (BVG in all yellow and DB in red/yellow). Of course it's all the same fare zone anyway. There are 2 further stations like this in Berlin.

    The station is branded in U Bahn colors, even the S Bahn platforms, which makes it look really strange to someone familiar with U Bahn branding!


  • #66
    CIE
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    Those traction motors are quite loud.


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  • #67
    murphaph
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    CIE wrote: »
    Those traction motors are quite loud.
    Class 480's (DB) are even louder, horrible noise they make.


  • #68
    CIE
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    World's biggest "tram"?

    The "South Shore Line" in Michigan City, Indiana, USA. Usually single-deck cars (which still measure 25.9m long by 3.2m wide by 3.86m tall; the double-deckers are over 4.9m tall and each car weighs almost 69 tonnes empty), this is the last example of the "interurban"-type passenger railway, although this runs on the general railway network (most interurbans did not, although some ran on the underground and elevated lines that some would term "metro"). Used to run on two other tramways that don't exist anymore, in East Chicago and South Bend (both in Indiana); a very long commuter line, at about 90 miles (runs between Chicago and South Bend Airport, with some shorter trips between Chicago and Gary that don't reach the tramway at Michigan City).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc50TRno_aE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bUxWTaRApc


  • #69
    corktina
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    i HAVE to go to the USA to see the trains one day The bell on the first one seemed a waste of time given the air horn clarity...


  • #70
    Cookie_Monster
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    :eek:


  • #71
    Our man in Havana
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    corktina wrote: »
    i HAVE to go to the USA to see the trains one day The bell on the first one seemed a waste of time given the air horn clarity...
    The bell automatically sounds when the horn is sounded.


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  • #72
    lord lucan
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    071's all over the shop(and a bit of steam from 186),savage stuff as ever from Eiretrains.:)

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


  • #73
    Judgement Day
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    Great footage but I can't fathom the appeal of railtours in MkII stock - nice carriages and all as they were for inter-city services. In the good old days I had many happy journeys in the 1906 built, clerestory 12 wheeler No.861 which had been built for the GSWR Cork/Rosslare boat trains - now there was a carriage! One run in particular, on the Dublin/Cork line, sticks in my mind when I travelled in her at 60mph - wheels touching the rails from time to time. :D


  • #74
    Niles
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    I'd be more of a Cravens man myself. 861 is actually under restoration at Whitehead. http://www.steamtrainsireland.com/projects/index.html


  • #75
    center15
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    Hungary has some beautiful trains
    http://www.willdeasyphotography.com/Trains/Trains-of-Hungary
    IMG2077-L.jpg


  • #76
    Cookie_Monster
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    center15 wrote: »
    Hungary has some beautiful trains

    I presume that's not one of them
    vomit.gif


  • #77
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    The way things used to be. I was only a baby when this was recorded. Some seriously good sound in this clip, it's rare that you'd hear a 111 at full tilt nowadays.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaY4LvbbiA


  • #78
    Judgement Day
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    Love those sounds! :D


  • #79
    lord lucan
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    Can't beat the sound of an 071.:)

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


  • #80
    lord lucan
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    Bit of Steam for a change. Some lovely footage of 186 on Santa duty between Belfast & Whitehead last weekend.:)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3JqvpdxJM


  • #81
    Judgement Day
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    Great sound effects too - nearly as good as an 071! :D


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  • #82
    Losty Dublin
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    lord lucan wrote: »
    Can't beat the sound of an 071.:)

    If it's 071 sound you crave then you will dig this one. Fast forward to about the 1:38 point, crank it up and enjoy. If you can rig up your computer to your stereo then you will be literally sucking diesel :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURXs417EBU


  • #83
    CIE
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    Don't think we've seen Jack London Square in Oakland, California yet. A multi-track tramway that has Amtrak double-deckers and freight trains on it...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M5jd634r-Y

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3QCZhacHY


  • #84
    Stonewolf
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    The mandatory horn blasts must be irritating for the locals in such places.


  • #85
    Drimnagh Road
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XvVop3Hia8


    215 departing Pearse with the empty stock for Grand Canal Dock after the afternoon run to Maynooth.


  • #86
    CIE
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    Stonewolf wrote: »
    The mandatory horn blasts must be irritating for the locals in such places.
    Probably, but that's a federal law over there; each crossroads is legally a level crossing. Unless, that is, you can reconfigure things as to create a "quiet zone", which looks like it'd be hard to do on that street.


  • #87
    corktina
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    PROPER railroading!


  • #88
    CIE
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    Even narrow gauge can look modern. Anyone ever see Queensland Rail's Tilt Train, which runs on their 3' 6" gauge...? Fastest test speed was 130 mph.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko_tKUEqknA


  • #89
    ardmacha
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    Probably, but that's a federal law over there; each crossroads is legally a level crossing

    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.


  • #90
    foggy_lad
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    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.
    If only Starbucks could find a way to give your coffee a loud horn bell or whistle:)


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  • #91
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    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.

    or build a street along a railway line.



    which came first?


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