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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭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.


    KANTURK.JPG


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭shanered


    Read this thread purely because its called train porn!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭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.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭flyingsnail


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



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Jehuty42


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


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭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...

    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭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.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭highlydebased




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    The track layout in Heuston didn't really suit loco hauled trains.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭center15


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    190156.jpg.

    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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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭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.

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭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.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭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. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,750 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


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

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

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    source http://www.lokmartin.net/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Sexy! :)

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    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. :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    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. :D

    Was that not the mail train?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Were there not cattle wagons also?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    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):

    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,304 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    From the Photo forum;

    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    impressive stuff for that time!

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



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Damn you Clarkson!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    A 1950s Rail Diesel Car having been stripped back to the frame being rebuilt in Moncton, New Brunswick
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    Details of project here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭highlydebased




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    great but whats with the non genuine green livery?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    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.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    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.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    lord lucan wrote: »

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    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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