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Train porn

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  • #52
    lord lucan
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    CIE wrote: »
    This is what some short lines in the USA have to put up with. (0:35 to end.)

    Yikes!!!!! :eek:

    The Mullingar-Athlone line would have a better ride quality in its current state than that!:pac:


  • #53
    murphaph
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    Why in God's name would they allow the track to deteriorate to that state? Hard to believe it would even be legal to allow trains to run over it.


  • #54
    DWCommuter
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    It stayed on the track!


  • #55
    Cookie_Monster
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    DWCommuter wrote: »
    It stayed on the track!

    yeah but snails were passing it out at the time...


  • #56
    dowlingm
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    murphaph wrote: »
    Why in God's name would they allow the track to deteriorate to that state? Hard to believe it would even be legal to allow trains to run over it.
    Money. There are freight spurs within an hour's drive of me with 5-25mph limits with sleepers and rail left to go to rack and ruin. The track is privately owned and Transport Canada won't force rail companies to maintain previous levels of rail quality. What happens then is eventually a commuter service is proposed but the full cost ends up being paid by the public rail operator for upgrades and additional trackage which the freight line ends up owning. It's ridiculous.


  • #57
    murphaph
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    dowlingm wrote: »
    Money. There are freight spurs within an hour's drive of me with 5-25mph limits with sleepers and rail left to go to rack and ruin. The track is privately owned and Transport Canada won't force rail companies to maintain previous levels of rail quality. What happens then is eventually a commuter service is proposed but the full cost ends up being paid by the public rail operator for upgrades and additional trackage which the freight line ends up owning. It's ridiculous.
    Do trains in Canada still have imperial speed limits and mileposts or is that all metric too?


  • #58
    dowlingm
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    Commonality with US RRs deemed more important than metrification for the most part. Canadian National is basically a US company (in terms of shareholdings) with significant US operations.


  • #59
    murphaph
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    dowlingm wrote: »
    Commonality with US RRs deemed more important than metrification for the most part. Canadian National is basically a US company (in terms of shareholdings) with significant US operations.
    I remember reading a piece about building materials in Canada after the metric changeover. Most materials (lumber, plasterboard etc.) comes from the US and is all made in "even" imperial units. The Canadians tried to specify stuff in mm but it became to awkward and the industry reverted to imperial. Not sure if that's still the case today.


  • #60
    dowlingm
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    murphaph wrote: »
    I remember reading a piece about building materials in Canada after the metric changeover. Most materials (lumber, plasterboard etc.) comes from the US and is all made in "even" imperial units. The Canadians tried to specify stuff in mm but it became to awkward and the industry reverted to imperial. Not sure if that's still the case today.
    Yup. 2 x 4, 2 x 6, 4 x 4 for timber, inches for screws etc.


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  • #61
    murphaph
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    dowlingm wrote: »
    Yup. 2 x 4, 2 x 6, 4 x 4 for timber, inches for screws etc.
    Cheers for the info. In practice it seems the UK is actually more metric than Canada, despite them (many of them) claiming not to be a metric country at all! I think the only 2 places left in imperial in the UK are road and rail speed limits (and of course air travel, but that's imperial everywhere) and I know that road building (and possibly railway engineering?) is all done in metric in the UK too, and then converted to imperial if needs be (for signage etc.).

    I wonder is it also the case in Canada or do Canadian road engineers use imperial for design as well...


  • #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
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    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?


  • #92
    CIE
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    IINM, the street came first in most cases.

    Amtrak used to run on a tramway in Lafayette, Indiana as well, which was part of the former Monon railroad's main line once; on 5th Street, and there was far less clearance for road traffic to get around the train. These tracks are now gone, and Amtrak has been re-routed onto the former Wabash main line. (Trivia: this is Axl Rose's birthplace.)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_lYQTKrHVc


  • #93
    101sean
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    I find street running fascinating.

    For tight clearances you should watch this video of the Weymouth Quay tramway in Dorset that served cross channel ferries up to the 90s, now disused.

    They even resort to towing cars or bouncing them out of the way :D

    http://youtu.be/x6XEVvVRB_4


  • #94
    CIE
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    Yes, now that's a tramway. Pity that video didn't show the train going under the Lower St. Edmund's Street bridge over Custom House Quay, though.


  • #95
    corktina
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    Now that WAS a tramway you mean. Sadly now abadoned.


  • #96
    Eiretrains
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    Back to some Irish material, these recently uploaded might be of interest, the freight wagons featured in both have been consigned to history, as well as the locos!




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  • #97
    CaptainSkidmark
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuYVV3-00Qw


    you will love this then!


  • #98
    TheBody
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    That is mental!! :pac:


  • #99
    lord lucan
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    Some lovely footage in this,especially 186 giving it socks.:)



  • #100
    AlekSmart
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    CIE wrote: »
    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

    FANTASTIC STUFF CIE.... :D

    Can you just imagine the amount of extra Knickers Pennys would sell in order for them to be gotten in a twist by An Taisce,Friends of the Earth,the RSA,NTA,Red Cross and the Uninterrupted Nights Sleep associations across Ireland :eek:

    It also underlines,I suppose, just why the U.S. got to the Moon and actually still manages to "Do Stuff" whilst we see more benefit in thinking long and hard about ways n means NOT to do the same stuff.
    Stonewolf : The mandatory horn blasts must be irritating for the locals in such places.

    Oddly enough,having spent a goodly part of my early life close to Railway sounds,the reverse tends to be the case,as such regular everyday backgrounds tend to be absorbed by the brain and filtered accordingly...it's when they STOP that one feels the effects.


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #101
    CIE
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    There are fewer tramways for the big trains nowadays, at least as part of main lines. Fresno, California used to have a rather long tramway along Q Street and Diana Street; the railway still runs along those streets, but now in its own reservation along the side of the street rather than as a tramway in the middle as shown here (from 1987).
    AM33.jpg


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