jreb.org has just about the best ns info i've found on the web.

Where in Europe is this?

trendy and stylish polan, of course

>>86966
yup
When I have right mind and tiem I'll drop PL locomotives painted for countries participating in EURO2012 (not all entered service yet, so I'm waiting ;P)

>>86969

Oh yeah, Poland is co-hosting the UEFA Euro tournament this time!

>>86969
please do.
<- Austrian version from 2008

Note: the engineer (driver) sits on the left side. Was this standard Australian practice? Or did somebody flip the picture of this K class cab?

More Ozzified steam.

>>86912

I always thought that locomotive engineers sat on the same side their train usually traveled on? Ozzie trains have that vestige of the empire where everyone travels on the left side.

>>86900

>Sydney has arguably some of the ugliest suburban trains in the world.

FTFY.

>>86917

So Strayan, it hurts!

>>86916
In NZ almost all trains are driven from the right, on the left track, with signs and signals on the left. Kinda fucked up.

>>86917
also, why is NSW's signalling system so fucked up? Take the worst parts of british and american practice and combine them together.

>>86917
Bah, those old dinosaurs are getting phased out for MORE SHINY PLASTICS

>>86899
Hello Anon.
Oops, I was about to launch into the Moreton Bay Rail Link, which is going ahead, and in the very tight Federal Budget, still got a suitable amount of funding to ensure it's progress still putters along.

Last I heard of CAMCOS, was that the local council there was opposing it. Projects like that, including MBRL, and GCRL usually get funding from all 3 levels, so I assume it's slowly growing dust while the Local level opposes it. All/most of the land is being preserved, but I can't imagine it happening soon, and I'd hate for it to happen before CRR.

Useful Links, for those following along at home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroochydore_railway_line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton_Bay_Rail_Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_River_Rail (I actually created this article, and it got featured on the Wikipedia front page in the "Did you know..." section. =D )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_Light_Rail

It's beautiful

Never in America. Their trains are still stuck in the 1980s.

That's Oscar (Outer Suburban Carriage)
Here are some pics of it inside and a nice shot of it in service

>>86938
I was curious as to the interior. What's the difference in seating capacity compared to a single level coach?

>>86940

102 to 77 in the driving carriage, compared to a Hunter Railcar.
I'd direct link sauce, but I'm being spamfiltered. On the CityRail website (Which I can't link) it has specsheets and everything.

All of jack and shit. I had neither the ways nor means to get to Snoqualmie nor Olympia. Besides, the last time this neck of the country got any kind of train display worth seeing IMO, I was living 700 miles away.

This is kinda' weird, but since I study trains so intensely, I deliberately did nothing rail-related yesterday. Sorta' like a lush who stays dry on New Year's Eve: it's amateur night.

Washington D.C. had no National Train Day festivities that I was aware of, so all I did was go to work and go to band practice. Practice was held at our drummers house, and he recently got out his ol' 4x8, so I brought some of my own trains and after everyone was nice and intoxicated, they all wanted me to show them how trains worked. Only having just now seen this thread, do I realize how appropriate a day yesterday was to teach these folks about trains.

>>86921
The reason why there was no National Train Day in DC because of all the construction due to the 5.8 Earthquake last year. But this booth showed up to represent the Day.

Most of the festivities occurred in NYC.

(The Nation's Capital got shafted again.)

It was so great to meet so many friends from Facebook, the railroad and the public yesterday!! A mom and her son came and she told me her son has aspergers and this day was better than Christmas, I was able to share with her that I too have aspergers and it was like Christmas for me too!! Many of us wish it was NTD everyday.

Nothing special here...just ran errands. Felt like any other day, to be honest.

I didn't go railfanning.
I didn't work on the railway.
I didn't post on 1chan...well, more than once.
What I did was accidentally find 2 speeders in some guy's backyard while taking a path I hadn't taken lately.
Today is my train day.

>>86922

Shows how often I go downtown, I had no idea there was construction due to the earthquake.

>>85724
If they ever do a live-action reboot of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Bieber looks perfect for Mac. Not sure if he has the range of talent to play a cartoon 8-year-old boy, though.

>>85634
You know, the old Sprint logo looks more like a railroad herald than a Telecom copany

>>85732
And the new Sprint logo looks like they just twisted Amtrak's sideways.

>>85735

And the Amtrak Phase V logo looks like they twisted the Bank of America logo

>>86819

And we can't have the railroad business without bankers and investors.

>>86819
Always makes me think of the Korean National Railroad logo.

>also a government owned operation, conspiracy!

>>86898

Lookin' kinda American there, South Korean train.

>>86903

Korail likes their EMD's.

>>86898
I rather like South Korea's odd mix of japanese, and american influence as well as bits of french and russian

Colonists and liberators have made for a nice rail system.

Oh that's what I was forgetting. I had that nagging feeling I had forgotten what today was. Like what you feel when you forget a birthday or an anniversary...

>>86843
....or when you're me....

>>86851

You ever get that feeling on the anniversary of the Last Spike at Craigellackywacky?

>>86855
I just had the weirdest dream about this giant mecha/gundam/robot thingy, only instead of being vaguely hominid, it was a snake. Why post it here? It was... The Strathcona!

>>86855
Not even once.

>>86894

Maybe it was Canadian armored cavalry, like Lord Strathcona's Horse?

>>86905

>mfw I just realized that crest is /rail/ relevant because it has a crossed railroad spike and maul in the middle

Under the circumstances, I think $25 an hour is fair.

>>86817

Talking to my dad (Tool and die maker by day, Handyman whatever is left)this morning. His reasoning was that a "professional" would have billed the guy over $500 in labor, tool usage, etc + material. My father would have charged a $100+ service call and dragged it out to about 3 hours. As he put it "It is worth it to them for it to be fixed before a spouse or neighbor gets home". I did the job as fast as possible and it came out perfect.

My big money maker is brake jobs.... recently did pads and rotors on both axles of a late 90s Crown Vic... took me about 1.25 hours. I charged $120 labor and $10 for "unusual problems"(having to use my propane torch to get lugs and a tire off). He spent a about 180 on parts... not bad considering he was told $500-$700 by every local shop. For most everything automotive I charge $25 an hour.

I've got it! Start a freelance GEVO repair business.

>>86859

UPee is always hiring diesel mechanics out here in California...how hard can it possibly be?

Oh the life of a small business owner.
Yesterday I had somebody pay me over $100 in dollar coins because they couldn't find the checkbook.

I find there are five types of clients:

1. People who ask you to work later in the day/next day....then arnt home and or wont answer the phone, then ask me about the work a few weeks later.
2. People who schedule 20 min jobs 2 months in advance
3. People who are "friends" that ask you to do $2k in labor for $50
4. People who are never happy with costs. example: Carb rebuild and head cleanup on a lawnmower that will not start, fill 80ish bags with lawn waste, mow lawn, trim trees, trim brush, spray weed killer, and bring in 2 truck loads of firewood.

18 hours labor+materials+gas=$402.There reaction: "Are you crazy? I was being nice by offering you this job". My reaction:" Okay then, you learn to work on small engines, buy a truck, find your own free firewood, and take care of your own fucking shit....How about I dump that 3k lbs of lawn waste on your front yard?"

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>>86869

Regarding #3, my policy is to not give out friend discounts at all. I tell them it's because the studio where I work doesn't allow it, but it's really because I don't want to deal with people whining about how I should give them a better deal. No, screw you, I need to eat and have shelter (and trains). Instead I give them extra time, add a few minutes to the end of each lesson. Maybe what you could do is add a little to each job you do. Fix a lawnmower for a friend, maybe tune up the engine some more while you're at it.

>tfw being a gypsy i just take their money and drive away not even doing the job, brb parts run

SERUSLY GUYS WERE IS THE GE IN THIS HERE TOPIX

>>86881
The GE is n the shop. Getting repaired. Again.

>>86885
GE? In MY Calgary? It's....really quite likely, actually.

That's a pity...still, it wasn't really that long, was it? Barely even a tourist attraction?

>>86879

It might as well have been nothing more than a tourist attraction; it served the most touristy part of the city. Still, it did what it was supposed to, that being serve the Waterfront, and it did so reasonably well (considering that it was a single-track line serving two or three vehicles at a time with two sidetrack segments).

The Seattle Waterfront Streetcar was only about as long as the more successful Tacoma LINK, and even longer than the new South Lake Union Streetcar. But length isn't as important as how useful it is. The Waterfront Streetcar was pretty useful to people in Seattle (not just tourists), but then City Hall basically enables rich people to destroy the streetcar line with that faggotty sculpture garden. In other words, it was implied that this rail transit link wasn't useful vis-a-vis "art".

>>86880
You forgot to mention BNSF hated it. They were afraid people would get confused and try to catch the trolley on the nearby freight tracks.

>>86887

The city gave BNSF enough concession when they had that above-grade flyover built on Royal Brougham St where the stadiums are.

But when it came to the streetcar, those stuffed shirts just dragged their feet.