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Anonymous 11/15/23(Wed)00:19:21 R No.6358 [Reply]

asking train autists since couldn't find my answer elsewhere. so how do trains turn? I get they have cone shaped wheels but I guess turns aren't 100% flat and have a small slope and different wheels have different "positions" at the same time, like how bus turns right? I mean do they have a "ill shaped" turn?

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¨	Anonymous 11/17/23(Fri)20:10:39 R No.6375 Actual high speed rolling stock has steerable axles (the axles can turn to better match the curvature of the track, within the bogie) but it's secret special sauce and we don't talk about it much because foamers are usians who call em "trucks"

¨	K-POW 11/18/23(Sat)01:47:24 R No.6376 >>6381 >>6374 If you actually care, look up the stress/strain relationship. It's something I don't think is widely taught. You realize that the rail deforms a non-negligble amount as each TRUCK passes over it. (Bogies are for golfers)

¨	Anonymous 11/19/23(Sun)16:49:33 R No.6381 >>6376 might look into it once I finish midterms. on an unrelated note, did the post count reset when site went down?

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Anonymous 11/04/21(Thu)04:29:32 R No.4667 [Reply] >>4989

is this real?

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Anonymous 04/10/22(Sun)03:44:49 R No.5270
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Anonymous 04/23/22(Sat)06:16:09 R No.5300
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It's always been this way though; here's a photo I took off the metrolink in 2020.

Sorry it's not of the epicenter of the garbage and also I have a Samsung.

Anonymous 11/17/23(Fri)05:21:19 R No.6372

Seems to me the issue could be solved by a better placement of the containers. Instead of using a 40 foot container use two 20 foots and load them with the doors facing inwards. If you have to use a 40 foot container, a simple addition to the rail car that would mimic the cab protectors on flat bed trucks would provide a barrier to prevent the doors being opened even if the locks were cut.

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Malaise 1524 11/13/23(Mon)16:01:13 R No.6357 [Reply]

Will the ever so slow decline ever stop?

What ever new that gets built is a drop in the ocean compared to what is still being lost. In particular, there is hardy any new freight, no provisions for rail freight in the future. Definitely no new corridors. Just high speed pork more than anything else.

Anonymous 11/15/23(Wed)20:42:56 R No.6363

Freight is in a fine position. It's just that it has become more efficient than it used to be. No need for a bunch of slow as hell short line railroads hauling crap small distances when a truck can do it just fine. The usual mainlines haul as much freight as ever. Again, it's already extremely efficient. No need for new corridors because we already figured out what the best ones are and which make most economical sense to keep using.

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Anonymous 02/15/23(Wed)21:54:29 R No.5985 [Reply] >>5987

What you faghots know about riding Freight trains?

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Anonymous 10/21/23(Sat)10:34:06 R No.6318

>>6309

Looku up Brave Dave's Big Fat Freight Hop series on YouTube for a look at what it's like for inexperienced travellers. He travelled from Montreal to Vancouver and it's a great series.

Yeah you do need knowledge before hand and ideally you'd want to travel with someone who has done it before but you can still do it alone. Just educate yourself on things beforehand and be careful about your safety.

Anonymous 11/09/23(Thu)10:42:53 R No.6347 >>6354

>>6295
Where do you think the recording box is? I remember reading a post of a technician who got fired for covering up the cameras but wouldn't it be better to just disconnect the power from the camera box? No vandalism of course but if they expect to review the footage then it would have to be somewhere accessible, especially if it was rigged on. Might make DPU riding viable again

¨	K-POW 11/10/23(Fri)22:16:12 R No.6354 >>6347 That would trigger an anti-tampering alarm.

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Do rail workers enjoy being fucked in the ass? Anonymous 12/02/22(Fri)12:25:43 R No.5859 [Reply]

or was this rape?

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¨	Anonymous 05/01/23(Mon)14:38:12 R No.6077 >>6055 Lern to spel e

¨	Anonymous 10/24/23(Tue)17:09:23 R No.6322 NAS coal

¨	Anonymous 11/09/23(Thu)10:50:25 R No.6351 >>5862 I wished the common man had enough put away money to be able to force their will by simply quitting/striking. Its sad to see the ones who labor is the most important be essentially a slave class. its either slave away for scraps, or dont and starve

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B&M Boxcar lights Ham549!UJtfjk8V/w 05/17/22(Tue)18:57:46 R No.5381 [Reply]

It is dark inside the boxcar so I decided to put in some lights.

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Tex!S0C7KLz8n. 11/02/23(Thu)00:08:27 R No.6336 >>6338

>>6335
If you're not storing it on active rail and its presence isn't violating any local laws, you could definitely have any type of rail car you wanted on your property.

Getting it to you is the biggest challenge, however. You can probably find gondolas for sale right now. Paying to have a single car shipped to you can be a bit of a hassle because you're the exact kind of customer that most railroads don't want. They want volume, e.g. a rock plant getting 75 cars a day or some shit like that.

¨	K-POW 11/03/23(Fri)16:28:15 R No.6338 >>6336 Get it shipped to someone else's track nearby and then pay to get it trucked the last bit. It's still going to cost more for the shipping than they car, most likely.

aGEisfinetoo !zauBi9sIBQ 11/04/23(Sat)17:02:45 R No.6340

As an example tidbit, when Age of Steam acquired their AT&N 2-10-0, they paid roughly $10,000 for the locomotive. Having it trucked from where it was to an active rail siding (approximately 4 miles away) to be loaded onto a flatcar and delivered by rail cost approximately $90,000.

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train Art OwO 10/20/23(Fri)16:35:17 R No.6317 [Reply]

I love trainz

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Toronto Street Car Tickets Salvaged From Titanic Wreck. CLC Guy 05/13/23(Sat)20:51:25 R No.6111 [Reply]

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/the-story-behind-why-12-toronto-streetcar-tickets-wer
e-found-in-the-titanic-wreckage-1.6392896

Twelve Toronto streetcar tickets sunk on the Titanic and were unearthed decades later on the sandy floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

The tattered tickets, printed with streetcar illustrations and “Toronto” in block letters, were tucked into the wallet of Major Arthur Peuchen, a Toronto entrepreneur who was onboard the Titanic before it collided with an iceberg in 1912.

The entrepreneur was heading home from a meeting in London, when he boarded the luxury ship alongside other mega-wealthy “Astors and Guggenheims,” as Bunch put it.

At least 34 passengers on the Titanic were Canadian, he said. There was Harry Molson, inheritor of the Molson brewing empire, and Hudson Allison, one of Quebec’s most successful stock brokers.

On April 14, Peuchen was getting ready for bed around 11:30 p.m., when he felt what he thought was a heavy wave hitting the ship.

“I would simply have thought it was an unusual wave which had struck the boat; but knowing that it was a calm night and that it was an unusual thing to occur on a calm night, I immediately put my overcoat on and went up on deck,” Peuchen said, recalling the events of that fateful night during an inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic just months later.

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¨	Anonymous 10/10/23(Tue)08:21:45 R No.6310 theyre killing one of their surface rail systems and plan to compensate with urbanite subway lines over there. I dont like subway dystopias

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Did it really happen? Pioner Mineur 03/08/23(Wed)22:03:11 R No.6010 [Reply] >>6307

https://external-preview.redd.it/e6hF4fF1Xkc0_LhK5QR3LRujiT5AM-3ADd_Cubf28p8.jpg
?auto=webp&s=ee9dec46d0a7e0cd62c5824ae721a5f117aa7c6b – This Regioshuttle attempted multi-track drifting in April 2019 with little success.

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¨	Anonymous 06/09/23(Fri)17:24:05 R No.6139 >>6024 It trainsistioned!

Pioner Mineur 09/26/23(Tue)17:42:42 R No.6292
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Dutch firefighters found a sure-fire way to troll the 'Net.

¨	Anonymous 10/09/23(Mon)13:28:39 R No.6307 >>6010 only because there was someone there to see it, otherwise it wouldn't happen

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trains + Aİ Tech? AnonimPerson0987654321 08/27/23(Sun)02:19:20 R No.6238 [Reply]

is it possible?

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¨	Anonymous 09/26/23(Tue)12:40:17 R No.6290 Dubai Metro is also fully automated.

¨	Anonymous 10/06/23(Fri)13:17:33 R No.6303 Nürnberg also has one of their lines automated. I think it's U3, the newest addition.

¨	Random Anonymous User !tsGpSwX8mo 10/07/23(Sat)15:13:41 R No.6304 Oh no he's singing again!

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