Oh god, crazy liberal twats raving on about central planning and government encroachment...

That's nothing. I don't get the fascination with Apple's iProducts. All that enforced sameness...

Trains... No two are ever the same.

what's the point behind fascination with cars? baseball cards? pokemon? football? you can ask the same question of just about anything. We happen to like trains.

What's the point of OP's life?

If trains truly didn't fascinate you just a little bit, you would have no anxieties big enough to be asking that question. Perhaps nobody TOLD you that your curiosity was worth cultivating? Or that it's OK to have a unique personality, with your own interests and motivations? Or perhaps you just never had any toy trains when growing up, and consequently deny that they might be significant to others? Just why DO you ask your question, OP?

I don't get the fasination behind fasination? What's the point?

"Life. Don't talk to me about life."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby

Guse!!!!! his son om betch traled us!! Wa olle hav bugurtinaf nao((((9

>>100743 /thread

I just like trains maine..

I like to see them move about, operating in a grid-like structure, I like the look of the bogies. They're cool machines.

Oh sweet, a BL2 thread! I should dig up my four HO scale BL2 shells a-...what the fuck

>>100749
Introducing: the BLT.

And the BL2b.

>>100750
Looks very much like a diesel GG1

Animooted.

>The Tramway du Cap-Ferret, also known as the Petit train du Cap-Ferret, is a 600mm narrow gauge railway on the Atlantic coast of France in the department of Gironde. The tramway is situated on the Cap Ferret, a peninsular that which divides the Atlantic Ocean from Arcachon Bay, and links the shores of the bay with the beaches on the Atlantic coast. The line began as three 800mm gauge horse-drawn tramway lines with open 4-wheel coaches. The horses were later replaced by locotracteurs which were farm tractors fitted with flanged steel wheels. These lines closed in the 1930s. The line was revived in the 1950s as a 600mm gauge line with diesel locotracteurs hauling trains of open 4-wheel coaches and Decauville-style bogie toastracks. The line is largely situated along the road side. The line is some 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) long and connects the Bélisaire jetty on Arcachon Bay with Horizon beach on the Atlantic coast. It operates every afternoon from April to September, with services running every 30 minutes or less, and with some morning services in the peak summer season. Ferries have always connected the Bélisaire jetty with the resort town of Arcachon on the other side of Arcachon Bay. Initially these ferries were substantial steamers which also ran sea trips. In post war years the steamers were replaced by attractive and distinctive vedettes based on the design of the local fishing vessels.

Same thing will happen in Tacoma really soon; once the Point Defiance Bypass is finished, Amtrak trains will stop behind Freighthouse Square at Tacoma Dome Station. Amtrak will be steps away from transit and Greyhound.

>>100637
This looks like an ideal location to import that great British institution, the platform pub.

>>100650

There are quite a few dining options in Freighthouse Square (that green building) at least.

>>100660

You can even get cervasas at the mexican joint.

>>100701

There ya go!

>>100702

>Corona

How it's made...

>>100718
I'm mexican and I agree with this.

As a Charlottean I'm pretty surprised, but with the way he bitterly fought over the streetcar I don't doubt he has the guts to do big things.

He's a decent pick but I wish Obama had picked someone more experienced with pushing transportation projects. Also he's a little bit too highway-friendly for my taste.

My ideal candidate would have been Antonio Villaraigosa. He has pushed for rail and transit like no other person in this country ever has. Things like pushing Measure R and Measure J in Los Angeles and his drive to push forward biking and Metro expansion projects have impressed me enormously. Endure his tenture, Metro has pursued more rail projects simultaneously than any other city in recent history. He also has tried to campaign for municipalities across the country to pursue transit en masse.

Either way, I'm gonna miss Ray LaHood. I wasn't impressed when Obama first selected him but he turned out to be pretty good. Hopefully Foxx can surprise me again.

He seems to be a straight-up politician who probably knows less about transportation policy than LaHood. TIGER was the best thing that happened in years. Let's hope it gets maintained or even expanded.

>>100690

Look at that smooth hombre!

He's like Federico Pena, but with more social justice activism.

The president should've nominated John Catoe, former G.M. of WMATA.

He had a spectacular record presiding over system maintenance, fare justice, internal loss prevention, fiscal responsibility, public outreach, and first-class safety. You couldn't ask for a better administrator for the Feds.

>>100716

My sarcasm detector just tripped...

>>100690

Though he's being term-limited out I doubtAntonio Villaraigosa would want a low-profile administration post. He's young and with a bright political future, I'd expect him to hold-out to make a run for senator whenever Boxer or Feinstien decide to retire or governor when Jerry Brown is term-limited out.

A lot would depend on what Gavin Newsome decides to do, I'd doubt he'd want to go head-to-head in a primary of any sort with Newsome.

Not sure how much I liked LaHood, liked his stance on airline passenger rights. I listened to a couple of interviews he did on NPR, he was passionate on many issues but to the point of sounding a bit unhinged.

HOLY SHIT

You aren't kidding... (btw I read "Brown trousers time" in Holly's voice...)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316622/Commuter-train-narrowly-avoids-near-fatal-head-collision-freighter-driver-jumps-train-save-himself.html
Hope the reporter didn't get fired for not over-sensationalising it...

well geeee
>>100691 duh obviously its old Cause both locos are retired & the red & white loco looks more like CP Rail

/me gives @microbuss a flat stare.

It's Daily Mail. Nuff said.

>>100691

They may not have over-sensationalized it. But to call the VIA Rail trains on the Windsor-Quebec City corridor "commuter trains" is a bit inaccurate. That'd be like saying the Amtrak Cascades or the NEC are commuter trains, considering the distances between the major Canadian cities in the East.

One might suppose that DM's London staff regularly commutes via Edinburgh -- London/Edinburgh/London (UK) is roughly the same distance as W/Q.

>>100667
/thread

>>100667
And, that wasn't the only Hamburger on European rails...

>2013
>not getting your burgers from the tram drivethrough

At the turn of the century, hamburgers hadn't caught on yet, as this PRR menu indicates.

>>100673
The Burlington sought to provide economical nourishment in its dining cars. Hamburgers played a prominent role on most Burlington trains.

KCS made burgers a main item, second only to the ham steak.

If you wanted a burger on the Santa Fe, you had to order off the kiddie menu.

I haven't found any pre-war menus with hamburgers (although one offered it's upscale variant, a salisbury steak). In the 1950's, it was still mostly a midwestern/western thing. Santa Fe's El Capitain offered them in 1954 (the cheap hot sandwich on The Chief was hot dogs!). But by the 1960's they were just about everywhere.

In the cafe/lounge on its Electroliners, the North Shore Line interurban served what else but Electroburgers! Right up until the end in 1963.

First Amtrak Dining Car meal I had was a hamburger. It was good.

Were you to actually see me IRL, you'd likely sooner think of Finland, though.

http://satwcomic.com/

And I'm probably more like Denmark.

>>100655

You're a cartoon koala, Noofnoof!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyNz1Qg1f5k -- Spanish freighter heading for France.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcw70AU0PWw -- Thionville, France.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifmbibrp6ac -- Loetschberg route, Switzerland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2Xr6YjjPM -- Mixed traffic in Rovereto, Italy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZEvJWJE24 -- Electric haulage in Finland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3nsTMo3XvM -- More mixed traffic, this time in Hungary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEqAyq1fesg and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7wbUvvFtDU -- Meanwhile, in South Africa...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt3ZaSRB__E -- Bringing home the oil in Japan.

>>100654

>Finald

Are you Kale?

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2002649089_monorail27m.html

Long story short: two trains of the Seattle Monorail got into a sideswipe crash in 2005.

The Seattle Monorail dates back to the 1962 World's Fair, and links the downtown core with Seattle Center (a large public area that was once the exposition grounds).

>>100583

At the southern terminal, Westlake Station, the two tracks come close together so that the outer track can be accessed with a ramp. each trains on its own dedicated track, and someone mucked up the timing.

To think the people of Seattle voted for a regional monorail system. Nothing came of it, though.

>>100599

Well, what happened was this: They voted to get it started, but the people running it spent all the money for studies and consultations and Environmental Impact Studies and nothing actually got built, and when they went back and asked for more money the people said NO and we got Sound Transit instead.

That's why they switched to Light Rail System from the airport to the city central.

>>100617

And then there were all those voter initiatives where people got to pay bargain basement prices for car tabs, even if it meant screwing the transportation budget.