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>>85775

Anonymoles are the cancer that is killing the Internet?

Molé

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>>85756

Kartma, while this is an embarrassing question to ask, what anime is this from?

Picture totally unrelated.

>>85863

Darker Than Black.

>>85863

Darker than Black.

(Somehow, I thought you knew and were playing algon.)

>>85867
Wouldn't Darker Than Black be a more fitting commentary on Norfolk Southern train wrecks?

>>85872

Oh, you.

>>85763
gear ratio? freight locomotives need to pull heavy trains and passenger locomotives need to accelerate faster, so there is difference in their transmission.
freight locomotives also often lack of function to heat the passenger cars.

>>85766

this. Anything can be a passenger locomotive if it can power the cars and is clear to operate on a specific line. Long distance passenger units will generally be cowled so that the crew can get to the cab without going outside but there's not much fundamentally different.

>>85770

>>Long distance passenger units will generally be cowled so that the crew can get to the cab without going outside but there's not much fundamentally different.

That's US specific difference, not general.
Usually freight locomotives were of different external design than passenger ones in europe, depends on time and manufacturer. Because of costs, PL PKP used to change gear ratio to reclassify locomotive (not very successful if you ask me).
TRAXX crashed all of this. You can get any locomotive you want, freight slow, passenger fast, AC/DC, even diesel, it's still the same body (and mostly mechanics). Others followed.

freight → maximum power
passenger → maximum speed

>>85773
While this is correct at face value, it should be remembered that speed amplifies several secondary action pertaining to stability, not the least of which is the gyroscopic physics of the wheels themselves (pic related). Greater care must be exercised in designing high speed equipment: experience shows that above 80 m/h, things start getting weird (vibration, yaw, "hunting," etc.).

>>85770
It doesn't need to have HEP generator, that function can be performed by a special type coach which carry a diesel alternator (and usually luggage too). This is the common practice in PT KAI

>>85795
Correct. Here is a freight loco slapped on the front of a passenger train, which has a power carriage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSFGDiVrrAg

>>85773
It's definitely not that easy to say.
freight → maximum tractive effort while achieving maximum freight speed with adequate acceleration
passenger → maximum acceleration while maintaining adequate tractive effort while achieving highest allowed passenger speed

Also, weight. Freight locomotives tend to be heavier than passenger ones, that helps with pulling heavy freight. IORE locomotives pulling iron ore have their body made from armoured steel to increase their weight!

Would you prefer this guy?

>>85752 NO! No! Make my ears stop bleeding please.

>>85752
Sure, now make him stand still.

inb4 picture

>>85750
A lovely film,to describe the narrator as you do
betrays a narrowness of mind never seen in those days.

>>85817
Well then, excuse me for not hopping in my time machine and integrating myself into the British culture for years in order to fully appreciate that accent before deciding that, in my opinion, his accent is drab. God save the Queen!

>>85824

They'd probably mistake you for a cattle baron or oil tycoon.

>>85752
It might be interesting to hear Extreme Trains re-voiced by a restrained British commentator. Word for word; same video, just use Automatic Dialog Replacement (ADR) like they use in virtually every Hollywood movie.

>>85838
Get me a suit, I'll grab my nice hat, and I'll hop in my time machine and come back with results. I'm hoping for cattle baron; I can bullshit that a bit easier than oil because I have more experience with walking hamburgers than Texas Tea.

It looks like some kind of cable funicular tram; I think this is in Portugal somewheres. Boggles my mind, for sure.

It seems like it's some sort of 3-phase power system. 2 overhead lines and 1 electrified rail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_AC_railway_electrification

That is one of the three funiculars in Lisbon.
Unlike other funiculars, where the motor is located at the mountain station and the cars are unpowered, in Lisbon, the cars carry motors themselves and the cable is only used to even out the weight.
For this to work, the motors need to be switched on and off at the same time, so they're put in series.
The circuit goes power plant->first catenary wire->first car->other wire->second car->ground rail.

>>85844
Rube Goldberg would be proud.

Two years after this was filmed, the Metro Red Line held up pretty nicely in the 6.6 magnitude Northridge Earthquake.

(Also, a lot of the "record ridership" on the BART after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake had to with with the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge being all but destroyed.)

The only security I've dealt with on the Red Line was when a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy asked to see my ticket and to make sure I wasn't just some truant case. I heard security got really ridiculous after 3/11, where deputies were giving the business to tourists taking pictures at a station.

I just couldn't be arsed to watch the rest of the 15-minute video, though.

Incidentally, I was there for the opening of the Red Line in early 1993. Got a button from it, but I lost it in a move.

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SINCERELY,
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PRINCE OF NIGERIA

I'd like you to meet my girlfriend
My girlfriend who lives in Canada
Her name is Alberta
She lives in Vancouver
She cooks like my mother
And sucks like a Hoover!

>>85709
Uhhuhhuuhuhhuhuhuhuh
He said sucks..
Heheheheh yeah hehehe

>>85711
Shut up, fart knocker!

>>85719
Turd Burglar

>>85794
Butt munch. Hehehehe.

>>85641
That just needs a few squirts of spray nine.

A real cat doing a Chessie imitation.

Chessie system rostered but 13 U30C, and considering its coal traffic, probably should've had more (and fewer GP40-2). None survived until CSX.

The vermillion stripe was wider on the U-boats.

>>85721

Actually, I don't... Isn't that where the Jawn Henry came from?

>>85748 Nope, Jawn Henry was N&W. This is an M-1.

anyone have any pics of the cumberland yards?

The C & O owned and operated the infamous Greenbrier resort hotel, which, in recent years, was discovered to merely be the facade of an elaborate shelter for our Congressional representatives in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.

In a SHTF situation, the Greenbrier would have a serious rodent problem and the C & O would just look the other way.

>>85807

... that's why they had Chessie cat in the first place...

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From some internet non trains fun, try Animals eating animals web site...

Just lookin' at some trains. I like to pretend they exist in my alternate fantasy universes. It is 7 am and I haven't slept yet. I am the master of my domain.

Supfield?

Dreamy.

Deeper... you are getting very sleepy...

We are waiting to take you away.

Fantastic dreams, kiddo.

nobly executed, ably discharged

Though there was that one time Amtrak remotely cared about anything Japanese. Probably because at the time, Pokemon was the current money-printing license.

>>85723

Link related...

http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2006/RAB0603.pdf

>>85726
There is where they failed.
A 737-300 for a budget carrier?
A320 is best plane.

>>85737

>A320 > B733

lolno

>>85737

>A 737-300 for a budget carrier?

>>85737
nice 737 get.

>>85753

>>85753
This makes my point vaild, right?

Here's the 737 I want.