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R No.4843
Time for something big to read?

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66868 – "The Railway Conquest of the World" by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (© 1911)
¨ R No.4856  >>4873
Light reading this time.

https://archive.org/details/computerprogramp00spen – POWREQ is a computer program for calculating/modelling the power requirements of mass transit vehicles.

In case someone feels like digging into FORTRAN source code, the report contains a print-out of POWREQ's code.
¨ R No.4873  >>4876
>>4856

oh god, you shouldn't have posted this. I'm gonna sink waaaaay too much time into this.
¨ R No.4876
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>>4873 – I had best not mention the self-driving people-mover (AMTV) that the JPL was playing with ca. 1980… Oops, I just did, didn't I?

Anyway, the control program for it was also written in FORTRAN; Microsoft FORTRAN-80, to be exact. Didn't know it could produce ROMable code.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search?q=AMTV%20Vehicle
¨ R No.4962
http://lost-albion.blogspot.com/2012/03/railway-ribaldry.html – A few images from a W. Heath Robinson book named "Railway Ribaldry".

Incidentally, the usual translation of "Heath Robinson" from British English into American is "Rube Goldberg".
¨ R No.4969
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67030 – "Ralph on the Midnight Flyer" by Allen Chapman (pub. 1923)
Book #7 in Chapman's "Railroad" series.

Can't have a quiet day, always Action! and more Action!
¨ R No.5167
https://soranews24.com/2022/02/25/cat-becomes-head-priest-at-japanese-shrine/

Should someone still remember Super Stationmaster Tama at Watayama ER's Kishi station, then you perhaps know that her successor at the station was Nitama while Tama herself was enshrined. Nitama has now acquired the small extra duty of head priest at Tama's shrine.
¨ R No.5351
https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical/Wireless/50s/PW-1955-07.pdf

Starting on the sixteenth page is an article on an experiment by the French railways. Locomotive BB-9003 was equipped to allow remote control via radio on a stretch of the line between Paris and Le Mans.
¨ R No.5352
I fumble-fingered my way into losing a collection of links, but if you let Google search for 'railroad radio site:worldradiohistory.com', you will get back a bunch of articles on experimental and productive use of radio in late WW2 and after the war.
¨ R No.5401
https://soranews24.com/2022/05/28/train-conductor-left-behind-by-own-train-in-ja
panese-countryside-proves-he-didnt-really-need-it/

So it's a fair few years since I last heard of an incident like this. Then it was a JRW conductor that jumped out to assist a drunk on the platform, only to be left behind. Again, the lack of conductor was discovered at the next stopping station.
¨ R No.5702
https://www.studiodilena.com/en/anatomy-of-a-steam-locomotive.html – Here is a large (ca. 12 MB) poster, albeit in French, with cut-away drawings of a steam locomotive. The type is not specified, but hardcore ferroequinologists can no doubt figure it out somehow.
¨ R No.5732
https://flashbak.com/going-loco-the-joy-of-trainspotting-37301/ – When trainspotting was semi-cool in the UK.
¨ R No.5925
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69588 – "The Romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway" by Roderick George MacBeth. Pub. 1924.

It exists there in HTML, ePub and Kindle formats.
¨ R No.5947
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https://soranews24.com/2023/01/15/we-travel-across-the-city-like-royalty-hiroshi
ma-streetcar-turns-into-fancy-private-dining-area/

Yep. That is a really fancy tram.
¨ R No.5966
https://soranews24.com/2023/01/25/kyoto-station-is-a-bad-place-to-be-in-a-snowst
orm-videos-show/

The station's design is cool, but may be a tad too open to the weather.
¨ R No.5970
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:)
¨ R No.6125  >>6267
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https://nebraska-locksmiths.org/ is the home of the Manifold Menus cookbooks. They contain both recipes and how to find good cooking spots.

The PDF links are at the bottom of the page.
¨ R No.6137
https://thelibrary.org/lochist/frisco/allaboard/Optimized/1997_v11_1.pdf

An issue of "All Aboard", published by the Frisco Railroad Museum. It conains, among other things, the essay "Facts and Fables of Diesel Freight Units". For some reason, it has me wondering if a guy named Dave Barry ever worked for EMD.
¨ R No.6183
https://worldradiohistory.com/Westinghouse_Engineer.htm

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Company-Publications/Westinghouse-Engineer
/Westinghouse-Engineer-1945-03.pdf contains a discussion on geared-turbine steam locomotives.
¨ R No.6267
>>6125
I can't believe this exists
¨ R No.6293
Does anyone want a small Railroad Terminology hardback? It's used from the library and yours for the cost of shipping in the US.
¨ R No.6296  >>6548
https://worldradiohistory.com/Practical-Mechanics.htm – An old British magazine that had quite a few articles related to railways. Modellers might be interested in some of them.
¨ R No.6302
https://soranews24.com/2023/10/04/doai-station-the-deepest-station-in-japan-is-a
lso-one-of-the-scariest-like-a-video-game-dungeon/

An RPG adventure game for the tetsu-ota?
¨ R No.6540
https://soranews24.com/2024/03/11/stay-in-a-special-tokyo-metro-train-room-at-a-
hotel-with-a-front-seat-to-the-railways/

Too bad this is only until the end of May.
¨ R No.6548
>>6296
This is superb, thank you for posting.
¨ R No.6557
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Hobbies-UK.htm – Hobbies Weekly is another British magazine that had features and articles for the railway modeller from time to time.

There were also articles on fishing, woodworking, photography, stamp collecting, music, electronics ...
¨ R No.6569
https://archive.org/details/ModelEngineerVol073No1807wIndex
https://archive.org/details/modelengineer

This is the final UK magazine I know of with content for railway modellers. I am sure there are more; I just don't know of them.
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