Train porn

ardmacha

MGWR wrote: »

Not visible in the photo, but the CNW's H-class' wheel arrangement was 4-8-4. The type was one of the few that could do dual service duties (both freight and high-speed passenger).
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Another H Class getting a wash in 1943, full size image


This giant steam was already being replaced for freight by the likes of this diesel in Arizona. full size image

metrovick001

Another overtaking video, this time a hot shot is overtaking an oil train at Goffs CA.
http://youtu.be/Ses1xc9b6U4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ses1xc9b6U4

h.gricer

Great video Metrovick, I thought that oil train had ceased with the building of a pipe line, maybe I'm wrong, love bogie oil trains, what time of year was it and when was it taken, I douth you'd stand at Goffs in high summer in 45degree heat getting ya brains fried, maybe it was spring or autumn, great place for trains.
Regards
hg

corktina

metrovick001 wrote: »

LOL, the BNSF call it a railway believe it or not!

Www.BNSF.com

yeah I knew that :-)

101sean

NZ Rail special train today for a scout jamboree, I've a nephew in the vintage carriages at the back. Their gear was picked up at Fielding by a traction engine!

metrovick001

Hi HG.
The oil train that the SP ran carried crude oil, the wagons were connected in gangs of thirteen by a ten inch flexible pipe. A pipeline did bring that oil can operation to an end as far as I know. Im not too sure if this train here was bio ethanol or an empty heading to the LA basin for loading, I'll enquire on the socal railroad forum. It was close on 45 deg C when I shot this in May 2010, it must have fried my brains LOL.

MGWR

ardmacha wrote: »

Another H Class getting a wash in 1943, full size image


This giant steam was already being replaced for freight by the likes of this diesel in Arizona. full size image

Interesting that first pic; shows disc driving wheels on the front axle and spoke drivers on the axle with the main driving rods attached.

The EMD FT was actually considered an articulated unit, which made them Bo-Bo-Bo-Bo, with two 16-567s. Two FTs together made about 5,400 horsepower.

dowlingm

Oil trains are huge at the moment in northern US because of bottlenecks in pipeline capacity unable to absorb Alberta and North Dakota oil into the Gulf of Mexico refining complexes. The disaster at Lac Megantic Quebec was a Bakken Field oil train heading for refining on the Atlantic coast because the price of east coast oil is higher at the moment.

metrovick001

Thanks dowlingm.

MGWR

Video showing a journey from top station to bottom on Stuttgart's Zahnradbahn (rack railway), nicknamed Zacke ("Spike"); route number U10. Mostly roadside. Steepest gradient is about 1 in 5.7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9cy2EEoTJY

GMKK96

Some footage I took in Kildare yesterday of some passenger trains and the first liners of 2014.

Fred Swanson

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MGWR

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Norfolk Southern stopped all traffic over this grade back in 2001, but they keep the line officially open to this day.

Maximum grade is 1 in 18.5; average overall grade is about 1 in 23. Still the steepest part of the USA's general railway network. Only old logging railways are steeper in terms of relying on pure adhesion, and those are only open as tourist railways these days, using geared steam engines (usually Shay or Climax) to go up and down grades as steep as 1 in 9.

xtradel

Not sure if already posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmOBgBtu-U

metrovick001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDxjN3EENU

MGWR

metrovick001 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDxjN3EENU

Very nice. That train would indeed need the pushers on that 1 in 33 grade.

Trick of the Tail

No train in this per se, but isn't this part of Baker Street underground station amazing?

dregin

Not seen this before... QUITE the set up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQ-2mnODCo

GBOA

It's for sale too. Better get the piggy bank out.

topnotch

BIG BOY COMING THROUGH STEP ASIDE!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AjAMMq-y06o

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 has left the Ponoma Fairgrounds in Los Angeles and is on her way to Cheyenne Wyoming for restoration scheduled to take between 3-5 years to complete.

MGWR

topnotch wrote: »

BIG BOY COMING THROUGH STEP ASIDE!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AjAMMq-y06o

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 has left the Ponoma Fairgrounds in Los Angeles and is on her way to Cheyenne Wyoming for restoration scheduled to take between 3-5 years to complete.

And of course, the diesel pulling it is numbered "4884", to reflect the Big Boy's wheel arrangement. Also sounds like they have some air hooked up to the 4014's whistle, since it sounds when going over the crossing. Hope it steams well when they convert it to oil burning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjAMMq-y06o

topnotch

UP are sure to make a big deal of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad May 10th 2019, so hopefully she is ready for that.

end of the road

has this been posted before? not train porn as such but an interesting documentary non the less about the bundoran express
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/radio-documentary-bundoran-express.html

Sheldons Brain

Big Iron, Siberia style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkLOm-_5PAs

Sheldon Cooper likes trains.

Dartz

Big smoke, Siberia style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_zC7QK64Ks

Eiretrains

An old video of mine from 2004, showing Mk2/Mk3 and Craven trains at Portarlington.:cool:

Dartz

Dartz wrote: »

Big smoke, Siberia style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_zC7QK64Ks

Those things must be burning crude oil!

Dartz

Deleted User wrote: »

Those things must be burning crude oil!

I think one of them's running on its own turbocharger juging by the metal sparks being spat out.

n0brain3r

Now this is a train to be reckoned with!

http://imgur.com/gallery/JRrRN

MGWR

n0brain3r wrote: »

Now this is a train to be reckoned with!

http://imgur.com/gallery/JRrRN

Steam-powered rotary snow plough of the White Pass & Yukon Route narrow-gauge (914-mm) railway.

Here's a vid of #1 at work on 27 April 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBSuNz3g0oA

dowlingm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9I_HSEu64k

metrovick001

Heres a link to a video Ive uploaded to Youtube of the Portland & Western Railroads's EMD SD7 No.1501
I you close you eyes you could be down at the Northwall 20 years ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aiiz-X68mxA

GMKK96

Here are a collection of videos I took of passenger, freight, permanent way and wagon transfer trains in Kildare. I was surprised by the absence of MK4 sets covering most Cork services. Does anybody know about a supposed new rule in Irish Rail that people aren't allowed have tripods on station platforms anymore?

Victor

GMKK96 wrote: »

Does anybody know about a supposed new rule in Irish Rail that people aren't allowed have tripods on station platforms anymore?

I'm not sure that it is a new rule. Tripods are a hazard, especially in crowd situations. Try to only use them in untrafficked corners.

GMKK96

Victor wrote: »

I'm not sure that it is a new rule. Tripods are a hazard, especially in crowd situations. Try to only use them in untrafficked corners.

Apparently it's company policy now. I usually only film at the ends of platforms not that there were any large crowds in Kildare that day. I was still told to lose the tripod however.

GTE

MGWR wrote: »

And of course, the diesel pulling it is numbered "4884", to reflect the Big Boy's wheel arrangement. Also sounds like they have some air hooked up to the 4014's whistle, since it sounds when going over the crossing. Hope it steams well when they convert it to oil burning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjAMMq-y06o

Should that diesel loco sound familiar? Cant decide if it is more like the 201 or 071. Similar family of engines?

MGWR

bbk wrote: »

Should that diesel loco sound familiar? Cant decide if it is more like the 201 or 071. Similar family of engines?

Union Pacific's #4884 is a General Motors SD70M; it has the 16-cylinder version of the 710G3B (4,000 horsepower) whereas the 201 class has the 12-cylinder version of the same engine (3,200 horsepower). These are big engines, with displacement of 11.6 litres per cylinder (hence the "710" for that number of cubic inches displacement). So the 201-class has a 139.2-litre engine while the 4884 has a 185.6-litre engine.

dowlingm

Informational video from the Toronto Transit Commission about migrating the 1 Yonge University Line from Fixed Block to Moving Block signals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJlsSQBhKgE

MGWR

This photo is of a Cork & Muskerry train on the Western Road tramway in 1910, per the URL.

lord lucan

Great to see Merlin out on the mainline again,she's in fine form in this early run out.

corktina

She's a fine loco, rode from Dublin to Belfast behind her a while back and she really goes well

lord lucan

088 making quite the racket as it battles some serious wheelslip!!

topnotch

These tankers look like they were manufactured by the same company that made the ammonia tankers.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=474646&nseq=0

Eiretrains

Another 1990s era video, hope it is of interest:cool:

metrovick001

The ammonia wagons were fabricated by Fauvet Girel in France so you may well be correct Topnotch.

Itssoeasy

Eiretrains wrote: »

Another 1990s era video, hope it is of interest:cool:

That's mad that the first clip in that video of a 181(?) running along a flooded line not a bother to it. And am I right in thinking that trains aren't running on the Limerick Ennis line due to it being flooded ? I find it funny what has changed since then.

For sure! I thought that would have shorted out the traction motors.

Losty Dublin

Itssoeasy wrote: »

That's mad that the first clip in that video of a 181(?) running along a flooded line not a bother to it. And am I right in thinking that trains aren't running on the Limerick Ennis line due to it being flooded ? I find it funny what has changed since then.

DMU's have their engine and electrical generators below the passenger cabin so there's a risk of damage to the system. On a loco the main electrical that may get wet are the traction motors, which are not as risk from a flood, so the potential for damage is far less.

The other issue with flooded tracks are track circuits, points, axle counters etc; all of which are more common than they once were.

Victor

Itssoeasy wrote: »

That's mad that the first clip in that video of a 181(?) running along a flooded line not a bother to it. And am I right in thinking that trains aren't running on the Limerick Ennis line due to it being flooded ? I find it funny what has changed since then.

As I understand it, the driver now needs to be able to see the tops of the rails to pass through a flood and in fairness, that is the minimum it should always have been. Having a derailment, major or minor, in a flood isn't really what anyone wants.

MGWR

Victor wrote: »

As I understand it, the driver now needs to be able to see the tops of the rails to pass through a flood and in fairness, that is the minimum it should always have been. Having a derailment, major or minor, in a flood isn't really what anyone wants.

Adhesive weight usually prevents derailment in still water.

Also, that standard IINM has to do with traction motors being shorted out rather than the train derailing. Steam engines, being wholly mechanical, can run through deeper water to depths reaching close to the bottom of the firebox, i.e. so that the fire doesn't get doused; or in extreme-need situations, at least as long as the steam pressure is maintained in the boiler so that the fire can be re-lit on dry ground.