Train porn

MGWR

Video (by one Matt Skuta) from 31/08/2015 showing aerial view of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train on Union Pacific's (originally Southern Pacific) Tehachapi Loop in south central California, about 35 miles or so southeast of Bakersfield. Grade is 1 in 50, and the change in altitude over the 1.17 kilometres of the loop is 23 metres.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZCYhP1D4O4

highdef

Patrick Cooney, the Minister for Defence, opens new bus and train station in Athlone. 27th May 1985. From the RTE archives


http://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21198219-athlone-new-bus-and-train-station/

metrovick001

Ahh Mary O'Rourke.
That special breed of yoke that would show up at the opening of an envelope and at the same time would have just as easily closed the whole network down.

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Patrick Cooney, the Minister for Defence, opens new bus and train station in Athlone. 27th May 1985. From the RTE archives


http://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21198219-athlone-new-bus-and-train-station/

end of the road

metrovick001 wrote: »

Ahh Mary O'Rourke.
That special breed of yoke that would show up at the opening of an envelope and at the same time would have just as easily closed the whole network down.

indeed. but thankfully she saw sense and didn't close it.

tabbey

highdef wrote: »

Patrick Cooney, the Minister for Defence, opens new bus and train station in Athlone. 27th May 1985. From the RTE archives


http://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21198219-athlone-new-bus-and-train-station/

Everybody is in this except Pat Cooney.

GT Paul Conlon and Jack Higgins got off the train, Conlon shook hands with the people on the platform.

Either Cooney was on another section of the film, or He was not there at all, and the clip is wrongly tagged.

Del.Monte

Nice oil painting of the Carlisle Pier (30" x 40") by Tom Roche which sold at Adam's this evening for a cool €2,800 + buyer's premium. Somebody win the Lotto?

MGWR

Tried to find video of this tramway, but can only find photos. This is car 40 of the Lake Louise Tramway in Alberta, Canada. This tramway was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway to replace horse coaches which used to take as long as an hour and a half to climb up the hill from the station to the hotel, a distance of about six kilometres and a change in altitude of about 244 metres. The petrol-powered tram cars were unidirectional, and turned on loop-shaped tracks at each end (originally a turntable at the hotel). The line had some severe curves, but the grade was at least held down to a maximum of 1 in 25. Track gauge was 42 inches (1067 mm). The line opened in 1912 and last operated in 1930, with track lifted in 1931; it is a hiking/biking trail today with some segments designated hiking only.

An all too familiar sign at stations in the UK & Ireland in the 1960s

mrsoundie

I don't know if this was already posted
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7ttKX46nJxUeXZ0aoD4Q5g

Fred Swanson

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i think it's where they drop off a wagon for people to load or unload themselves and the train would stop and collect the wagon daily as the station staff were let go, that was a tiny station anyway.
The line from Long Melford to Lavenham was closed later that year and from Lavenham to Bury St Edmunds in 1965.

Finally Long Melford station and the line it was on was closed in 1967.

GM228

Fred Swanson wrote: »

What did they mean by a "public siding"?

[Deleted User] wrote: »

i think it's where they drop off a wagon for people to load or unload themselves and the train would stop and collect the wagon daily as the station staff were let go, that was a tiny station anyway.
The line from Long Melford to Lavenham was closed later that year and from Lavenham to Bury St Edmunds in 1965.

Finally Long Melford station and the line it was on was closed in 1967.

When Bury-Long Melford closed in 1961 the Bury-Lavenham section was used for freight trains until 1965. It effectively became a rather long public (BR owned) as opposed to a private (of which there were a few I believe between Bury and Long Melford) siding.

Sugar beet was one of the main goods carried on the line, in fact I Believe that it was the only freight on it in the end, there is a large Beet processing plant in Bury.

MGWR

London Transport film "The Elephant Will Never Forget" from 1953, featuring Last Tram Week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EFfD-5VHIk

Possibly the shortest train in service anywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY6pEVFrWEk

This is what's left of the railway line near where I used to live, and yes it's really that bumpy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlDCUpfhCD0

tabbey

The Sudbury line is what Dr Beeching left of a longer route to Cambridge.
A cross-country route reduced to a basic railway.

So far as I know it has not yet been electrified, but perhaps it will be in due course.

tabbey

tabbey wrote: »

The Sudbury line is what Dr Beeching left of a longer route to Cambridge.
A cross-country route reduced to a basic railway.

So far as I know it has not yet been electrified, but perhaps it will be in due course.

Yes, the original plan was to close the entire line in 1965, but the people of Sudbury fought back and delayed the closure of Sudbury - Cambridge until 1967 ans succeeded in keeping this section open. BR tried multiple times to close it in the 1970s & 80s

I came across a couple of cab rides on the lines to the west, sad to see just how neglected they were in the 1990s. to the casual outsider they would look like they were already closed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gn_GHeNmPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5w7_6Ie2E

Fred Swanson

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Itssoeasy

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

BeardySi

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Part time tabloid journo or what? such drama....

Oscar Bravo

Early 1990s from Limerick Junction and Cork

Itssoeasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEfx5T3G4NQ

Itssoeasy

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

Itssoeasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSGOqDo1JM

A recording of the A Class when they had the crossley engines in them. I think someone posted a video of a crossley engined loco from Australia but this is from Ireland. Yeah give me the beautiful sound of GM anyday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2B8WzmrZTk

Eurostar RIP (Rust in Peace)

Fred Swanson

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tabbey

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2B8WzmrZTk

Eurostar RIP (Rust in Peace)

It is sad to see Eurostars prematurely stored / abandoned.

In 2015 I did see a TGV set on a scrap line at a station between Metz and Verdun, but the earliest TGVs were more than 10 years older than Eurostar.

end of the road

it is sad but i believe high speed trains like that don't tend to have as long a life span as classic trains due to the speeds they travel at day in and day out.

Oscar Bravo

there was nothing nicer than the sound of a mark 3 going over jointed track,I remember between the coaches,they would hop about so much. here some footage from 1997

Stephen15

end of the road wrote: »

it is sad but i believe high speed trains like that don't tend to have as long a life span as classic trains due to the speeds they travel at day in and day out.

Could be true although it's hard to know just now as most high speed lines have only been running for the last 5-20 years so none have been running as long as regular trains. Another thing is the technology for high speed trains is constantly changing and being updated meaning that they may to be replaced more often in order to be up to date and run at the highest speeds possible further backing up your point which is not as much of an issue for classic trains.

Fred Swanson

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Cookie_Monster

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Almost new still, simply swap out the generating gear and they could be used anywhere, rather than just rotting away.

tabbey

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They ran on 25kV AC through France and Belgium and could continue to do so throughout the Eurostar network.

Just because they had dual voltage capability does not preclude them from operating on one voltage exclusively.

Lots of locomotives and EMUs were built with multi-voltage ability, but generally stick to the principal voltage.

The main disadvantage of multiple voltage stock, is that the more complex = more unreliable. Also the additional equipment adds to the weight.

I think the main reason that Eurostar are phasing out earlier trains, is that the newer ones from Germany have higher passenger capacity.

CarlosHarpic

metrovick001 wrote: »

Ahh Mary O'Rourke.
That special breed of yoke that would show up at the opening of an envelope and at the same time would have just as easily closed the whole network down.

A truly repugnant entity. She gave a press conference on funding a few hanging baskets and handed out Lima Irish Rail 00 coaches to the media in attendence.

topnotch

There are some great videos up on YouTube of EMD action from Croatia featuring G26C’s. Definitely worth checking out.

MGWR

Short colour video showing the narrow-gauge trams of the Los Angeles Railway (3' 6"/1067 mm), a.k.a. the "Yellow Cars". The system had PCC cars on it too when the LA MTA took it over. Some trolleybuses are featured.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAPMvhD62kA

Eiretrains

Some film footage of the late Joe St Leger's showing PWD operations at Cobh Junction in 1981, featuring steam crane, 6-wheeler, passenger and ammonia workings.

MGWR

Photo from the Bronx, 1915 showing the Jerome Avenue elevated railway (today's 4 train in the NYC subway system) being built over what will become River Avenue; actual location information is a bit hazy (all I got is "south of 167th Street", so the only clue to the station being built in the foreground on the left is 161st Street, where the new Yankee Stadium is today. If further north than that, then what will become Mullaly Park is on the left instead. Would the Bronx be better off as it was in 1915 than as it is today? (This el currently serves a lot of neighbourhoods with recent Irish immigrants, BTW.)

dublinman1990

Youtube footage from 2007 of a runaway GM GA-8 locomotive, which is the same locomotive for the 121 class in IÉ, on a 90 mile unmanned chase by trainspotters & authorities in Argentina. Luckily no damage was caused & hauled back home to safety afterwards.

Fred Swanson

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MGWR

CIE's 121 class was a GL8 rather than GA8. Main differences in design are the GA8 having its two traction motors attached to the underframe driving Cardan driveshafts (thus making it a B-B) versus four on the axles of the GL8 (Bo-Bo), and no multiple-unit capability (i.e. between engines) on the GA8.

Fred Swanson

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MGWR

This photo depicts the short-lived New York IND's World's Fair line, which ran from 1939 to 1940. The alignment is now part of the Van Wyck Expressway (thanks to Robert Moses) and the surrounding area is very heavily built up; the line itself was a branch off the Queens Boulevard subway. The train is part of the "GG" line, which today is the "G" train (Brooklyn-Queens crosstown).

Oscar Bravo

156 and 149 Farranfore, 1997

MGWR

This photo dates from late 1950. Pennsylvania Railroad track clearance car no. 497125, nicknamed the "porcupine car" for the projections designed to verify clearances.

Fred Swanson

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This train ain't stopping for a broken bridge..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqUhKK0pnU

MGWR

Short film showing a steam-powered demonstrator railcar built by George and William Besler of Davenport, Iowa, USA.

The steam engine had a flash boiler made from designs acquired from the Abner Doble Steam Motors company: these could go from cold start to being able to move a car within about five minutes, and they were explosion-proof due to not needing to make huge volumes of steam but vapourising small volumes of water into steam as needed (about two litres at a time in the automobile version) and were very quiet due to having advanced condensation technology. The biggest problems related to them had to do with heat fatigue: the temperature inside the boiler went up as high as 3,000 degrees Celsius (three times as hot as a normal steam locomotive firebox), so steam pipes would crack and boiler jacketing would melt/burn through, problems that Jay Leno in particular (who owns two Doble E-types) has attempted to solve by using modern ceramic materials inside the flash boiler.

The Besler brothers made a larger two-car streamlined version for the New Haven Railroad, called the Blue Goose, which ran from 1936 to 1943. Despite its streamlined appearance, it was limited to branch-line operations, and later superseded by railcars with either petrol or diesel engines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t7RpdM-ODw