Random Railroad stuff

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Sometimes having a railway next to the ocean sucks.

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Work train.

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>>906190

This guy filmed this station master that i know while she was at work, and claimed it was his own movie, like he wrote and directed it.

She is a real station master, she does this for every train.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvfFHeo4PL0

this is why I love japan.

>>906198
>>906202
I accidentally ran my phone over with a mini ex the other day.. I couldnt believe it still worked and just fucked the screen a little bit.

>>906385
It was the only tractor we could get out there on the line, they do not weigh that much.
Why did you put your phone under there anyway?
We can't have cell when at work.

>>906384
omfg. this must be how people become weebs.

>>906384
you might like this as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2sV96xSFCk

>>906198
>>906202
How does that not fall over?

>>906491
Well, the track gauge is 600mm (roughly 2 foot, the car itself is little over 2 meters wide (about 6 foot 6 inches wide)
These 2 foot gauge railcars and locomotives are very stable for their small size , look up some of the insane loading gauges they have for 2 foot railroads in Africa and uhh Maine USA.
That particular car is rated for 10 tonnes (5 tonnes per axle)

I think a lot of people do not realize how efficient a 600 mm or 750 mm railway line can actually be.

>>906458
Yup, thats her alright.

>>906458
>>906384
What's this woman's story? Or is this just what all Japanese "station masters" do?

>>906541
i'll try to explain this as well as I can with my bad english.
Miyako is essentially the station master of the year for japan because of her dedication to every passenger and train that arrives at her remote station.
Her actions and performance has proven that with a little care and love for your job you can turn any place into a social center , that people actually enjoy going to and it is as much a part of the journey as a memory you wont forget .
Would you ever forget the time your train was hosed down by dozens of local schoolkids?
Would you ever forget that one valentines when she gives you a chocolate treat?

Put simply:

Shes a symbol of small time railroad pride, and of someone who cares about their job and people.
Something sadly lacking in most of the world these days.

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Lot of cutting, grinding, and fresh paint

>>906384
Jesus, I want to fuck her so badly, I don't usually like anime or asian women either but she is amazing

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steam loco, Malaysia (then as Malaya)

>please select bicycles

Fuck you captcha

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>>906577
Said loco

>>906545
>i'll try to explain this as well as I can with my bad english

Your English is perfect. Thank you for the story, senpai.

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East German crew talking to a West German on the platform, 1972.

>>906533

I'm fairly certain Maine loading gauge was 5' 6" for passenger car bodies, but stuff like roofs, footsteps and so on could overhang that.

Someone somewhere said that the painpoin on loading gauge stability compared to rail gauge is around 250%.

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Little something I did when bored.

>>908148
Nice, what program/software? Did you work off a template or do the whole locomotive yourself?

>>906556
That sure is an ugly looking thing.

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Just cozy looking.

>>906187
Wouldn't all the moisture rust the tracks to unreliability?

Or does rust even matter on train tracks?

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sunken train

>>910841
8F

quite dead.

>>906190

Montana? Is this by Whitehall or something? I swear I've seen this line somewhere, the substation seems like it's on the Milwaukee.

I remember seeing videos like this with relaxing music played over them but you could still here the ambient train noise, Anyone have some?

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

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>>910828
>Wouldn't all the moisture rust the tracks to unreliability?
>Or does rust even matter on train tracks?
It depends on how often they get wet.
where I live there are (freight) lines that run across flood plains that flood a couple times a year.
They don't let trains run on them when flooded tho because the track will sink into the mud and water (and not necessarily evenly on both sides, pic related).

>>910828
No.

All rail is rusted on the side of it. It'll build up a layer of rust on the head if it's not used frequently also. But regularly used rail will be nice and shiny on the head.

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>>911411
It's the Taunton substation on the Milwaukee's Coast division in Washington.

>>911786
just play your own damn

Random train question.

Any idea what a general platform's width would be? Not getting much from google except an old diagram which said 10 metres.

That seems way too small for what I need.

>>906190
That's really fucking cool

>>906545
Your English is fantastic anon. Better than a majority of native speakers of English.
Also, thanks for that excellent explanation.

>>910841
Neat, more?

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hey foamers

check out what i found in the current /mu/ sharethread:

>No Artist - Trains at Work
>field recordings
>Exactly what the title says. Sounds of a busy railyard. Listen to spectacular sounds of switching engines, GM SW 1500's, and GP-9's assembling lines of cars. Includes several different train scenarios, each with their own particular sound, including radio transmissions and different types of horns. A very textural experience.

https://mega.nz/#!PgMFjbIA!k9KYF4b4Ls8CUSdKXmHAO4u8Yxn5i_RbTpMLEkQsOcw

sounds like your type of thing

bikefag here, btw

>>914229
>not linking the thread

Here it is
>>>/mu/61747934

>>906183
rail you

>>916303

are those electromagnetic couplers?

>>906183
this thread is too cute

>>919029
Looks like a Scharfenberg-coupler with the electrical and pneumatic couplers ontop rather than on the sides. It's a pretty neat system, allowing fully automatic couling without violently humping the trainsets together. All connections done upon contact. The whole process takes seconds and a good driver can do it without people inide even noticing.
The bumpers on the side are for crashes most likely. They are unusual for trains with central couplers.

>>919352
>Scharfenberg-coupler

I just looked that up, pretty cool shit.

I'm assuming that those bumpers (buffers?) are just there to meet some law/regulation

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Tram station on a school yard in Germany

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>>919940
And one in the middle of nowhere.

>>919940
>>919942
>>906199
and possibly many more
this is the first thread I visited on this board and I feel pleasantly confirmed for my conception of my fellow German bros.

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>>919940
>>919942
Tram station? What kind of tram has floors that high?

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>>920077
Plenty of the western German systems do.
Back in the seventies to nineties, when tram systems were converted to Stadtbahn systems, they either switched to low floor trams and low platforms, or high platforms and high floor vehicles because muh accessibility.
Not all stations in the system have high platforms though, so the trams still pack foldout stairs.

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>>920077
in Hungary most of our trams have floors that high,
Here is a picture that illustrates this

>>920077
Look up Stadtbahn B carriages. They were built so that in tunnel stations and segregated sections they could operate on high platforms where customers could just step in and in normal mixed traffic environment steps would slide out for boarding from low platform. As of now, many systems are waist deep in piss how to comply with accessibility requirement with this kind of mixed use system. Personally I think invas should just stay home.

There are places like Leipzig, Dresden and Mannheim region that didn't bother with stadbahn transition or U-bahns at all and sport ginormous tram networks.

Places like Rhein-Neckar region that got barely started with gauge and platform transition and now there are buch of disconnected Stadtbahn lines around the tram network.

Places like Nürmberg and Munchen that have both U-bahn and sizeable tram network alike like.

Places like Bielefield that built just 100% kosher tram tunnels under the city center and never touched the legs of the system.

Places like Köln and Dortmund that got amost all the way but then opted to use new low floor stock on some routes.

Places like Stuttgart and Hannover went all the way in gauge and or platforn conversiom.

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>>920171
>Places like Rhein-Neckar region that got barely started with gauge and platform transition and now there are buch of disconnected Stadtbahn lines around the tram network.
They only built a handful of tram tunnels, some (but not all) of which that were prepared for high floor (see the escalators in picrelated that end at the high floor level)

>>906184
What gauge is that?

>>924861
600 mm

>>906184
>No plates, spikes, or anchors
Pig disgusting euroshit.

Only a neanderthal wouldn't use plates.

>>906545
Thank you.

>>924905
>2016
>still using plates

seriously?

>>906195
>candy livery

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It is a nice single track line going through France's southwest vineyards, a real pleasure to ride.
Unfortunately, these old EMUs are being replaced by new ones...

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>Green dot = opens random door
?????

>>930987
Probably multi tracked stations where platforms are used in an alternating fashion.

>>929001
>Not properly canting the rail
It's like you want to cause excessive wear.

>>931260
I don't think "random" is the word they were looking for there, unless it really is a case of train-door roulette.

>>931270
>train-door roulette
Sounds exciting.

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Springtime at last.
I am surprised to see my thread is still alive.

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>" I swear there is a railway in here...somewhere."

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>>933926
ahh the precursor to this.. thing


>alp-45dp thank you

>>937311
How many horns do you need on one loco?

>>937321
Most engines actually have several horns on them. When you sound a horn it's a chord that is blown, not one single frequency. The sound carries further and people are more responsive to it.

>>936958
where is this? I think I know this place. Dagebüll?

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>>929034

>>937324
I know all that, it's just that it looks to have two sets of chords.

Some anon posted a vid about the Canadian guy who invented it. Really cool, nerdy stuff.

>>936959
Literally the Magic Railroad.

But fuck that movie.

>>939806
Where in Japan is this?

>>943311
I guess Switzerland

>>943314
lol
>>943384
That looks so comfy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF-WoiUbYRc

>>911831
It doesn't have to get wet, the salty humid wind will absolutely fuck up most unpainted/untreated metal. I'm no expert but I think rail steel is supposed to be resistant to a lot of abuse, including most rust, so as >>911840 says it'll probably develop a surface rust layer (that actually protects the rest of the steel) and the top of it will be shiny clean through trains passing on it.

>>906533
>No space between the number and the unit symbol
Please re-read the SI Brochure. Full compliance is within your grasp.

>>906183
>>906184
>>906199
>>906200
>>936958

So what's the purpose of this little railway. It looks still oddly operational instead of just heritage operation.

Harvesting peat from the low lying baltic coastal plane?

>>950266
>Harvesting peat from the low lying baltic coastal plane?
It used to be that (except that it's the North Sea coastal plane). Now that most of the peat is gone, these railways are used for harvesting huckleberries and for tourism.

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>>950266
these little railways had been used much in the past but now only a few are still in daily use, mainly in peat harvesting and in some special cases like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCttmoorsiel-Nordstrandischmoor_island_railway

Also there are quite some in heritage service.

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Something I think you guys will like.

>>954023
Sauce?

>>957535
Spooky

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>>906556
is photoshopping trains into stumps a thing now?

>>916759
Irrelevant fact, in Brazil there is a guy called Levy Fidelix who runs for president at every single election, and the only think he talks about is the "Aerotrain".

He once were sued for saying people can't reproduce with excretor organs also.

>>957535
Reminds me of taking the train from Hamburg to Westerland. As the tracks leave the mainland of Northern Germany to the outer sandbar, for a long moment, the only thing that is visible are the tracks and the train, which is only a few meters above the ocean. At a high tide, it is the oddest thing to watch.

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On the railroads, water comes in cartons.

>>964254
Canadian water comes in these awful little plastic cups with foil lids that peel off.

It tastes like shit.

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Some nice railway photography

>>964254
>>964261
Why? Bottles seem so much better. I could make the case for the carton but plastic cups you can't reseal I really don't get.

>>964370
I don't know where that guy is from, but we get our water in little plastic bottles in the US.

>>910841
Such beautiful locomotives destined to exist at the bottom of the ocean. There's really no point in bringing them to the surface is there?

Shit's really sad.

>>956119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-b4Ce4Mf4

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>>911911
I do not believe that there is a specified platform width. I guess that the platform is as wide as is convenient. i.e. it is wide enough to accommodate easily for daily usage but not so wide that it infringes upon surrounding structures, environment etc or becomes otherwise impractical to build and maintain

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>>920077
Melbourne Z Classes for example have high floors. This is because the carriages are wholly on top of the bogies rather than having them built into the floor

>>970259
Love this.

>>970718
>single car tram
>anno domini 1496 + 520
cute desu

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>>970749
It is big single car tram though.

You can see the two different schools of system construction in the early tramways. Other is this interurban like construction where the cars are derived from the wooden railway coaches of the time and in other places the design hints are taken from the earlier horse tramway carriages, each with appropriate loading gauge.

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>>970776
This is the seating arrangement.

It's 13.5 m long, has 31 seats and could pack in additional 57 standing.

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>>970779
But you could always lug a trailer behing to double the capacity though.

Ah, units 9 and 505.

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>>970781
Unit 150. 25.7 m, 64 seats.

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>>970783 (You)
That unit, by the way was bought used to test tri-articulated trams in the system and almost immediately went into charter use due it's cute appearance.

This unit (50) and trailer (233) is owned by a private operator and is used in summer sight seeing line.

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>>970789
Those were by the way whoppong 20 seats and 8.8 meters long.

This car here is called BS1. It is less lovingly restored example than the previous. It has some metal porcelain and glass parts from the original but all the wood is new and the bogies and electronic parts are from a car such as >>970776 from the 50s, because the unit and its sister had served 50+ years as a garden shed.

That's not saying that unit 50 hadn't had some major rehaul, it has a motors, controller and resistor bank pulled from spares meant for a different model 20 years younger than it is, plus various bits and bobs from another cars and its rear controller doesn't do anything, as that is the original and it can't hadle the power of the new motors, still much more authentic looking at least, those bogies just just cream that they are a boxed 50s car bogies.

I must say, quite a big heritage fleet. There are even more units in static display that nevertheless have been pulled out for special occasions with minimal maintenance.

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>>970796
Condition: "as discovered". This is 11.5 m long and has 32 seats.

They were ridiculously luxuriously built for the time as they were meant for a line that went to a rich villa neighborhood island - on a tram ferry, originally!

Underneath: the bogies that were hidden in a box.

>>919614
>I'm assuming that those bumpers (buffers?) are just there to meet some law/regulatio

They are optional and prevent further damage from collision with trainsets (We're talking about "minor" accidents on low speed and not about full on collisions) that have buffer/chain couple system or collisions with stoppers.

E.g. two different trains on the same track at the same platform, one is standing still while the second is about to arrive (in this case in Germany with max 30km/h). Normally each train has its own section divided by special traffic lights. Now imagine the train arriving is slipping through due to wet tracks and colliding with the standing train. With these mini buffers, you will most likely have 0 damage with less than 30km/h. If these buffers wouldn't be there, you can be sure that atleast the Scharfernberg couple will be majorly damaged and also the front spoiler (buffers of the arriving train). In bad cases the Scharfenberg coupler is forcefully torn out of its mounting and the car out for several weeks.

>>920077
>Tram station? What kind of tram has floors that high?

As >>920171 stated, these high floor "tram" stations are actually light-rail platforms. The light rail EMU mostly have automatic hinged stairs to service stops that are on street level (mostly old tram stops that weren't rebuild to light-rail standards yet).Only a few exeptions have full high floor systems (e.g. Bochum U35, Bielefeld) and pass on additional hinged stairs.

>>970797
>the bogies that were hidden in a box
Never knew this was a thing. Bet it looked cool in person.

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>>971279
Well, the series of cars that the bogies were from had been discontinued just some years prior (or were there even something like 10 units in reserve), having them as is would have broken the guise of authenticity for too many people.

I still think it's subobtimal, they ought to have modified the bogies themselves to look more original instead of hiding them.

A bogie.

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>>971345
Relatively few good pictures of these cars exist in their original form.

A fun fact, BS1 is the only bi-directional two cab unit that can be driven from both cabs, even though even with this unit, the rear cab lacks things like light switches and sanding pedals, but the thing has a proper controller circuit.

Also, the thing found lacking is a proper large floodlight, originally it had only one light at both end and a removable red glass to make the rear light red.

>>971345
Oh, I thought they designed it that way. Hiding them like that is cheating.

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>>971356
Well that's what you have to do some times, it's not like the project had millions to spend.

Here is a good picture of the new bogie.

>>971361
Why bother covering them up in the first place though? You save money by not boxing them in. Just bolt the bogies on and go.

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>>970796
Wooden parts are hard to preserve over very long periods of time, but since it's just wood it always seemed to me like rebuilding it doesn't mean it will be less "original", since you can recreate the parts 1:1 practically. It's a shame about the bogies and motors, especially.
We have these trams in pic related running on a heritage line, they've had their wooden parts redone a couple of times, most recently when they were completely refurbished, also one of them crashed pretty badly but could be repaired without any major issues. Sadly they've taken out the original controller, but the motors are still the original motors from 1906, 110 years old and still running. I read a post in another forum from from a guy who worked on this refurbishing, and he made a valid point in saying that no matter if the motor is controlled manually or by a computer, it's still the same motor from over a century ago.
The bastards charge an arm and a leg for riding the tram (it runs to a funicular which runs up to an age old amusement park [which has some attractions from the 1910s-20s] so it's an important tourist attraction and obviously being stinking spaniards they gotta rip off the tourists for a quick buck), but god damn I love our blue trams to death.

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>>971409
Well, the point is that the thing/the things (there were two) came as a empty shell, no controllers, no pantongraphs, no bogies, no resistor box, no nothing and the wooden parts were so rotten they were made a new from the scratch.

It has a bunch of small details original, like lights, brass bars, ventilation covers, brake levers and so on and of course the frame. But all in all, it would have been called hopeless wasn't it so that some association with way too many moneys (related to the rich villa-district - figures) paid the effort.

My complaint isn't really about the amount of original left but the generall cheapness that had to gone to the external appearance of it. It looks fake to outside even if it could have been made much better with relatively small extra effort. Or what do I know.

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Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

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>>971511

What happened to grand design? I weep for America.

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>>971515
Did LaGuardia help destroy Penn Station too?

>mfw shit mayor removes NYC streetcars, burns pinball machines and has a shitty airport with his namesake

>>971517
>>971515
>>971511
To be fair, the station must have seemed horribly outdated by the time it was demolished.
>no A/C
>massive structure that cost god knows how much to maintain for an ever shrinking amount of passengers
America wasn't the only country where these types of grand stations were destroyed and replaced either (the Paris-Montparnasse station is another notable example).

Also, no LaGuardia had nothing to do with it demolishing the old Penn station (hell, he didn't really have much of anything to do with removing the streetcars either since the company had gone bust in the 20s). Pennsy was bleeding money in the early 60s and sold the building to property developers on their own.

>>971429
>My complaint isn't really about the amount of original left but the generall cheapness that had to gone to the external appearance of it. It looks fake to outside even if it could have been made much better with relatively small extra effort. Or what do I know.
You think? It doesn't look like that to me, looking at your pic. I think at times we want to associate old trams with looking shabby and black-and-white (since there's usually few if any color photos from the early days), and a newly rebuilt historical unit looks "fake" because it's hard to fathom an 80 or 100 year old tram looking shiny and brand new.

>>906187
This is actually a navigation post or daymark (with what appears to be retroreflective tape on each arm) for a tidal public Right of Way across the tidal flats of the the Wadden Sea in Germany.

http://www.n-tv.de/reise/Mit-der-Pferdekutsche-durchs-Watt-article470180.html

>>906190
I love this. I want to be there in person.
It's got this beauty to it that I don't know how to describe it.

>>976847
Wrong thread faggot

>>906541
From what I read she actually works at the cafe inside the station. She took on the position of volunteer stationmaster and she waves at every train until it's out of sight.

Basically, she's perfect. Up there with Tama in terms of based Stationmasters.

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>>906458
holy shit it's Shining Time in real life.

Thomas and the Magic Railroad was my childhood.

>>942066
>>977074

>"Want to see a movie with Alec Baldwin, Mara Wilson, and Peter Fonda?"

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycu5pvC5wAs

>>906458
Japan is one of the few, if only, places on Earth where the railroads still have that romanticism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COqFD6Eu9pQ

>>977360
Don't they have "romance" cars and a few overnight trains still?

>>981952
I don't know what that is but I think I would like it. Do they have "comfort" girl services?

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>>977360
So romantic they had to implement woman-only cars to stop the molestation.

>>983482
>woman-only cars
I think you'll find the correct term is "Miss-Carriage"

>>983482
a lot of asian cities have women only cabs.

>>983487
Kek
Did you steal that from that YouTube video? That was hilarious, guy destroyed that whiney chick.

>>981952
you mean love hotels on wheels?

>>906545
>Shes a symbol of small time railroad pride, and of someone who cares about their job and people.Something sadly lacking in most of the world these days.
In other words: She has no life outside of work and sooner or later will suffer from depression because she is forced to be friendly all the time.
Fuck Japan and its "sacrifice yourself for your job" mentality.

>>983863
Guess that explains why Aokigahara is so popular.

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>>983863
You sound like a negative person. Cheer up anon!

>>911831
It's more of the issue of the traction motors on Electric and Diesel-Electric locomotives not going well with water. Steam locomotives can go through flooded tracks easier.

>>986535
Isn't that bad for them too? Hot metal hitting cold water suddenly seems like a great way to crack stuff.

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Taken from the yard masters tower, Fresno ca.

>>983863
Realism hurts.
More pls.

>>987077
I'm not quite sure, I barely know anything about Steamers.
Off topic: Chasing the 611 was one hell of an experience

>>937311
So glad I live nowhere near AMT tracks, they must be such a pain in the ass when they pass by.

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In my opinion the best version of this model.

>>977074
Same here. Still got all my old wooden trains. And the soundtrack holds up even today.

>>991796
I love this, how beautiful. What model is it?

>>906190
>Wheelslip.jpg

>>964261
Holy shit this.

The water literally tastes like fucking cardboard.
Seriously, go chew on a piece of cardboard and that's what the water tastes like. It even goes down 'dry', like a dry beer. It scratches the back of your throat.

Can't wait til I get alzheimer's disease from this shit.

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>>992962

>>992962
this one is a double decker dutch train

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>>992965

>>992871
>Changing out with lazy shit crews from another district that get to run all of our unit coal and grain trains.
>"Hey, how is the water up there?"
>"Oh, you're good there's plenty."
>Threw all the bottles into the empty coal hopper.
>All that's up there is a big cardboard box of that shitty Canadian water.
:^)

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>>992980
When I see a box of the bottles from a unit that came from the states it's like fucking christmas morning.

Shame that they only run the new AC units up and down through the states mostly. We get the old shitty 80's / 90's power in Canada.
>30˚C
>No AC
>suffering.png

>Mfw you get a CN 8000-something series without the isolated cab as a lead unit and your shit constantly vibrates off the desk and your fillings fall out of your teeth

>>992602

2ft gauge sugar cane hauler built in Indonesia, then imported to America where it hauls tourists on an old cranberry line in Carver, Massachusetts.

I'm not sure how they were able to get this shit through customs though...

>>993530
>Canadians bitching about no A/C
>They've sent fucking geeps down south with no A/C
>They send shitty BCOL and CN covered wagons down here that also have no A/C
They should keep all of the Canadian trash where it belongs.

>>994552
Thank you!

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Could somebody please ID this train for me? It's so achingly beautiful.

>>995485
www.lmgtfy.net/great_western_4936

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_4900_Class_4936_Kinlet_Hall

>>995485
>>996369
For those of you playing along at home, the locomotive you see in the movies as the Hogwarts Express is another Hall Class locomotive, 5972 Olton Hall

>>994552
Nice, there's lots of neat 2' industrial gauge rail lines around the world still.

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Interesting to see some of the old depots are still occupied by Class Is.

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>>1002283

>>1002283
>>1002284
Old railroad buildings are cool.

>>1002941
A lot of them still exist in small towns where they'll be used as libraries, town halls, and police stations.

>>1006106
And museums.

>>1006106
>>1006328
I'm glad they're being recognized. At least a few have been saved.
I think one is a restaurant and it's at a diamond that's still active. I want to go there and eat one day.

A friend of mine's mum lives in an old station building, it's pretty cool.

>>1008735
Neat

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Press F to pay respects

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You'll never fuck up as much as the guy that caused this

>>1011407
I think the fuck up at the DC station where they never cut in the train line was worse.

>>1011411
Got any more info/links to it? Tried to search but couldn't find anything

>>1011413
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Pennsylvania_Railroad_train_wreck

>>930987
Koreans love RNG

>>967839
>>956119
Really majestic. I just wish it was a higher FPS camera.

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those are the rare pepes of railroads

>>954023
Doesn't show the diesel behind pushing it.

>>1011402
F
>>1012605
What is it?
>>1014454
I think it's there for power generation and backup. One of those locos is actually able to do the work of a few diesel engines

>>1014454
>>1015224
The diesel engine is there to provide HEP for the excursion cars.

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>>1014684

>>996386
>Hogwarts Castle
>it's a Hall
reeeeeeee

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>>1011407

Fuck...

You can see the dead woman's feet sticking out from under the smokebox door.

>>1016747
I feel stupid but I can't see it.

>>1015768
>how the toilet seat feels when you get up in in middle of a winter night to shit.

>>970390
why?

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I drive these

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>>1011407
How about the guy caused this?

>>1006106
>>1006328
>>1006355
I tried to buy one to live in but the zoning and cost became problematic.

>>1016806
Why what?
>>1016807
Nice
>>1017104
I'd drive it

>>1017104
Remind me the concept from JR to make a train/bus that can run on both road and rail

>>991794
>but that doesn't look like it goes fast

>>991796
>edaville
mah nigga

So if they really proceed to construct rail bridges/tunnels linking up Russian mainland with Sakhalin/Hokkaido, will train service between London and Tokyo become real?

>>1017593
That would be shitty tho.

>>1017622
Wouod be good to take after retirement

>>1017623
If the Russian part wasn't so shit. Or do they have an uber luxurious car in the back?

>>1017593
I so hope that at least super long excursion trains like that would become a thing. That would need expensive multi-standard carriages though, unless there were exchanges.

>>1017629
A first class cabin on transsiberian isn't luxurious enough?

>>1017634
We can hope Japanese succeed in their Free gauge train research for the Nagasaki Shinkansen project

Or we can just exchange the bogie like how the current trans Siberian train operate into Beijing.

>>1017659

>We can hope Japanese succeed in their Free Gauge Train research for the Nagasaki Shinkansen project

Sadly that project had been halted since late 2014 due to defective parts and nothing has been heard about it since then, which also compounds the problem for the Nagasaki Route on how to connect between Shin-Tosu and Takeo-Onsen. Meanwhile JR West is now also getting into gauge changing train research as well since the final extension between Tsuruga and Shin-Osaka stretch of the Hokuriku Shinkansen is still being debated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_Change_Train#Third-generation_train_.282014.E2.80.93.29

>>1017798
> http://abhp.net/traffic/Traffic_Rail_Nagasaki-Shinkansen_100000.html
>delay by 3 years for now
well, let's hope that's it.

>>1017798
And they're cutting the development capital ...
http://mainichi.jp/articles/20151225/k00/00m/010/051000c

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>This thread is for Random interesting images
>images

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This is the Third Prototype of Japan's Gauge Change Train in question, which was seen in testing on the Kagoshima Main Line some time in November 2014 before the problem came up

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/mitsuto1976/e/e846f03434fa0090b7f3ee13586c43b0

>>1017813

I wonder if the prototype is actually being fixed or it is actually rotting away just like JR Hokkaido's KiHa 285 DMU prototype

>Spent 2.5 Billion Yen to develop it since mid-2000s
>Took delivery of the prototype, does nothing with it, and basically decided to just build more KiHa 261-1000 DMUs instead due to all the problems that befell JR Hokkaido

JUST

>>1017929
There's a page say Spain have already developed something similar and is jow using them - just that they are not for narrow gauge. If the project ultimately unable to reach the goal at least they can try to buy from Spain? btw anyone here familiar with the Spanish version?

>>1017634
>A first class cabin on transsiberian isn't luxurious enough
I don't know desu, is it? I've only seen the roach coaches on any show I've watched about it.
>>1017857
I was hoping anons would have all sorts of pictures of oddball railroad stuff when I found the thread.

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>>906183
I post here from time to time and figured maybe someone would find this interesting. I'm a Boilermaker/Blacksmith for BNSF Railway in the locomotive overhaul and wreck repair backshop. It's a high-seniority job, but I was able to work some overtime a couple of days ago and build snow plows for the first time. Some of the other fab guys run the plasma tables to cut all the parts from sheet and plate steel, form parts as needed on press brakes and rollers, then they go to the assembly area with a huge rotisserie jig that allows you to roll them 360 degrees for welding during assembly.

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>>1020577

>>1020576
>>1020577
>>1020578
Good shit.

>>1020674
Thanks, I also totally forgot that this happened last weekend. The UP 844 stopped on my city on its Trek to Tennessee. It's coming back through this coming Saturday and I'm going to foam out and wait by on the highway by the tracks outside of town to see it at speed
https://youtu.be/LLx_wAhvqho

>>1020787
Nice, remember to take pics.

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Few old routes from Florida

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>>1021258

>>1021257
>>1021258
>>1021259

neat. did these connect with Flagler's rail to Key West?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFhTP7fNu6c

That fucking inertia drift at 0:47 though.

>>1023095
The railroads built from Sanford (next big town north of Orlando) and southward were first built starting in the early 1880s, but for a few years this network was cut off from the rest of the country, as no rail lines yet connected it to the national network. In order to get from Jacksonville to Sanford in those days, you had to get off your train and board a steamboat that went down the St. Johns River (the rail companies also owned these steamboats and considered them part of their networks) and then transfer to another train at Sanford to get you to Tampa and other cities. The first rail line to connect Jacksonville and Sanford opened in February 1886, but that line was standard gauge and the line to Tampa was narrow gauge. The line to Tampa would not be converted to standard gauge until that following September. So, I guess you could say that September 1886 was when all the main lines in Florida got seamlessly and break-of-gauge-free connected, including Flagler's East Coast Railway.

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Still want to ride those old Soviet lines someday.

The Russian East is a goddamn paradise of landscapes.

>>1021257
>>1021258
>>1021259
Are those electric lines? The ones that aren't marked as standard railroad lines, that is.

>>1026410
If I ever have the opportunity, one of my dream trips would be taking a night train to Moscow (spainfag here), then the transsiberian all the way to Beijing, and then the train to Best Korea. And back. I get hard just imagining this.

>tfw I'll prolly never have the time and money to do this
>tfw the best I can manage travelling by french night train to Switzerland, sponsored by my parents
itssomething.exe

>>1020576
Damn dude, that's badass. Are those your welds?

I used to work at a shop that did a lot of metal fab, but we never did anything on such a huge scale. (We were a race/track car shop, so mostly rollcages and various brackets and stuff like that, bar and tube work instead of big sheet metal stuff.)

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We ran a small train through a tunnel that shouldn't have steam trains.

Was fun

>>908148
Oh, an Lxd2.
It's quite well-known in Hungary too, but as Mk45.

>>1027596
Story?
>>1028134
I like this.

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>>1027587
>are those your welds
Yeah, the machine is cranked up so hot that its hard to leave a pretty looking bead. At least you can see it cutting super deep ahead of the puddle and getting great penetration. Here's a pic from another project I worked on during my training. We had to do a belly plate, pocket and end sheet replacement on a GP38. Over the course of 50 years the 1" belly plate had rusted through in a few places and the repetitive impacts from coupling had pushed the pocket upward and cracked the belly plate.

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>>1029356
and some tasty vertical-up

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What about some rural narrow-gauge a e s t h e t i c s

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>>1029485
The interior haven't changed a bit besides the two map on the wall to the left since the early 60s

>>1029486
Comfy.

>>1017944
Not super familiar with that, but I know what you mean. They have gauge change facilities installed at different points of their highspeed rail network (build with standard 1435mm gauge) to connect them with their older Iberian broad gauge rail network (1524mm gauge). They are used by TALGO highspeed trains and are fully automatic. Also they are already in service for quite some time, so I don't know what kind of problems the nips have. They could just adapt this system, if they really want to force a connection of both gauge networks.

Outside view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiH4kt14yGw

Inside passenger view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH0v-Nv5TDw

As a passenger you will notice literally nothing.

>>1032615
A comment in the youtube video you linked saod the system can't be used to change between rail gauges that are too different from other like 1435 and 1000. Might be that's the reason.

>>1032615

The problem with Japan's FGT is supposed to be the thrust bearing on the bogies, the good news is that JR Kyushu have resumed testing of the third prototype until March 2017

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>>1032615
>>1017944
The TALGO gauge change system (btw Iberian is 1668, 1524 I think is russian gauge) was introduced in the 1960's to allow through trains from Spain to France and from there on to other standard gauge countries. Originally the cars formed a fixed unit called a branch, and the locomotive would be uncoupled and push the branch through the gauge changing mechanism. The branch would then be picked up by a french locomotive which would pull it from there on. This whole thing took no longer than 30 minutes or so.

Nowadays this system isn't used anymore for international trains, since Spain has discontinued all non-HSR international trains, except the ones to portugal which has iberian gauge and also except regional trains which end just across the border but using iberian gauge tracks all the way.

Instead it is used for trains running on both HSR and conventional tracks, and it is used quite frequently since the terrible design of Spain's HSR network has it function exclusively on a radial pattern with Madrid at the center, while passenger demand to and from Madrid isn't always in highest demand, and the itineraries with most demand consequently don't have HSR for but part of their length. For example all trains which run from Barcelona toward the north of the peninsula (Burgos, Bilbao, Santander, Asturias, Galicia) run on HSR tracks until Lleida or Zaragoza, and there will change gauges and continue along on conventional iberian gauge tracks.

Trains that use this system don't have proper axles, instead they use the TALGO system developed in the 1940's where the carriages "hang" from "pillars" over each wheel, thereby making axles unnecessary while maintaining stability through a very low center of gravity. The lack of axles allows for this easy gauge change. This system was adapted to a passive tilting system in the 1980's, which allowed trains to run at 160km/h on lines designed for 140km/h.

Ask away if you have any more questions.

>>1032809
That's incredulous to me. A railcar without a solid axle. I guess you've got to do what you'e got to do though.

>>1032809
So, as the youtube combment said, it linited the width of gauge it can change to/from and can't switch between 1067/1435?
And can such a train travel onward to Russian board gauge area without making special adjustment on the car?

>>1032820
It's a great system. The pendular trains work like a charm. In the 1980's, before the HSR madness, the main lines were all running pendular TALGOS at 160km/h. It was the only time ever that conventional railways in Spain were actually breddy awesome.

>>1032944
I'm not sure about the 1067mm gauge thing, can't watch the video right now. I guess in theory the system could be adapted to narrow gauge, but there may be a limit to the gauge difference it allows.

About the russian broad gauge it is certainly possible to change to russian gauge, since it's between standard and iberian gauge (1435-1520-1668). In fact, russian railways announce on their website for the Moscow-Paris/Berlin/Nice trains that they are going to buy new Talgo trainsets for their Moscow-Berlin and Moscow-Kiev routes. AFAIK this is a proprietary technology, so you need the Talgo gauge changing mechanism as well, but other than that there's no problem to use this system for russian gauge. In theory, a Talgo could run from Spain on broad gauge through Europe on standard gauge and then through Russia on broad gauge. One trip on three different gauges. I think that would give me a foamgasm.

http://moscow-paris.ru/fpk_en.html

>>1033003
I quote from the very website I posted because this is so awesome (just found out right now while checking up)
>- 7 new Talgo trains of 20 cars each. They will run from Moscow to Berlin and from Moscow to Kiev. Time of travel from Moscow to Berlin will decrease by 11 hours (From 27 hours to 16 hours). Time of travel from Moscow to Kiev will decrease by 6 hours (From 13 hours to 7 hours)
>Time of travel from Moscow to Berlin will decrease by 11 hours (From 27 hours to 16 hours)

JUST FOAM MY SHIT UP FAMILIA

>>1032615
*Oh fuck, I meant 1668mm

>>964254
>Pasteurized water
Why? What's the point?

>>931270
They're gooks. Probably not very good English speakers.

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just found this part of 4chan, its the definition of comfy

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Some minor curiosity from Czechia. This is a small regional line in north-eastern part of the country. It connects a 40k county seat town with few villages in a mountain valley of ca. 15k population. The line used to be, as majority of other railways in the country, a national property but in the 1997 it was damaged by floodings and the country decided it will close the line. This is the moment the local municipalities came in and decided to buy the line and rebuild it. Surprise, it soon became one of the best functioning local lines in the country, the backbone of local transport. This is what happens when locals take care of what earlier belonged to the state.
Anyway, few years back, these municipalities were succesful in getting some EU funds for electrifying the line (and generally improving it). Keep in mind there are still lots of lines in Czechia that are busier and more important but they are diesel operated. But yeah, locals again proved they can be more succesful than the state in taking care of their property. So this small line got electricity operation, but major problem occured. Until now it was enough to operated small diesel rail-buses on this line but there were no similar EMUs in Czechia and none EMU at all operated by Arriva (part of Deutsche Bahn) which serves this line. And the precondition of getting the EU funds was that the trains would be electrical. So Arriva came in with original solution. They bought an old electrical locomotive for freight trains and attached it to a second hand German IC coach. And this is how the local line with a station like every 1 km ws operated for few weeks.

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But the story doesn't end. This weekend happened the global timetable changes and also this line changed. Although the line still belongs to local municipalities and until now it was serviced by Arriva, the money for operating the local public transport service is provided by the regional government and the regional government is also the one that chooses the operator. And the regional government chose for the next period the largest national operator the Czech Railways (ČD) company to service the line. The advantage is that they already have some modern EMUs to be operated on this line, but still. They are like 4 times larger and longer than the small rail buses that used to be operated there before. Also the ČD have also some old classical locomotive+coaches units which now run on this line as well.
So this is the story how a small irrelevant local line that was destined to be closed is now operated by large classical trains that are not even that common on the much larger and busier lines in the rest of the country.

>>1033552
And some trainspotting video to the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4AndYqi8a8

>>1033437
Agreed

(but some interior info for you, the rolling stock there in Nagybörzsöny is in very poor condition)

So Moscow - Kazan high speed rail line is expected to open in 2020.
And Beijing-Urumqi high speed line is expected to open next year.
And apparently 200-250km/h train service is now available on Astana-Alamaty route, and have been further extended to some of their neighboring cities.
So they only need to connect Urumqi to Almaty, and connect Astana to Kazan for a high speed railway network spanning across entire Europe and Asia?
But what would be the value of linking those remaining segments together? The distance and time would be too huge to attract passengers, but cargo?

>>1032809
How about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RENFE_Class_120_/_121 these? Do you know anything about them? Seems like it can run at even higher speed than the TALGO. what are the advantages/drawbacks of the BRAVA systen compare to TALGO?

Moscow Central Ring
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/22390301 < project and background introduction (chinese)
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/22399748 < station introduction (chinese)
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/22477020 < photo of actual operation from around internet

http://www.ditiezu.com/thread-281029-80-1.html < some discussion (chinese)

>>1033567
An unrelated question for you Hungarians:
What's the difference between ö and ő?

>>1033772
short and long vowel, the same applies to ü and...well...I can't force myself to google that symbol but you know which one

t. without magyar keyboard

>>1033789
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!

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>>1033772
Yup, it's what >>1033789 says.

And if I got a a (You), then I'll write down the problems too:

There are currently 3 C50 type locomotives and a DMU in Nagybörzsöny, that are serving both the Márianosztra-Nagyirtás and Nagybörzsöny-Nagyirtás line.

The C50-s are all all run-down. The 3739 has the best engine and running attributions is the most used loco, therefore it's wheel flanges became dangerously thin and short, and there is a not large, but constant danger of hopping off the track, which can be fatal if done in the upper parts of the track, where it goes at the top of the valley.

3756 was equipped with air brake to the new passenger cars two or three years ago, and it was a very bad work. Since then, the clutch pedal became so stiff that you have to almost kick it in at every shifting, and the brake is way worse than before.

The third loco has a pretty long, UIC-type serial, and I didn't bothered to memorize it. It came from a mine railway where it was terribly neglected, and although it had a serious overhaul two years ago, the engine is still in poor condition.

The DMU is brand new, built on the chassis of an old wood carrier freight car, but it has an immature power transmission. Even better that it's hydrostatic, therefore if it breaks down (which happens quite a few time), you can barely move it anywhere.

These problems could've been corrected easily during a single season break (which is long, from the end of October to early April, without any Santa Claus Train or such programmes in it), but the operator doesn't give a shit about the problems, it only collects the profit and hopes that there won't be any trouble.

P.s. Please don't tell anyone you heard these infos, as I don't work there, but some of my colleagues at our railway does, and they can get in trouble if anybody at the Nagybörzsöny railway rants about that these infos were spoken out.

>>1033948
I'm confident that nobody posting on a Laotian quilting collective knows anybody in Hungary to spill your deepest darkest secrets.

>>1033961
Kek, true.

Just wanted to be sure.

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>>1033948
On the Hungarian theme, what do you guys think of these?

Someone once told me the commies never bothered changing the oil the entire time they had them, but they just kept working just fine. Not sure if it's true, though. You'd think even the best engines would need an oil change every now and then.

>>1034099
I'd say that's bs. Oil was a think we always had shortage on, but all the locos got refilled after a while.

>Hungarians, Hungarians everywhere

>>1034103
*thing, ofc
Sorry, my mobile is a bit tiny, hard to type on it

>>936959
Lol, I like to picture the guy driving this thing talking to the other guy in the cab like "Alright... Then you uhhh.... Well I don't remember there being this many trees, but I think up here there should be... Shit, no... I am *not* lost, I swear."

>>1017040
Where the Hell was this? That looks like a Japan Rail line, but which one, where, and why?

>>1035014
jr fukuchiyama accident

Apparently, in Japan, if an Alzheimer disease patient get crashed by train, some railway companies will ask the relatives of the patient to pay the bill of causing service disruption and the cost of necessary mitigation measures, for not taking care of the patient, however some other rail companies waived it. What's the situation in other countries like the US?

>>1035266
Never heard of this in Holland and can't imagine it happening. People jump in front of trains practically every day and it's a massive nuisance.

>>1035271
well, it does not stop Japanese people from jump in front of trains

>>1035275
Yeah I meant that given how often it happens I should've heard if the NS tries to get family to foot the bill. Not sure about Alzheimer's or escaped mental patients though, usually it's your average suicide.

Good thread, thanks.