Strange & Extreme Trains

I think most MoW equipment looks other worldly. Whether it's a regulator, tamper, TRIPP, or spiker/gauger, it all looks weird and doesn't do what you think it would.

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>>953224
>I think most MoW equipment looks other worldly.
MoW?
I Googled "MoW equipment" and all I got was pic related.
t. bike fag

Oh, and Google tells me OP's pic is shooped

>>953229
What, you didn't try Wikipedia first? It's Maintenance of Way i.e. track maintenance equipment.

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>>953224
>>953229
>>953236
Speno rail grinding train in AZ

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>>953148

this one isn't unique by looks, but by its organisation. but it was some of you autists wet teenage dream ;)

http://visitbudapest.travel/activities/fun-things-to-do/childrens-railway/

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>>953229
It is.
I just thought it looked cool.

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>>953298
It is also a dank meme on Futaba.

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Steam.

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Can you guess what is odd about this?

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>>953224
>I think most MoW equipment looks other worldly.
Except when they end up sexier than the revenue models they're based on.

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>>953224
>>953236
>>953266
The LORAM Rail Grinder is the coolest thing.

The Locomotives have built in water cannons to put out accidental fires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NoGtQPnPSc

>>953325
Is that one of those where the wheels aren't round?

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I think this is unusual

>>953325
>>953345
>Polygonal drive wheels that had over 118 sides.
What the fuck.

>>953350
Living above it would be very strange. Probably very cheap.

>>953350
Grüsse in der Schweiz.

>>953266
What's up with the satellite dish? Watch TV before going to bed?

>>953341
what is the purpose of grinding down the rails?

>>953400
You need to grind the rail head just a little bit to maintain its profile after its been worn down after time. It extends the life of mainline rail.

>>953341
You might like this then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV82MgcWQCw

>>953148
bump-a-rooney

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>>953294

Ah yesss, the Gyermekvasút. I live in Budapest, the Gyermekvasút is absolutely based. A narrow gauge railway operated by children, although under adult supervision. A lot of kids volunteer to "serve".

It's a great idea. It develops character.

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And this, my friends, is how you raise your fucking kids.

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The Children's Railway of Budapest is not the only such railway, Russia and former USSR republics also have such railways, but the Budapest one is the largest.

>What is common between the Children's Railway and female mammaries?
>???
>Both were intended for kids, but adults enjoy it.

>>953294
Working on the railroad isn't everything it's cracked up to be.
>>956949
Do the kids do track work and maintenance?

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NZR H Class, longest working Fell rail locomotives in the world.
They come from that time before the Rack system really gained use.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SCVXyu3Ao

>>956950
>my friends

Surely you mean "Comrades, brothers in arms of the Socialist struggle"?

(Not taking the piss: children's railways seem to be a pretty unique Soviet invention)

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Direct drive motor artic

>>953306
i can tell by some of the pixels

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how about a GG-1 cut in half to be used as a yard switcher?

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a steam locomotive with a pantograph?

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>>953148

>>957418
OH GOD THE FEELS ;_;

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wine train

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Mit Volldampf in das KZ

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>>957421

>>958425
Basically it was during the war and Switzerland couldn't get any coal for it's steam engines because everyone was unwilling to export coal. Since most of it's network was electrified they put electric heating elements in the boilers and heated the water through electricity.

Ireland had a simular problem and created a train that ran on peat.

>>957421
>>958425
For use in tunnels and in cities.

Suffocation is actually a very real risk with steam engines.

>>958434
That makes perfect sense. Please delete this useful and informative post.

>>958416
No idea this existed. Looks like fun.
>>958434
>it's
Both times you used it were incorrect. Lose the apostrophe.
Not trying to be a dick, it was a good post.

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>>958436
It doesn't solve the suffocation problem at all, you nigger. As >>958434 says, it was to keep their shunters running during wartime coal shortages, new electric shunters being too expensive.

Also, Railzeppelin.

>>958568
>Doesn't know why NYC banned steam engines forever ago and why even diesel engines present risks in long tunnels.

Bruh, I know you think you know everything, but you don't. I learned something new today, so can you.

>>958569
He never said suffocation is not a problem, he said >>958568
>It doesn't solve the suffocation problem at all

The electrics aren't for moving the train, they are for heating the boiler, what creates steam anyway.

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Not exactly strange or unique, but it's not everyday you see a steal locomotive streetrunning.

>>958568
>germans blimptraining wrong
Why am I not surprised

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>>960834

we almost have that in philly, down the middle of 6 lane delaware ave

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>>960834
there are places where you can see this happen several times every day

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Transport of a generator to electric plant using Schnabel car
Weight: 460t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS4yGcTpeAQ

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>>953148
that must be a swiss train

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>>960908
Porthmadog, Wales.

>>960834
>>961058
Looks good
>>961053
Kek

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>>961053

>>958621
Boiled water isn't suffocating though, what is are the fumes from burning coal.

>>962059
That's a very interesting hi-rail.

Like, normally hi-rail wheels are pretty small, but those are just so damn big.

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>>962105
Because it was a dual purpose thing, search for schi-stra-bus bs 300

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Leader class, Co-Co steam engine.

Bulleid was either way ahead of his time or a complete nutjob

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>>962338
To expand why the Leaderclass was stupid, the firebox was in the middle with two cabs on either end.

The fireman basically roasted to death with very poor communication with the driver. Plus the engine was a giant, those bogies are steam bogies.

>>953352
That's pretty fuckin cool. What was the advantage of having not actually round drive wheels?

>>962539
Nothing. Thought I heard somewhere it was for grip. I can't believe it endured all that vibration

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They see me rolin' they hatin'

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Do you recognise that shape?

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>>962605

>>953400
Rails don't wear down evenly, causing vibrations and further degradation of the rails. Grinding evens the wear.

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Hungarianfag here.
>>962605
>>962607
Wow, guys, I've never expected to have these Ikarus railbuses here. I'm really happy.
>>953294
>>956949
>>956952
>>956959
And when I saw this too...well, I touched myself. (Not because of the kids, really.)

>>964215
Dat track warping though.

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http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

For your viewing pleasure.

>>962602
Wot

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Does this count?

Prototype pods have already been built.

>>965372
OpenPRT seems like a potentially more sensible deign ,simply because the pods can become street level cars

>>958434
>simular

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the UAC Turbotrain gets my vote

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>>965475
What about this weird thing ? I mean, what were they thinking ?

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>>965475
Older pls-

>>965476
>What about this weird thing? I mean, what were they thinking ?

Explain.

>>965493
Who the fuck do you think you are, asking me to explain myself ? Fuck off back to your plebbit circlejerks.

>>965493
DAt logo though.

>>965501
Eh.
I've heard better insults.
Try again.

>>965519
Its beautiful.

>>965476
"WE GOTTA FIGURE OUT HOW TO DRAG TWO MILES OF LOADED COAL CARS OVER THE APPALACHIANS"

>>961058
who needs cab-forward when you can just flip the fucking train around

>>965476
Other than that fire box what's weird? I think that's what I see anyway.
>>965610
I don't know why but this comment amuses me.

>>965476
Maybe it's meant to burn lignite?

>>953350
>historic funicular running right above a gazillion tram lines and trolleybus lines
why is zurich so god-tier it makes my giny tickle

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>>962340
The Leader would've been fine if Bulleid had designed an 0-6-0 + 0-6-0 Garratt instead of trying to butcher a steam loco to look like a diesel or electric loco. It's not like he didn't know they existed, either - he'd helped design one for the ruddy LNER!

Pic is another weird British loco. Why is it weird? Because it uses a boiler design that is the complete opposite of a 'normal' boiler.

>>965493
Wow, Cadillac of trains

>>965813
Are you that fat british broad that shit posts on here about trains?

>>965851
Is that The Galloping Sausage.

>>966107
Yes it was.

>>966008
Its too bad it were literally a piece of shit mechanically.

While the design was nice, preforming routine maintenance was difficult and it were very underpowered.

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>>965372
>>965445

Here's the prototype.

>>966275
the rock island used one as a commuter locomotive out of chicago

>>958416
>>953341
>>965475
>>965493
muh dik

>>966010
>fat british broad that shit posts on here about trains
You're going to need a description that doesn't fit the majority of foamers on /n/ if you want to get somewhere

>>967461
>broad
>a description that fits the majority of foamers

>>967619
Mesmerizing

>>967619
Captivating.

>>967852
lel I'd missed that. there's a woman that posts on /n/? No fucking way

>>953372
It's Zurich, it's expensive as shit. I did commute to university using that funicular, it's really cool. 125 years old by now, I believe.

>>957421
Story about this: During WW1, coal was scarce in Switzerland and most lines had been recently electrified. With plenty of hydro power it was cheap and quick to put in electric water boilers into old steam engines to use them for a while longer until proper electric replacements had been built.

Bumpity Bump.

>>957421
>>958425
>>958436

Copying my answer from another thread:

Swiss E 3/3 nicknamed "Tigerli".

In 1942/43 Unit 8521 and 8522 were equipped with pantographs to power an electrical kettle heating because of WWII and coal shortage.

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how has no one posted multi-track drifting yet?

>>971865
What game?

>>971865
damn

>>971894
train simulator 2009

>>971865
10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a4vZbyWlI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BaUZAtar9U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pipX5_gtpM

>>972626
All the disadvantages of buses and trams combined, yes sir!

>>972653
>marginally more infrastructure than a trolleybus with increased capacity

try again, sir

>>972624
Gay smells, I know it's you. You just posted this faggot shit in the model train thread. Stop shilling these shit videos you namefag.

>>972679
You are a big guy

>>956949

Are those Luxemburgish flags?

>>972769
for jews

>>972818
>Lëtzebuerg
lolwut. Hungarian flags, buddy.

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The Gulflander, railway from nowhere to nowhere.

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This is a funny train, it transported people from Frankfurt to Frankfurt airport and was runned by Lufthansa. Now days this train is de-comissioned, unfortunantly...

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>>974632
its being refurbished currently by National Express

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>>974632
It was running between Frankfurt's airport and Düsseldorf, Cologne and Bonn, the photo was taken in Cologne, there is even an advertisement for Kölsch.
A similar service with loco-hauled trains was running to Stuttgart.

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>>975353
Today Lufthansa books seats on regular ICE trains, which also carry flight numbers for that reason.

>>975354
I think Air France does the same thing, Amtrak too. There are a few airlines that have code sharing agreements with railroads. It's kind of interesting and something worth looking up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeshare_agreement#Air-rail_alliances

>>967619
Hypnotizing

>>974632
>>975248

Old class 403, nicknamed "Donald Duck" (guess why). Three four-part units were built total in 1973 as prototypes for the new InterCity train class, a network of fast running trains across the country and the successor of the Europe wide Trans Europe Express network. Technically wise they are close relatives to the class 420, the legendary S-Bahn train of West Germany.

First passenger service began in 1974 and ended already in 1978 since there were only so few units built therefore expensive to maintain and unflexible to dispatch. Also they were first class only and with the introduction of the second class/economy in '79 for IC trains, they were finally obsolete.

Their second life begann in the early 80ies, when they were put back into service as the "Lufthansa Express", a train that ran between Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn and Frankfurt as a cheap substitute for flights on said line (later on also on different routes with other train sets). You had to have an actual plane ticket to board this train. This life didn't last very long either. All units were decomissioned in 1993 after they found damaged spots on the aluminium body through corrosion. All units were left to themselves since then and rotting away somewhere in the sticks in east Germany.

>>953350
What's crazy is the lack of supports for that whole span

>>971865
[eurobeat intensifies]

>>953294
A lot of communist/socialist states had these, still existing in the former GDR-part of Berlin.

>>975746
lel

>>972626
Reminds me a bit of Boston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUvCFIDbCZI

>>976426
>silver line

(puke)

>>953148
Why is the train triangular?
What advantage does this give?

>>976519
It's shooped, broski.

>>976519
The tourists love it.

>>976519
tunnels

>>958406
Somehow this picture unsettles me.

The way the train is shaped makes it look tempting to slide on it, but then it has a scary "Gonna run you down :^)" face, I think thanks to the lighting.

>>977913
It's a shoop

>>976519
It handles curves better at high speeds

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

/Thread

>>977913
it is the cockpit glass, makes it look like it is furrowing its brows

>>958406
>>977913
>>978260
The red lights look like blushing cheeks, which makes the train look all tsundere.

>>978258
>/threading your own post

And that doesn't qualify anyway. If anything it helps with new conversations.
tl;dr
You're a faggot
>>978269
lel

>>978554
I'm still new to this

>>978675
Then lurk moar newfriend
But if you do just remember that you're here forever

>>953669
M497! A Favourite of mine,

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A rail tractor designed to fit into a turn table with whatever it is shunting.

That thing in front is a lift it may use to lift the other end of its load to gain extra traction.

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:D

>>982316
Ahh, the Vauclain, looks normal at first glance!

>>982832
Not just any Vauclain, a Milwaukee Road Vauclain!

>>982832
>>982316
What's strange about it?

>>983427
KU!

>>983446
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-4-2_(locomotive)

I found this

>>983446
>>983504
It's a compound, high and low pressure cylinders on each side, four cylinders total.

In addition, as said, a Milwaykee Road one, but wasn't very successful as they got crapped at 15-20 years.

Also, it looks really aesthetically pleasing for me.

>>983787
Oh, now I see it. The cylinders are stacked.

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>>983787
>It's a compound, high and low pressure cylinders on each side, four cylinders total.

Compound engines really are not that strange, not with 4 cylinders either. You'll find compound engines, even of 4 cylinders, in any country. Well, except for the UK since they didn't really need to, but they were very common in Germany and Austria-Hungary, as well as Switzerland and France.

Pic related. The NSB type 26c was designed to climb the Norwegian mountains on the Bergen route to and from Oslo. Type 26a and 26b were quickly modified to be compound locomotives to reduce the enormous coal usage, and the 26c came to be one of the most versatile steam engines in this country's history.

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>>960834
we have this somewhere in austria, just without the steam

>>967619
This has given me a sex erection

>>986216
The street is one thing, in your damn driveway is another.
>>986350
Gee Timmy, you get three boilers?

>>986353
This looks like a caboose but wtf happened?

>>986384
>The street is one thing, in your damn driveway is another.

Rarer than having one's back yard end into rail tracks.

You get used to the train rumbles surprisingly quick, just like you get used to striking clocks, refrigerator hum, mechanical heating thermostats (some go BANG!) and the like.

Hell, just now I live next to a construction site and can happily sleep through the pleasant pounding of their pile drivers.

>>986405
>happily sleep through the pleasant pounding of their pile drivers.

Wew lad

>>986405
Never mind, some fucknugget is cutting grass with a mover which's carburetor is "hunting". You know, he's having the gas really low, so the P amplification tuned for larger revs overshoots due control lag, so it's oscillating. Should I go yell the fucker to stop ruining my day for a shotglassful of gas?

/blogpost

>>953341
When they came through where I railfan recently, there wasn't a single damn person on any of the water cannons, and then a couple of small grass fires got started down near the next control point, resulting in the local FD being called.

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>>986351
Steam storage is a pretty cool guy, eh shunts in industrial yards and doesn't burn of anything.

>>986828
And the risk of a boiler explosion is practically zero.

If it does run short on water, it simply ceases to function.

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German rail-bus DB 670

>>953148
Shop


>>953298
Original image

2Ch joke

>>986216
late for work because train blocks you in?

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gyro mono rail is the weirdest i have ever seen it's real google it

>>989493
Good find

>>989493
I want one. Anyone knows the how-to ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGaevdhIz9Y

>>953317
Looks like some steampunk shit. I like it.

>>953325
Looks like a hybrid; steam powering that big drive wheel but a gasoline truck engine powering the smaller rear wheel for moving around the yard

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>>960834
Amtrak does some street running right through Jack London Square in Oakland.
No steam though

>>991500
Is there a station there? Would be pretty much optimal coverage.

>>960908
so cool!

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It's not just a Koploper. It's a KLM Koploper!

>>991500
Riding a train through the street seems like it'd be really comfy

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>>965476
It's not that weird, they needed more power, but you could only have so many driving wheels, or it couldn't go around curves well, so they used two sets of driving wheels to allow it to turn.

Pic related biggest non-articulated steam engine; UP's 4-12-2

>>994543
Jesus christ how did it negotiate that curve?

>>976426
We have that in arnhem (.nl) as well.
Cleaner than using gas busses, but the advantige of not needing special 'tram' lanes as normal traffic can pass under the lines without probs.

>>986350
>Studded for your pleasure.

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>>953148
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>>953307
While we're on the subject of photoshopped trains...

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>>994543
>biggest non-articulated steam engine; UP's 4-12-2

Soviet Union laughs at your pitiful capitalist toy.

>>995247
It had lateral motion devices on the first and last drivers, so in effect it was similar to a locomotive with only 8 driving wheels.

>>953669
"How does this thing change direction?"
"We fitted a jet engine to the roof"

>>996398
ah yes, the abject failure that couldn't even fit on a turntable

>>996395
Holy shit I love it

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>>989493
Ah, the Brennan Gyro-Monorail.

However if the gyro system were to fail, the locomotive would be on its side in an instant.

>>994253
I love those

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>>999469
>>989493

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>>989493
I like the indian version better

>>976426
The public transit here is pretty ok, but that's just an abomination desu.

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>>1000213

>>995247
Flangeless centre driving wheels.

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>>953350

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>>958424

>>953325
It's not in colour?

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AYY LMAO

>>958424
Thank you Google translate.
>Full steam ahead to kz (concentration camp)
>>1001336
Its driving wheels aren't round

>>1005182
Track inspection car?

>>1005182
What the fuck's strange about a railcar?

>>1005856
Self propelled rail inspection car.

The Sperry company still does this today actually.

>>1006203
I know, I used to sort through resumes of engineers. ie optical engineers etc.
I worked for an recruiting firm that specialized in them. I learned a lot.

>>1006153
It's what it does, faggot.

>>958416
>ALCO FA
No wonder Napa Valley wines are so overrated

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>>1006361
Okay, so it's a railcar used for track inspection purposes. Still not seeing what's strange about it. Post something actually strange, like a steam-electric.

>>1006762
that's beautiful

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>>1006762

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>>956950
i hate this shit. it triggers me in a way barely imaginable

>and this,
first trigger
>MY FRIENDS
im not your fucking friend, second trigger.
who do you think you are, considering me your friend? pretentious tryhard piece of shit.
>how you raise
you dont tell me how to raise my motherfucking kids, third trigger, can barely contain myself
>FUCKING
WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO USE CURSEWORDS YOU PIECE OF SHIT
JUST SO YOUR RETARDED FUCKING REDDIT/9FAGGOT/FACEBOOK LINE LEAVES A DEEPER IMPRESSION?

FUCK YOU
FUCKING DIE

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this dildo

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These "locomotives" are even more rare than working steam locomotives.

>>1001752
shame this monstrosity has never got working

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>>1007077
now THIS is what I call AUTISM!

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decades ago, we had this strange pioneer railway in my city

idk too much about it, but it looks unique

>>957418

Who the fuck does such an atrocity?

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>>1007077

>>1000241
I want you to take a real good look at every single driving wheel on that engine, and tell me again that it doesn't have flanges.

>>995247
In soviet Russia, curves negotiate locomotive.

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>>1006762

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>>993006
sure is

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Don't see many cabooses like this.

>>1011772
Why is it so long?

>>1010078
That's just an 08 coupled to a snowplow.

And a 40 in the background.

>>960834
>that steam
Muh diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

>captcha: river niggers

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>>1011772
>>1011884

Converted Boxcars

During World War II, cabooses were often converted from boxcars.

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Luxtorpeda.

>>1011945
In addition, mostly before then there were long cabooses (can't remember the specific term) to house cattle handlers in addition to the normal railway crew on cattle trains. The handlers were needed after laws were passed requiring cattle to be let off the train to feed/piss/shit/get fresh air. After trucking took over the cattle moving business there was no need for them anymore.

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>why

>>1013904
>>1013911
Looks like something you'd see out of a Disney movie.

>>1011772
>>1011945
That's so cool.

>>1012224
Trucks and airplanes are the reason burgerland can't have nice things on rails.

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>>1001752

>>965372
what happens when the hobo falls asleep and doesn't exit the pod

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This one doesn't even have rails.

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indian rail bus

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>>1016271
more rail bus

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>>1016276
interior

>>1016278
*inferior

>>1016271
>>1016276
>>1016278

That's fucking neat.

>>1016278
What a view.
>>1016284
Kek

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>>953148
French "Aerotrain" some sort of monorail hovertrain.
Only stayed a prototype, was scraped, turbotrains were considered the future. (not with great success, the TGV was developped soon after)

>>1010078
>Mad Max 5: Fury Rail

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>>1016668
The first TGV itself was turbine powered

>>1015242
What is this? I want a Strange Journey bus like this.

>>1016763
That's sexy.
>>1016849
It's from a movie, can't recall the name.

>>1017119
>>1016849
Damnation Alley

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Electric-powered snowplow used on the MILW's electrified divisions.

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>>1019161

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So apparently they make HO scale live steam engines.

Is it possible to get any smaller?

>>1019161
>>1019162
wow this is cool

>>1019194
They have shrank down to N-scale as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29VExqkA1RU

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Tangara / T Set

All current trains in Sydney are double deckers, until 2019 when the Metro opens.

>>958424
Why does it have the Olympic rings on the back?

>>1022438
celebrating the Berlin Olympics

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Russian locomotive that runs on natural gas

>>961020
Podrywacz

>>957418
wasn't that for a snow plow. Had a huge fire and sat in storage until they had a huge snow drop and made it into a snow plow?

>>953148
>>953298
>wow that looks bretty cool and unique
>is shopped

FUCK U TRAINFAGS I WANTED TO BELIEVE

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>>1001752
I think I want one of these now

Posting trainfu

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>>953317
>>962338
>>962340

They need to do the exact opposite of this and start building high-speed trains that resemble steam locomotives.

I'm sick of every proposed high speed train in America looking like another clone of what the Japs and Europe already have. Our trains should have a uniquely American appearance. And we were once the masters of streamlined steam. It's time to go back.

>>1024643
Here's the problem, we didn't know jack shit about fluid flow back then - those trains aren't really "streamlined" at all compared with modern high-speed rail.

Air doesn't give a fuck about your A E S T H E T I C S. I love how old steam streamliners looked but you might as well suggest lighting a mountain of cash on fire if you want trains to look like that again.

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>>1024776

The Fire Rises then.

>>1015242
I used to see this thing every day when I was a kid, my morning commute to school went right past Dean Jeffries' shop on Cahuenga Blvd.

>>1019161
>>1019162
C L A S S Y
L
A
S
S
Y

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>>1024643
>>1024776
Yeah, take a look at the world record holder for steam locomotive speed and notice how similar the front is to modern high speed trains.

>>1001895

Diesel loco converted from a Tender?

>>996398

That locomotive was a huge flop and derailed constantly. They only built like 3 of them and then realized they were failures.

>>1024882
That's a big smoke stack.

>>1025463
4U

>>1025529
Was derailing part of your plan?

NEW THREAD
>>1027536

>>976426
[equal or better intensifies]

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>>978258
>not just posting the Holman Horror

>>1007077
I would think your pic is a joke were it not for watching Dr. /Pol/, where he makes said devices out of plastic pipe.

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>>1022443
>not having your own tender

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>>957083
Aw ye boi

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>>1024643
This just looks like a fucking penis

Pic unrelated

>>1028038
That locomotive was probably never that immaculately clean while in revenue service, even when it first came out of the factory.

>>1028038
>fucking penis
Do we know other penises for other goals?

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>>953148
Has science gone too far?

>>1028285

kek

>>956967

I dunno bruh. As a kid i would have killed to have one of those programs in my area. My only exposure to rail was ringo star narrating thomas the tank engine and the occasional visit to england.

>>1028077
My penis isnt used for fucking.