>Siemens to build new single level coaches for Amtrak.Are we finally gonna see the budd amfleets taken out of service
>>1132987better than the leaky trains like the ones the UK just got
>>1133083God you're naive, do you think companies just stop innovating completely? Or that they would design new equipment for free?
>>1133140no they wouldn't, but the US's special compression standards only exist within the US and without such standards they could just sell normal train cars in America
>>1133161I know. Is it true that the strength requirements result in such heavy cars that having Shinkansen/TGV -like trainsets will never happen?
>>1132987Siemens in the US is pretty good.
Installed brand brake cable & housing, AND new pads, they still squeak. I rode around, and still some harsh stops from high speed, as I was told to break them in. discussroderoadbrakebreak
If they're rim brakes try scratching up the pads a bit using sandpaper. Then toe them in a bit using a coin or something. If disk brakes you they may have been contaminated like >>1132870 says or you did not bed them right. Here's a video to show you how https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8iRpWDVdo
>>1132951Fuuu i did the opposite, high speed hard braking...
>>1132844Get some 320 grit emery cloth, carefully go over the braking surface of your rim(s) to break up any glaze and get rid of any contaminants. Then go over that with a rag with some actual solvent or at least >=91% isopropyl alcohol, to remove any film left over. Then take some 240 grit sandpaper to your brake pads to remove any glaze or contamination, flat screwdriver blade to clean out the grooves in them, and finally a clean rag to remove any debris from them. If they still squeak after all that then I don't know what else to tell you to do, other than go find a witch skilled at removing curses.
rim brakes also have to be angled properly, pic related
They are dick brakes. Mechanical.
Post only the best locomotive configurations>4-4-0
4-4-0
>>1133123>Whyte system is by far the most dominant and commonly used form. For steam locos at least. UIC (or it's simplified US version) is preferred for diesels.And to be honest, UIC is a better system (in which numbers are undriven axles, and letters are driven) is a better system for some locomotives.Pic related, for example, cannot be classified really under Whyte. You couldn't say "0-4-0+2-2-0" because it's a single coupled set of drivers. While the UIC version, "B2A," still doesn't tell you that they're coupled,. it's still better.As for other UIC examples:4-4-0 = 2'B2-10-0 = 2'E4-8-0 = 2'D2-8-8-2 = (1'D)D1 Parenthesis indicates articulated
>>1133242>2-10-0 = 2'EMeant to put 1'E
>>1133113>>1133109It's there in case the gs4 was to break down it could pull the train instead of having it block the mainline. Not sure it it actually pulls but I don't think so. Also provides power to the passenger cars. >>1133108This was a close second, but went with the more aesthetically pleasing one. The 4000 class are more of a industrially gritty type of aesthetic.
Fantastic choice OP
Stop arguing about stupid things and go ride your bike.
>>1133034>OTSOr rather, OSS
i am posting this on 4chan
>>1132960but i am riding my bike right now
>>1132960>mfw sheldon actually liked the nexus 7 gear hub>mfw he was a pleb all along
>>1132960>Stop arguing about stupid things>4chanYou must be new here.The Internet Hate Machine is also the Internet Stupidity Machine.
Eternal Tyre Discussion Threadim new to road bikes, just killed my first tyres (schwalbe lugano) after aprox 4000mi/6000km of use. they came with my bike (a mid range good alu bike, felt f75).can anyone give me a quick induction about tyres? mine where 23mm but i see everyone is using using 25 or even a bit more. advice me!no need to go into very rare tyres and stuff, just the most known and widely available is preferred. a objective opinion on pic related would be cool as i see they are kind of a meme tyre. also tell me if the price gap from a couple of maxxis detonators or ultrasport to the gp4000 is worth. im looking on somethig balanced between puncture resistance, rolling resistance and durability... but again if someones knows thier stuff he could prob say "this one for puncture resistance", "this one sucks on durability",etc etc. thanksssssssss.and a tyre related question. as i needed a quick replacement for the back tyre and had no time to investigate or anything, i just got a single continental ultrasport 23mm). guy in the store told me it wuld be better if switched to the front and left my old good lugano on te back, so i could feel the grip of the continental . should i?obviously talk about your tyre pref, what you thik is best whatever whatever. peaceeeeeeeeeeeeee
>>1133039The studs will contact the road at the max pressure. I have them and I run them at around 4 - 5 bars. The reason is that they have stiff as fuck sidewalls and if you drop pressure they eat up all your power. Your tires have plenty of grip even at the max pressure. You just can't expect for a tire to turn icy road into dry summer road.
>>1133178Do you mean marathon plus or what? I said it in the other thread but the supremes are not a fundamentally resistant tyre. They weigh hundreds of grams less than even the normal marathons, which are about a couple hundred less than the pluses.My counterpoint to tank tyres is tubeless, that way you get good flat resistance without destroying the ride feel. The only thing that ever actually punctured my compass tyres running normally was goatheads, now I can shrug those off laughing. And those are some of the least puncture resistant tyres that exist.Never had a flat on Marathon GTs either but they weigh twice as much and don't feel anywhere near as good.
Have a pair of these sub $10 tires coming from Wiggle's house brand, Lifeline. I expect pretty good things, everything else I've used from this brand is really well made, even if they are just copies of other companies products. After they come and I get some miles on them I'll report back. They also have a "premium" version of this tire for $3 more that looks like a GP4000 clone, but I'm just putting these on an old steel frame bike, so those would be a little overkill.
>>1133235Forgot picture.Also, besides the Vittoria Corsa, Clement Strada and Panaracer Pasela, what are other options for skinwall road tires?
>>1133236veloflex, various wtb and compass tyres, probably many others
I miss skinny tires. 23mm, 19mmDo you think they'll ever make a comeback? These fat tire bikes are so lame
>>1132436>25mmBrooo u s oo ogud exdeeee W0000t goood edfficneicy WXDDDD BOXXXXX>23 FAGGNIGER OLD TWATNIGGERshittwt loooool; sooo old you will never bear 25 is beeetererrer
>>1132896A Fred that won the TDF five times.
>>1133084Youre embarrassing
Skinny and fat tires have their places, a sub 125 lbs rider on a smoth surface might benefit from 23 or even 19 mm tires, while a 200 lbs rider on a rough road shouldn't go below 25 mm.I have knobby 2,5" tires on my daily shitbike (pumped up to 5-6 bar) and 25 mm on my roadbike (pumped up to 8-9 bar).My weight is 56 kg and that pressure is supposed to be overkill, but I like it that way and don't get pinchflats at all.
does anyone miss not wearing helmets
Continued from >>953738Post 'em Airports new thread Mk 12 .... starting with LHR
Old HOU
>>1131428New HOU
Bump !
New Blaise Diagne international airport[youtube]ZF6F-8DvjRM[/youtube]
>>1133207Just post a regular youtube linkhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF6F-8DvjRM
Your favorite train. Only requirement is your reason, and a bit of information of the train.Pic related, Litra MY (Class). A Danish locomotive finalized in 1954. It's a diesel-electric powered unit, that has proven so reliable, that several engines is still operating when needed, such as last minute maintenance, snow-plowing and occasionally freight. A few was surplus to the Germans in the late '90s for the same usage as well.
ICE 3It looks pretty
Garratts in general, but the LMS ones in particular. Just so different, after growing up in the states.
>>1132858Don't some of those still run in Zimbabwe?
Santa Fe 3751Built in 1927 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, it pulled passenger trains until 1953 where it was turned into a display piece. It was restored to working order in 1983 where she serviced excursion trains. She's currently undergoing another restoration.As for why?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwY6Ul_Yq-Y
>>1132371>>1132372>FGCFree Catalonia!
What happened to American dominance in the transit sector? >inb4 cars and suburbs
>>1132862>>1132864>>1132866>>1132868Weren't these all before streetcars hit their peak or was it only passenger trains that hit their highest number of riders in the 40s
>>1133007What the actual fuck? This is not even remotely close to true.
Economic development post WW2 switched from a mono-centric model to a poly-centric model which made transit a less effective option.
>>1133008Containerization is only the icing on it, it was merely the thing that let RRs be more flexible when it came to finding customers (a single container lift at the end of a spur creates an easy access point compared to parking a truck on a trailer). The real innovation was in train control and operation, which allowed for much longer trains meaning less staff could run more cargo. Europeans have no reason to spend so much money on getting distributed power setups right, because they aren't trying to fit 100+ car trains through 15 mph mountain passes.
>>1133008I have mixed feelings about that. Ton-miles are probably higher than ever, but railroads are only really interested in unit trains and intermodal. They have run off smaller carload freight customers because that requires more labor than double stacks and pigs. Also, the number of route miles in the US has been shrinking since the 1940s. Some of that had to happen of course. And of course there is a general reluctance to adopt any new tech that doesn't reduce labor costs, like ECP. They installed PTC only because of the government.
So I was trying to watch Man in the high castle and I noticed they had a sick monorail system going on in NYC in addition to an awesome underground network. Anything like this irl?
>>1133054holy it's almost identical. How good is it?
>>1133055it still runs, but it's more some kind of heritage/tourist thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSD6SbFwVZUthere are also monorails in Disneyland/world
>>1133055Only useful for tourists or the handful of people who need to travel between its two stations.Also, it's not integrated into the rest of the system. So you have pay a separate fare.
>>1133046>Anything like this irl?Yeah. They're called monorails
in Asia you got cities with some really sick monorail systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgGieuzMzx8
Someone teach me how to freight hop
>>1132742Lie under the train and grab the bottom of it and hold tight.
Find a coal train and ride on the pushers
>>1132775They're all locked now, amigo.I make it a point whenever we take an empty to remind my engineer to lock the thing.
>>1132778Bummer, but I figured that was just a matter of time.
Former conductor, and locomotive engineer here. I would not recommend it. People get killed all the time. Never crawl under the trains. If you hear the air brakes releasing, and a mild click, click clicking sound, the train is about to move. The slack can roll back silently. I almost got killed being stupid as a kid messing around on a "Parked" freight train when an Amtrack went by on the main, and the train moved out. I was on top, and jumped off away from the main. Less than a minute earlier I contemplated crawling underneath the coupler, instead of climbing up from the front of the back car. I would have been killed if I did. It's just too risky to try.
Im a signalman/ Signal Maintainer for a huge rail road in the northeast. AMA
>>1132798Not OP but I wore Red Wings and Wolverines. The Wolverines were lighter and more comfortable but the Red Wings were Gore-Tex and warmer in the winter. Red Wing has the toughest sole imo, and they would re-sole your boot once for free iirc (I never needed it). They both held the chat well.I wish I had gotten a custom pair of White's boots, but they were really expensive and you had to measure yourself out in several ways and I never bothered to do it. The guys who did have them swore by them, though.I also had a pair of "pac boots." They were extremely thick and heavy winter boots that I didn't even find worthwhile in cold Nebraska winters.
>>1129226Are there modern day hobos ?
>>1133122yessome upload to youtube
>>1129226How reliable are the crossing sensors and systems? Should I trust some sensors and wire to let me know when 20 million pounds is coming or should I still look both ways?
When will you too adopt the glorious over-engineering that is ETCS?
ITT: Post rare and not-so-rare Penn Centrals, including predecessor lines Pennsylvania, New York Central, and New Haven. Early Conrail is okay too. Penn Central is an interesting railroad because it was such a clusterfuck, covered a huge geographic territory, and also because it rostered on some level nearly every first and second generation diesel locomotive model built. It also had some cool and unique electric operations. It's the quintessential 1970s rustbelt railroad.
>>1132181I think PC ran their H16-44's long-hood forward irc. If so then there actually is a door on the fireman's side facing the long hood.Some roads opted for full handrails along the frame and not along the carbody like this. It would be kind of sketchy walking down the side while at speed, especially in winter. The lack of drop steps or easier passage between units was a early design deficiency I think.
>run a company based off of a completely outdated business model>refuse to update in any capacity>continue to invest in dying technologies>go way beyond your financial capabilities To this day Penn is praised by foamers but it was a shit business with shit rail lines. The only reason /n/ likes it is because they had a few electric ones here and there. Same with Milwaukee Road. They failed, nobody wanted electric rail lines.
>>1132906Is there a single good thread on this board you won't shit up with your faggotry and irrational hatred of electrified operations? Did your wife's son get hit by an electric train or something?
>>1133137If electrified operations were so great then the entire American rail network would be electrified. But it isn't.
>>1133170It's already 50% electric (diesel-electric)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pktyJpWbcKAThe Light Rail System connects Minneapolis, Minnesota to some of its surrounding towns and suburbs. The project is set to expand into more conservative outlying suburbs such as Hopkins. Bob Ivers of the Hopkins city counsel warns of "ethnics" "flooding" into Hopkins from "Welfareopolis."
>>1128512Yes, I do. The data show (and examples in other cities can be seen) that extending transit access to wealthier neighborhoods/suburbs does not meaningfully impact the crime rate. In fact, it increases property values. Are you the same Anon who insisted earlier in the thread that all data he disagrees with is "juked"? If so, kindly hang yourself.
>>1128542Not sure what "juked" means but that damn yellow train is nothing but a tube
>>1115978Essentially the same reason MARTA can't get very far out of Atlanta.
>>1116128These onion comics are so good
Bump for more of Based Bob Ivers
Lets start a daily dredger thread.
>>1130868autism
>>1130877austistic people dont know how to use computers.
good old dredgers, pic is unrelated
>>1130910if only you knew just how wrong you are
Gypsey Race, Bridlington. Recently replaced by a new vessel of the same name.
