>Shinkansen 100

Seems they do belong in 1984.
I'm going to take this as another opportunity to say that the restaurant menu sounded really nice. And the higher floor means a better view.

>>132037
Brought back from beyond death, but the important parts, that is the truck and most metal parts were there.

>>132016
I'd love to go rescue some of these!
either restore them as is or put them back on the rails!
My 1 crazy Idea is to get a PCC car & put it on a chassis, put a motor in the rear, with rubber tires & rent it out to movie studios!
Course they did that with the Red Car in Roger Rabbit too

>>132011
Cram a diesel generator set in it somewhere and make a redneck DMU?

>>132077
That's actually how they do it on some tourist lines.

>pic related

>>132080
Is this still running?

Dat feel when this could have been the firts real line of Portland Streetcar. "But muh property values!"

>>132080

Kinda wish operators that used this method would spruce the trailer up a bit. At least paint it in the same colors as the streetcar itself, rather than a gray blob following a historic vehicle through the historic district.

>>132082
They did actually paint it red. That's just an old picture I stole from Gewgle.

>>132080

Also, Vivarail:

http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Inbox/ex-lu-stock-being-converted-into-demus-next-stop-the-north

>>132222

>Ford Transit engines

I see the North is becoming an industrial power house once again.

...and both their stock prices ticked up slightly. Go figure.

Geez, are they gonna cast their line at every Class I on the eastern seaboard and keep trying until they hook a sucker?

>>132189

Would Hunter do this just to drive up stock prices?

>>132197

Seems like he'll do ANYTHING to drive up stock prices.

noooo
Don't need Pac-Man gobbling up the railroads!
I bet the NTSB will say NO

>>132201
You mean the STB

The National Transportation Safety Board investigates transportation accidents.

The Surface Transportation Board is the successor to the Interstate Commerce Commission and regulates the business operations of railroads. This contrasts with the Federal Railroad Administration which regulates railroad operating practices.

>>132197 Nah, it's Bill Ackman. His investment firm is Pershing Square and they've been loosing their butts recently. Back in 2012 Ackman lead the proxy fight that won him CP. Hunter was brought in to quickly make the railroad profitable for Pershing Square investors. So why not rapidly expand your one good investment?

I think EHH would just be happy moving work closer to his horse farm in Florida.

>>132207
Did they manage to get rid of everybody on the old board or did some of them manage to stay on board?

Considering the ABe 8/12 class set the gauge speed record, they probably have the power to spare. If it doesn't complicate things like gearing too much, it makes sense to build in power to go fast or heavy.

I love to see a mixed consist like that!

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RhB_ABe_8/12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian_Railway_ABe_8/12 -- The tractive effort and power output numbers say they are no wimps: 280 kN / 58,450 lbf and over 2300 kW / 3000 hp continuous.

Odd factoids about the Allegra, gleaned from the German page:
Each end car has twelve first-class seats with only a glass wall between them and the driver.
All of the pantographs sit on a common bus so the AC pantograph can substitute for a failed DC pantograph.
The maximum hook load on the Bernina line was raised from 140 tonnes to 160 when the Allegras came into service.

http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?locomotive=ABe%208/12

>>132200 -- I think you will like http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=555244&nseq=21 showing two Allegras, one with four coaches, the other with three coaches and five empty cans.

Don't waste your time calling. You probably didn't get the job. Freight is a little slow everywhere right now.

As far as hair testing goes, not everyone does it. For me it's always been piss tests.

If you were to get hired you'd go to wherever NS does all their training at for a few weeks, then you'd go to where you'll eventually work at and do several months of on job training. After which you'll have the glorious task of being a slave to your phone.

Just giving you a heads up, this industry isn't for everyone and you won't have much of a life outside work.

There's a small yard in downtown Manassas, and a crew change point not too far south. If you don't get the job, don't bother moving up this way, everything is hideously expensive. Plus if they haven't called you back yet, yeah, you probably didn't get it.

I'm a near-daily toker, and it'd take me about a month and a half to piss clean. Someone who smokes infrequently and gets more exercise could probably piss clean in maybe 3 weeks. Hair testing goes back 90+ days depending on what part of the body they get the hair from. The real question is: why the hell are you smoking weed AT ALL when you're on a job hunt?

>>132091
So, you're the one who's vying for my position, huh? Well let me tell you bub, I hope one day we can both work for them one day. But right now, not looking good. Spoke to a conductor recently who was going away to train to be an engineer and he said in the area (I'm in southern VA) it doesn't look like they'll be doing much hiring for about a year. Though I will tell you what he told me: keep trying regardless. Keep your papers in their inbox and when it comes time to hire on some people, they'll see that you've been actively trying to get the job, and would probably select you sooner than others. Good luck out there.

>>132109

>Keep your papers in their inbox and when it comes time to hire on some people, they'll see that you've been actively trying to get the job, and would probably select you sooner than others.

I've been trying that for six fucking years with BNSF and Amtrak and that shit still hasn't worked.

>>132121

Yeah, I've never heard of this working either. Any kind of entry-level postion like this gets thousands of applications these days, so OP is likely getting auto-rejected rather than hand-rejected. Having applied for one of my current jobs 4 times, It certainly wasn't my manager (who enthusiastically invited me back) repeatedly denying my application

Dude, they shaved my entire armpit for the drug test. Just one side... and I mean all of it. Just because my haircut was a little short.

Best part, I'm non-agreement and work mostly in the office. Best of luck man.

NS has stated they're cutting 1200 jobs by the end of this year. Likely mostly from the coal fields and T&E, but it will mean less positions are filled after vacancy system wide.

Nevermind the nose, what the hell is with that roofline?

Air inlets for each engine?

Wonder why they chose to rebuild a 7 year old locomotive in the first place? At lease they changed the rest of this order to new builds, the MP40PH-3C are too young.

>zerg rush kekekeke

Even more "ouch", they've pulled the entire Heathrow Connect service so they can use the 360s instead. One of my favourite parts of the story was reading people complaining about how now they've got to share the standard class space with the plebs, and don't have tables and power sockets for their laptops, because it's not as if they're going to have to hang around the airport for an hour or two before take off or anything.

Where would Brits be without something to grumble or whine over?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-35686461 -- ... dirty, smelly replacement trains...

Oh, and in some news from Londinium...

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-03-02/passengers-finish-journey-on-foot-after-a-train-jumps-the-tracks-yards-from-the-station/ -- An underground train derailed over points last night just outside Ealing Broadway on the District line.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35683999 -- A SAREX simulating a disaster at Waterloo station.

Going to appeal, but was the bridge marked "no trespassing?"

>The lawsuit claimed the train engineer saw the three boys 34 seconds before the impact, yet never braked until after Whiddon was struck

No sense going into emergency at T-34 seconds if the boys have jumped to the clear by T-16 seconds.

>The suit also contended the train was going 15 mph faster than federal guidelines because a safety device at the rear of the train was not operational.

FREDs govern train speed?

>>132132

>FREDs govern train speed?

I prefer the term EOT, but yes.

No EOT means you're a 30 mph train. Not supposed to depart an initial terminal on any train with more than 4,000 trailing tons without one. You cannot report clear of track authorities without visually seeing the last car in the train, or a qualified employee giving you a roll-by and stating that they see your marker light, flag, or non-operational EOT on the rear.

But back to the other part of your post, almost no engineer will put the train in emergency unless they hit something or are about to run through a switch, over a derail, into cars or engine, or past a signal displaying stop indication. A lot of these new road motors will instantly alert the RTC/dispatcher that the train was placed in emergency and they'll come on the radio asking you why did such. You're going to sound like a jackass when you say "we thought we were going to hit some kid on the tracks, but we didn't"

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The comment section is very interesting one of the jurors actually comments on the page that they made the decision because the engineer took no action before hitting the boy.

If the bell was on or he activated the horn then he took action.

>>132139
That is correct.

It is sensible to take braking action when a collision is imminent, but as we saw, several of the kids were able to get to safety. Another issue is that people don't realize what constitutes proper train handling. It's not as simple as just putting your foot on the brake. For proper dynamic braking(which is the preferred method of braking) you're supposed to notch down once every 3 seconds until you're in idle, then go to setup in the dynamics for 5 or 10 seconds (I can't recall. I'm not an engineer and my rule book is in the car.) then start using the dynamics. Assuming he's in notch 4, that's at least 17 seconds before he's actually braking the train.

That's an awful big commitment to make when someone could just get out of the way. Emergency braking is something that is HIGHLY discouraged as it creates large amounts of in train forces and track stress.

>>132137
Are they allowed to do that? Down my way, if you went on a news site and commented on what happened in the jury room they'd stick you in the cells for a couple of weeks.

>>132141
You can comment afterwards, but you're supposed to isolate yourself from all outside information on the trial while it's taking place.

>>132140

They need to take jurors to simulators set up like the accident happened and show them that even if he did "take action" it wouldn't have helped.

Good job on the 2012 article.

Probably had to dispose of it after they noticed the furries were riding it. Bwahaha.