>>131487
They've even got footage of the old CPR Lebreton yards complex that was bulldozed in the 60s (and subsequently left empty for the next ~40 years). As far as I know this is the only film that was ever shot in that area.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuHh8TKNaa4

>>131487
Yeah the link was sent to me last summer, I just about fell off my chair when the two A-units rolled into frame. I asked a retired railroader I know who operated C-Liners for the CPR back in the day if the audio was for real and not some canned stock audio. As far as he can remember it's legit. It's the only audio I know of an 8 cylinder F-M 38D8-1/8 engine.

However I know another person who claims to have several minutes of HQ audio of a CPR H16-44 idling and going through the 8 throttle settings while sitting in the yard at Trail, BC. I'm bugging him to retrieve it so we can convert it to an MP3 file.
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Hot damn, your pic of CPR No.11/12 looks good (@ Castlegar??). I'm currently trying to figure out which models I will need to replicate the same thing in HO circa 1956.

Enjoy this pic of CPR #4077, the 1st diesel to be written off on the CPR after a fiery wreck which caused 2 fatalities at Osprey Lake. The unit was barely 6 months old. Photo location is probably Medicine Hat, AB.

1chan removes stock name so here it is:

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These are two of my favourite vids of a railfan day trip up the CPR's Coquihalla subdivision shortly before abandonment in November 1959:

https://youtu.be/RiONq7ktj80
https://youtu.be/G2NH1nWtVDk

Although not mentioned, I believe the 2nd vid was taken by the same guy who did the 1st one.

>>131509
There's some more audio on the Fairbanks Years DVD (Chandos productions) which I used in this episode of my shitty vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stuCnmKY5xU
My 11 is at Farron in that photo. I've got a 4700 series baggage and a Cape series observation in kit form that I need to build to round it out, but I'm fairly happy with it.
I renumbered most of my C-liners. 4077 happens to be among them - I figure that it could use a few years of tribute! I also have 4104, 4105, 4065, and 4053, as they were among the last running. 4053 doesn't have a beaver crest, as shocking as that may be!

Follow-up: My girlfriend and I rode Penticton-Hope last year, and it was pretty wet around Osprey Lake - For all the rain and mosquitoes, it was still beautiful.

>>131509
Out of curiosity are you on the mailing list of the guy who is scanning Peter Cox's extensive slide collections? There's some lovely shots of FM power in those collections.

>>131547
I am. Quite a kerfuffle, that has been.

>>131548
It's not the first time I've heard of CRO. Do they have a reputation for stealing pictures or something?

>>131549
Very much so. William Baird runs it, it used to be free, but he made it subscription only a couple years ago - makes it harder to find the stolen photos, I suppose. He's an absolutely shitty individual, and constantly posts overly sexy pictures of his long distance girlfriend on his facebook group. I think I might actually hate him.

Anyway, back to them secondary passenger services...

>>131534
I helped source some motion picture and a few pics that were used in "Fairbanks Years". I can say that there is way more 8mm film out there and only a few were made available for the production.

I was out exploring parts of the Carmi sub about 10 days ago. Snow up to my knees. Heheh. I'm going back this summer, I think i'll bring my bike.

>>131547
Funny you should ask, I just heard about it for the first time a couple hours ago. I just got back from a weekly friday night coffee meet that a very small group of modellers and former railroaders have, and one of them mentioned it to me. I'm trying to obtain copies off a guy who saved the colour scans (he ditched the b&w ones unfortunately). I'd love to see them!

>>131550
That is a nice layout. Regarding the missing beaver shield on unit #4053, that has been an object of intense discussion several years ago among a few people I know. I don't have my notes with me but if IRC it went missing in September 1969 when it went in for servicing at Nelson. It's believed an employee snitched it one night and its current where-abouts are unknown. I'm not sure but I think #4053 had a small beaver shield that fit on the door after a repaint. That's a bit of a mystery among some of the CLC historians.

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>>131502
Heh! I like that shirt. But if you don't mind i'll skip the party invitation on the 32nd floor. :-D

>>131506
dudes been posting on imageboards since the 1990s, if you didn't expect trainz edition ken-sama then what did you expect?

>>131511

Come out to the coast! We'll have a few laughs!

>>131513
I kinda expect all of you to look something like this

>>131532
Most of us are kind of....not old. Except Corny. Corny is hella old.

Whatever you do for the love of god don't feed him Nalley Chili, especially if you want to sleep

>>131533
I'm 24 and even with all my facial tattoos I still get asked for my ID trying to get into R rates movies. Also I was featured in some tattoo magazine, I hate that picture it makes me feel like a creep.

>>131537

There was no chili on this trip.

>>131533

Did he solo'd?

>>131533
Old and frequently mistaken for dead.

The issue with regen braking is that the train dumps a lot of energy as it brakes. The battery (or ultracap) bank serves as a buffer for that. Say you were braking and didn't have trains in the immediate vicinity accelerating - that energy would go to waste unless you wanted to fuck the feeders.

London faces a similar predicament. Due to its antiquated power supply, they had to do some changing up to even support regen braking.

Bear in mind that the "revenue" part is just clever accounting. The idea being that the electricity bill is pretty much constant to the existing and any "sold" energy is icing on the cake. If you wanted to put it into real terms, you can subtract the revenue it from the bill - ergo a smaller bill. Though if you weren't paying for the power, I guess it is free money in a way.

An effort in Tokyo has been in place for a while to collect any spare energy and use it to power the stations.
http://www.mitsubishielectric.com/news/2014/0918.html

>>131552
Interesting. I imagine having the battery banks track side allows to lower the weight of the rolling stock a bit?

>>131554
They don't touch the rolling stock. The regen braking on the stock is the same as before. Although if the system was once using rheo braking then yeah, it would reduce weight as you can dump the resistor grids.

>Be Murrican
>Ride Murrican rail transit line
>Train is ready to depart
>Canned voice says "The doors are closing"
>Electronic ringing noise
>Doors close
>Train moves on
>mfw no songs nor melodies see the train off in Murrica

Would annoy me if I'd have to hear it everyday tbh.

When travelling in Tokyo, I found Tokyo Metro's lack of melody to be refreshing. Just hearing that departure tone. Same thing with the Shinkansen. I guess this will be a twist on it.
On the other hand, there are some I'd be willing to listen to every day such as the as outlined in the article Astro Boy one and this one on the Senseki (since they let the whole thing play)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LGv2UMbG2o
It's the more "random composition" ones I don't really enjoy
E.g. Yoyogi and Gotanda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjEZo3S0q4E

Sometimes I wonder what effect these tunes have on the suicidal. I imagine the intent is to prevent some from doing so, but I also wonder if the music instead provokes them at times.

Perhaps some would prefer John Williams and Kevin Peek riff out some Pachelbel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zv7UtBtJq0

>>131518

We here in America would probably get one of Maddonna'so "songs".
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Sorry for the guro picture.

I think I once saw a video of a streetrunning train in Japan that was blaring "Kimi Ga Yo" to mark its presence. Do Japanese trains really do that?

>>131544
"Quicker than a ray of light."

Meh... Trust me to bugger up names. It was Praetorius, not Pachelbel, that wrote the Terpsichore.

You've all been rused!
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/remote-hokkaido-train-station-stays-open-for-one-high-school-girl-perhaps-not

Hush! Don't let the nine-gaggers know! They're having too much fun with this.

>>131306 well that railway is now a trail :(

RN24 is probably as close to a reliable sourse as one will find.

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/01/12/train-continues-to-stop-at-rural-station-for-lone-schoolgirl-until-she-graduates-in-march/

The tl;dr? The station the girl uses is not Kami-Shirataki, but the neighbouring Kyu-Shirataki. She's still the only one to board at that station.

>>131354
That Japanese Amshack sure looks comfy.

Well, JR Hokkaido does have its own version of the Amshack:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Biruwa_Station is one of many small stations whose waiting room is a repurposed carbody.

Still, I rather hope JRH does not end up as a desk drawer in JRE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX3iXcwN6h8 -- JRH's corporate song.

>>131354
And according to plebbit she's getting creeped on by the tetsuota ever since this story blew up.

Why am I so utterly unsurprised?

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/01/21/japans-train-otaku-ruin-the-sweet-story-of-the-lone-school-girl-and-her-train-station/

Gits.

I love these types of booths/stores.

>>131523

Montreal?

>>131524
Yeah. The booth is a mock up of the front of an MR 63.

I wonder if they could provide measurable statistics for the first year of NATO alphabet vs recent years of phonetic alphabet. Watching railway safety vids from Britain, you get the impression a report is made every time an engineer sneezes on his control desk, so can't be that hard to draw up a comparison.

But, seriously, make overs on full duplex? Totally superfluous. Utterly needed on simplex and semi-duplex, though, to notify the other side that you are about to stop transmitting.

Simplex: Transmit/receive on same channel or frequency. No simultaneous tx/rx.
Semi-duplex: Transmit/receive on different frequencies. Still no simultaneous tx/rx.
Full duplex: Simultaneous transmit/receive on different frequencies.

>>131493
Old rail maps, when opened. Dated October 25,1964

>>131494
It's in pretty bad shape

>>131495
Still in better shape than my crew change haha