>666+666+666+6+6+6=2016

I think OP thinks trains are the devil? IDFK

Hail Satan!

Aliester Crowley's locomotive
GE is the law, GE under will

And an obviously masonic 13 33 locomotive, again from NS. Which, if you think about it,
NS -> SN -> SataN, or
NS = Nomine Satanas

OH CRAP, SOMEONES KNOCKING ON MY DOOR
THEY KNOW

Naw, it's just a heavy metal airline pilot with a cool video to show you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM

>>131212

>leaves sucked into the air intake

COINCIDENCE??!!?

>>131212

CSXT DOES IT BETTER

>>131210>>131207
hooray for Satanic Locos!
UP used to have one as did ATSF/BNSF
Want to get a collection of those in HO scale hehe
Even want CSX's Crazy Eights 8888

>>131212

CSXT DOES IT BETTER

(Not my photo)

Additional renderings here: https://www.flickr.com/#/photos/governorandrewcuomo/sets/72157662670053040/

>>131208

>3 billion dollaros
>for a headhouse
>still no natural light at platform level

Is the thing going to be built out of gold or something? Also did none of the architects who design this thing study the original station design? The modern station is terrible partly due to the fact that most of the complex is an underground mall with no natural light.

They've been mucking about with this idea since the last time there was a Cuomo in Albany. I'll believe it when it happens.

>no Gateway
>platform level remains a 21-track unorganized clusterfuck

Fucking When do they start addressing the real issues at hand? No boarding experience or throughput capacity is going to be significantly improved if tracks and interlockings are rationalized and platforms are combined and widened.

>>131228

>no Geateway

Habve you not read the news lately?

>>131230
http://www.northjersey.com/news/new-hudson-rail-tunnel-project-would-dwarf-initial-plan-1.1486094

>If Gateway is ever built — and it remains a huge “if”

So tell me where the Gateway funding is magically coming from. Tell me why Cuomo didn't tie it in with PPP initiatives.

Plus they forgot to mention the original Penn Station was torn down in 1963 to make way for Madison Square Garden
But its demolition helped paved the way for the Preservation Movements across the USA!

>called a railroader
>sits in an office all day
>probably can't tell glad hands from MU cables

Does he even count as railroading if he could do the same function in another industry with no major retraining?

Their RotY last year was The Hunter That Drives Them Into The Ground.

My hands are currently shaking between Click and Not Click. Is it gunna be another Pamplona with an occasional daredevil getting gored? Scary thots...

It's amusing because staff are seemingly there to reduce fare evasion and keep the gates open. Note carefully the fare evaders in the gate videos. Some of them push through the gates and ignore the staff, some due to being in a rush to be first.
But the others are very much definite fare evaders - those who slide their arms on the upper sensor of the gate like this demonstration while the staff aren't looking at them. (staff do know about this trick and there seems to be a functional purpose for it when testing the gate, etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBCS51EOuxM

I will add that considering the absurd amounts of money some spend on their doujins, you'd think they'd have money for a relatively cheap train fare!

The infamous cloud of ota sweat. Probably smells worse than a furcon that lacks aircon and deodorant.

On that side note, JMoF is on this weekend in Toyohashi. Just to make it train related, I did find amusement in having once ridden on the same train number as someone else.

The world record in 4000-m dash was broken 972 times that day.

It was kind of an epic day, I hope you appreciate a few not-so-ancillary shots.

Quite possibly the best sundog I've seen.

And, because I can, a bit of December 30th aurora. Peace oot!

>>131147 -- That's a nice example of a 'wolf-hemmed' sun.

that's a sexy picture op, good on you

Excellent shots! I'm certainly jealous of your adventure.

Sweet!

>>131144
They still have Jordan spreaders in service? I thought those things were retired ages ago.

>>131145
Nice! I remember when those were all over the place (I used to think they were boring) and in multi-mark too! I can almost hear the engine idling.. they had such a unique sound. :-)

>>131191
Totally. Gotta have somewhere for the conductor to slog through when the 144th car on westbound 675 breaks a knuckle.

Part of me still wonders what will become of the E3. The style of lights says E3-1000 which isn't of the newest lot, same as the Toreiyu. Some of them are going to hit 20 years in a few more years so I do wonder what they have planned. It doesn't seem too early to take guesses.

I wonder how the view will be though. One thing I noticed on the Joetsu was the fact that the entire line was elevated meant the presence of concrete walls. You still get a nice view with the single decker Shinkansen but it's nowhere near as spectacular as riding upstairs in a double decker. Then again, I guess the main viewing attraction would be the art rather than the windows despite their emphasis on the JR East page!

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/01/08/stylish-black-shinkansen-decorated-with-fireworks-spotted-on-the-rails-of-japan-%e3%80%90photos%e3%80%91/

>>131198 -- According to what Giggle Translate makes of the ja.wikipedia page on the E3, the Genbi Shinkansen is ex-R19 and thus sibling to the Toreiyu, which is ex-R18. Both appear to be E3-700s.

On most sections the side rail is +420 V and the central rail is -210 V.

The sections with mixed service with National Rail have +630 V on the side and 0 V on the central rail (the running rails are always 0 V obviously)

So the return rail can indeed be negative or neutral, depending on where on the network it is.

Historically grown systems can be retarded sometimes I guess.

>stupid 4th rail
>"nut real"
>"negitive"

Yeah, it might seem stupid now, to you, but back in fucking 1906 and shit electrolytic corrosion of the steel tunnel segments was a legitimate and serious concern. Having the return current passing through the running rails and potentially onto the tunnel wall was therefore no good.

Additionally, the voltage is split +ve and -ve across the two conductor rails to reduce leakage across any dirty insulators or debris that falls into the tunnel (remember, once it goes in, it stays there until literally someone comes and removes it), so potentially there could be significant current leakage through parts that you really don't want to corrode (y'know, pieces of infrastructure that were LUDICROUSLY expensive in the 19th century when labor was cheap, and haven't exactly gotten cheaper since then if you need to rebuild them or do major overhauls).

But sure, Ham, come over here and teach us how to trains.

>>131160

This being a troll thread aside, does anyone know the reason why there is exactly 1:2 absolute potential difference between the running rails?

If I had to guess, it would be the resistors that are used to anchor the potetials to earth, so three resistors of same capacity would suffice, but then, why not use 1:1 split service?

Lay off the sauce, Hammie, you're looking unmanly.

But, yeah, the main reason for LU's fourth-rail system was the risk of electrolytic corrosion of metal pipes and other things inside or near the tunnels. Wouldn't do to have a gas or water mains spring a leak, now would it?

>>131166 -- For some highly technical reasons I'm not awake enough to remember or understand, the conductor rails must be at different heights above the surface. Short-circuit avoidance, I think. So, a differential supply will balance out the leakage currents and reduce corrosion risk.

A semi-floating two-rail supply means a 'window' detector is needed to check if the rails are at the correct ground potential and, if they aren't, to shut off the supply and ground the rails. Whether they use resistors or rely on the leakage currents to set the potentials, that I do not know.

PS: Grounding either supply rail to a running rail is an option available to LU drivers and staff to shut off traction current in an emergency.

>>131163 If the tunnels are made of steel or iron awesome. There is a larger surface areia to go through and less likely there would be a gap in conductivity that would cause the current to wander and cause corrosion.

Look to the Wikipedia to begin with. The pages there list which other types each type will work with.

Yes I'm in DC again. Wish we could have ridden these, they looks great on the inside

Dat ass

Checking out the Botanical gardens or the National Christmas Tree? I did that on Tuesday,haven't bothered to post the pix yet.

Those 7000-series are nice AF to ride

>>131094

Burlington, Ontario has a similar train setup in their Royal Botanic Gardens as well.

>>131095

Word. I went to one at the NYC Botanical Gardens that was pretty dope, and I believe there's a BG in Wisconsin need to keep their trains up year-round because it was so good for admission$

>>131096

Damn, turns out the NYBG massively expanded the train show this year (3000 square feet of additional/new space), link is a pretty nice documentary of the whole thing.

>>131131

How about a moth?

>>131091
I'm sure someone will be glad to christen them with the customary pile of spat-out sunflower seed shells soon enough.

Also, I've heard samples of the new "doors closing" recordings. I would've suggested that they cut the "STEP BACK!!" chatty barking after going with a synth voice, but the only thing that's ever short and to the point with WMATA anymore is the Potemkin debate before fare hikes.