Mah nigga! Have you tried taking a local trip around of trying to find and enter (within legal and moral parameters of course) abandoned buildings.

Am I looking at a map from the future? I thought the 3rd airport was dead?

Isn't this same basic route the same reason that CN bought the EJ&E?

There's a bunch of community meetings scheduled, uh right now and preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement

http://www.greatlakesbasinraileis.com/

the Principals are ex-SantaFe and muh 'private capital' and eminent domain so picrelated?

>>132884
I really have wondered lately how using eminent domain to build a railroad(freight) would work. I'll have to keep up with this.

>>132887

when you look past 'trains!' a railroad is a company that owns land

GLBT has announced they're at the 'acquiring' part - I think Kelo v New London will play hard and long

There's also a yuuuuge amount of hot money looking to move (out of china..) and laundering via 'real estate partnerships' is the other big play here

I'm fairly sure this will progress to the land buying stage, but much less certain it will ever turn a wheel..

>picrealated

you still CaNoodle?

https://www.cn.ca/en/careers/rewards-recognition-benefits/benefits

>Employee Share Investment Plan (CN contributes..

Transports and Resources are a tough play in the short-to-medium term because 'liquidations' and muh coal, and the bears are assembling for a parade on Wall Street..

I'm genuinely surprised they didn't already have something like this. Your average 'Murkan MOW crew has the odd cooler strapped to the back of a tamper or some other such machine.

<===and then there's THIS

>>132862
Most of us aren't even that lucky. I have to pee and shit in the woods/people's property more often than anything.

Forget about special little carts for tea. Bring a thermos if you need something hot.

Having to trudge from one end of a possession to the other for a cuppa just has to be a lot more annoying than a snarl of vote-hunting politicians.

Make one that brews coffee and I'll bet work gangs in the US would pool up their own money to buy it!

>>132864

>I have to pee and shit in the woods/people's property more often than anything.

It would be a glorious day if a property owner went to court against a Class 1 because they found one of the MoW taking a shit in their yard.

The device can dispense hot and cold water, it seems, so coffee should not be a problem. Heck, it even has storage space for cup noodles or something like that, so there is a way to keep the gang fed.

>>132861
When it comes to tea, us Brits don't fuck around.

>>132861 -- Some say the tea faucets are in Uji, others say Shizuoka.

(no longer able to resist...) But all we really know is that he's called... the Stig!

>>132876>>132885

I will probably never understand what compels people to make art like this.

I'm most tempted to think "Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Star Wars at a swimming pool".

http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1735099 -- At least Safeboory tries hard to be SFW.

Well... for some values of SFW, anyway...

http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1648231 -- Vania600 strikes again.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stadler_FLIRT_of_Bayerische_Oberlandbahn

Hmm... Their livery resembles the Hungarian FLIRTs a lot.

>>131820 -- Seems I was wrong. One was a three-car set, the other a six-car set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Aibling_rail_accident
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenbahnunfall_von_Bad_Aibling

Some journos have been keeping up their trade's rumoured factual fidelity by claiming that the "Fahrdienstleiter" (train dispatcher/controller) had switched the protection system OFF to expedite a delayed train.

I forgot about it, but there are some prelims out. Seems the dispatcher was playing a game on his phone while working so his situational awareness was non-existent. That led him to bungle up the train orders, resulting in...

>>132832

>video games don't kill people

>>132832
How did automated signals not prevent this though? Are they seriously running commuter trains in dark territory?

The line is protected, not with a continuous ATS/ATP system but with an intermittent one, namely PZB 90 which does not give perfect protection against this kind of accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punktf%C3%B6rmige_Zugbeeinflussung

>>132838
How does a bloc signaling system not prevent this sort of thing? Did both driver call the tower and the controller allow both trains onto the same bloc?

AIUI, both drivers got clearances for the line due to the dispatcher's foggy mind. Anyway, re-read the wikipedia article mentioned in >>131825 as it has more detail than I can give.

>>132834
Alert the feminists; they'll save us!

Turltes on the Orient Express
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp-Y1114Jb0
Hay Arnold
Das subway
http://kisscartoon.me/Cartoon/Hey-Arnold/Season-01-Episode-13-Das-Subway-Wheezin-Ed?id=15188
Hunted train
http://kisscartoon.me/Cartoon/Hey-Arnold/Season-01-Episode-08-The-List-Haunted-Train?id=15183

>>132773

>Das subway

There was no driver in the car!

>>132783 He said he was in the fetal position rocking back and forth over the PA if I remember correctly it also could have been the rear.

X-Files episode "731" revolved around a train.

The Avengers (The old UK series not the Marvel one)
"A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Station
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yikmg
Not watched it myself yet but most of the episode takes place on a train

If it comes through, U+1F6F2 looks like this: 🛲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O1KvY9uk5U -- From the NRK slow-TV programme "Bybanen i Bergen - minutt for minutt" ("Bergen LRT - minute by minute"): A view from the forward camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RQeeLYEXS4 -- Holmenkollbanen (the Holmenkollen line) from Majorstuen to Frognerseteren during the Ski World Championship in 2011.

As a motorman on an Oslo tram sees line 19:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20ea8koc04 (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_UzGUGNNtY (part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTnD6vNxtXE (part 3)

>>132835

>well plaid

>>132725
Parovoz for most valuable community member 2016.

>>132727
Please, this time it would be just rude if I wouldn't try to help as the local.

>>132725
Nice. Thanks a lot man!

Looks like I'll be taking a train this month lads.

>>132746
By the way, did you consider buying a ticket on Sapsan or Nevskiy Express (>>132725 picrelated). These are both modern high-speed trains with the time in route only about 4 hours. Yes, they are more expensive, but the cost dynamically changes based on date of departure and demand.

can confirm...as an 'murrican living in Russia for a while, the Sapsan was worth the extra rubles

>>132750
>>132754
Yes I thought about it but unfortunately I'm really tight on cash right now so I'll have to take the cheaper tickets, I'll probably take a Sapsan on my next trip though.

I'm okay with taking a longer ride on an older train, it's not ideal but it will have to do for now.

>>132764
Better buy tickets on Nevskiy Express (#747 and #748). It has almost the same time in route as the Sapsan but has better service (included meals, some free accessories) along with usually lower price. Also as a railfan I personally like it more than Sapsan because it is developed and produced in Russia, not like this pop off-the-shelf German caterpillar.
Also the sooner you buy tickets for the popular trains the lower their price due to RZD's "dynamical pricing" system. For example, Sapsan's starting price is about just 15$.

>>132766

I thought the Sapsan was based on the Siemens Velaro?

>>132767
Yep, it is Siemens Velaro Rus. I have told a bit about it and the fate of its "predecessor", Russian Sokol project (>>132387>>132395).
While Nevskiy now is composed of high-speed cars built by TVZ and EP20 2o-2o-2o 7200 kW dual-system electric locomotive by NEVZ (both manufacturers are owned by Russian Transmashholding).

>>132766
For example, very recently I purchased a tickets to a Sapsan (for the full route) for only 699 rubles which is approximately just 11$! But this is with a 30% off thanks to a special offer card purchased before this for 450 RUB. Full price is 999 RUB but it holds only for a few minutes (!!!) since the start of sales, which is for Sapsan 60 days before the departure date at 8:00 AM GMT+3. However, if you aren't lucky enough to buy the ticket in the first minutes for the first couple of days you're still have a chance to get a ticket for under 1700 RUB (26$), but not in the first hours of sales, apparently this dynamical pricing system is automatic and adjusts prices with a precision of a few minutes based on the demand so after the rush of the first minutes it makes the prices sky-high.
Yes, I would still prefer Nevskiy Express but it has inconvenient for me time of arrival and also its starting price is 2000 RUB (30$), which makes it competitive to Sapsan only if you're not buying the tickets in the first days of sales.