>the bus network carries more than 680 000 patrons than the tram

Holy shit, how bad was this network?

>>132571
With a lot of these ex soviet tram systems the problem is twofold:

1) The system was built for the travel patterns of the Soviet economy, get the proletariat from the apartment blocks to the big state owned factories and back etc. This all changed after 1991 and tram routes cannot be changed without spending a lot of money.

2) Years of little to no maintenance following the collapse of the USSR, the trams become increasingly unreliable and patrons switch to buses.

>>132573
Surely with a 90km+ network they could have reconfigured the network somehow. I suppose maintenance does play a big role in it (I would hate to be the poor bastard that has to source replacement parts for old Soviet electrical equipment) but it seems weird that they would commit to modernizing and expanding it:
https://www.uzdaily.com/articles-id-7819.htm
And then immediately abandon it.

>>132573

> The system was built for the travel patterns of the Soviet economy, get the proletariat from the apartment blocks to the big state owned factories and back etc. This all changed after 1991 and tram routes cannot be changed without spending a lot of money.

Your face when this genius thought never visited you before.

I thought the Tanfield Railway is the oldest. That one opened in 1725; Middleton opened in 1758.

According to the Wikipedia, Tanfield claims to be world's oldest, period, while Middleton claims to be the world's oldest continuously working public railway.

How in the hell did it get into the Steam chest and why was there soot in it?

1) Don't think it was inside of the steam chest.

2) It's a steam locomotive, dirty dirty shit is everywhere.

http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/locomotives/first-bls-cargo-vectrons-take-shape.html?device=auto

They're selling a bunch of Vectrons as well in Eastpondia. Same power level as the Tauruses, but probably not as good singers.

And I thought for a second that the Class 68 was an ugly duckling.

>All Abroad Florida

kek

>>132552
I thought something looked off there

It is pretty sad, seeing it surrounded by snow drifts.

They rest in d tilted position?

It's JR Hokkaido, the tilting mechanism probably locked up and they just left it there to die. Or rather, because it's disconnected from air, it leans over like that(?).

The 285 is a really sad story though. They just ran out of money and gave up, pitching all their hopes on the Shinkansen.

>>132349 -- It certainly looks like they develop list when the tilting jacks lose pressure.

>>132351
What's the story behind it? Why did they attempt to develop their own train rather than buying an off-the-shelf design?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiHa_285_series

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ja&tl=en&u=https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR%25E5%258C%2597%25E6%25B5%25B7%25E9%2581%2593%25E3%2581%25AE%25E8%25BB%258A%25E4%25B8%25A1%25E5%25BD%25A2%25E5%25BC%258F&usg=ALkJrhiMRqH91TQog5DRf6i4p_NiCw6aYg

In short, Hokkaido's climate is too weird for COTS to do well.

>>132351
If JR Hokkaido is giving up on the KiHa 285, what is it going to use for future limited expresses? Supposedly the 261s are going into local service replacing DMUs?

I miss the Fastech.

>>132303

Apparently so. Dig this case of a potential Rails-To-Trails in upstate NY that already has a perfectly functional tourist attraction running on it. Gotta have a place for people to ride their bikes!

One thing that wasn't included in the article was this beautiful render.

On the bright side, they do seem to be considering the space for an LRT in the future.

>>132305

>rails to trails

That's a way to preserve the row, I'll take it any day.

>>132307

>single track with no overhead wire

Something tells me they're just planing to keep the rails for aesthetic purposes like they did on the High Line in New York.

>>132305

I read this link and I'm simply left dumbfounded . The worst is the condescending, holier-than-thou attitude of the bicyclists who want to rip more or less the whole line up. Sounds like the train was never really properly funded.

>>132311

>What a bunch of bull. Not really a surprise; the railroad advocates have combed the earth to come up with every feasible reason to stop the conversion that a vast majority of people and businesses in the area connected to tourism want, an addition to the vacation and recreation venues that this great area offers. An attraction that will offer 34 miles of a trail that offers some things(not everything) for different age groups to enjoy. Biking is an activity immensely popular in this country, and one that nicely blends with other activities that people interested in vacationing here can put on their to-do list. Fact is biking on Adirondack Rds. in the Tri-Lakes area is hazardous due to various factors. Factors that this trail doesn’t have, like motor vehicle traffic and daunting hills. Walkers, hikers, joggers and yes, snowmobilers in the winter can use this trail in a variety of ways.

LOL
O-O
LOL
What a bunch of self-righteous prats.

>>132289
The scumbags at vancouver city hall wanted the corridor lands for next to nothing, CP would have been a bunch of idiots to let the city get its hands on it

>>132291
If they didn't make it look like they intended to do something with it, can you imagine what socalist Canadian laws the city would try? outright confiscation, or eminent domain at some shitty buyout rate

As a former Vancouverite, I don't evny anyone having to deal with the city, its literally run by rabid socialist Nazis that prey on the hard working while coddling scumbags that come here and take advantage of people

>>132307
Westside NIMBYs would go absolutely apeshit if LRT brought even more proles into "their" neighborhood. And these people vote.

>>132534
gb2 /pol/ or something with this deranged raving pls

>>132534

>its literally run by rabid socialist Nazis that prey on the hard working while coddling scumbags that come here and take advantage of people
>calls councillors Nazis
>doesn't have the guts to admit he's a racist

Just call them chinks if you're going to recycle right-wing diatribes.

>>132536
But I am a chink so I can't be racist. Check your Cis white male privilege shitlord! /sarcasm. See how that works?

I'm talking about the scum from the east that get sent to us for welfare and to be homeless. Alberta, sask. Quebec, Etc Literally buses tier homeless to bc because the west coast is full of idiot leftist cucks that pay for other peoples problems.

http://tinyurl.com/zcaxsqf

>Metro workers were joined along miles of underground tracks by electrical engineers from Amtrak and other commuter rail systems...workers repaired at least 26 cables that were damaged.

Wonder what other sort of repairs they were able to get done during this shutdown, if any. 117 miles of double-track, not including various connector shortcuts at junctions.

Also:

>try to post link in link field
>"too many characters in text field"
>go back and put link in comment field
>"anti-spam filter triggered"

Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

onto the next crisis already:
https://www.arlnow.com/2016/03/17/metro-train-evacuated-at-rosslyn-due-to-smoke/

>Smoke in our metro car #1110

>There was no ‘evacuation.’ The train was offloaded due to a brake issue… The train was taken out of service and the customers were able to board the next train.

the 7000s are a few years late while the 1000-series cars are still running well past their useful shelf life.

Looks like it only gets worse from here for the residents of DC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/2016/03/30/fba8ae0a-f688-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopeia_(train) -- There is a slight possibility the Cassiopeia will survive uncut. But, yeah, I suspect some of that depends on the availability of EH800s, since they seem to be Japan's only 20/25kV locomotives.

So all the blue sleepers are dead. This leaves the Sunrise Seto/Izumo?

>>132455
The Cassiopeia becomes a charter

What a wonderful contrast to the Shinkansen celebration.

So have the recent line closures brought about any opposition?

Nobody lives in Hokkaido. It's one of those places in Japan where having a car is a really good idea, especially when you add the brutal winter. Doesn't matter how well your life is structured, having 2-4 sucks for regular travel once you miss it. It makes the bus service in rural areas here look like a first world problem.

Admittedly, I hope the milk industry never dies. Royce' chocolate and melon milk are love.

There will always be people who will want their train, but JR Hokkaido is bleeding faster than anyone could possibly inject blood into it.

>>132516
They'll have to make a choice sooner or later. Either accept that JR Hokkaido will be like never turn a profit and subsidize it as a public service like Amtrak, or shut everything down except the Shinkansen, the Sapporo-Hakodate intercity trains, and the commuter trains in Sapporo.

Good night sweet prince ;_;

By the end of it though, the tracks on the Meitetsu bridge looked pretty fucked and the low speed probably didn't help. Them musical horns though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAe2-EvIk_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hs0ShG5Xsw

South Shore Line gets an honourary mention.

Gotta crown it with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWUzRjwIdw (the Meitetsu Rhapsody).

I'd say Ft Collins, CO on S Mason St but it was redone last year

>>132408

>pan on trolley-wire

this-is-my-fetish

>>132408
The South Shore Line comes up semi-regularly on /r/. It always makes me picture a stereotypical tetsuota with a $5000 DSLR wandering around Gary and South Bend.

>>132452
They must make up a significant part of the 'tourist' demographic by this point.

>>132408
Wont it be cool if American trains too would blast Star Spangled Banner at horn stops?

>>132401
HOLY SHIT

is that an AE86 Levin?

>>132517

>AE86
>double tracks

So many possible drifturoos

>>132518
Always.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLwKTtBvh3A