I Like Trains

Akirasho

... passenger trains are generally a regional phenomena in the US (high population centers along the NE coast... coastal lines in Florida and the south... certain intercity links through the center of the country and costal Caliazatlan) but freight still does a decent business (in competition with trucks on our interstate and highway systems) and I like to watch (train perv)...



http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Akirash ... 2.mp4.html

simonhead

We have people like you in the UK, the buy whats called a platform ticket and stand at the end of a busy platform for hours on an end with a camera, pack a mack, thermos and ham or cheese sandwiches wrapped in cling film.

declan1

This is the only train video you need to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F6wEmsgaLc

fast as fupp

youre clearly wrong- deltics rule!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roz7eFt9rcA

AchillesLeftKnee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJxBKskLvQw

I used to love Thumpers. Mental things. Sounded great, and the shocking ride quality made 50mph feel like Mach 3.

peat

There's a computer game you might like:
http://youtu.be/RnAMDg7IVWs

RDW

Peat wrote:

There's a computer game you might like:
http://youtu.be/RnAMDg7IVWs

Railway rap video? This guy got there way earlier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmciuKsBOi0

capt_slog

fast as fupp wrote:

youre clearly wrong- deltics rule!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roz7eFt9rcA

ah Deltics, I remember those. As a kid i used to go to Grantham or Crewe (can't recall which now) to se them come thundering through the station at a tremendous speed, or so it seemed when you were standing just feet from the line. There was some camber at one end of the station where they came out of a corner.

I heard once that they used to pull out of one station, (maybe York but I think it was a terminus), towing around 12 carriages, and by the time the last carriage left the end of the platform it was doing over 60mph

Mikey23

I love trains too... Just caught the end of the age of steam. Great days

Jim C

Deltic- East Coast main line- so Grantham
A cycling buddy was telling me the motor was originally a patrol boat motor, that English Electric then fitted into their Type 37 loco. Awesome machine. Only something like 15 ever made- since West Coast went electric. And exports didn't materialise

DesB3rd

Having seen a Napier Deltic in the science museum you can see why Jonnie Foreigner wasn’t impressed. Huge power from a light and compact unit but so “innovative” (3 crankshaft, 9 cylinders and 18 pistons; no typo…) and required so much attention that the original locos would only be bought under “supply & service” contracts which included enough spare engines to allow a continuous rotation of engines for factory overhaul.

Fairly typical of a lot of post-war UK engineering; a heroic, ten-tenths engineer’s wet-dream of a solution - but a non-starter from a commercial standpoint. No surprised they were all replaced with locos running conventional V12's...

Jim C

Great loco tho :-)

AchillesLeftKnee

Jim C wrote:

A cycling buddy was telling me the motor was originally a patrol boat motor

Correct, and that itself was based on the Junkers Jumo.

finchy

Akirasho wrote:

... passenger trains are generally a regional phenomena in the US (high population centers along the NE coast... coastal lines in Florida and the south... certain intercity links through the center of the country and costal Caliazatlan) but freight still does a decent business (in competition with trucks on our interstate and highway systems) and I like to watch (train perv)...



http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Akirash ... 2.mp4.html

Being a train driver in the USA must be quite awesome, especially on a very long journey. My fave train videos can all be found using the youtube search "train versus tornado". 8)

DesB3rd

I've bit of thing for US snow plough videos; flawless white landscape with a bloody great train churning along behind two huge plumes of snow.

graham.

Got to love this!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2dxe2 ... du-d_mTjng

Escadrille Ecosse

Spectacular end to an old diesel loco, 100mph into a nuclear waste storage container!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJflu7z4QyI