>>839105
True story, its mind-boggling how common it is

trains r teh ghey

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So the new Acela trains entered service yesterday and one already had a malfunction.

So the new Acela trains entered service yesterday and one already had a malfunction.

>>839231
Can't wait for the Miles In Transit video about it.

(also hey, long time lurker, first time poster)

>>839203
That's fucking horrifying, nice!

>>837590

https://youtu.be/wfu6wGAp83o?si=0KoE_T2D2QjfjYjW&t=622

Train Synth

BUMP FOREVER

>>839254
Don't bother, we're not getting a train board.

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>>839256
Is it over? Maybe, but does anything ever happen?
Might as well bump the thread for eternity

>>839259
Train

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>>839259
Hiya! ＼(-o- )

Why not just organically bump this thread when you want to or have stuff to talk about? I'm not sure if people here are having the kinds of diverse conversations that warrant having multiple threads or a board.

I'll contribute again just because it made you sad and because I like locomotives some and want to help you all. I like steam locomotives more than diesels but the early retro diesel ones look kinda cool!

Anyways, I was biking along the Great Allegheny Passage with friends yesterday and a train came by just as we were going over the Salisbury Viaduct. The GAP is a 150 mile rail trail between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cumberland, Maryland that was converted back in the 90s maybe for pedestrian and bicycle use.

How about we share more pictures of trains we have taken or even train rides we have been on around the globe along with regular discussion as well?

>>839309
Yeah I was rooting for them, but the thread seems pretty dead. It's made it about 2 months which is pretty impressive at least. I guess there just aren't enough foamers to support a board (I'm not even a foamer, just kinda interested in lurking to see what foamers talk about)

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Aren't most of the boards on here fairly dead?

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>>837595

Yeah, simple rules we just keep a thread going for trains
We have Caturday, I mean we have Caturday when ever we feel like. So is the nature of this place.
We have Luna updates ( Luri can you post them a day earlier, for other side of the planet, cheers)

Random Portuguese Train, CP-Class swear I didn't even have to try

>>839331
Oh nice, I love CP

who the fuck put the ban curse on me tho?

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>>837590

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>>838872
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>>838880
Overhead wires for trains can be high voltage but most diesel electric trains run at a max of 600 Volts for traction power and around 72 volts for stuff like cab heaters and lights.

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let me know what you trainfags think about this, I bring you the cream of the crop, I used to pain trains, shit was hella cash

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>>839330
you see, this pic alone is worth the whole thread and 7 (no less) internets

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>>839331
ah it's the 7chan CP train, brings us the CP clickbait

>>839499
Second one is fairly good, but mostly just because of the nice colors

Next time paint the inside https://youtu.be/RziYm3puCy4?si=1jac1_mM4gOP6bGt&t=63

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>>839503
these are the top dogs from NY subway graffiti, both "retired", they wear the crown even if they stopped, I did my thing but mostly in short distance trains, I painted like 2-3 times alone even, slept on a walled wasteland even and went to uni next morning, the police station was a few meters away from there, that was actual life, I miss it, but I don't want to see my uncle at the trial again, he's a lawayer, needless to say that I don't like sleeping in the temprary prison cell, still, I dream that I do paint some trains, shit if only I could press the legal inmunity button, I'd be painting that train in the mountains and sleeping in the stone hud, yes, that was life

>>839508
Look man, I know this is a train thread, but putting the trains aside, you don't have to do illegal shit to feel alive. Use your imagination. The world is wider than both of us realize. Come on. Use your imagination.

>>839517
Imagination for faggots

>>839517
Imagination for faggots

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>>839517
everything I like is illegal, just kidding, but fuck I miss it, guess I have to threaten people I know to go camping

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I was just out of the service thumbing through the classifieds
When an ad that said old Chevy somehow caught my eye
The lady didn't know the year or even if it ran
But I had that thousand dollars in my hand

It was way back in the corner of this old ramshackle barn
With 30 years of dust and dirt on that green Army tarp
And when I pulled the cover off, it took away my breath
What she called a Chevy was a 66 Corvette

I felt a little guilty as I counted out the bills
What a thrill I got when I sat behind the wheel
I opened up the glove box and that's when I found the note
The date was 1966 and this is what he wrote

He said, my name is Private Andrew Malone
And if you're reading this, then I didn't make it home
But for every dream that's shattered, another one comes true
This car was once a dream of mine, now it belongs to you
And though you may take her and make her your own
You'll always be riding with Private Malone

Well, it didn't take me long at all, I had her running good
I loved to hear those horses thunder underneath her hood
I had her shining like a diamond and I'd put the ragtop down
All the pretty girls would stop and stare as I drove her through town

The buttons on the radio didn't seem to work quite right
But it picked up that oldie show, especially late at night
I'd get the feeling sometimes, if I turned real quick I'd see
A soldier ridin' shotgun in the seat right next to me

It was a young man named Private Andrew Malone
Who fought for his country and never made it home
But for every dream that's shattered, another one comes true
This car was once a dream of his, back when it was new
And he told me to take her and make her my own
And I was proud to be riding with Private Malone

Well, one night it was raining hard, I took the curve too fast
And I still don't remember much about that fiery crash
Someone said they thought they saw a soldier pull me out
They didn't get his name, but I know without a doubt

It was a young man named Private Andrew Malone
Who fought for his country and never made it home
But for every dream that's shattered, another one comes true
This car was once a dream of his, back when it was new
And I know I wouldn't be here if he hadn't tagged along
Yeah, that night, I was riding with Private Malone
Oh, thank God, I was riding with Private Malone
Private Malone

TRAINS WOOO OWO TRAINNS YESS YAY TRAIN BOARD CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUU CHUU

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I fear this idea for a board will /fail
As i don't see any real 1chanish Steam or diesel heads here

Hey everyone in this thread which is your favourite gauge?

>>839570
HO, but I'd need to go down to N to build a layout of a size that's worthwhile.

If I ever made a fantasy game with trains I'd definitely have red cap monsters working as the red caps hauling luggage around with those big assed steel boots, stomping on anyone who's being a shitter so they can soak their hats in the gore

I set a timer for 3 hours.

T op off
R unt of the litter
A ct the part
I ndisposed
N ab

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To you >>837590
Everyone

Today marks 200 years of rail travel

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>>839748
what I'd like to "trains" to be like, not even high speed, something instant that doesn't get you killed, kinda like those mechanic things, where position a and b switch near instantly, kind of like a spring, like compression and release, but made of plastic and shit, fuck if I know
I'm not an expert but it makes sense in my mind
I wonder if it could make sense in the real world
Long story short, travel so fast that the speed would justify everyone wanting to use it out of it merely saving you infinite time.
One of the travel routes where travel time is most needed is from US to EU and so forth. Obviously there's more routes, like eurasia on the x axis, american continent on the y axis etc

all in all if we had trains that leave planes in shame due to sheer speed then we could talk, that's what I'm getting at. Imagine the accidents thoough, they would be epic.

>>839847

What you asking for or imagining is not rail travel and really has nothing to do with rail travel

Don't get me wrong its a lovely idea that is widely thought about, say in D&D for example
and yes I'd use such travel technology
It just is not rail travel

Thanks for posting your thoughts

>>839851
would you be happier if it had rails? heheh

>>839861

Dumb question, anyway no

Right I'm bored now

>>839851
What he's talking about is probably at least Mach 10+. With the current technology, pretty much the only way that it could be done is if we go into space or close to it (which would still require punching through the atmosphere)
Or a Hyperloop type idea which could actually have a magnetic mono rail. The tube itself could be considered a rail in some extreme cases. So this is not entirely exclusive of rails as an idea.

Aliens somehow move in atmosphere like it doesn't exist though. And water. I have no idea how that works.

>>839877
I know one thing, it's always bad quality footage, very doubtful

>>839877
you kinda get it, but there's another less mind-masturbation idea behind it, beat the speed of planes, with "trains" and planes are old news

>>839894
Personally I don't really even care to be honest The real problem with 10, 20, 40 Mach travel is that we cannot really expect ordinary people to comfortably sustain more than 4 g's of acceleration for more than just a few minutes. Which is in many ways enough, but it would pretty much cap it to around Mach 20.

At which point I guess we don't really care that much about the atmosphere, because the acceleration itself will take so much energy that punching through the atmosphere can be done simply by using a pointy vehicle. Idk, maybe for the sake of recapturing the energy it would be worth building a hyperloop, but not really.

Point is that unless we come up with teleportation or anti-gravity, we're not going to be traveling past Mach 20 on this planet.

Mach 10 train would be nice though, I'm not against it. Just building the fucking vacuum tube would be expensive.
Personally I'd rather just teleport at that point. I think it's doable in dreams and this is just a kind of a dream, so we might as well just learn to teleport. aliens do it all the time and don't even give a fuck. This is innate biological ability or maybe consciousness ability, whatever there's only one place, there's only one surface, there's only one us, so who really gives a fuck anyway about travel such it be. Let it come to you.

If anything, the problem is not one of travel, but one of multiplicity, one of multi-dimensionality. The basic question is, how do you integrate into your awareness all the possible travel destinations. When the travel destinations are infinite. Perhaps the answer is what we are doing right now. It sure is some weird shit out here. Just to be involved at all. Weirds me out sometimes.

>>839898
ok so let's take match 10, planes don't need vacum you see, just isolate the thing so it doesn't crash burn and make sonic bombs, we only need to cover great distances, like europe-america, europe-chine, etc. strategical routes, for the rest conventional plane travel does the trick, but we're trying to capitalize on those routes where conventional plane shits itself, europe-america is like 10 hours on a plane, that's most unacceptable time, you get the picture

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

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somewhere in asian lands