It's that time again. Post trams and trains and other rail vehicles. Both vehicles from AES and c*pitalist countries welcome.I am looking for this one very aesthetic picture of a tram going down a grassy incline. I think it was from Czechoslovakia but not sure.
>>6039>its a train>its a bus>its a railbusgenius!
now post railplanes and railboats too!
>>6051there's a game thread
>>27775 im more of an openxcom player
>>6035This is the Bergen Light rail. I read somewhere that Lichtenstein has free public transportation, and are about to legalize cannabis. I saw the same kind of trams in a video from Switzerland a while back, but I don't know what town.
It's quite banal, public transportation. But it stimulates the economy. The Norwegian media is taunting the government, for their unsolicited mega expensive road upgrades with toll roads. What's more, the projects are outsorced to foreign disposable companies, when the money could have generated local jobs. Corruption, I call it, but if you talk about it, you're a marked man, socially. So the journalists make up indirect terms like smøring.
The narrative has shifted towards northern rail expansion. It's been planned for over a hundred years, but it never really materialized. Road work is tricky because the soil warps when it freezes and thaws, and the bedrock is so hard. Rocks have also been falling quite a bit since the glaciers got fewer.
These trams and the heavier (former) NSB locomotives, are completely electric, and powered by hydroelectric plants. The switching sounds from the motors fascinates me, so I'm doing a graduate degree in electronics. I've got a bit of cabin fever while waiting for the next semester to start, so I apologise for my verbosity.
The current government has restructured the entire shebang into something called vy, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean, and charged millions to do it. Privatization of the English rail system is still controversial, so they called it konkurranseutsetting - exposure to competition. Whatever lines their pockets.
>>6058Wisconsin here. Our governor vetoed a high speed train that would have gone from Chicago to Minneapolis in four and half hours. FOUR AND A HALF HOURS.
Pic related is our consolation prize. It goes less than 15mph and its tracks only cover less than a quarter of the city, which is a geographically small to begin with for "major city" standards. The part of the city the streetcar covers are the wealthy areas, not where anyone actually has to go for work.
Fuck Scott Walker.
>>6042Iirc, the SkyTrain uses a linear motor, which means the motor is actually split in two parts: an active part on board, driving the wheels, and a reactive part which is a kind of middle rail between the two where the wheels lay. The advantages are a smaller height of the train (which could save time and money if it's used as a subway by digging tunnels with a smaller radius), smaller weight and apparently they require much less maintenance than traditional rotary motors.A drawback is the high, screeching sound it makes - it's the same with low speed maglevs.
>>6049Brought to you by Hitachi Rail Italy aka AnsaldoBreda, renowned for this product - which is pretty dope - but also one of the shittiest trams ever plus a nice scandal involving the clogs when they sold them "high speed" trains litterally falling apart while testing.Iirc, the body is designed by Pininfarina, which is a nice way to throw away money in the project and btw, white is uneasy on the eye…
>>6056Those tram are made in Switzerland by Stadler, who is in part owned by an MP from a rightwing party…
I think the shit they are doing with the railways is the same thing EU member states had to do, but I don't know if Norway is under any obligation to adapt its laws also in this sector.And the privatisation in the UK has been an unmitigated disaster, except for the profiteers obviously.
>>6058Just another proof Burger republicans are subhuman tier.
>>6059Abolish Wisconsin.
>>6050All right!
>>6047(0_0) Fellow Yinzer anon hello! We might have crossed paths at some point at one of the many leftist spots in the city. Thomas Merton Center, IWW meetings, Big Idea, etc. Anywho. I'm still waiting on that glorious spine line expansion out to Monroeville. I've always been jealous of folks in the south suburbs for having access to the train. It takes me 2 bloody hours to get into the city from where I'm at after after a 25 minute walk to the bus stop.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~blelloch/spine.htmlImagine a fully expanded Pittsburgh subway/lightrail. I dream of it. I've also wondered if we could invent some form of light funicular to replace all the falling apart stairways around town.
>>6035First two are how the trains look now
Third is during Tito Even though we have some "new" trains here these days, the railway and the trains in Serbia have been left to rust with barely any funding (and what funding they did get went into the pockets of a few individuals)
The trains in Serbia now go with the speed of 20-30 km/h
Sometimes when I go to Belgrade it takes me fucking 7hours on the train, while I can easily get there in 2 on the highway or around 3 by bus.
>>6063We might well see a DSA mayor if the political situation here in the US continues to deteriorate. I'm cautiously supportive of them and hope they don't become the new democrats.That said comrade get involved if you feel ready and interested enough! Anarchists and democratic socialists are very active in the city by American standards and there are maoists and trotskyists bobbing about too. Pittsburgh's also the only city I know of that has active anarcho-transhumanists. They've got a free collaborative conference coming up next month if that's your thing.
https://www.pleasetrythisathome.netAge wise there's an on and off spokescouncil run by anarchist Pitt Students and there's a radical anarchist feminist group run by students too. I empathize with you being in my early 20s myself (inbetween millennial and zoomer) and when I started organizing myself 3 years ago I felt pretty bummed that most everyone was older than myself. Most leftist activists in the city seem to be in their late 20s and early 30s. If you're a teenager/in your early 20s there's a youth queerpunk open mic at The Big Idea Bookstore and Cafe every month.
http://www.queerpgh.com/queer-punk-slam-junk/The Big Idea is a good place to start organizing imo. The store always needs new cooperative members. It's run by experienced and level headed folks that have kept the place running for over a decade and you'll be exposed to all different sorts of ideas and people there. They've got a section for every major political ideology so it's not an echochamber.
>>6063 >>6107Because Chad Train
>follows its own schedule, doesn't care where you want to go>transports hundreds of proles at a time>time for proles to read, play chess or talk with one another and sharpen revolutionary mind>1000s of hp>phallic, long steely and hard>destroys every other vehicle it collides with>steel on steel low rolling resistance for max efficiency virgin car
>few hundreds hp at best>goes where its master directs it>play act autonomy, stuck in traffic jam>front is shaped like a face because it is for babies>shitty tires that blow out and wear out>a ton of steel to seat paltry five meatbags>isolates proles from one another, stresses driver >>6125The advantage buses have over tram and light rail is their ability to be in mixed traffic and have a flexible rout layout. If you go for a dedicated rout than buses loose out against trams and light rail, on speed (yes rail is faster), energy energy efficiency, comfort (smooth ride with no swaying), and operating cost (fewer maintenance cycles and longer lifespan of the equipment)
Buses are best suited for the lower capacity transport routs in places that have lower density of people living there, and as gap fillers for temporary peak transport needs.
Oh by the way i contradicted you on the speed issue because if your compare a 3 compartment segment bus (with 2 hinges) with a comparable capacity light rail, the light rail can go over twice as fast.
Now for the ideological reasoning, capitalists don't like light rail, because the labour inputs have a higher value add. Meaning you need to train people more, but they also add more economical value. Capitalists that mostly are short term minded don't like that rail has high initial capital cost and represents long term investments. Socialism does not have it's investment strategies limited to short-termism, but rather can select strategies for investment based on material conditions, and obviously prefers high value-add labour, because that is more economical.
For Areas with sufficient capacity needs, to justify rail construction, that is the preferred mode of transport, and obviously buses would be used for the lower density Areas where rail construction is not justified. There also are "trackless trams" (pic) that combine some of the features of buses and trams which might be worth considering as well.
>>6131>>6132it's definitely a jet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AgfPXH0I2Ihere is one spinning up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ara0ZenCSe8My question is why they uses a jet for this it has to have an insane fuel consumption.
A simple spinning brush maybe combined with a heating element would be cheaper and use a lot less fuel.
>>6041>bus rapid transit<bourgeois
Buses are based m8
>>6059What up fellow Wisconsinite.
Yeah The Hop literally takes me to only one of my regular bars.
Scooter really ruined the midwest.
>>6140>What's the point? Regular rail cars can have separate compartments for antisocial people, individual pods are just retarded and inefficient.That's the point, you build the rails with "individualism characteristics", then you make the individual pods so people can experience the inefficiency, then they will let you put normal trains on the rails to fix efficiency. The end result is you got to put rails in the ground, without it getting killed off by dogmatic hyper-individualism, and you get to put trains on it because of it's efficiency. Granted you got some waste because it's trains with extra steps, but your can probably use some of the pods for maintenance and off hour service that has only few passengers. Even if you end up with unused rail-pods at the end it would still be more efficient than what exists currently.
pic unrelated
>>6147More comfiness!
I think that it would be useful if there's a renaissance for narrow gauge trains that also have cargo compartments for bicycles, mopeds and even motorcycles (against a fee, of course to prevent wasteful overusage).
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>>6156It's from Canada going through the rocky mountains, it looks like a normal train to me, maybe you're from a place that has extra wide trains ?
here pics from the outside of the train
>>6057>In the U.S trolleys got straight up demolished and everybody was forced to buy a car and then be in debt exactly because of that forced purchaseEVERYONE! CHECK THIS PODCAST OUT! DISREGARD WHAT IT'S CALLED! EVERYONE LISTEN TO IT NAO!
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-neolib-podcast/e/62612673"Los Angeles Plays itself" (2003) is a good documentary that also adresses urban planning.
"Citizen Jane" (2017) too.
>>6149Why the relative huger loss in Northern Ireland? The Civil War?
>>6115What do you think about trolleybuses?
They run on overhead power like a tram , but they use regular roads (or a special lane on a regular road) so they don't have the infrastructure cost of a tram, which makes them a good choice for lightly populated suburbs where the it would not be worth the cost of installing tram rails or a passenger train line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus >>6165Bridges and tunnels and shit, I bet.
>>6162Trolleybuses are based, too bad our retard mayor is replacing them with more expensive and less efficient electric busses because he hates visible power lines.
>>6169I try to keep it alive.
1., MÁV 303
2., MÁV Cbmot (alias: Hargita), only 4 were produced.
3., a cute little fellow :)
>>6172Sadly most people in hungary are dumbfucks when it comes to economy Bonus problem is that governments push car travel way too hard (because you can steal more money from road-building than from rail-building). Also a big problem is that the head honchos at MÁV (the national railway company) are just puppets who want to stuff their own walletts and don't care about modernizing or keeping the train system functional.
Biggest joke is that ever since the '80s there were no new lines given to the public (except one, that was more of a politically charged ego-move by Orbán… and one that was planned since the fucking '70s… and is still just half-build)
But on the bright side: here are some love for the little guys on the little rails!
1., The Úttörővasút (Pioneer rail). In the distance in the background there is a TV tower. From 1978, Széchenyi-mountain. I think this model is the Camot 001 (alias "Kis Piri", "Little Red")
2., That beast is from 1988, on the same line, the diesel powered Mk45.
(BTW AFAIK the gauge is 760 mm… or 600 mm. There are only 3 lines with 600 but I can't remember which ones are those. Google it if I tickled your fancy.)
3., One of the oldest narrow-gauge rails still in use, "Zsuzsi" ("Susan"), from Debrecen.
>>6190Cable cars are very practical and more importantly really cheap and low noise. The coolness is just a nice side effect. Monorails aren't impractical either, they just rather expensive.
>>6191capitalists will never understand Soviet car design, because they think their car is an extension of the self. Soviets just thought they war transport cabins, and one really important Soviet design parameter was that regular machine shops should be able to repair most stuff with standard tools, which resulted making design simpler and cruder on purpose.
>>6200>I've never understood this brand of autism but I am glad you've got a little space for it.You can simplify transport as a box being shoved by a Force that is hindered by friction.
And trains have very little friction, because metal wheels on metal Rails don't have a lot of friction losses, which makes trains approximate the optimal case for transport much more so than most other modes of transport.
This is very appealing because it's a System that is very well optimized.
It's not directly related, but IDK what thread to put this at:
https://westseattleblog.com/2020/05/stay-healthy-streets-mayor-announces-first-20-miles-will-be-permanent-also-expanding-this-weekend-to-include-north-end-of-beach-drive/STAY HEALTHY STREETS’: Mayor announces closing 20 miles of streets in Seattle permanently in Seattle for bicycles and exercise.
>>6211>Unlike trains, you cannot electrify air travel.Well technically you can, you just need to spam airports everywhere so that the 5min battery life allows you to fly to your destination in 1000 little hops.
Alternatively you could also create satellites that use large solar panels to power a laser that targets a photovoltaic-cells on the plane, to extend the battery life. You do need a bespoke photovoltaic and laser system that are perfectly optimized to maximize efficiency, because you do need lots of power for planes and you have very little capacity for radiators to prevent overheating. Also a laser system that can remote power a large electric passenger plane would probably be pretty close to death-ray territory in terms of power.
So this probably has to wait for when we have overcome capitalism and live in a civilised society, that is able to use a technology without the temptation of using it for imperial domination. But even then it's not very likely to become very wide spread, because trains would probably be 20 times cheaper, and eventually somebody might figure out how to make ocean bridge/tunnels that can connect continent with rails.
>>6210>>6211 <bourgeoisie
>not being for based Soviet Aeroflotcome on
>>6213Lasers are a good way to blind pilots, passengers, birds, and people on the ground. Sounds like a bad idea. Keep that stuff in space.
>>6212I've been thinking about taking the Amtrack across the country, but it looks like a lot of work and it's really expensive. It's cheaper and more practical to just get on a greyhound bus.
I really wish we'd have a hell of a lot more passenger rail because those sleeper cars are really a cool way to travel. Amtrack has them and so does Canadian rail, but it's maybe a thousand bucks a night for a room so it's not affordable really.
>>6217interesting
good post
>>6224were these "Tranks" ever used ?
they sort of seem like doodles of children
>>6225Yeah, not sure how effective they were but I heard they were a bitch to use because everyone was always destroying rail infrastructure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_GustavGet a load of this big fucker.
Also
>Both Nazi Germany and Great Britain deployed railway guns that were capable of firing across the English Channel in the areas around Dover and Calais.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Strait_coastal_gunsApparently the Brits and Germans shot them at each other across the channel for a bit?
>>6235More?
>>6236of course they are, they're trains!
>>6241Tashkent's metro is really good by Central Asian standards bc it exists.
also look at the CUCKED Kazakh metro car. None of that Uzbek-Soviet class
>>6247Fuck Mirziyoyev.
Can't have SHIT in Tashkent
>>6249ayy, chill
Metrovagonmash still their trains great
>>6259>galaxy train referenceI see you are a man of culture as well
>>6260Didn't the Soviets have an idea for a hydro-planing Ocean-train?
>>6261>a hydro-planing Ocean-train?i tried finding out about this, but i have no clue what that this is supposed to be.
Hydro planing a train, would mean driving a regular plan fast enough over water so that it doesn't sink.
>>6177>>6178Anytime an anti-communist Kádár disrespecting fascist liberal nazi says "HURR DURR GOMUDISM IS OPRESHUN", I tell them "Without The Hungarian People's Republic, There Would Be No Pioneer Rail"
This is basically a tourist attraction, even though it's just a narrow gauge rail. It's [b]that[/b] good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VTuqMXUan8 Just look at this. The train is really cute
and cool, and to top it all of, you get to go through a bunch trees and shit. Since it's in the capital, you can reach it very easily. Who wouldn't want this?
Also, you have get to or get down from Széchenyi mountain somehow (if you don't want to take the same route again). This is what the cogwheel rail is for! It's also pretty cute, and you still get to engage in some sightseeing.
>>6266>Mk 45-2003It looks like an old steam locomitive. Isn't it ardurous to switch between the left and right window?
>>6259>train in spaceIs it from Galaxy Express 999? And IIRC there's an even older anime about trains in space.
>>6035This big boy is one of the older trams that we have in our city (half of whole city fleet are versions like these). Still runs smoothly and as far as I know couple of them were even exported to the North Korea.
In the image are depicted revisions and repaints through the years.
>>6276>Arent they pretty common tho? Not really, no
>We have technology so we dont need to have raised floor for power unit. This basically allows to slap additional floor on top.But simple train-cars never had power-units, or a need for raised floors ?
>>6280Dont worry. They probably had those
big sticks, if in case trolleys disconnected from cables
>>6283Can there be buses (or trucks even again :>) that would use trolleys where are cables, but if there are no cables (on secondary routes for example) they would use charged battery to drive rest of the route?
You know, anything would be better than those half assed solutions like those hybrid diesel buses.
>>6284Best korea should export those tractors
Farmers would love them
pic only because it's culturally obligatory for this thread, nothing meant by it thank you for sharing those pics comrade >>6284We have similar Zetor-6911 at home (pic is someone elses tractor). Too bad I didnt make any fotage of me driving it.
It a nice, very torque heavy machine that gets the shit done. But bitch is so old, that it has really faded brakes. Only reliable way to brake is to brake with engine + transmission. So when you are climbing a hill and you miss a shift (it doesnt even have synchroniser I think), you can easily lose control and go backwards like boulder rolling down from the hill (it happened to my dad once and I tought he would fucking die).
>>6119lol sorry but this shit looks even more complicated.
Making your streetcar effectively a tunnel over two lanes seems dangerous, but sort of feasible. Making your streetcar some kind of weird walker that retracts its legs when next to obstacles seems ripe for some technical error.
>>10224I work with the municipal government and the idiots cannot fathom the idea of a carless society, despite the fact that most people have to use the dreaded and super expensive private collective transport (and most have to walk at least an hour a day on top).
During the day, there are more cars in the city than there are people who live there by like 2x. It's pathological at this point, nobody gives a fuck it seems. There's no such thing as bus lanes and busses are so slow, inaccessible, and expensive, you are better off buying a cheap car.
We also lead the country in bike deaths and car crashes. We're not even the largest city.
The government workers are so fucking dense, I told them they should ban private use cars, one of them asked, "but if I need to go to the hospital, how would I get there?". Like nigga, ask half the people you represent which don't own cars.
I've been watching a newer youtube channel called railways explained. It's really great and in-depth.
Highly recommend it.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCGq3OyOoLPYj4Oyk1DWnKxQHave you heard about the new chinese train if what I read is really true thats absolutly insane
Speeds of 620 kilometers (385 miles) per hour
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/china-high-speed-maglev-train-intl-hnk/index.html>>18922Context please? The year at least'd be nice.
>>19033>>19035>>19034 In regards to aircraft, hydro-fuel engines are perspective (see
>>20449 ). The energy of the atom is probably the best bet for ships, but that requires a lot of highly qualified cadres (not an impossibility with socialism's education systems).
>>20849how much does the train make?
i mean like i said it's not something permanent
just a comfy place to live while you get to your apartment in the city
i mean it should still be comfier than trains with capitalist management
>>21010anything with rails is more based than anything roads and automobiles
civilians don't need automobiles if you have an effective working railroad for public transport
>>21018Well none of them are rail vehicles.
But they're pretty cool. Are they game design assets or drawing for fun?
I just made this for fun
>>21022Would you like to see more
>>21016fuck civilian roads
military ambulances for everyone
>>21018>>21019>>21020>>21021>>21022>>21023(re)Post armored vehicles in the appropriate thread(s) anon
>>1516 >>1505 Aircraft go
>>14020 Cars and trucks
>>6594 >>21610Nice
I'm not into trains but I might watch sometime
Going to be changing up the playlists this week for
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/trainsI'm going to be putting up passenger train videos from Simply Railway.
I'll start with European trains this week.
If you have other recommendations for passenger train reviews or other railway ideas please let me know.
>>21800Updated.
I'll start making a burger list and Asian list.
>>21967Nope making huge heavy trains is stupid, you need more complicated rail construction to prevent it from sinking into the ground. It's a lot cheaper to just build more tracks next to each other to spread out the load, and send more regular sized trains if you need the extra capacity. Regular trains are already as heavy as you can possibly make them while still getting away with relatively simple and cheap gravel-pileup as support material. Any heavier and you need to have proper foundations like buildings, which would be stupid expensive. There's no way you could build a bridge that could support this huge beast. It would need extra large tunnels as well, regular sized tunnels already are extremely expensive and super-slow to build. Now think about what happens if it breaks down, you can't move something this big, you have to disassemble it into smaller fragments before you can use other means to transport it into a repair facility. Even the added capacity for luxury like movie theaters and saunas seems pretty pointless in retrospect. People started building high speed trains as early as in the late sixties. Imagine investing in this monster and long before you even complete it, people say screw that thing i want small super fast trains, because i want to arrive at my destination earlier.
I think that it might even have failed entirely, because during the time they were considering building this they might not have been able to build it with low enough tolerances, making it have a lot of vibrations, turning it into a earth quake machine, that damages close by buildings.
>>21943>42 x 6 x 7>3 m gaugeThis is the penis enlargement pills of the railway world
I want to see what kind of design did the wagons had on the inside, how would they fit cinemas and apartments there.
Updated Trains Playlist on cytube channel
Documentaries and info.
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/trainsLet me know if you want me to add stuff.
>>22159>>22161 (me)
>>22162 (me)
Wait wait
https://youtu.be/R_d4D5_4ovAThis one!!!!=
This one!!!!=
This one!!!!=
This one!!!!=
THIS ONE@!!!@!!!!=
>>22518Same friend. Ive spent too much time learning about urban planning and public transit, so now when I drive around I'm literally having a meltdown over how dumb it all is
>shitty traffic despite living in relatively small city>hideously wide roads everywhere that make being a pedestrian nightmarish without actually improving traffic flow because induced demand>bumper to bumper traffic when the entire street worth of passengers could fit into a single bus or tram>the pollution and wasted resources that designing your cities around the car entails>50%+ chance whatever new public transit gets built is seemingly designed to fail/reinforce car culture>seeing all this while knowing that your isolated backwater in the middle of leafland used to have an extensive rail network that could literally take you coast to coast, let alone across town, vidrelit's all so tiresome
>>22512Nope this video
>>22052 is the correct one, or at least it's less wrong.
First is that building more advanced infrastructure isn't a bad thing, it virtually always is much more cost competitive in the long run, the only opposition to infrastructure spending is largely driven by short term ideology, not rational economical thinking.
There aren't going to be many large vehicles that are battery operated, because they all compete for a very limited amount of lithium. If you bet on everything running on batteries you're making a bet that there is going to be a marvelous new type of battery that is similar or better specked at similar or lower costs, than lithium batteries, but uses far more abundant chemical elements. The battery technology faerie that blesses us with such leaps makes very infrequent appearances, because batteries are a very mature technology that is over 200 years old. As with all technology at that stage there tend to be only small improvements. The battery powered electric vehicle revolution is going to grind to a screeching halt because too many application are competing for the same resource. Relatively big ships that feature diesel electric hybrid systems that use lithium ion batteries are in testing, just imagine what that will do to demand for battery resources if it catches on.
Electric buses that use cables are very boring because routing electricity through a cable is an old hat, so it won't tickle anybodies fancy. As the worlds rapacious hunger for electrical storage grows, battery capacity will shrink under the weight of resource competition. More frequent charging stations to compensate for shrinking batteries will be the result. Some people will have the brilliant idea that battery powered buses could have their range extended by making the brilliant innovation of charging the batteries in transit rather then in a stationary mode. Fully dynamic mobile charging sounds of course much better than trolley buses with a backup battery, but that is what it's going to be in essence. The next innovation is going to replace the battery packs with capacitor banks for hyper-charging and a 20 year ultra endurance lifespan. Capacitor bank buses will only have a range of single digit km/miles but there will be frequent stretches of
overhead trolleybus cables fully-dynamic-mobile-hyper-charging that allow constantly topping off the
capacitor bank endurance pack. It's a huge detour for essentially using a electrical buffer storage systems to remove 80% of the trolley-wires fixing the aesthetics and getting 80% of the flexibility of battery/diesel buses. Big capacitor banks used in trams and automatic pick ups that sense where the cables are, exist too. Upgrading trolley bus technology can be done now with
off the shelf components available solutions.
For the sake of argument completion hydrogen storage will first come to container trucking, tractors, bulldozers and other massive energy hungry machinery. These systems will be adapted to buses as well, so there is your wireless e-bus that can actually scale.
>>6242The first map shows all long distance passenger trains in Australia. It already covers most of the population. The problem is it's as expensive as flying and it's slow.
Also the states couldn't decide on one rail gauge. The green lines in Queensland are narrow gauge and the purple lines in Victoria are broad gauge.
The first thing we should do is standardise most of the railways. This second map, based on a 1945 report, shows what we should do. All of the main lines between capital cities are standard gauge now, but most of the rest are not and many have been torn up.
>>22699Not many people live in the northwest. There are railways there for iron ore export though.
There are proposals to build an east-west railway from the iron ore mines in the northwest to the coal mines in the northeast. Then build big steel mills at each end. LaRouchites love shilling this idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iron_Boomerang >>6059What the actual fuck is going on in that pic?
I live in Portland and we also have a shitty streetcar system that is slower than walking. At least our light rail works good though.
>>25360Just your typical relatively new light rail line in north America, where clearly the political will exists to build transit but the powers that be fuck it up as had as possible to poison the well and delay the transition from car dependent urban planning.
>>10222If you like trams, check out Toronto's street car network. It didn't make it through the second half of the 20th century completely unscathed but it is one of the few American and European cities that didn't totally dismantle their network so it's got that old school charm
>>26692HIGHSPEED RAIL VIDEOS.
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/trainsI added what I could add for today. I'll keep updating the playlist. We have almost 12 hours of high speed rail focused videos.
Enjoy my rail comrades.
https://twitter.com/AmericanFietser/status/1548318802135244802idk get it
also what's the difference between railways and metros?
one is in the ground and one is up in the sky artificially with pillars
>>27034Anything that train runs on is a railway. Regardless of if it serves passengers or freight.
A metro is a railway that is designed to serve passengers in an metro area.
>>27460I had the ability to see their early metro line cars on the orange line (x3), with new front lines but immortal.
The idea that you can just have a train coming every 2 minutes and dont need any timetable never even crossed my rural mind
>>27741they also build a kind of monorail line, which I only saw a half built station for
Dunno whether thats it, I guess its hard to build a metro under the metro that you built 10 years ago.
Not even mentioning the 'secret' one that Ill propably never see cause theyll make fish fodder out of me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-2 (& pic 2)
https://corpo.viarail.ca/en/projects-infrastructure/high-frequency-railI hope they build this before I die, first picrel
>>20848>does anyone know if train housing/apartments would be a viable thing?In the future when we try to replace planes with trains, we might see trains that are a bit cozier, complete with dining cars and lounges and bars etc etc, but thats the closest I can imagine to your ideal. After all even with HSR it would take awhile to go from New York to Beijing I imagine, we might see a proliferation of things like the Origental express but more geared towards the proles, 2nd picrel
A man can dream anway
>>6086 >>6585You will commmute in the
SKULL
>>6135 >>6138You will build
G A Y
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People will commute in them to the SKULL FACTORY
>>6155>>6160>>6228>>16547>>20848>>25520Not much inside-posting.
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THE BEST actually-existing, working-class commuter rail carriages
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>>311615 x (3 - 3^0) , or, (5^0) + 3 x 3
indices are fine if it's impossible to make 10 without them :^)(1 + 0 + 1) x 5
>>31167posted an outdated map
the chicagoland Metra commuter train is cool, too. Might get on a ride just for fun one day.
>>31475comfy thread?
comfy thread.
>>35144Decommunization of Lithuania continues, kek
When are they bulldozing the nuclear power plants and hospitals?
https://southfront.press/russian-military-ingenuity-tsar-train-protects-russian-defense-line-in-southern-donbass/ >Russian Tsar Train defensive line>several kilometers long Epic. First it was the armored trains, now this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_armoured_train_Volga?useskin=vectorAlso on the topic of armored trains, I can't believe nobody mentioned the Krajina Express ITT, I'll have to make a post about it at some point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krajina_Express?useskin=vector >>42048Pic 1, 2 and 3 are of the Green Ghost that didn't load for some reason. Pics 4 and 5 are Crimean trains including the Green Ghost.
>Crimean type Coastal Defense Armoured trains commanded by the Black Sea Fleet. 7 built using warship plating and guns in 1941 to prepare for the Axis invasion. Armament was 3x 76.2 mm 34-K Duel purpose naval guns, AA DhSK-38s and a bunch of M1910 Maxim Guns >Sometimes they used older 76.2mm guns instead of the 34-K, (full designation 76.2 mm/55 (3") 34-K Pattern 1935) here’s the full information on the guns for anybody interested http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNRussian_3-55_m1935.phpAdditionally some of the trains packed a mortar car with 2 x 82mm or 107mm mortars.
>>6090>Shinkansen vs TGV - Is One Better Than the Other? >Curious Droid https://files.catbox.moe/fymrzy.mp4 >>6110>Urban Gondolas: Transit by Cable >City Beautiful https://files.catbox.moe/kcxhdu.mp4>>6120>Quick charge! Supercapacitor tram unveiled in China >New China TV Vid 1
>>6119>Buses That Can Step Over Traffic - Amazing Gyroscopic Transport Concept >Wisdom Landhttps://files.catbox.moe/umbygw.mp4 >>6133 Link 1
>CN Jet Snow Blowers in use in the Halifax NS area >David Othen https://files.catbox.moe/85wu8k.mp4 Link 2
>Rare Find of CSX jet engine clearing snow at Palmer, MA Pt I >ConrailFan77 Vid 2
>>6217>Riding Solo On An Old Soviet Train - Overnight From Bucharest to Chisinau >Alina McLeod https://files.catbox.moe/riy6th.mp4>>6266>Budapest; Gyermekvasút (Kinderbahn/Children railway) >WoelkerVideo 480p only version:
https://files.catbox.moe/ue21f3.mp4 Full:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240523001612/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VTuqMXUan8 >>10213>Taken for a Ride - The U.S. History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century >PEACE REBEL https://web.archive.org/web/20240523001753/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-I8GDklsN4 >>16543>新型「毛沢東号」HXD3D 1893 New Locomotive named 'Mao Zedong' >iso8.tv ~ The Train Video channel ~Vid 3
>>18906>Red army choir - Echelon's song (Song for Voroshilov) >Kalinin1917 Vid 4
>>42182 Pic unrelated to any linked posts, just a cool train this time
>>21943 >Real Life Snowpiercer - The Insane Giant Nazi Railway - Breitspurbahn >Found And Explained Essentially the Megatrain from Wolfenstein lol
https://files.catbox.moe/4ch76s.mp4 >>22035>Public transportation in Vietnam - Luna Oi on Means Morning News! >Luna oi! https://files.catbox.moe/7wdm4t.mp4 >>22052>Electric Buses Are A Scam* >AdamSomethingYes he's a retarded lib, but his urbanism videos are actually usually good, and were made before he unveiled his liberal colors. Besides, uploading it means he gets fewer views on YT.
https://files.catbox.moe/27xjcy.mp4 >>22161>>22162>>22163>Shanghai MAGLEV TRAIN REVIEW - The FASTEST Train in the WORLD at 431km/h (268mph) | Shanghai, China >Davidsbeenhere https://web.archive.org/web/20240523003836/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygo9fQ_qKCE >Shanghai Maglev Full Ride with Speedo - 4K>Jaymee Coonjobeeharry (flute) & Frederic Bager (piano) https://web.archive.org/web/20240523004334/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlXY6GIEYl4 >Shanghai Maglev @ 431km/h (268mph) // World's fastest train!>Wayne Yeung https://files.catbox.moe/va38x8.mp4>>22273>The three tech 'firsts' of the Winter Olympics 5G Express >CGTN https://files.catbox.moe/7p4qxd.mp4 >>22475>Why TrolleyBuses are vastly Superior to Battery Electric Buses! >Alan Fisher https://files.catbox.moe/i2t8qb.mp4 >>22519>Canada's VIA Rail Network Evolution >Vanishing Underground On the topic of Canada's Rail transport I oughta do an effortpost on Canada's Transcontinental Railway, there was an excellent documentary I watched on it decades ago.
https://files.catbox.moe/b9lg40.mp4>>22574>GLOBALink | Bullet train driver in China's Tibet >New China TV https://files.catbox.moe/9r46ny.mp4 >>22669>Railway development in Africa: 9 most impressive completed and ongoing railway projects in Africa >The New Africa Channel https://web.archive.org/web/20240523005646/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-226M9tQSI >>22977>Art Deco's Impact on Railroads >AmtrakGuy365 https://files.catbox.moe/9pypg2.mp4 >>22980>BIRCHPUNK - RUSSIAN SPACETRAIN // РУССКИЙ КОСМОПОЕЗД feat. BadComedian >birchpunk This is an excellent parodical cyberpunk channel using memed Russian/Soviet aesthetics for its videos and music.
https://files.catbox.moe/is5omu.mp4 >>42182 >>42184 Part 3 - I've also archived most links ITT too in archive.is Then all I've got left is the image files.
>>23037>What happened to London's trams? by Jay Foreman https://files.catbox.moe/oa4a4g.mp4>>24389 >Hanoi has a new METRO SYSTEM and it's AWESOME! by Luna oi! https://web.archive.org/web/20240523011735/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQNjClGgKi4 >>24857 >>25338>Large Railway Bridge Completes Joining Stage in Guangdong >New China-Myanmar Railway Express Departs SW China >CCTV Video News Agency vid 1 and
https://files.catbox.moe/jfswc9.mp4>>25405>The Metro System in Lima, Peru 2021: Metro de Lima y Callao by Timosha21 https://web.archive.org/web/20240523012309/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imrdAaqEzo8 >>25517>California High Speed Rail has not Failed and RealLifeLore is wrong by Alan Fisher https://web.archive.org/web/20240523012703/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcjr4jbGuJg>>25520>Riding on Japan’s First Class Overnight Train | West Express Ginga Premier by Solo Solo Travel https://web.archive.org/web/20240523012817/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBdwetBS1DA>>26321>Assignment Asia: The way ahead: How China-Laos Railway changed lives by CGTNhttps://web.archive.org/web/20240523012915/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4lYqlSOJy4 >>26554>Egypt's first electrified LRT starts trial run by CGTN vid 2 rel
>>27287>Everything About Toronto's MASSIVE Transit Transformation by RMTransit https://web.archive.org/web/20240523013425/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgQdU5DUI8 >>27832>GLOBALink | Interview: China urban rail transit expands with hi-tech by New China TV https://files.catbox.moe/w7wchq.mp4 >>27841>Live: China's first maglev suspension railway undergoes test run by CGTNhttps://web.archive.org/web/20240523014104/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1yzJtm_Vw >>27856>12 China-Europe Freight Train Routes Via Erenhot Railway Port Put into Use by CCTV Video News Agency Vid3
>>28231>China's Last Little Train | Free Documentary by Free Documentary https://web.archive.org/web/20240523014435/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwcnY0GJlY >>42182 >>42184 >>42185 I'm tired so I'll finish this archive effort later.
>>28465>2 China-Made Trains of Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway Arrive in Indonesia by CCTV Video News Agency vid1
>>28808>Builders overcome complex geological environments to build high-speed railway in China's Shaanxi by New China TV https://files.catbox.moe/a3ma58.mp4 >>31151>Chinese, Indonesian Presidents Witness Trial Run of Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway by CCTV https://files.catbox.moe/1m9evl.mp4 >>31160>Why Swiss Trains are the Best in Europe by Not Just Bikes This is a lie BTW, Soviet trains rule.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240523020719/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPcHs-E4qc>>31432>Europe’s Experiment: Treating Trains Like Planes by Wendover Productionshttps://web.archive.org/web/20240523021048/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9jirFqex6g >>33207>Orange Train Lahore | Metro Train Travel in Lahore by Grip on Triphttps://web.archive.org/web/20240114163230/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnbAgKI7NDw Unique IPs: 94