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R No.4843  [Reply]
Time for something big to read?

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66868 – "The Railway Conquest of the World" by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (© 1911)
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¨ R No.6548
>>6296
This is superb, thank you for posting.
¨ R No.6557
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Hobbies-UK.htm – Hobbies Weekly is another British magazine that had features and articles for the railway modeller from time to time.

There were also articles on fishing, woodworking, photography, stamp collecting, music, electronics ...
¨ R No.6569
https://archive.org/details/ModelEngineerVol073No1807wIndex
https://archive.org/details/modelengineer

This is the final UK magazine I know of with content for railway modellers. I am sure there are more; I just don't know of them.

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R No.6535  [Reply]  >>6536
what's the best EMD and why is it the SD70MAC
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¨ R No.6558  >>6559
>>6556
>Dat feel when I use SD40-2s every day and run 8 is the norm in certain areas
¨ R No.6559  >>6567
>>6558
Does that imply scarcity of motive power?
¨ R No.6567
>>6559
Nah, that's just shortline life for ya. I'd rather have a pair of GPs or SDs than the Gensets that are also in the roster.

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R No.6560  [Reply]
Modellers, check in.
¨ R No.6562  >>6565
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Still here, still doin the Lego Train thing. I've given up on the "purism" that many Lego enthusiasts value; now I buy parts from the higher-quality clone brands, and I've even painted a few pieces here and there.
¨ R No.6565
>>6562
An average of one train set a year from Lego is enough to just barely maintain "L-gauge" being a thing but not enough for the hobby to grow on its own
We should realistically never expect more wheels, buffers, track pieces -- especially now that third-party companies took it upon themselves to fulfill all Lego train modeller's needs to a high quality standard
Purism is dead if you want to get anywhere in Lego trains -- go wild
(that being said the Orient Express passenger cars is a high point and a highlight of the last several years, and it's an indication the niche seems profitable enough for Lego to keep occasionally putting these gems into production)

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R No.6514  [Reply]  >>6516
Half of these boards are dead, with no backups in sight.
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¨ R No.6519  >>6561
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>Overchan
¨ R No.6520
>Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_1d2a52_0.MAI' (Errcode: 28 "No space left on device") in /home/railchan/domains/1chan.net/public_html/rail/inc/database/pdo_link.php:102 Stack trace: #0 /home/railchan/domains/1chan.net/public_html/rail/inc/database/pdo_link.php(102)
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/tmp needs to be made larger :(
¨ R No.6561
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>>6519
also...
>12chan

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R No.4525  [Reply]  >>4526
Thread restarted after a devastating flood of poorly drawn wojaks wiped out the entire catalog in one fell swoop.

(Also testing if the youtube embeds are still post stamp sized.)
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¨ R No.6544
"ASSEMBLING A FREIGHT TRAIN" 1950s SANTA FE RAILROAD EDUCATIONAL FILM XD81165: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRXMvR7DBkc
¨ R No.6545
America's Fastest Steam Trains - Milwaukee Road Class A and F7–(YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mREkU8GjT0g – Hennyways and milwaukyroads, not all US railroading was trudging along with miles-long drags of cars.
¨ R No.6555
Red Morning (1980's Detroit)–(YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JEUdCx5C9c – Various clips from Detroit. The DPM makes an appearance around the two-minute mark.

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R No.6549  [Reply]
:3
¨ R No.6553
kek

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R No.6552  [Reply]
that looks expensive

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R No.6515  [Reply]
i'm new to the site, and i am just curious, because i saw this beautiful train in a video and i want to know more about it.
¨ R No.6527
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That is an old Hungarian tram by Ganz Machinery Works. They began production in the 1960s, being called the Ganz CSMG with quite a lot of them being made. The one in your picture is a refurbished model - given the designation the new KCSV-7 - which were done in the 1990s. KCSV-7 stands for Korszerűsített Csuklós Villamos 7-es típus or in English, Modernized Articulated Tram Type 7.

Some of them are still in use today on the streets of Budapest, but given how old they are, will likely be retired at some point in the near future.

Here's another picture of Number 1353, running near the Danube River on Line 2 of the Budapest tram network. This particular tram line is quite nice since it runs next to the river and offers you nice views of the water and the city. The only downside is that the seats on the KCSV-2's are quite uncomfortable and despite the heating they added when refurbishing these, they still get pretty cold in the winter.

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R No.6518  [Reply]
I had to squash the image a bit to get it in the template. Should have cropped it first...

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R No.6509  [Reply]
Always find it very annoying how ridiculously expensive various items are for railroads and I'm sure this goes into other industries as well. A few IR sensors some custom printed circuit boards and a computer that most likely does not need to be any more powerful than your most basic entry level smartphone for a hot box detector cost as much money as a supercar with many thousands of precision made parts. You're basically talking something a bunch of vocational High School kids could design and build for under five grand. Furthermore why are we even still relying on HotBox detectors when you could just mount a rubber hose connected to train air over the adapter plate of a truck so if it overheats the heat generated will melt the hose dumping the train air?
¨ R No.6511
The cost of equipment in the real world is in the support and contracts, not so much the hardware (though the hardware being rugged and proven is a value all of it's own).

Why are HABDs lineside equipment rather than on train equipment? Because there are so many freight cars that retrofitting hotbox detection to all of them (and having to run around maintaining them) will always be more expensive than having some fixed hardware on the track that the railroads pay to maintain (or not maintain).
¨ R No.6513
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Corporations just use different currency that has approx 10:1 exchange rate to our money.

Guess what this little trolley for freezer boxes costs? -75 €.
It's not even quality construction, they will snap under load and the bearings are open and will rust.

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