Well, that sound isn't annoying at all.

I've seen this a few times in Honesdale PA. First time I took a picture.
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Hey, look! It's a reverse snowplowaboose.

Steam train race in Germany. Jump to 2:00 then get passed again at 5:45.

Meanwhile, after a day of running through the smog in China, a bullet train needs to stop off for a shower.

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Yeesh.

Small world. Or at least small internet.

I was over at Boing Boing, and they linked to a youtube video of a train. which I started watching. And at roughly the minute and a half mark, they run into Sundae's brother.

If it's not Sundae's brother, then it's a dead ringer who lives in the same town and has the same name.

Boing Boing link to a youtube video.


And here is Sundae's brother.

I thought it was remarkable anyway.

What are the chances?

Holy Shit!

It's Ste!

That is bonkers.

I just explained all this to Momdigr. The weirdness of it is totally lost on her. She's not getting it at all.

I'm damn-near gobsmacked.

And what a marvelous little video of a little train station, and right in the tradition of her travelogues, this is

AMAZING!

Sure looks a lot like him, Dana or Limey might be able to confirm it.

It's him. At the youtube link he is credited and there is a link to his Twitter where you can see his full name and see picks of him in a charity race for Sundae 's charity.

Cool, thanks. :thumb:

Wow. Planet Earth can be an okay place, sometimes.

Heavens, it’s a small world!

Little Kimble station is just three miles from here.
For many years the station itself was closed although the station buildings became a private dwelling and trains continued to run between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury.
I can’t remember how long ago it was when the station came back into use but I wonder how it affected the occupants of the house.
Having said that, while there are comparatively few passenger services, the track is used extensively by trains taking London’s domestic waste to a landfill site at the old brickworks quarry at Calvert north of Aylesbury.
On a warm day those wagons do NOT smell of roses so a few passengers wandering past your window are probably a minor inconvenience.

The suggestions that the name should be changed to Big Kimble or Large Kimble would cause a certain amount of confusion as there is already a Great Kimble a short distance away!

Last, but by no means least, it was good to see Sundae’s brother in the video. She’d often talk about Steven but I’ve never met him.

Hi Carruthers

It's good to hear from you again. You've been missed. Welcome back. :)

:celebrat: CARRUTHERS! Missed you, Sir. :welcome:

Thank you, Gentlemen. It's good to be back! :thumb:

Very good to have you back Carruthers!

Thank you, Mr. G! Much appreciated!

Where have you been? you have to explain your absence.
Welcome Home Carruthers!!!

Thanks for the welcome home, fargon!

After Sundae passed away, I thought I would take an indeterminate break from the Cellar but, as you can see, I've been lured back to this haven of (in)sanity. ;)

All the best,

Carruthers.

Glad for it! We are far improved with your presence, sir!

Ta! :thumb:

How cool is all of this? Very cool indeed!

Undertoads global reach puts Putin and Trump to shame. :haha:

Another cool steam engine, the last one Union Pacific bought. It was converted from coal to oil, demoted from passenger to freight service, used as an experimental ice and snow melter, then used for PR and special requests. It's still in service for UP, and their last Steam Engine on the books.

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High speed rail... we had that.

Life was good...

Streamlined...

Gear driven engines...

Since I can't ride the Olympian Hiawatha I'll have to settle for AMTRAK.

Full stop...

Obviously a posed shot but they did have these in the rolling stock at the time.

I'm skeptical...

Ahead of their time...

Keep your eye on the money rails:



No derailment, train and cars stayed on track. According to vid description, "The crew were shaken, but not stirred."

Must have been a sight to see, a half mile of locomotives....

What the fuck?!

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What did it hit? Chris Christie?

The little engine that could. The two logs that could.

You could crush a photoshop contest by putting beach chair Christy in front of that train.

Best I can find it did a head on with another train, Lippstadt, Germany, 2007. That means the caption should be "but you should see the OTHER guy!"

This is a new one on me...

People like to take vacation away from their normal rut. But what about railroad cars, back and forth on the same tracks, now that's a rut. Cars that accumulate enough vacation days and spare change, take ocean cruises.

One way.

Comin' atchya!

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Looks like a spice rack.

Looks like a model positioned in front of a background to make it look real.

Anyway, while I started strolling through pictures of train turntables, I cam across this one.

Seems like this would happen fairly frequently. A train entering the turn table when it wasn't lined up.
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I had my doubts, too. Mine were caused by this guy (picture right):

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Looks like he's on a little pedestal, like the little fake guys in ppls' model train set-ups. Idk.

It just looks wrong to me. The angle looking at the building is lower than the angle looking at the background.

Plus, I'm no train expert, but it looks like that building and the trains are brand new, but I don't think they use turn tables much any more. Just for the tourists in San Francisco. Plus every track has a gleaming train on it. It just screams posed model to me.

And then, I went to prove it and found this address to put in Google Earth.

411 S Salisbury Ave, Spencer, NC

Dis splain it.
https://akronrrclub.wordpress.com/ta...e-locomotives/

Time... when the hell did I get old?

Walt Disney lied, it's not a small world after all. It's big and all sorts of things are changing while we're struggling with life.

Now...If we could just get someone to splain dat website. It's damn near a foreign language!:lol2:

Yeah, like any hobby it has it's own language. Like listening to a politician, it's as clear as mud but it covers the ground.

"Inverted" Locomotives...

It's amazing how the mighty railroads lost their grip, not just from the greedy barons sucking off funds, but the way they operated.

Because all the US railroads interconnected the equipment had to compatible, so most of the rolling stock looked the same. But the Track Inspection Engines was the one area they varied widely. Often the TI Engines owned by the same company were varied.