Yeah. The fucking train.

That's the cleanest train I have ever seen. Shiny.

I'm glad they put up that railing to keep train from falling in the river... :haha:

But there are people, too, walking between the train and the handrail. Seems like it's more for them?

They are there to cushion the train so it doesn't get scratched by the handrail. :haha:

:lol:

three to go...

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It's an astonishing level of detail and workmanship.
How does anyone have that degree of patience and dedication?

More at the link.

Isn't that worth more than 200,000?

$263,900.

If you want the real thing...

'Sister ship' Duchess of Sutherland operates mainline steam specials.
I think that it is the only one of its class remaining but am willing to stand corrected.



It is not long since it emerged from a major overhaul.
In all honesty this video will not set the pulse racing but at least you can get a good view of the Duchess.

I've always been puzzled why they built locomotives so difficult for the engineer to see ahead, except for a couple of front cab specials. It wasn't until the modern diesel-electrics that they put the engineer up front. Maybe they wanted the engineer to keep the fireman company.:rolleyes:

No life to get in the way.

Kentucky Choo Choo...

Rails for your train?

Pfft. Luxury![/Python]

Nothing stops the Chief...

While the big one WW II was raging, Spain had already finished their war with Hitler's help and had moved on to other things.

As I post this it is 6:48.

How did you post that post thirty minutes from now?

ETA: Dammit your post time was 30 minutes ahead just a second ago! It said 7:23. WTF?

Maybe Drumpf's right about re-visiting fascism.

http://cellar.org/img/648.jpg

You lost a whole hour eatin' breakfast!

ETA: Spring Forward is March 10

See, that shit makes my head hurt.

In 1953 most people wore hats, spoke proper and didn't eat peas with a knife.

They also looked worn out and old before their time which isn't surprising as the country was still struggling in the wake of WWII.

From that year is 'London to Brighton in Four Minutes'....

Very nice!

To my eyes, one modernish thing jumped off the screen as I watched this.

http://cellar.org/img/gillsans1.jpg

It's the FONT used here. The font is Gill Sans, the predecessor to Helvetica.

It will not appear "modern" at all to Brits, because British Rail adopted it really early in history. It was used in the 30s for things that wanted to look modern, and became the standard British Railways font in 1948. But its predecessor was developed by a man named Johnson for the London Underground in the 1910s.

Since it's for railway signage, it's also seen in the film here:

http://cellar.org/img/gillsans2.jpg

And this conductor has a box of it on his right:

http://cellar.org/img/gillsans3.jpg

When the world found Helvetica (1957), and wanted to become modern, that became THE font for transport signage, and in some places, it still is:

http://cellar.org/img/helvetica1.jpg

Most signage uses different variants on Helvetica now; the font has been endlessly refined for different things. We computer users are most familiar with its little cousin Arial. There is a good chance you are reading this sentence in Arial.

Today I Learned about railway fonts.

me too as well along with the potential for dating stuff by font which seems obvious in retrospect but apparently wasn't

i think i broke my engrish

Remember when Dan Rather was fired from CBS News, for rolling with the story that W. Bush was AWOL from his National Guard duty? It was proven out as a hoax because computer typography geeks could see, immediately, that the supposedly-typewritten memo was a fake. Set in a modern proportional font, with modern kerning, in a style not available in 1973. (But which was the default fonts setting in MS Word at the time.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killia...ts_controversy

Our 2004 thread on the matter

Yeah. That's right!

So did I! I also learned that Gill Sans was designed by the sculptor Eric Gill.

A quick search of eBay indicates that there is a market for original British Railways signage.

This one is priced at £1600 or about $2068. :eek:

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eBay

Pennsylvania Rail Road big mofo...

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Cadbury locomotives come in two flavors...

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What, no cream-filled?

I see what you mean with PRR 6200. Maybe the engineer could look out the other side.

I can't imagine what a million pound locomotive does to the tracks/ties/bed.

the "no cylinders, direct drive" caught my attention.

You mean the turbines powered by the (320 psi !!!!) steam were directly coupled to the drive wheels? How in the world does that thing just start moving??!! How much bypass is happening in the drivetrain? You're trying to get the million pounds off the schneid by blowing on it? I'm thinking through this now, obviously there's a gearbox of some kind involved, and low-low-low-low must have been pretty low to start that monster.

Wow.

wow.

Maybe for the owners...

Pacific Coast Railroad

Some of those placenames are still around. Not as much of the railroad though.

The date for the Pacific map is 1958 but I figured it was more historical than current.

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad used anthracite coal because it's local but played it up in their PR and ads.

Ever wonder how big the contact patch is? Small, very small.

It only took forty years.
 

It was one of the unsung heroes of the early 20th Century railway system in the UK.

'Hall Class' locomotives were never going to be confused with the likes of the Flying Scotsman, Mallard or Duchess of Hamilton, but they gave many years of sterling service.

Each was named after a stately home, in this instance Wightwick Hall, and when the production run came to an end and they were running out of names, some wag suggested that the last one should be named 'That's Hall'.

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Wightwick Hall arrives at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre (Quainton) in 1978.

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Restored to her former glory.

BBC

Wiki

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

Very cool.

That's "brilliant," as is heard a few times in the vids.

She cleans up well!

Impressive.

Makes me think of how long it takes one to stop.

That small area of steel-on-steel contact is what reduces friction to the point that allows millions of tons to roll along efficiently.

I was thinking it had something to do with rolling resistance.

Plus I've wondered the rails ain't flat.

Now I know. And knowing is half the battle.[/G.I.Joe]

The other day I saw something I'd never seen before. Train was going by when I got to the crossing. I sat there a minute watching the cars go by. A couple of minutes go by, prolly a quarter-half mile of train...and there, in the middle of this train, was an engine. Just one, all by his lonesome. And then another half mile o' train. Never seen that. I'm wondering if he was on the job, helping move the train, or if they just needed to get a locomotive somewhere.

ETA:

I just realized...I don't think I heard that engine. Does locomotives got neutral?

May 10th is the reenactment and celebration of the 150th anniversary of driving the Golden Spike in Utah.
I know 29 of the people going.

Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy has been restored and will be there.

132 feet long.

They could have had two trains join up on a section of track their routes shared.

Sounds like he's saying no locomotive at either end, just one in the middle.

I assume there was/were engine(s) at the front, I was late for that scene. Nothing at the rear.

WTF kind of sedans is the UP looking at?!

16 feet long, 5 feet tall?

I don't know what sedan, nor when that was made. 747's have been around since 1970 and it wouldn't be an unreasonable approximation during that time.

Well, the 70s, maybe...

Today I Learned...
 

Ok, we haz train trains.

We haz road trains.

Today I learned that we haz air train.

That Skytrain is ripe for Skyjacking a bunch of travelers after they've come through the duty free liquor shop. :yesnod:


Sometimes you don't need a flatcar, just the wheels...

Choo Choo plows be large...