Train appreciation thread

yeah I read about it some days ago on leftypol. Tatchers greatest achievment. And as sad as that most American cities hat a tram line until the twenties when GP bought and razed them.

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I wish was I was this cool

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Regardless of what happens, the trains will be nationalised. This is ensured.

It's okay, we'll have our revenge. Freeways will be torn up like tram lines once were and we'll make bigger and better public transit.

got this game on christmas day around the time of its release. the first part of the game was so comfy. the game is resident evil zero.

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one more of the cockpit

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me like me some fucken' trains

wew, absolutely reactionary

In socialism trains should be separated between high-speed rail, high capacity double deckers, generic light rail for low capacity routes (you can use your old stuff there I guess) and omnipresent trams/subways in urban areas.

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Is the Trot movie good?

Unironically all of this. Bullet Trains are based.

C'mon now. No one is advocating to bring back antiquated rolling stock into service, just appreciating the aesthetic.

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I know that silly. I'm not actually that autistic. I just don't know why people drool over old stuff so much when the new is so much cooler.

How about retrofuture soviet trains. Trains with soviet aesthetic but nuclear powered and pulling massive workloads.

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Fees for trains in the UK after privatization took place have become a joke

I went to London last weekend - tickets for the coach cost me £20 return, tickets on the train would have cost me around £100. Why on Earth would the coach so much cost less when trains don't even run on petrol (electrical travel is 3-4x more energy efficient). One rail company has essentially a monopoly in my area and can charge whatever prices they want. Where is the logic in that?

would love to see Germany in this, all in all we are the best in Germany concerning high infostructure prices

man where's my english gone. What I wanted to say is: you're not alone Britain, your EU brothers fucked up the railway network just like you

who /war on cars/ here?

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why cars tho?

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Logistics and infrastructure centered around motor vehicles, for both goods and people, is terribly uneconomical, bad for the environment and humans.

NO, GOD GAVE US FEET AND WE SHOULD ONLY USE THEM.

NO SHOES EITHER.

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ah I misunderstood your post as "guns on cars", sure, I agree completely. Most of my irl activism was for free public transport, sadly my group died

We should reduce the amount of cars by 90% and make them more of a hobbiesit thing! Railines should be the base of how infrastructure should be developed world wide(adaptable for many modes) monotransportationalism(←-my words fags I could get this coined if I wasnt poor its a legal processes and thats uncle sam territory and we all no hes a statutory rapist!) Its necessary to have many ways but trains should be the center both for cargo and passenger!

how will you jerk off to feet if they look like gorilla feet with at least a 1cm layer of nasty dirt and dead bugs?

don't ask me, i'm not jerking of to feet anyway

Walking barefoot over grass and dirt feels pretty good though

Wow this thread died!

Furfags get out

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Most of the locomotives in the UK run on diesel, you utter mong. The Tories have just scuppered electrification of the network.

We should reduce the amount of cars by 90% and make them more of a hobbiesit thing! Railines should be the base of how infrastructure should be developed world wide(adaptable for many modes) monotransportationalism(←-my words fags I could get this coined if I wasnt poor its a legal processes and thats uncle sam territory and we all no hes a statutory rapist!) Its necessary to have many ways but trains should be the center both for cargo and passenger!

Agree disagree comrades?

totally agree. Cars should be for rural people who need them for work (foresters, hunters, farmers) only. That means, if there is a public transportation alternative (which we doesn't even have in Germany for the rural areas, I guess some Americans look at busses like the Aztecs stared at the Spanish ships)

The totality of 20th century infrastructure(capitalist infrastructure) must be leveled to make way for 21st century infrastructure(socialist infrastructure)

So gay.

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relevant

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it's WW-2 and there is no point redesigning a turret for a quickly made armored train

Unfortunately…

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Showcase of Czechoslovak rail vehicle production. The weird thing is that a country of 15 million people had two electrification systems on its major lines. In northern half of country it was DC 3000V, and in southern half it was AC 25kV single phase.
Older system for designating the vehicles was letter combination (nothing for steam locomotives, E for DC electric, S for AC electric, T for diesel locomotive, M for multiple unit, U for narrow gauge)
First number denotes number of powered axles.
Second number is top speed divided by 10 and then subtracted by 3. 7 means 100 km/h, 8 is 110 km/h, 9 is 120 km/h or more.
Third number gives pressure on axle if you add 10 tons. 5 means 15 tons per axle.
4th number after the dot is the production number to differentiate different types.
Low floor electric multiple unit developed for suburban traffic around major cities. Ordered to be developed in 1955 and put into first production in 1959. Automatic door and low floor for rapid entry and exit during stops. Ahead 10 years of the time it was first produced. However later developed models were already obsolete the time they were put to production.

In 1959 it was decided to start electrification of southern half of country with AC 25kV system. In 1961 first prototype of locomotive for this system was made. Then after series of different prototypes, final version as shown in picture was put to production in 1965.

First type of electric locomotive to be produced after the second world war. Ordered for development in 1946 and then the design was consulted with Swiss locomotive designers from Lokomotiv und Maschinefabrik Winterthur (SLM) a Société Anonyme des Ateliérs de Sécheron (SAAS).

This type was also delivered to the DPRK, and their Red Flag class 1 locomotives are based on this type, instead of having two bogies with 2 axles each, they beefed it up to 2 bogies with 3 axles.

Developed for heavy duty passenger trains on the northern line from Prague to eastern Slovakia.

Developed to use semiconductor power control, previous model used rheostatic control.

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R1 the prototype of metro cars which were far more lighter, modern and economic than what the Soviet industry offered, which were essentially copies of New York interwar subway steel boxes on wheelsm where the Czechoslovak cars were developed from scratch, yet used many construction element from existing rail vehicled developed domestically. The project was axed mysteriously, but the suspected motives are political in a sense that Czechoslovaks were forced to buy the Soviet subway cars.

Due to the shortage of passenger trains around major cities, the construction of a new type of electric multiple unit was ordered. This is no longer low floor and utilizes existing design of passenger cars, which are given extra door in the middle and then end cars are converted to have the motive power.

Dreaded motor train car still used today.
This was exported to the Hungary, where it is rumored that it was a revenge for the 1968 Warsaw pact invasion, due to how uncomfortable these were.

Diesel locomotive.

Not a rail vehicles but under Czech and Czechoslovak law, the trolleybuses are formally railway vehicles, with its specific laws.
The Skoda 14Tr trolleybus, which was also exported to USA and today you can ride them in San Francisco or Dayton, Ohio. Typed Skoda 14TrSF.

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Another batch of Czechoslovak production.
This time it is trams.

North Koreans will never be forgiven for this revisionism. The originally articulated tram with two 2 axle bogies had its central joint removed and welded together to make one solid tram.
The heathens responsible for this heresy will answer for their sins.

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Another batch of eastern bloc railway vehicles.

The trolleybus is the export version of Skoda 15Tr, in Dayton Ohio.

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thanks user, those are all wonderful

This is some good stuff, why didn't anyone post it in the Warsaw pact thread when they had this discussion

uh well, thats the paramedics job.

bump

True, I'm just pointing out that the officer wasn't going out to go 'kill nigs' as ancaps like to put it.

i like trains

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God you have no idea how much I've fantasized about just bulldozing every suburb to the fucking ground.

on a related note, Thomas the Train is a darker series than I thought

newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressive-authoritarian-soul-of-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-friends

rbth.com/science-and-tech/329130-8-of-russias-strongest-locomotives

no, it's fucking terrible. its biggest achievement is making something that manages to insult trots, stalinists, leninists, freudians, jews, russians, germans, and more all at once.

It's garbage but its so bad that its hilarious. Unlike DEath of Stlain that has forced jokes this shit is unironic and it makes everything supremely stupid.

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Ever heard of a stream? Or hell even sand scrubbing.

anything on Russian fares?

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Don't know about Russian but Soviet public transportation fares were cheap.

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this is pretty cool
do you know why they chose to build it like this though? surely it is very expensive

Probably to prevent the transit system from causing street clutter. Those roads don't look super wide. It's an interesting concept but I bet that a subway/metro system is as if not more efficient than any sort of sky-train

in norway the name of the national train system was recently changed from NSB (norwegian state railways), which had been the name since 1883 to "Vy", from the french word "vue", meaning vision. Literally no one wanted it except ten people in the government and they spent millions of tax money changing it and now it might even be privatized.
I would have tolerated it if they went with a traditional Norwegian word but no, they just had to use some gay foreign word like a stupid brand would. Fuck

Social Democracy always fails eventually

anyone got info on soviet atomic trains?

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unironically this. trains make me think more of snowpiercer now.

your proposition is trash but nice foot pic.

tren

Trains have great aesthetic and great practical use and the fact that they aren't used even more is a crime.

I found out that George Carlin was one of the 2 voice actors for the Conducter… that was a surprise considering his usual line of work.
Someone needs to do a Ratshit batshit edit for Thomas the train.

train hating is ingrained in the USA, it would be a hard thing to put into place.

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