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Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
If you mean plans This is quite up to date and is typical of US locos. Different manufacturers and models of course differ, but the basic layout is the same for most diesel/electric locos the world over. Large diesel engine drives a generator, which supplies power to traction motors connected to the wheels. Obviously you have oil filters, air compressors, dynamic breaking blowers etc.. And if you look closely even a toilet. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65840 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Just what I wanted , thanks. So an Engineman, Brakeman and a toilet in the cab. Any beer in the fridge? I doubt there is any beer onboard, today I think there is only an Engineer and maybe a Conductor on a US freight train, I think. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Interesting report on UK/European Rail travel. Direct train to Europe London - Cologne/Frankfurt looks good if Deutsche Bahn get their rolling stock. With the new Eurostar stock entering service which will be compatible with Dutch systems, London - Amsterdam will be the first on my list in 2017. :-) |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14655 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Interesting report on UK/European Rail travel. London - Marseille sounds like a lovely run. I've done it from Paris (and CDG airport to Avignon) - even better if you get a double-deck TGV and ensconce yourself in the upper deck bar. But it is wrong to call it a UK/Europe service. It's from London only, so England/Europe at most. We're still waiting for direct services from the north and west - and I'm not sure that even HS2 will provide them. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14655 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
even better if you get a double-deck TGV and ensconce yourself in the upper deck bar. You'll need a larger scale map than that, Chris - the problem is 700 metres in Camden. Evening Standard 22 April 2014 Boris Johnson has called for a giant tunnel to be built under Camden to replace the abandoned link between High Speed 1 and the proposed High Speed 2 railways. ... the Government pulled the plug on a £700 million overground Euston to St Pancras railway linking the High Speed line from the North to Europe. ... the Secretary of State asked HS2 Ltd and Network Rail for advice on ways to improve connections to the continent. The Mayor’s views will be taken into account in this context. Volterra report to Camden council (pdf) HS1 - HS2 overground map (pdf) I still think it would be better to build a burrowing junction at Finsbury Park first, to link the ECML to HS1. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Continuing the story 0f 611. Yesterday it left The NC Transportation Museum at Spencer to return "home" to Roanoke and the Virginia Museum of Transportation a journey of about 130 miles Trains magazine had their mobile camera at several points. Here leaving the museum about to join the mainline. Here passing Lexington NC Passing near Jamestown NC And here at Villamont VA with the Blue Ridge mountains in the background and nearly home. Unfortunately they were unable to get a shot of 611 arriving at Roanoke. Today 611 was joined by Class Y6a NW 2156 and Class A NW 1218 All three built at the NW workshop at Roanoke VA Unfortunately 611 is the only one currently able to steam. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
Amtrak 6 today has the original California Zephyr dome observation Silver Solarium on the rear end. Departed Galesburg at 12:16, so if I could go out to look at it here at Naperville, I'd plan to be there by 2:10 (I always assume 2 hours, but once in a while that assumption bites me in the tuckus, so I try to be a few minutes ahead of that). Then probably another 30 or so to Chicago. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
Just what I wanted , thanks. So an Engineman, Brakeman and a toilet in the cab. Any beer in the fridge? The diagram should really say "conductor's desk." The toilet is actually down in the nose, on the level of the frame, whereas the cab is a few steps up. Beer in the fridge would be an FRA violation that not even the unions would work very hard to get them excused from. The cab picture is what they looked like in the 1970s-80s. Newer ones have computer screens in place of many of the gauges. They display the same information as the gauges and much more. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Well I was out when it arrived and I had my recorder set to "medium quality" so not a good pic. But if you wait long enough it turns on the wye!! It is owned by Rail Journeys West This is from the history page The Silver Solarium was built by the Budd Company in 1948 as one of the original six vista dome observation sleeping cars for the famed California Zephyr which was inaugurated on March 20, 1949. In the Zephyr consist the car carried the designation as CZ-10. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
Well I was out when it arrived and I had my recorder set to "medium quality" so not a good pic. The other CZ observation cars: CB&Q 375 Silver Horizon -- now the Amtrak station at Maricopa (Phoenix), AZ CB&Q 376 Silver Penthouse -- sat behind Amtrak's Beech Grove shops for years until BNSF bought it back and moved it to their headquarters in Ft. Worth, TX... where they completely gutted it, cut new doors in the side, and installed a level floor the length of the car; the dome is now a skylight over a conference table, and the car is named Prairie View CB&Q 378 Silver Lookout -- the extra car built in 1952 (plan 9533), its interior burned and was redone in a modern scheme, carries Amtrak number 800282 D&RGW 1145 Silver Sky -- kept by Rio Grande when Amtrak started, used on the Rio Grande Zephyr until they joined Amtrak in 1983; sold to Via Rail Canada as an extra Park car (CP's Park cars were copies of the CZ cars); last report in my notes says it has number 800711 and is gutted and windowless in either Montreal or Saginaw, MI WP 881 Silver Crescent -- now at Gold Coast Railway Museum, Miami, FL (the closest one to original condition, although it was damaged in a hurricane several years ago), 800293 WP 882 Silver Planet -- at last report, still in Mexico after being sold to a Mexican railroad I think I was aboard Solarium once, long ago. I may have also climbed onto Penthouse when it was languishing at Beech Grove. The one I have in my HO scale set is Penthouse. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Well today has been a good day for "odd items" Firstly it seems Chesterton got it's "vegetation controlled" You can just see the sprays at the rear. Also the 49 today had PV on, in fact the California Zephyr car Silver Solarium, however in a strange position, right behind the locos. Not going to get a good view there!! Unfortunatey the camera at Chicago is playing up so I was lucky to get this, they came over the airline, but I missed it with the camera in a "replay" only mode had to wait till they came along the wye. I can say I have never seen those cars before, Metra Electrics I presume. Also never seen the switcher before. Topically with my recent post about the Norfolk and Western 611 being back in stream Here is Norfolk and Southern 8103 "heritage loco" at Chesterton today. Have to admit 611 looked better :-) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30734 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Well today has been a good day for "odd items" Interesting. Note that the grade crossing arms are up. Even if it has passed the control point, I doubt that the crossing arms come up that fast. That would mean the equipment isn't enough to operate the track sensors. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Well today has been a good day for "odd items" Yes you are correct I have a video of it passing in both directions and it did not cause the crossing to operate, it just kept using the horn and slowed at the actual crossing. As you can see a car came along and stopped even though it had passed. I often see the road/rail pickups used by maintenance crews and they never set off the crossing either. As I have said before would not be allowed in the UK, but it's a different country and different rules apply. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
It is quite common in Canada for hi-rail trucks to not trip crossing alarms. I always figured this was for two reasons: one - these trucks often stop near the crossing to work on signals (or to go for donuts), and you wouldn't want the gates down and bells ringing for all that time; second, these trucks can easily stop on the tracks, which makes a hi-rail truck crossing a road no more risky than any other uncontrolled intersection. And we have lots of those in rural Canada. |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
It is quite common in Canada for hi-rail trucks to not trip crossing alarms. I always figured this was for two reasons: one - these trucks often stop near the crossing to work on signals (or to go for donuts), and you wouldn't want the gates down and bells ringing for all that time; second, these trucks can easily stop on the tracks, which makes a hi-rail truck crossing a road no more risky than any other uncontrolled intersection. And we have lots of those in rural Canada. That's an intriguing vehicle. Is it still propelled by the main driving wheels? Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Is it still propelled by the main driving wheels? In most cases yes, the road wheels make contact with and therefore drive the rail wheels. Since looking at the USA web cams you see these things everyday, all regular maintenance seems to be carried out using them and larger trucks converted in a similar way. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65840 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Then there is this that had to be pushed, no gasoline in the 1880's.. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
Then there is this that had to be pushed, no gasoline in the 1880's.. (Off topic) One thing about that scene nagged me. The San Andreas fault moves about 35 mm per year, so in one century the bridge would have moved 3.5 metres and Marty would have materialised in thin air next to it. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65840 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Then there is this that had to be pushed, no gasoline in the 1880's.. Who says this was supposed to be in California? The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
Then there is this that had to be pushed, no gasoline in the 1880's.. Because it's set in California... Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
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