SnarfyMcSnarferson
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Im sure the conductor and engineer were pretty stoked knowing everyone that saw their train were going "oh cool, its all engines!"
Mar 2, 2026 4:12 AM
SnarfyMcSnarferson
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Im sure the conductor and engineer were pretty stoked knowing everyone that saw their train were going "oh cool, its all engines!"
ionlyregisteredtosavelinks
Shouldn't it be going like, _really_ fast?
SocoFox
On Galveston Island in Texas the railyard has been a storage area for old BNSF locos. There's even a couple old red and silver Santa Fe "War Bonnet" engines there.
Travelcedric
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1M245MzBweXJsbWd6c2x5djJyNWxwamh6NWY5eTJkb2l2ZTI2YXRqeiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/Vd3zfCBUTTYXxlWrSv/200w.webp
totallynotatimetraveler
this train is on its way to your moms house! /s
konmari
Ticket to Ride Style
mjcherbert
often known as a "power move"
InitHello
@acetylcysteine this looks at least tangentially relevant to one of your interests.
acetylcysteine
Yes, would love to see this live!
SomeFukinWizard
AGiantSlor
Oops, all engines!
SnarfyMcSnarferson
donthaveonebrojustlurk
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1N21rOTRxd291ZWZ6dzcyeHg2aXZydWZ1dm9wazRqaWc4ZXR2cW5xMyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/z1FzPhvrIZXTa/200w.webp
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
I too am a trains woman
wargames
still not allowed to go above 25mph
slothsareworst
Each engine weighs about 200 tons. I'm surprised it can go 25 mph
ThuglasonRails
They routinely pull revenue at 70 mph.
BarryTheCyborg
Japanese shinkansen trains are 715 tons for a 16 car train and travel at a max of 160-190 mph depending on class and track.
SergeyPrkl
we use units that weigh 328t and max speed is 250kph.
Crazywelderguy
WishIveknownthisbefore
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
🔊
DrKonrad
The developers of the Matrix are really getting lazy
a1b3117
If you waited a bit longer, you'd see that they were actually pulling just one car of cargo.
Your mom.
dripstone
redundancy
that's snarfing awesome!
PeteyVonWho
I really wanted there to be one cargo car at the end of it.
ePluribus
Locopede!
Otomasoteraph
Only the first is pulling, (ok maybe the first two) the rest is just payload
LitchLitch
80 megawatt
Flooferdoof
Did you count them?
SnarfyMcSnarferson
20
Flooferdoof
Good job!
KickStartMyShart
Would have loved if they put the smallest freight car they could find at the back
SeenItDoneIt
In the old-days a caboose would have been legally required.
spittytrinkles
Or an Old School Caboose.
Flyingwigs
9 million whp!! https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aXJiY3ZqdDZuMno1dWh1Mmo2NHhjOWdnaXhvN2lleGVrbmw0aWlyMiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/qqD2dzGdJTmda/200w.webp
RetrogradeLlama
A little high, but it’s got to be at least 100,000.
PartyPack
I counted 22 from the start of the gif. At 4,800 HP/unit, that’s 105,600 HP.
LitchLitch
Same hp as a one of the big container ships like the emma maersk
ricpaul
I just finished rebuilding my CB350 motorcycle engine (4 cylinders and 2"/5cm diameter pistons) when my future FIL took me to his company. I saw a 3' / 1m diameter round metal thing on a pallet and said: hey, looks like a piston, but it can't be because it is way too big. Spoileralert: it was a piston... (He ran a shiprepair business, later also saw 200lb/100kg burned out valves that they rewelded, did a rewiring of a 500kW generator for him while sailing from NL to UK in rough weather, etc.)
RetrogradeLlama
Yeah... a friend of mine worked on massive ship engines. You could literally walk around inside them.
CaptSchmidtGaming
How many Whale power does that convert to?
LitchLitch
Looks like you could expect to get sixty barels of oil out of a whale, which is a hundred MW/h
schrodingerscatfood
Leaveittojebus
alluro2
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1eHNvdTFrYjhtZG92ZXdkeHlia2d0eGY2c3ZnbGJsN3RwN2lkZ3BpNSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/ZXHV1O3NcIq3O8gYTv/200w.webp
TK421isAFK
Thomas was an asshole that cut off the wheels of an engine that pissed him off by going on a vacation. Thomas cut his wheels off and 1/2
TK421isAFK
sat the engine in a shed, making him the generator for the train house, never able to leave that shed again. The real TtTE is dark af. 2/2
SergeyPrkl
slave labor.
TroublesomeCorvid
For real, though: this is what they call a "power move". Railways do this when they have too many engines in one place, and not enough in another place. So they'll literally move "power" (aka locomotives) from one rail yard to another.
SnarfyMcSnarferson
Now that's a fun fact
taichanie
https://c.tenor.com/0kHViw1-Th8AAAAd/tenor.gif
We11thatwasC00L
If all the engines were contributing, what is the steepest grade this train train could climb?
Ihatenumbersinusernames
Somewhere between 9 and 10% incline
carbonr1
90 of your Earth degrees.
WrongMichael
Yo Mama.
Pinky135
As long as they have traction
EatPieLander
Sounds like the last line to a question in a Mathematics or Physics textbook.
Evenmoreuselessname
A nasty one where the slopes change so some engines have excess traction and some are part their limit and it's all differential this, integral that.
EatPieLander
Oooooo! It sounds as tho you have seen the beauty of Mathematics, especially The Big C.
... or at least been traumatized by tests to the point of occasional recurring nightmare.
KruenchyPetzo
The same steepness grade one engine alone could climb?
unluckyandbored
It's not about power, it's about traction. You can have 4 billion horsepower and it's worthless if you can't get the power down. Train wheels have a smaller contact patch than a bicycle tire, and they're solid steel. They have very little grip.
astrangehop
What if we wired them in paralell
KruenchyPetzo
*eye twitch*
Agouti
This. Each engine is only pulling its own weight so they don't stack. Steepest grade is mostly limited by traction anyway, not power output
mandorsawalll
But what if the engine train is longer than the incline? The ones not on the incline could push the composition while not being dragged down?
Agouti
Oh. Yeah, you are absolutely correct, that would increase the max gradient a fair bit!
MichelGoussu
I like that at 50 I can appreciate it and the fact that a boy-will-be-boys person recorded and shared it.
eepsheep
I'm glad that I can appreciate it as a woman and ignore any attributions to gender that are made in the comments.
MichelGoussu
How is the passive aggression, this morning ? You could have noticed that I didn't write I appreciate a boy, nor a man, recorded it, but a boys-will-be-boys person (not gendered).
If we expect phrases to reflect reality, I'm not that biased, as more than 90% of train drivers are actually males (source : https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-68921391). If we wish phrasing to encourage change, I should have said, enthusiasts will be enthusiast.
eepsheep
Male to female employment (per jobtype or otherwise) ratios surely have nothing to do with gendered social constructs that literally start before the human is even out of the womb. 'Reflecting reality' doesn't work here if our reality causes the bias (especially when our language continues to affirm it).
MichelGoussu
This really isn't a hill on which I'm willing to die. I think you are right, and I was probably wrong when I felt more aggressed and schooled than enlighted. So I stand corrected. But I didn't find a whimsical equivalent of boys-will-be-boys. Enthusiast will be enthusiast doesn't ring very well to me. Maybe : fun-kiddie energy ? Care to share what your job is ? I am full stereotype : statistician and data scientist.
eepsheep
I work in cybersecurity.