This is how all goods should be transported over long distance on land. It is by far the most efficient way to move large amounts of stuff long distances. We should only be using trucks for "last mile" deliveries, not long-haul trips across multiple states or countries.
Humanity is so goddamn good at logistics when it's for profit. Our technological prowess of getting insane quantities and masses of something over absurd distances is our superpower.
I can never help but think of the bearings used for the trucks underneath rail cars. Generally opposed tapered bearings, keeps the shaft from walking at all, but there are some that do use straight roller bearings.
Kind of breaks the brain thinking about the amount of pressure on those bearings
Years ago, I rode a commuter train and in the winter had to be on the platform in the dark like this. Being as close as he is to the track, behind the yellow band, is an adrenaline rush as well as very windy. Such a memory to have.
The bells are a harbinger for an approaching presence in a once void environment. Not just a presence but hundreds of tons moving as fast as a cheetah barreling through the darkness.
I live a couple of km from a line, as do my parents. When it's the right time of year to have windows open, I LOVE hearing that sound. If it's a rainy night too...
I've been a fan of liminal space concepts for years. There are TONS of videogames that let you explore various liminal spaces. It's like playing a dream.
When I was a kid (90's) in London, Ontario there were these train overpasses throughout the city. It wouldn't be going 70, but it was fast. We'd sit in the small space between the sides and the track huddled up...on acid or shrooms, drunk out of our minds. It was so dumb. No one ever got hurt and I don't know how we survived. We weren't ferroequinologists with a deathwish, we were just idiots.
The device in the cabin an HTD, is referred to as Wilma. (Fred and Wilma). The device on the end not only puts a cap on the air line (brake line.) But can communicate with Wilma for brake line pressure, and other telemetry data like if a separation happens before the brakes are fully applied. One brake system trains use is air. As the air pressure builds, the brake releases, so during an accidental train breaking apart, the air lines separates and automatically applies the brakes on the cars.
You guys are the best drivers ive ever seen.... out of everybody, you guys are always the straightest, most attentive, stay-to-the-limit drivers! You guys need an award or something, tbh!
If they are going painfully slow and blowing their horn endlessly, it means people in your area are camping near the tracks and taking their sweet time getting out of the way
activeracer28
That is sooo much energy in motion. Locomotion. Hehe
Azriel2k3
You know I get he was behind the yellow line but if it kicked up a stone or had a chain dangling he'd be heading to the afterlife.
unluckyandbored
This is how all goods should be transported over long distance on land. It is by far the most efficient way to move large amounts of stuff long distances. We should only be using trucks for "last mile" deliveries, not long-haul trips across multiple states or countries.
ericbrueg
I would be concerned that a rock might get kicked up or something
Sebastopol140
trigonman3
EmeraldLight
I know it's silly but I adore that he waved at the train
ThisIsMyUsernameThereAreManyLikeIt
Trains like that classify as Dragons
FatBastardVegetarian
He hears that train a-comin'; it's rolling 'round the bend...
gronzilla
Sorry, I fast forwarded quite a bit. The sounds were nice though.
TheVillageGrouch9000
Finally a vid in landscape! https://imgur.com/Ufl2m9O
MisterLemons
Humanity is so goddamn good at logistics when it's for profit. Our technological prowess of getting insane quantities and masses of something over absurd distances is our superpower.
ButtblasterMcAssmaster
Imagine showing this to a medieval logistician, planning trips by sailing ships and carriages.
laner7112000
HypnagogicHallucinations
I read that as trans at first.
Merc4food
Well the one being tackled is trans.
mrpink83
I like this!
Will0099
You would splatter like a fly on a windshield if you got hit by that
BoobJiggle
I can never help but think of the bearings used for the trucks underneath rail cars. Generally opposed tapered bearings, keeps the shaft from walking at all, but there are some that do use straight roller bearings.
Kind of breaks the brain thinking about the amount of pressure on those bearings
Stonemarter
A double stack and complete trailers. We do not have that here....
Rijacki
Years ago, I rode a commuter train and in the winter had to be on the platform in the dark like this. Being as close as he is to the track, behind the yellow band, is an adrenaline rush as well as very windy. Such a memory to have.
hgfurgyhauh4uhghghuhgiqguhniij
Must be the Ladies of the Evening 'cause it's really hauling ass.
langri
Well punned
Blackfinity
The amount of kinetic energy in that train is staggering.
SleazyBijou
He could’ve gotten sucked off right there
iusegoogleplus
Looks like Quincy, IL. Don’t ask me how I know that so I don’t have to admit how into trains I am.
xxFLYBOYxx
Ain't no shame in it, trains are awesome. I Instantly knew as well, and definitely have the virtual railfan app open lol
DaSauceSeeker
Oh hey, look! It's the light at the end of all the darkness!
bigk001
#1 yeah don’t stand that close. Being homeless, I have seen more than enough train accidents & deaths. You don’t want that.
jlt66666
I'm not homeless. And I've not seen things. But yeah anything can fall off a car or a stone can get kicked up.
You don't want to be part of that party.
OmegaYeti
i liked the part with the train
lifeisadadjoke
The sound of railway bells in a remote crossing at night lands different. One of my favourite sounds...it's both liminal and not liminal.
Maviyakuku
It's the evanescence.
Sabattwo
And the swish of the wheels
potentiallyunsafe
The bells are a harbinger for an approaching presence in a once void environment. Not just a presence but hundreds of tons moving as fast as a cheetah barreling through the darkness.
TeenageMutantNinjaTurts2
langri
I just imagined that scene and got chills. You are absolutely correct.
DarkwingDuc
Liminal for the train, not for you.
pareidoliaperson
I feel the same about planes in a clear night sky in a quite neighbourhood.
Bladedrummer
That or a train going choochoo in the distance in the dead of night. It just feels mysterious.
lifeisadadjoke
I live a couple of km from a line, as do my parents. When it's the right time of year to have windows open, I LOVE hearing that sound. If it's a rainy night too...
wattsdass
Anyone else have to look up liminal? Good word👍
lifeisadadjoke
I've been a fan of liminal space concepts for years. There are TONS of videogames that let you explore various liminal spaces. It's like playing a dream.
pickinganameistoomuchpressure
very studio ghibli
FartingWiener
So subliminal?
TerdFurgison
What about SuperLiminal?
NickRivieraMD
Sounds like you could say it's in a liminal space between liminality and reality.
jargonmon
That thing is HUGE!
ElroydIsGone
Four engines upfront and you knew, that it would be a reaaaally long one.
FartingWiener
Thanks
DarkwingDuc
bitemark
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1eG84dXZmejlkcDh4NXIwdjZjYXNpdTlieWZxcGc5eW4zd2tvZmxycCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/DqhjENQpCFGog/200w.webp
newsguycraigevans
That's exactly what your mom said
QueefMalone
When I was a kid (90's) in London, Ontario there were these train overpasses throughout the city. It wouldn't be going 70, but it was fast. We'd sit in the small space between the sides and the track huddled up...on acid or shrooms, drunk out of our minds. It was so dumb. No one ever got hurt and I don't know how we survived. We weren't ferroequinologists with a deathwish, we were just idiots.
1Megaton
My friend used to put .22s on the tracks as a kid.
Aurzyerne
Fun fact:
The railroaders call that blinking light on the end, F.R.E.D. - Fucking Rear End Device.
Source: Used to drive vans for a company (Hallcon) which hauls railroad crews around.
CaptainYesterday
The device in the cabin an HTD, is referred to as Wilma. (Fred and Wilma). The device on the end not only puts a cap on the air line (brake line.) But can communicate with Wilma for brake line pressure, and other telemetry data like if a separation happens before the brakes are fully applied. One brake system trains use is air. As the air pressure builds, the brake releases, so during an accidental train breaking apart, the air lines separates and automatically applies the brakes on the cars.
mrpink83
You guys are the best drivers ive ever seen.... out of everybody, you guys are always the straightest, most attentive, stay-to-the-limit drivers! You guys need an award or something, tbh!
mrpink83
You guys that drive the railroaders around are like textbook drivers. I've never seen anyone drive better than you guys.... AND you always signal!
mrpink83
School bus drivers got nothing on railroad drivers.
azazyel
You'd think you'd hear that from a long ways away but trains are pretty silent coming, passing their loud as hell.
manystripes
I remember as a kid being told that if there was a tornado it'd sound "like a freight train approaching" and being like "Well that's pretty useless"
shiasurasa12
Don't worry, they'll blow their 180dB horn every 0.2 seconds from 10pm to 4am but only when they're creeping through towns at 3mph.
tallroses
If they are going painfully slow and blowing their horn endlessly, it means people in your area are camping near the tracks and taking their sweet time getting out of the way
shiasurasa12
There's nobody "camping near the tracks" in my sleepy little town of 2800 people. Ever. The train conductor's just being an asshole.
UnitConversionBot
70 mph ≈ 110 kilometres per hour
HeWhoMustNotBeBlamed
Thank you from everybody in the world, except the British.
HalfPintKatie
Thank you, from the Canadians 🙂
junkyhlm
Break here. Stop in the next County
PotatOSLament
Brake
junkyhlm
Yup, tired brain
SecondSince
Brane :P