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Misc Forums => LSR General Chat => Topic started by: desotoman on December 12, 2009, 03:50:27 PM
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After you watch this 357.164161 mph run, did you notice anything missing?
Tom G.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw4zn-qw1oM
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An English translation? :-D
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A parachute...........safety workers keeping people from putting pennies on the track?
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No track sections, just continuus rails.
No one spilled their drinks.
Setting speed records makes lots of people smile.
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Did they miss their 1-hour turn-around or what? :mrgreen:
Mike
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There should have been German Panzers following them? :?
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Smooth, no sparks from the overhead, quiet.
No cow catcher?
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Didn't see any grade crossings
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on the bridge how does the cameraman turn so quickly to keep train in shot.
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Looks to me they ran so fast they ran out of their paint job! Crow.
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Everyone had great answers. LOL.
I just thought they made it look so casual. Some were standing on the ride, some were sitting. But I did not see anyone have any safety gear on. I would have thought they would have at least wore a seat belt on a record setting run.
Tom G.
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Ever been on a train? they drive like they are on rails :-D
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Hope that one stays on rails :-o :lol:
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Took a German bullet train from Hamburg to Wuerzburg in '94, 180 mph, kinda' fun. No seat belts. But a few years later one left the track at speed. Like a wreck on the Autobahn in a tin can.
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I sure thought I saw some sparking where the cantilever touches/touched the wire. But you're right -- no seat belts, no apparent stress on the faces of the "passengers". And the engineer -- hey, he looked like the canary that swallowed the cat. I think I'd feel pretty danged good if I were about to drive a train that fast.
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If the UP would invest in equipment like that, they would dominate the market and I could get back to work. Been furloughed for a year now. I doubt you will see anything like that here in the U.S. unless they can figure out how to eliminate grade crossings on the route. It is neat technology though....
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Ever been on a train? they drive like they are on rails :-D
Bob.............Couldn`t wait for friday???? :roll:
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They have eliminated grade crossings by elevating the tracks :-o
For about a mile they begin the rise until the tracks are high enough to drive a semi under, 14 feet? I will have to check the vehcicle clerance and the total length of the railroad part they elevated.
I would have thought tunneling the road or elevating the road would have been cheaper than raising the train tracks. Even then I would not want to go 300 + mph on a train and travel over what would seem to be a speed bump :-o
Geo
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Where's the parachute?
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Was that the French train running from the battle front?
DW
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For perspective -
Chicago to Wendover in 4 hours and 15 minutes.
An hour and a half to cross Nebraska? That would be a Godsend.
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So do they all get blue hats or just the driver :-)
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So do they all get blue hats or just the driver :-)
Every one gets a green hat.... Frogs prefer green :evil:
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Blue frog:
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:0ifoxql0ld6e (http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:0ifoxql0ld6e)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYVQ7pyhAVo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYVQ7pyhAVo)
:cheers:
Mike
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Ever been on a train? they drive like they are on rails :-D
Bob.............Couldn`t wait for friday???? :roll:
for some of us, every day is Friday :-D oh, and I just couldn't resist
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Those tracks just look like normal train tracks ?
Charles
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First place answer: All three of Stainless's.
Second place: The mystery man (D.W.).... and I don't think its Darrell Waltrip :cheers:
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Well -- on the general subject of the phrase -- "What's missing" -- I'm slowly adding photos to the Gallery. Today I sent the last of a big batch from SpeedWeek '09. I'm sorting them by date. If you've got a photo or more that absolutely deserves to be in the Gallery -- please send it to me (about 300k image size is best, and good focus and other compositional items are nice, too). I'll make sure it ought to be there -- and then get it posted. Make sure you tell me the date the photo was taken so I can put it in the correct folder
I'll be filling in the blanks as time goes by -- including shots I've taken at Maxton over the past few years, and Bub's, and the Shootout, and so on. Send me your submissions per the (above) rules, hey? Thanks.
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Jon,
found the special Porkpie's Photo Gallery on the bottom of the list.
May be the datasize could be bigger - have to check this - but the quality what I saw on my screen was ok.
But could you - or Bob - correct my name....Pork Pie's....I would prefer this kind of writing :-D
Otherwise - as I wrote in the email - I will get some more picture to Bob.
All the best
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European high speed rail network, but in particular the French, is excellent.
TGV is an awesome bit of kit - cruise at about 180mph. Tried out running one on the 1200 a few years back - not a chance.
They run on special built track - think that one ran on the new line they recently opened from Paris to Metz.
Isn't the US investing in highspeed rail infrastructure?
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Yes, it's being considered -- but before it'll work other than in certain specified locations -- that is, for instance, in busy city-to-city corridors like Boston to New York -- the American public will need to accept the concept of giving up their individual cars. We've got so many open stretches that building new rail lines will take tremendous investments - both in dollars and in faith that the investment will be repaid.
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A SF/Sacramento to LA San Diego high speed rail is being considered and has been for years. Millions have been spent on planning. But no one wants it in their city, here on the peninsula. Everyone if for it somewhere else.
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I think the only real way to support a high speed rail will be for overnight cargo. Rail is best at moving heavy objects (second only to pipe), and with large freight jets running $300 million each, it could play a profitable supporting roll. On financially viable routes, they could add passenger cars.
But every modern attempt to use rail for more than intracity people-moving or freight, it has not proven to be supportable in the US, it's too big of a country. Our interstate highway system is very good and hard to compete with. And even at 250mph, a HSR is not going to replace 600mph passenger jets.
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When I worked in China we rode the "High Speed" trains using the overnight schedule, as to not spend on a hotel room and waste daylight with travel. We went as fast as 80 mph but mainly did not stop at every hamlet on the way.
I have been reading about the fast trains the Chinese were planning then building. Now they have the fastest in the world. I hope they are also safe.
China unveils 'world's fastest train link'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091226/ts_afp/chinatransportrail
Geo
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What's new is really old. . .
I remember the Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend railroad -- an all-electric railroad that hauled some freight and lots of passengers to and from the big city back in the mid-part of the last century. My dad would take the South Shore from Michigan City, Indiana - the nearest the South Shore came to our home in southwest Michigan - and go to Chicago Monday mornings and Return Friday evenings. He'd take "The Morning Hotshot" into Chicago -- and the "Evening Hot Shot" on the way back out. Those trains ran daily at commuting times -- and both were not only expresses that only stopped at a few of the many stations, but both were labeled as "the fastest regularly-scheduled trains in America" at the time. They'd boogie along at 100-120 mph, getting the workers to their jobs with the least amount of time wasted while on the train. I rode the Hot Shot a few times -- it was thrilling, more so as I think back about the rest of the technology that went with -- the rickety (at least by today's standards) cars and roadbed, the many grade crossings where cars and trucks would (we hoped!) patiently wait for the train to zoom past.
Not any more, darn it. . .