Train porn

[Bricktop]

[Anonymous]

Valmet dr16... These are the ones you usually see in here.



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They are not powerful enough for the CTC main line in Western Canada. The output on our locos is 4400 hp  which is nearly twice those ones. They would be used as yard switchers only here.

[Angry White Male]

Iron Horse...  Canada Pacific claims $85,000/year is average salary for conductor.  This about right?



They also claim US conductors also earn $85,000/year.  Would that be in USD, or CDN?  If that's USD, that would mean a US CP Rail conductor would earn more than their Canadian counterpart...

[Odinson]

Bigger isnt always better..



It might not fit the tunnels around here.

[Angry White Male]

The railways around here can stack two seacans on top of each other in a seacan lowboy car.  Not sure though if they're standard cube (8' 1/2") or high cube (9' 1/2") seacans...  Will have to take a closer look next time I see one...

[Bricktop]

They are not powerful enough for the CTC main line in Western Canada. The output on our locos is 4400 hp  which is nearly twice those ones. They would be used as yard switchers only here.

In the pic I took of that loooooong train, I think it has two engines in front. Not knowing a lot about the modern train, I can't tell...but it seemed to me there was a lot of power in there somewhere to pull 3 and half k's of coal.

[Angry White Male]

Pulling huge weight on flat ground isn't too hard...  It's the grades that produce the problems.

[Bricktop]

It isn't flatter than the desert.

[Anonymous]

Bigger isnt always better..



It might not fit the tunnels around here.

Well duh. That type of power is suited to your terrain. This is a huge country, with some of the longest freight trains in the world carrying the heaviest payloads. Yard switchers like that can't do the job. Finland doesn't even have our version of CTC mainline.



Oh and we have spiral tunnels along the Alberta/BC border. They are an engineering marvel.

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[Frood]

Oooooooo....a LIMO!!!



You must have felt like a rock star...riding in a LIMO.

 :001_rolleyes:



I was pointing out how peculiar it was to be getting a limo ride in order to take a diesel freight train to nowheresville.

Course you were.



And you're a female medical practitioner with 6 kids living in idyllic bushland near Mlebourne.

 :001_rolleyes:



You're such an arse.

I got a ride from a freight train driver in Victoria to NSW at a depot, then back. Their preferred cab service for the drivers didn't have a sedan free so we rode in a limo to the first depot.

Absolutely no riders allowed at CP or CN. It's a liability thing.

They were looking for new trainees interested and got a waiver to let me check it out. Two conductors and me.  

[Anonymous]

Oooooooo....a LIMO!!!



You must have felt like a rock star...riding in a LIMO.

 :001_rolleyes:



I was pointing out how peculiar it was to be getting a limo ride in order to take a diesel freight train to nowheresville.

Course you were.



And you're a female medical practitioner with 6 kids living in idyllic bushland near Mlebourne.

 :001_rolleyes:



You're such an arse.

I got a ride from a freight train driver in Victoria to NSW at a depot, then back. Their preferred cab service for the drivers didn't have a sedan free so we rode in a limo to the first depot.

Absolutely no riders allowed at CP or CN. It's a liability thing.

They were looking for new trainees interested and got a waiver to let me check it out. Two conductors and me.  

I have no doubt it's different in other countries. It all changed here thirty years ago after the Hinton rail  disaster.

[Frood]

I didn't end up taking the apprenticeship. Required 18 months of doing the crappy jobs on the ground before I'd get trained on the diesels.

[Angry White Male]

I saw those spiral tunnels when I took a trip to Field...  When those things were built, that's when men were men!

[Angry White Male]

I didn't end up taking the apprenticeship. Required 18 months of doing the crappy jobs on the ground before I'd get trained on the diesels.

Here, if you qualify, they'll pretty much throw you in a train right away.  No 18 months 'on the ground' doing crappy jobs.  They have dedicated crews for those jobs.

[Anonymous]

I didn't end up taking the apprenticeship. Required 18 months of doing the crappy jobs on the ground before I'd get trained on the diesels.

Here, if you qualify, they'll pretty much throw you in a train right away.  No 18 months 'on the ground' doing crappy jobs.  They have dedicated crews for those jobs.

Baloney. There's six weeks of classroom training and tests that have to be passed with a minimum mark of 85 per cent. A number of successful yard and road assignments with a qualified conductor. Finally you have to get qualified by a trainmaster. It takes at least six months.