Title: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 24, 2018, 08:40:25 PM
Post by: Bricktop on January 24, 2018, 08:40:25 PM
About 3.5 kilometres long, only the driver on board. Ran coal from the minefield to the power station...about 80km one way.
Pichi Richi steam locomotive, operating a tourist line in the sub-desert north of the state. Beautiful scenery on a 30km run.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 24, 2018, 10:49:25 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 24, 2018, 10:49:25 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 01:37:45 AM
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 01:37:45 AM
If the guy on the coal train invited me aboard, I'd be there in a flash...he was a great guy to talk to.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 01:44:02 AM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 01:44:02 AM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 02:55:21 AM
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 02:55:21 AM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 06:13:11 AM
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 06:13:11 AM
You must have felt like a rock star...riding in a LIMO.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 08:20:54 AM
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 08:20:54 AM
Oooooooo....a LIMO!!!Quote from: "Bricktop"
You must have felt like a rock star...riding in a LIMO.
I was pointing out how peculiar it was to be getting a limo ride in order to take a diesel freight train to nowheresville.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 08:56:15 AM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 08:56:15 AM
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.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
I live near Canadian Pacific's Keith Yard..
They use blue vans to shuttle train crews around.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 05:23:06 PM
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 05:23:06 PM
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.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
I live near Canadian Pacific's Keith Yard..
They use blue vans to shuttle train crews around.
My friend was working as a contractor so his company booked cabs as assignments came up.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 05:39:03 PM
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 05:39:03 PM
Oooooooo....a LIMO!!!Quote from: "Bricktop"
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.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 05:49:08 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 05:49:08 PM
Which one?Quote from: "Bricktop"
If the guy on the coal train invited me aboard, I'd be there in a flash...he was a great guy to talk to.
The one that doesn't give rides to paying customers in historical parks.
This is the locomotive Loram rail grinders uses.
Not nearly powerful enough for the main line. That train's locomotive is for short line.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 05:49:55 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 05:49:55 PM
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.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
I live near Canadian Pacific's Keith Yard..
They use blue vans to shuttle train crews around.
Hallcon crew transport.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 05:51:11 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 05:51:11 PM
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.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
Absolutely no riders allowed at CP or CN. It's a liability thing.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 06:19:22 PM
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 06:19:22 PM
I was thinking wishfully...
I'm researching my family history. I've discovered that my great grandfather, and great great grandfather worked the trains in Peterborough, UK when they became the major conveyance for commercial transport in the UK in the late 19th, early 20th century. I remember as a kid seeing these massive goods van yards with hundreds of vans waiting distribution to all parts of the UK.
These are from that era.
My love of old trains seems to have a source, after all.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Odinson on January 25, 2018, 06:30:09 PM
Post by: Odinson on January 25, 2018, 06:30:09 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 06:39:16 PM
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 06:39:16 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 08:15:05 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 08:15:05 PM
Valmet dr16... These are the ones you usually see in here.Quote from: "Odinson"(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NQ74ezZsDBA/UMC89PvzjnI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Pa6kHtPC8X4/s1600/voima.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NQ74ezZsDBA/U%20...%20/voima.jpg%22%3Ehttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NQ74ezZsDBA/UMC89PvzjnI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Pa6kHtPC8X4/s1600/voima.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
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.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 08:18:40 PM
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 08:18:40 PM
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...
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Odinson on January 25, 2018, 08:22:56 PM
Post by: Odinson on January 25, 2018, 08:22:56 PM
It might not fit the tunnels around here.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 08:31:42 PM
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 08:31:42 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 08:34:40 PM
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 08:34:40 PM
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.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 08:39:13 PM
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 08:39:13 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 08:40:16 PM
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 08:40:16 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 08:43:08 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 08:43:08 PM
Bigger isnt always better..Quote from: "Odinson"
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.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 08:59:44 PM
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 08:59:44 PM
Oooooooo....a LIMO!!!Quote from: "Bricktop"
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.
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.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
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.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 09:04:14 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 09:04:14 PM
Oooooooo....a LIMO!!!Quote from: "Bricktop"
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.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
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.:thumbup:
I have no doubt it's different in other countries. It all changed here thirty years ago after the Hinton rail disaster.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 09:06:05 PM
Post by: Frood on January 25, 2018, 09:06:05 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:06:23 PM
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:06:23 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:07:47 PM
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:07:47 PM
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.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
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.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 09:16:33 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 09:16:33 PM
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.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
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.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:19:17 PM
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:19:17 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 09:22:26 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 09:22:26 PM
I knew a guy that went through that. What I was implying, was that you're not doing manual labour on the ground for 18 months before you even enter the cab. Obviously there will training, but you're not laying track for 18 months.Quote from: "Angry White Male"
You mean lining switches? Depending on the terminal you work out of you could be doing that for your entire career. Some people like yard assignments because it's a more regular schedule even though it doesn't pay as well as trips.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:25:04 PM
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:25:04 PM
I'm not sure what he ended up choosing, as I lost contact with the guy after they accepted him, and he quit the job we were working together at...
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 09:31:55 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 25, 2018, 09:31:55 PM
Dinky stated in Australia you had to do manual ground work for 18 months before even entering the cab. I state that we don't do that here.Quote from: "Angry White Male"
I'm not sure what he ended up choosing, as I lost contact with the guy after they accepted him, and he quit the job we were working together at...
How do you not enter the cab? Even with yard assignments you have to move the power to different tracks. And then there are transfers. You ride in the yard switcher even when using belt packs.
I think what he/she means is that it takes 18 months to operate the power. At CN and CP you need a minimum of two years as a qualified conductor to be selected for hoghead training.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:34:26 PM
Post by: Angry White Male on January 25, 2018, 09:34:26 PM
How do you not enter the cab? Even with yard assignments you have to move the power to different tracks. And then there are transfers You ride in the yard switcher even when using belt packs.Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
I don't know... ask Dinky!
Required 18 months of doing the crappy jobs on the ground before I'd get trained on the diesels.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 10:30:26 PM
Post by: Bricktop on January 25, 2018, 10:30:26 PM
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Frood on January 26, 2018, 12:09:57 AM
Post by: Frood on January 26, 2018, 12:09:57 AM
Dinky stated in Australia you had to do manual ground work for 18 months before even entering the cab. I state that we don't do that here.Quote from: "Angry White Male"
I'm not sure what he ended up choosing, as I lost contact with the guy after they accepted him, and he quit the job we were working together at...
How do you not enter the cab? Even with yard assignments you have to move the power to different tracks. And then there are transfers. You ride in the yard switcher even when using belt packs.
I think what he/she means is that it takes 18 months to operate the power. At CN and CP you need a minimum of two years as a qualified conductor to be selected for hoghead training.
Sounds about right for what was going on there and yes, I meant to be licenced and paid for operating the diesel.
I didn't want to put that kind of time in myself, scurrying around the tracks in the rain, sleet, or heat, on lesser income to be slowly trained elsewhere. Even when the person is accredited, the income was ok but not flash.
I was happy for the experience and the guys let me accelerate and slow down a few times so I got the taste without having to change careers.
Oh, and Bricktop: shuddup!
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Anonymous on January 26, 2018, 12:28:15 AM
Post by: Anonymous on January 26, 2018, 12:28:15 AM
Dinky stated in Australia you had to do manual ground work for 18 months before even entering the cab. I state that we don't do that here.Quote from: "Angry White Male"
I'm not sure what he ended up choosing, as I lost contact with the guy after they accepted him, and he quit the job we were working together at...
How do you not enter the cab? Even with yard assignments you have to move the power to different tracks. And then there are transfers. You ride in the yard switcher even when using belt packs.
I think what he/she means is that it takes 18 months to operate the power. At CN and CP you need a minimum of two years as a qualified conductor to be selected for hoghead training.
Hoghead.
Title: Re: Train porn
Post by: Bricktop on January 26, 2018, 01:08:22 AM
Post by: Bricktop on January 26, 2018, 01:08:22 AM
Oh, and Bricktop: shuddup!:thumbup:
Erm.
No.