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Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2019 17:29:12 No.1296031 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1296033

So: How useful are tram locomotives?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2019 17:36:10 No.1296033 Report

Quoted By: >>1296039 >>1296052

>>1296031
Really Useful, both in the eyes of Sir Topham Hatt, and from a historiographical standpoint, because they were built for extremely safe street / near-urban operation and thus let generations of young Britons grow up with the notion that light rail and street traffic could coexist peacefully. In US urban industrial settings (before trucks and the rust belt in the 60s, EVERYTHING was delivered by rail) there were no trams, you had US-loading-gauge tender engines running on streets which just pissed everyone off

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Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2019 17:44:07 No.1296039 Report

Quoted By: >>1296046

>>1296033
So that’s what they’re all about? I never knew what exactly Toby’s deal was, but he seemed comfy AF

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Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2019 18:00:52 No.1296046 Report

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>>1296039
Yes, if you take the side skirts and boxy cab off Toby, he's just an underpowered 0-6-0T shunter. The class he's based on had a BR power rating of 0F (lowest possible class / freight) and was intentionally governed to a maximum speed of 12 km/h.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2019 18:14:26 No.1296052 Report

Quoted By: >>1298503

>>1296033

Trams were super dangerous when the electric pick-up jumped off the overhead power line.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2019 19:03:23 No.1296073 Report

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ywn travel through the industrial yet human-scale landscapes of postwar germany over a metre-gauge railway that only employs only two-axle tram locomotives

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Anonymous Fri 15 Mar 2019 02:27:19 No.1298267 Report

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They ran tram locomotives, usually called “dummies” in the U.S., in lower Manhattan, on the street level tracks that were replaced by the elevated High Line. U.S. cities tried to keep freight off the streets to the point where trolley systems were required to be broad gauge, usually 62”, so freight cars couldn’t be interchanged.

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Anonymous Fri 15 Mar 2019 04:07:26 No.1298299 Report

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The island of Java used to be littered by “Tramways”, a lot of it build by Private companies that connected villages and plantations to the mainline, some lines got their axle load increased or in most cases, abandoned

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Anonymous Fri 15 Mar 2019 18:07:18 No.1298503 Report

Quoted By: >>1298511

>>1296052
>steam trams
>overhead line

that's not sparks, it's steam, steam from the steam trams i'm using

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Anonymous Fri 15 Mar 2019 18:44:50 No.1298511 Report

Quoted By: >>1298533

>>1298503
you call trolleys steam trams?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Mar 2019 20:06:02 No.1298533 Report

Quoted By: >>1298544

>>1298511
It's a GWR dialect

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Mar 2019 20:45:08 No.1298544 Report

Quoted By: >>1298746

>>1298533
well I'm from Bristol and I've never heard anyone use the phrase "steam trams"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 16 Mar 2019 03:36:23 No.1298746 Report

Quoted By: >>1298771

>>1298544
Oh, ho ho! Not in Bristol, no, it ran on the Golden Valley line through Gloucester.

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Anonymous Sat 16 Mar 2019 06:08:07 No.1298771 Report

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>>1298746
>You know, these trams are quite similar to the ones they run on Wisbech and Upwell.
>Oh, oh, oh, oh, no, patented Golden Valley trams, old GWR design.
>For steam trams?
>Yes
>Yes, and you call them steam trams despite the fact there is no emitted steam.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Mar 2019 02:35:14 No.1301094 Report

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Useful to pull cargo tram?

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