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Anonymous Tue 11 Oct 2022 14:00:28 No.1858227 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1858811 >>1859772 >>1859785 >>1859892 >>1860012 >>1860023 >>1860312 >>1860337

Is an engine on its own a train?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Oct 2022 14:29:00 No.1858232 Report

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Yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Oct 2022 15:18:39 No.1858245 Report

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No.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Oct 2022 15:19:59 No.1858246 Report

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Maybe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Oct 2022 18:25:11 No.1858268 Report

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Could you rephrase the question?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 11 Oct 2022 19:06:00 No.1858285 Report

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An engine on its own potentially isn't in the same way a semi tractor on its own may not be a lorry in the practical sense, but the attached photo shows a railcar which definitely is.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Oct 2022 14:16:20 No.1858811 Report

Quoted By: >>1860372

>>1858227
Behold, a train

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Oct 2022 14:31:48 No.1858814 Report

Quoted By: >>1858852

If you looked down the tracks and saw a car moving in your direction, even if it was just an engine, you'd say 'a train is coming '.

This demonstrates that an engine is in fact a train.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Oct 2022 15:12:45 No.1858826 Report

Quoted By: >>1860306

Class 755s have a separate carriage for the engine, you can walk through it but there's nothing to see, just a narrow corridor. They're fantastic trains, I'm a big fan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Oct 2022 16:43:36 No.1858852 Report

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>>1858814
This only demonstrates that the layperson and pedestrian is a bumbling buffoon.
The ill-informed observing a bat and calling it a bird doesn't change the nature of the bat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Oct 2022 22:07:36 No.1859772 Report

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>>1858227
As long as it's properly marked (front lights, rear lights), has a conductor, schedule etc. it's a train. Engines sometimes run light.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Oct 2022 22:28:26 No.1859775 Report

Quoted By: >>1860039 >>1860308

>In rail transport, a train (from Old French trahiner, from Latin trahere, "to pull, to draw"[1]) is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight.
>a series of connected vehicles
No, a locomotive on it's own is not a train, and neither is a single rail car.
A locomotive pulling a tender might technically qualify though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Oct 2022 23:30:54 No.1859785 Report

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>>1858227
Properly, no, but by convention, yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Oct 2022 07:43:14 No.1859892 Report

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>>1858227
Technically a train is multiple rail vehicles linked together, but in reality anything running on rails that has a coupler can be called a train. We don't have a shorter word for it, so we call everything on rails trains.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Oct 2022 17:19:21 No.1860012 Report

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>>1858227
Depends how autistic you want to get, you could argue it is a trolley or a tram. However there are trams with multiple cars. If you called it a train everyone would still understand what you mean.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Oct 2022 18:07:36 No.1860023 Report

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>>1858227
In German we had a name for these single carriage rolling stock: Schienenbus (literal translation: rail bus)

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Anonymous Mon 17 Oct 2022 18:30:16 No.1860037 Report

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>>1860023
the picture in OP is somewhat related to these, which we call railbuses in the UK
they pretty much were buses on wheels
built at a time when the UK needed cheap DMU's, they were literally bus bodies built on modified freight wagon bogies
they were supposed to only be around for 20 years but ended up being around for nearly 40

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Oct 2022 18:32:16 No.1860039 Report

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>>1859775
>A locomotive pulling a tender might technically qualify though.
If a locomotive is pulling a tender, that means it does not have enough coal capacity and therefore it cannot operate without one. A locomotive can still operate without a carriage or wagon, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Oct 2022 12:53:42 No.1860285 Report

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>>1860037
>they were supposed to only be around for 20 years but ended up being around for nearly 40
Has there ever been a cheap temporary stopgap solution that hasn't become permanent?

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Anonymous Tue 18 Oct 2022 14:44:29 No.1860305 Report

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>>1860285

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Anonymous Tue 18 Oct 2022 14:46:53 No.1860306 Report

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>>1858826
Holy fuck how's that even possible?? It's like an aquarium, you get to see the inside of the engine working?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Oct 2022 14:49:44 No.1860307 Report

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>>1860305
lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Oct 2022 14:57:05 No.1860308 Report

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>>1859775
is a train with jacob's bogies really a train since all its carriages have to be permanently coupled together? a single jacob's bogie carriage can't function as a vehicle

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Oct 2022 15:28:54 No.1860312 Report

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>>1858227
Yes, a single engine or switcher moving around near spurs is technically a train, will still trigger signals, and still dangerous to be around.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Oct 2022 18:32:13 No.1860335 Report

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>>1860306
Nah it's all covered up sadly.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Oct 2022 18:35:45 No.1860337 Report

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>>1858227
Railcar.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Oct 2022 23:12:51 No.1860372 Report

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>>1858811
>Behold! A man!

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