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ITT: DIY trains

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 21:49:03 No.1918909 View View Reply Original Report

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ITT we post weird DIY/homemade trains.

Here are some that snake around the rural jungles of Ecuador. They look poor as hell but you have to admire the ingenuity to create such a weird contraption complete with all sorts of different rail lines, branches, spurs and lots of homemade locomotives. It's the sort of cool thing you'd imagine creating as a child. Sorry for the gay videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY300kbTENY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAqK1Xb6NVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anjTggrQtg

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 21:52:20 No.1918912 Report

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Here's a real pile of shit mining railroad from Albania. The locomotive is as small as a desk and the electrical wires to power it are only about 1 meter from the operators head, which also throw off sparks along the wet railroad tracks.

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 21:54:21 No.1918913 Report

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 21:58:59 No.1918916 Report

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Here's some quality far-right military dictatorship infrastructure from Myanmar. Those Russian and Chink investment dollars are doing wonders developing high speed Soviet truck train peasant movers through the very rich countryside.

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 22:01:00 No.1918917 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gTZClzX4Mw

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 22:04:54 No.1918918 Report

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 22:08:52 No.1918919 Report

Quoted By: >>1918933 >>1918936 >>1918996 >>1921989 >>1926262

These pics feel like the future of humanity. There will be no second industrial revolution. We're going to use up all the easy oil to support cage culture. Then we'll have more and more intense wars over the last of the oil until we've bombed out everything important and decimated the population centers. Meanwhile the easy agriculture will be gone because (1) no more haber process, and (2) we'll have extreme weather everywhere all the time, so the survivors will squabble over boom and bust subsistence agriculture via trial and error since no one knows where's a good place to farm anymore. But on the other hand Apple released a sweet new VR headset so this generation is going to experience some amazing porn at least.

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 22:31:42 No.1918933 Report

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>>1918919

Most of the remaining oil is safe.

Venezeula has the most known reserves (all stats are using BP estimates) and that's why the west has been bitch slapping it around for a long time so that they're too fucked up internally to focus on capitalizing on it. We'll sit back and wait until we need it, move in, install a useful idiot as President and take it all.

Canada has the third largest reserves and we are friendly with everyone who matters aka the Five Eyes so as long as you're one of those countries, we're going to share. We have more than enough for our own population so there won't be any conflict.

There are a couple OPEC states that are a bit tricker. Saudi Arabia has the second largest reserves in the world. They are a bit hard to work with, but at the end of the day they are our bitches. They may have did 9/11 but a western alliance could take over that country in 24 hours and exterminate every towel head. They wouldn't put up a fight either, because we let them enjoy western elegance with all that money so the average Saudi has no will to die for that shithole pile of sand.

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 22:41:40 No.1918936 Report

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>>1918919
>>1918933

Iran is Iran but again, if we wanted, that country could be flattened ASAP. Iraq we're more or less friendly with (minus ISIS etc) because we invaded them in order to strategically secure those reserves. Kuwait is mostly fine with the west although they've been smart and have also been playing China. I think they'd stay neutral and both the west and China would treat them amicably just to ensure they both have a reliable source, even if we must split it.

Russia has a lot but after they failed to invade Ukraine, they don't matter. That place is doomed after their failed invasion and it's only a matter of time before they start to implode from the economic and social collapse that will follow. They're going to be so desperate that they'll sell off all that oil just to keep people from starving. Pic related by the way, better start learning some new place names because there are going to be a lot of new countries over the next century.

UAE is okay, we tend to get along. Libya we already took care of in 2011...the ongoing Libyan Crisis following the two civil wars since 2011 will weaken them so much that our oil companies can just throw them sacks of cash and/or guns for oil while they fight about whatever the Muslim god is. The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer will also be super valuable as we enter the Mad Max era.

As for the rest of the countries...with a couple exceptions, they all mostly lean more towards the west. At least for security, which is what matters. China is still so insignificant...they barely have a blue water navy which is what a superpower needs.

The rest of your points are worrying, though. Fucked up weather will start causing wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, floods etc that will fuck up our agriculture needs as a species. However we'll be mostly fine here in the developed world...we can just ass rape the undeveloped world some more, as we always have. And it'll likely mean better investments in transit and stuff to compensate.

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 22:45:34 No.1918939 Report

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>>1918936
>Iran is Iran but again, if we wanted, that country could be flattened ASAP
Is this what amerimutts actually believe after they ran away from the much less militarily capable Taliban?

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 23:02:39 No.1918947 Report

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>comfy train thread
>here come the urban planning faggots

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2023 23:21:57 No.1918953 Report

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Here's Galloping Goose 7 in operation, an unusual DIY train from the USA. These were a series of really strange truck-bus-train things built starting in the 1930s for Rio Grande Southern Railroad. The railroad was not very good when it started and they used to run slow steam trains. In order to keep from going bankrupt and stay alive, they developed these weird vehicles that would run on their narrow gauge lines to deliver mail through different towns in rural Colorado.

Galloping Goose 7 was specifically made out of a Pierce-Arrow Motor Car truck and then had some sort of body attached. Others were made out of old Buick trucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8udh_iwJ1M

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Anonymous Thu 08 Jun 2023 00:07:06 No.1918961 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MSZMRk7d94

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Anonymous Thu 08 Jun 2023 00:13:43 No.1918962 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zeBIxI7n1I

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Anonymous Thu 08 Jun 2023 02:58:35 No.1918996 Report

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>>1918919
Least schizophrenic anti-cager.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Jun 2023 07:20:17 No.1919024 Report

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>But Mr. Kinder had no use for animals when steam traction might be employed more profitably. He suggested to Tong King Sing, the guiding spirit of the mining enterprise, that a steam locomotive should be used. This enlightened official agreed with the proposal, but, aware of the antagonism to the locomotive, urged that they should proceed warily. He suggested that possibly an engine might be built on the spot, but Mr. Kinder, reviewing the facilities at his disposal, was somewhat sceptical of success. Tong King Sing, however, maintained that this would be the better course to pursue, as no alarm would be raised; it might be possible to introduce the engine unawares and to run it, thereby wearing down the existing prejudice unconsciously. Mr. Kinder realised the wisdom of the argument and agreed to do the best he could. He widened the tramway to the standard gauge of 4 feet 7½ inches, and then cast among the various scrap-heaps to rescue odds and ends which might suit for the integral parts of a locomotive. He found an old upright hoisting steam engine, and promptly annexed this to furnish the boiler and cylinders. Another rubbish-heap furnished six cast-iron carriage wheels. Diligent search among other junk piles supplied materials for various other parts, while he took some channel iron from the headgear of a mine shaft to fashion his frame. With this flotsam and jetsam he built a small 2-4-0 tank engine. It followed the conventional lines so far as the peculiar circumstances would permit, though it was a trifle quaint in its general appearance. But he succeeded in his task, and he promptly dubbed his production the “Rocket of China”, after its famous British namesake. Probably it was the cheapest engine which has ever been built, for the total cost was only between £75 and £80, exclusive of the old material which was rescued.

https://www.railwaywondersoftheworld.com/peking_kalgan.html

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Anonymous Fri 09 Jun 2023 06:51:34 No.1919264 Report

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does anybody have any rough plans for these? I've always wanted to knock one up for fun and have access to some disused rail but I'm only moderately handy

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Anonymous Mon 12 Jun 2023 12:55:47 No.1920094 Report

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>>1918939
Yes, and I'll explain.
The "global war in terror" is not and never was about its stated objectives. Like everything the US government does these days, it was a massive spending program to enrich 1%ers, their connected defense companies, and fund spooky intelligence agency shit.
Iraq and Afghanistan fell to US forces as fast as the tanks could drive across their country. All conventional military defense was destroyed basically on contact. In the ensuing 20 year occupation, it was literally safer to be an armed member of the US military deployed for OIF/OEF than a regular citizen of a big city back home like Chicago. The continued existence and operation of "insurgents" served its purpose of justifying insane military spending as the CIA funded its black operations with afghani poppy crops.
The wars were never very popular back home, and after 20 years of pretending soldiers are good at being an occupying police force with restrictive ROE, we pulled out with all the ineptitude that comes with a gay democrat regime.
Despite the unpopularity of the war, we've developed a hero worship complex for soldiers and some uniformed schmuck who ran a mixer in the base cafeteria overseas has the "thank you for your service" red carpet rolled out for them here. We love the military.
What we don't love is threats to our way of life. $4/gal gasoline damn near sparks regime change. Burger King not having beef for the whopper gets us on edge. Brownouts that stop us from watching niggerball or ape-hoop have bearded men with rifles forming militias to defend the neighborhood. If there's no meat in the stores, no porn and sports on the electric jew, and $10/gal gasoline at the pump, we will not give a single fuck about niceness or international law.
Whatever brown country with oil finds itself in our sights will discover what the 11 carrier battle groups can really do to a 3rd world country when we mean it.

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Anonymous Mon 12 Jun 2023 23:58:32 No.1920195 Report

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jun 2023 00:41:52 No.1920212 Report

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>>1918913
no way. they hand-manipulate the catenary arm as a throttle? and they also use the sparks to signal up and down a dark tunnel? this is like a worldbuilding exposition dump at the intro of a traincore grim fantasy series.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jun 2023 04:27:02 No.1920244 Report

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>>1920212
lol

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jun 2023 07:21:27 No.1920270 Report

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>>1920212
Who needs fantasy world building when we have the real world?

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jun 2023 19:26:15 No.1920418 Report

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>>1919264
They're made like go karts with two solid axles instead of steering. The most expensive part will probably be ordering the flanged train wheels you'll need. Also, you have to pick it up and move it on and off of the tracks, so you're going to want to make it very light or super easy to disassemble.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Jun 2023 16:45:31 No.1921989 Report

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>>1918919
based

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Anonymous Wed 21 Jun 2023 10:24:09 No.1923076 Report

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Anonymous Wed 21 Jun 2023 11:12:48 No.1923090 Report

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Ebike variant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_JyDOIWHQk

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Anonymous Wed 21 Jun 2023 12:31:49 No.1923128 Report

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reminds me of this kino one of you faggots posted a while back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mhIdZoVow

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Anonymous Wed 21 Jun 2023 14:09:16 No.1923154 Report

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>>1920195

That's awesome.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Jun 2023 14:13:32 No.1923158 Report

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>>1920418

Also only use it on ABANDONED rail lines. You wouldn't want to be on even a spur line if there's a risk of a train and you can't get the thing off the tracks from weight. Even if you could jump off, the legal risks of derailing a train would get you a good prison sentence.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jun 2023 16:58:52 No.1923650 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7m9xKgRRc

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Anonymous Fri 30 Jun 2023 15:41:55 No.1926262 Report

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>>1918919
plenty of oil in the world if you dig deep enough. that's why we need to eradicate cages and only ever use oil for the haber process and other important things.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Jul 2023 09:14:12 No.1927138 Report

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>>1920094
>israels puppet state and standing military is acting uppity a gain
oy vey

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