/n/ - Transportation » Thread #1992917

[19 / 16 / 1]

2MiB, 3389x2160, 3389px-Ellecom_DDZ_7542_als_Sprinter_naar_Zutphen_(14667325481).jpg

Unusual trains

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 20:10:56 No.1992917 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1993631 >>1994793

Post trains that are just a bit weird or different from the norm. All trains welcome, passenger, freight, locomotive, rolling stock, etc.

Saw this one in the Netherlands and it's a bit odd.
>EMU
>Only one motor car
>Which has three bogies and one level
>Every other coach is a normal bilevel

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 22:46:53 No.1992939 Report

Quoted By:

Houston airport people mover, it's the only example of one built by Disney outside of the parks.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO image-asset-1-1024x667[1].png, 1MiB, 1024x667

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 22:48:35 No.1992940 Report

Quoted By:

Houston airport subway, it's the only example of a WEDway people mover built by Disney outside of the parks.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO HLB_119_Kurve_mit.jpg, 182KiB, 1280x800

Anonymous Sat 27 Apr 2024 05:02:04 No.1993631 Report

Quoted By: >>1993656 >>1993660 >>1993893 >>1994794

>>1992917
The DDZ is still looking good... Quite aesthetic solution hiding the loco under the upper passenger deck.

I (mildly autistic) am to this day bothered by the design of Stadler GTWs due to that fucking engine/electrics compartment. It's like putting a small freight wagon into a passenger consist just because.

Inb4: they need to put the engine or electrical components somewhere
So does Alstom, Siemens and Bombardier, yet they don't need a fucking freight car for it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Apr 2024 11:14:56 No.1993656 Report

Quoted By:

>>1993631
But they need to put the engine or electrical components somewhere cheap.
But putting it in the middle they can keep the other components mostly the same, no matter if the final product is an EMU or DMU.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Apr 2024 11:39:20 No.1993660 Report

Quoted By:

>>1993631
Seems fine, keeps the mechanical components separated from the passenger cabins and makes them easier to access for maintenance crews

>yet they don't need a fucking freight car for it
It's more akin to a locomotive than a freight car

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO 1*m-_on9bB6UEJQCSWY-vgcQ.png, 647KiB, 975x548

Anonymous Sun 28 Apr 2024 15:59:10 No.1993893 Report

Quoted By: >>1994669

>>1993631
It's not just Stadler, Materfer in Argentina also make a DMU like that.
Except this one is laid out like a tram and has a bogie directly under the engine compartment

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO 1200px-TP02_at_Lancaster_-_mk5a_ (...).jpg, 302KiB, 1200x800

Anonymous Sun 28 Apr 2024 21:57:49 No.1993959 Report

Quoted By: >>1994654

The Nova 3s, simply because of how they came about.

> Be TransPennine Express
> You want to off-lease half of your existing, uniform fleet
> Order some iets but they won't be ready for a while
> Order an EMU and some loco-hauled stock based off those planned for the Caledonian Sleeper from CAF, so they arrive before the iets
> You ordered your trains from CAF, so they arrive late and are riddled with faults to the point that their introduction is so close to the iets, you may as well have not bothered
> The lateness of the CAF trains cause you to extend your lease on the legacy fleet
> You can now improve capacity because you have more of the legacy fleet than planned
> Covid hits and you now have more trains than you know what to do with
> As a result, your loco hauled trains become niche and basically stuck to 1 route
> Eventually realise that they don't really fit within your fleet and decided to send them off-lease and keep your legacy fleet alongside the other 2 trains

They sounded cool though, and that's all that matters (Class 68 my beloved)

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO 33619045335_ce72119524_b.jpg, 125KiB, 1024x670

Anonymous Wed 01 May 2024 22:09:06 No.1994654 Report

Quoted By:

Rotary snow plough. When a normal blade won't cut it.

>>1993959
Didn't the Nova 3 carriage sets also have problems with cracking? I heard that it's happened with the other CAF Mk 5 carriages (Caledonian sleeper).

This is along with unreliability and noise complaints from the class 68s, which is all why they're being withdrawn so soon. It's a shame but I wonder if Chiltern will take them. They're looking for new stock and this might be able to fill gaps in their roster.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO lego-6399-airport-shuttle-monora (...).jpg, 235KiB, 1920x1080

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 02:00:07 No.1994669 Report

Quoted By:

>>1993893
Reminds me of the Lego monorail system, which I guess belongs in this thread as an unusual toy train system. Nobody else used a single-sided horizontal gear and flat road surface, did they?

I can't understand the logic behind this on real trains though, and I've seen it too on the Twin Cities light rail (Siemens S70, I think?) you've put the part that's most likely to fail in between two long, half-supported frames so reaching it is a hassle, and in a head-on collision it's a nice solid lump of metal to crush your passengers against.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO B16.jpg, 2MiB, 3872x2592

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 02:56:32 No.1994681 Report

Quoted By:

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO P95 T.png, 3MiB, 1570x830

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 02:59:14 No.1994684 Report

Quoted By:

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO d0776bf1788a10651930fbe7a1d9a01d.jpg, 2MiB, 1800x1200

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 07:11:18 No.1994699 Report

Quoted By:

Metro transfer with dynamometer car A17 serving as a brake van.

Dv12 numbers are slowly decreasing :(

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO bb40-9.jpg, 246KiB, 1200x828

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 17:52:49 No.1994777 Report

Quoted By:

Brazilian mining concern Vale operates a handful of railways and ordered locomotives with 8 axles instead of 6. I believe they're also narrow gauge

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO Re_450_100-3_zwischen_Winterthur (...).jpg, 889KiB, 3118x2009

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 21:58:52 No.1994793 Report

Quoted By:

>>1992917
Early bilevel EMUs from the 80s had a hard time fitting all the mechanical components. In Switzerland the first such "EMUs" were pseudo-EMUs consisting of three bilevel cars and a matching locomotive, all coupled together into a fixed set. Then they couple those sets together, up to three per train.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO 25-02ThurboGTW-Innen.jpg, 107KiB, 800x600

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 22:10:01 No.1994794 Report

Quoted By: >>1994815

>>1993631
>I (mildly autistic) am to this day bothered by the design of Stadler GTWs due to that fucking engine/electrics compartment. It's like putting a small freight wagon into a passenger consist just because.
>Inb4: they need to put the engine or electrical components somewhere
>So does Alstom, Siemens and Bombardier, yet they don't need a fucking freight car for it.
I understand your autism, but it's actually not a bad solution. The advantage is that except the far ends of the cars theyhave completely level floor at platform height, while other EMUs have a much more irregular floor height with ramps and protrusions hidden below the seats and whatnot. From that perspective I actually find them superior, although I think by now this is an obsolete model.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO TCM 60.png, 3MiB, 1600x1138

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 22:40:40 No.1994797 Report

Quoted By:

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO Bourreuse.png, 901KiB, 900x488

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 22:41:52 No.1994798 Report

Quoted By:

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO M.jpg, 140KiB, 932x582

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 00:38:37 No.1994815 Report

Quoted By:

>>1994794
>The advantage is that except the far ends of the cars theyhave completely level floor at platform height, while other EMUs have a much more irregular floor height with ramps and protrusions hidden below the seats and whatnot. From that perspective I actually find them superior, although I think by now this is an obsolete model.

The new TGV-M have a little "wagon" named greffon just behind the two loco, it have several advantages, first, until now due to design the TGV must have been two types of coachs now all the coach are the same and shorten by 1m and it reduce cost increase fexibility and also shorten the loco by 4 meters so no space lost, second, technical equipments are moved in those greffon and above all they are equiped with big batteries allowing autonomous of the train for few hours in case of powerline shutdown and the ability for the train to move at low speed to a station or a functional power line. This capacity can also be used in case of overloading of the electric network to smooth consumption.

Capcode	All Only User Posts Only Verified Posts Only Moderator Posts Only Manager Posts Only Admin Posts Only Developer Posts Only Founder Posts
Show Posts	All Only With Images Only Without Images Only Spoiler Images Only Non-Spoiler Images
Deleted Posts	All Only Deleted Posts Only Non-Deleted Posts
Ghost Posts	All Only Ghost Posts Only Non-Ghost Posts
Post Type	All Only Sticky Threads Only Opening Posts Only Reply Posts
Results	All Grouped By Threads
Order	Latest Posts First Oldest Posts First

On these archives

Your latest searches

Unusual trains