/n/ - Transportation

This is an attempt to get a German general going. "German" refers to the language region, so Austrian and Swiss transportation topics are welcome as well.

Let's start this off with a humorous failure at the Düsseldorf Rheinbahn, who have ordered 43 new trains for their tram network. They however forgot that they have a branch towards Duisburg and let the trains built too wide for their low-floor platforms. The entire order cost around €130 million and the added cost has yet to be determined.

News articles (German): https://www.nw.de/nachrichten/regionale_politik/22265032_Strassenbahn-zu-breit-Messfehler-kostet-Millionen.html
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinland/duesseldorf-duisburg-rheinbahn-strassenbahn-102.html

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Anonymous Sat 10 Nov 2018 14:03:31 No.1255296 Report

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Personal highlight
>increase of cargo train length to 740m
>FV station beneth Frankfurt HBF. Some say it will be 85m to 160m deep
>Start of the study for the Mittelrhein Korridor
>NBS Bielefeld-Hannover Minden will lose its ICE stop.

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Anonymous Sat 10 Nov 2018 14:09:52 No.1255298 Report

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>>1245908
>This is an attempt to get a German general going.
Please not again!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 15:52:38 No.1255577 Report

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>>1255295
The Frankfurt 21 shit is a fucking joke, but Niebüll-Klanxbüll (the bit leading up to Hindenburgdamm) really needs some love.

Anoɳymous

Anoɳymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 19:38:03 No.1255614 Report

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>>1255295
>Lehrte/Hameln
What now? Those places are pretty far apart and there's no Lehrte-Hameln railroad.
>>1255296
>NBS Bielefeld-Hannover Minden will lose its ICE stop.
Please explain.
>>1255298
Lawl

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 22:09:51 No.1255949 Report

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>>1255614
>What now? Those places are pretty far apart and there's no Lehrte-Hameln railroad.
Page 21 of the pdf.
Those are related projects at a distance. It's probably a mistake that it's "Lehrte/Hameln", it should be "Hameln/Lehrte".

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Anonymous Fri 02 Nov 2018 18:12:41 No.1252693 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1254612 >>1255878 >>1255880

>read that cycling can cause prostate or testicular cancer (all that constant shock and vibration from the seat)
>don't want to ride anymore

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Anonymous Thu 08 Nov 2018 05:23:20 No.1254612 Report

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>>1252693
>(all that constant shock and vibration from the seat)
good thing i ride FAT SLICKS

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 16:29:52 No.1255860 Report

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Tuck your balls up into your pelvis like trannies do

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Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 18:00:25 No.1255878 Report

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>>1252693
>Not smoking copious amounts of weed to counteract the risk
DUDE
PROSTATE
CANCER
LMAO

53-year-old Boomer !!t4EOsos/GSJ

53-year-old Boomer !!t4EOsos/GSJ Mon 12 Nov 2018 18:15:26 No.1255880 Report

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>>1252693
The benefits far outweigh the so-called 'risks', and oh by the way having a proper size and *shape* saddle (not everyone can use the same exact shape), properly adjusted, will minimize any so-called 'health risks' down to the point of being insignificant.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 20:24:02 No.1255923 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmPgJV643h8

Here are a bunch of dick doctors debunking this meme.

Essentially don't rest without moving on your cheap saddle for 8 hours and you will be fine.

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/tram/ - tramway general

Anonymous Sat 14 Jul 2018 12:45:43 No.1213460 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Boondoggle folly 19th century technology write your congressman edition.

Starting with DC streetcar, the most hopeless "streetcar" project in the entire western hemisphere.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Nov 2018 05:28:27 No.1253929 Report

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Heard you guys like light rail that goes no where, over budget, and dying for ridership.
Haha it's the worst.

>it terminates in my neighborhood

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 16:06:57 No.1255583 Report

Quoted By: >>1255682

>>1251445
But why not separate the last 10% track too? That way you can get a tram system that's more or less guaranteed to be on time when junction signaling are also properly handled

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 23:43:40 No.1255682 Report

Quoted By: >>1255687

>>1255583
Because the space is finite and widening the streets in the city center may be out of the question because one would need to raze down too many buildings people rather would want to keep. It is always a compromise between speed, cost and access to places. Plus Brits have it real easy, they have so much mothballed railway right of way so they can go all in with barriers and everything.

If trams must be on the main street where all the through going traffic also is, the "car party" would protest if the number of lanes was reduced or too many parking spaces were taken away. Most likely trams and buses would have shared lane and stops.

If, on the other hand, a narrower side street is used for the tram, perhaps because it is the primary shopping street, there still would be delivery vehicles and access to properties, people navigating to perpendicular streets, plus the odd lost hick, but all in all not too much to disturb the tram traffic if they are given the priority, which is easier to do when they are not on the main artery.

Priority at intersections anyway is the most important factor for journey time when the traffic levels are below jam formation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 23:53:20 No.1255687 Report

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>>1255682
>Because the space is finite and widening the streets in the city center may be out of the question because one would need to raze down too many buildings people rather would want to keep. It is always a compromise between speed, cost and access to places. Plus Brits have it real easy, they have so much mothballed railway right of way so they can go all in with barriers and everything.
If it's city center then how about service frequency? That's supposed to be the most frequent part of the network?
>If trams must be on the main street where all the through going traffic also is, the "car party" would protest if the number of lanes was reduced or too many parking spaces were taken away. Most likely trams and buses would have shared lane and stops.
They're going to complain even without dedicated lanes anyway
>If, on the other hand, a narrower side street is used for the tram, perhaps because it is the primary shopping street, there still would be delivery vehicles and access to properties, people navigating to perpendicular streets, plus the odd lost hick, but all in all not too much to disturb the tram traffic if they are given the priority, which is easier to do when they are not on the main artery.
That would also be sidelining the tram. Also, won't those service road have higher risk of being blocked by something random from nearby facilities?

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Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 20:00:49 No.1255909 Report

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>>1222213
>Supertram
Heh.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Jul 2015 15:10:24 No.848145 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Does anyone here like Baldwin/Lima-Hamilton diesels?

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Anonymous Thu 01 Nov 2018 15:22:35 No.1252243 Report

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>>1249426
>tfw using and abusing old EJE SD-38s with beltpak and sliding the wheels.
I'm sorry!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Nov 2018 20:01:42 No.1254107 Report

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>>1251002
That's a neat looking train.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 11:51:17 No.1255814 Report

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Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 17:11:59 No.1255869 Report

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>>1104042
>That adorable little CP branded tank car

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 17:50:48 No.1255877 Report

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>>1083879
Is this older than the rock island thread we had a few years ago?

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/ETT/ Eternal Tire Thread

Anonymous Fri 09 Nov 2018 00:22:00 No.1254862 View Reply Original Report

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>RIP GP4kSII Edition

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Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 23:21:30 No.1255676 Report

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>>1255674
Anon, this is called marketing.
The overall construction is pretty much the same as in the GP4000 SII.
>vectran
already in GP4000 SII
>black Chili compound
already in GP4000 SII, althoug an older itteration

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Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 23:59:43 No.1255690 Report

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Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 11:58:45 No.1255819 Report

Quoted By: >>1255846 >>1255876

>>1255690
lel

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 13:52:39 No.1255846 Report

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>>1255819
That is a puncture protected commuter tire, not a fast allrounder.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 17:50:30 No.1255876 Report

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>>1255819
>no duell compound
nothing personnell, kid

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Anonymous Thu 01 Nov 2018 13:07:18 No.1252180 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Just got home from a one-month tour of Japan, AMA

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Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 08:30:15 No.1255530 Report

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>>1255527
places like Nara are total tourist traps so near the attractions it's super crowded and not fun to ride but otherwise a bike would be useful yeah. Nara is pretty rural IIRC

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 13:23:39 No.1255552 Report

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>>1254412
I'm a teacher, so I had to go during summer holidays. Basically the worst time to go. I think it was all of July and then a week or two into August. Took me 6 weeks in total.
Nah, I reckon out of the summer holidays it'd be a lovely route - it was only "bad" from the border of Spain up to Bordeaux, as soon as I crossed the river all tourists vanished. It was only 2-3 days of the whole trip.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 13:34:55 No.1255554 Report

Quoted By: >>1255603 >>1255858

>>1252198
>$6 CAD for 200ml in one brewery
That's expensive? Lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 17:55:07 No.1255603 Report

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>>1255554
200ml is like half a beer so yes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 16:22:48 No.1255858 Report

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>>1255554
in what world is that not expensive?

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Class 70 Wed 24 Oct 2018 15:02:21 No.1249789 View Reply Original Report

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>UK: We're sick of needing to double head 2 shit loco's to haul freight

>General Electric: Say no more

Hate em or Love em you cannot deny the traction power of these fuckers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbXtnYOi5hE

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Anonymous Wed 07 Nov 2018 17:59:12 No.1254393 Report

Quoted By: >>1254400

>>1254392
Depends on the distances involved. I'd say it's true for the 1000-ish kilometre range, but below that, rail freight is nearly always killed by truck freight. Above that, except in the US because it's a large landmass, it's outcompeted by shipping. On the other hand, train fills that 200-500 km range which cannot be filled by planes because too short or cars because too long.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Nov 2018 18:14:03 No.1254400 Report

Quoted By: >>1254402

>>1254393
Doesn't make sense

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Nov 2018 18:16:56 No.1254402 Report

Quoted By: >>1254460

>>1254400
It might not make sense but that's how the world operates.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Nov 2018 20:47:11 No.1254460 Report

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>>1254402
No it doesn't. That's why I said it doesn't make sense. In the US having trucks ship loads across the nation is common.

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Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 13:51:28 No.1255845 Report

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i find it amazing how the british could squeeze so much power into the locos despite the tiny loading gauge.

you cant fault them for that.

Pic related had 4000HP in 1967, that is a fucking amazing feat of engineering.

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anonymous Wed 07 Nov 2018 03:38:03 No.1254249 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1255820

Just bought a car after 6 months no car. Later nerds. RIP some useless thread.

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Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 11:59:05 No.1255820 Report

Quoted By: >>1255823

>>1254249
>I'm a successful patrician because I saved up enough for a shitbox that's worth less than some guy's wheelset

cager logic

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 12:05:15 No.1255823 Report

Quoted By: >>1255825 >>1255836

>>1255820
>buy a couple thousand $ manchild toy
>still slower than a couple hundred $ shitbox
this is your brain on bikes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 12:16:23 No.1255825 Report

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>>1255823
speed kills

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 12:57:31 No.1255835 Report

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>Have car to transport bike over long distances and highways
>Use bike for exploration from where you parked car

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 12:59:11 No.1255836 Report

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>>1255823
I can get to work faster on a bike than I can get to work in a cage, because I don't live in a corn field 50 miles away from the grain elevator in the middle of bumfuck idaho

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