Favorite Railroad?
narrow gauge railroads
ICG
>>861717
Amtrak is pretty dope op
Malaysia stronk
AT&SF
>>861759
underfunded and old af tho
>>861856
could be fixed soon enough, there's a lot of bipartisan support for making a Federal Rail Trust Fund or similar
of course, all that's on hold due to the extreme political polarization wrought by Obama but that's not an /n/ topic
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You already know the answer.
Espee forever
>>861917
Nothing but the best.
Anything in the West.
>>861942
I like every "___ Pacific" railroad (Northern, Western, Southern, etc.) BUT Union Pacific. Fuck UPee.
torn between C&O and Nickel Plate Road
>>861946
UP is only bad because they consumed everything. Their mustard yellow also isn't the most appealing thing in the world.
>>861861
>wrought by the REAL MURRUCA being utterly incapable of coping with a president with Hussein in his name and GOP aligned "news" outlets opportunistically tapping into alienated white male rage
Ftfy, he's made mistakes but a white man in his shoes wouldn't have three fifths the political trouble this one does
Also, thread successfully derailed, go ahead and libcuck cuck cuck bacawwwk me, you redpilled little polesmoker
>>861949
>none of C&O's 2-6-6-6 Allegheny locos are in running condition :C
>>861955
UP was shit from day one under Doc Durant.
Lovely bergensbanen
>>862124
>>862125
The engine looks like a Swiss Re460, love it.
>>861917
Mmmhmmm.
>>865136
>>862032
one of their mallets is being restored
Hungarian State Railways (MÁV). Old af, inaccurate af, retro af. Pretty ganxta.
Israel Railways.
UP is the favorite railroad of unoriginal mouth-breathing Midwestern retards who get stiff when they see a dirty American flag decal pass them by on a train carrying intermodal containers loaded with Chinese crap bound for Walmart.
>>865252
> kikes riding in german trains
>>866167
Why is UP special? FEF,Big Boy,DX4000 and Challenger. Also M-10000.
>>866376
>implying UP's steam program hasn't been gutted for years now
They haven't done anything good in decades.
My favorite railroads are all dead.
>>866387
They are working on the Big Boy. Operational in four years.
Best paint scheme, logo, and that based PacNW territory.
WP is a close second though. It's all shit now, nothing but yellow and orange everywhere.
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>>867875
For me the golden age of railfanning would be the PNW in the early 1970s. You have the newly merged BN running around with both green/black painted units and patched units of predecessor lines, the Milwaukee Road's electrified divisions are still running, jointly-operated BN/WP freights running through the Inside Gateway to California, SP in Oregon, early Amtrak operations, etc. Not to mention the diversity of motive power.
Truly an amazing time that can never be repeated.
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Proof that the government can successfully run a railroad.
>two trains an hour
>second most expensive railway in NIPPON
>50 year old rolling stock
>manned stations, absolutely no automation
Thank you, based Sangix.
>>873479
Expensive in terms of operating costs or in terms of ticket prices for consumers?
>>873482
ticket price for consumers
>>873484
Why?
>>873486
shit if I know. They're the only rail line serving a large swath of countryside.
Though, I bet like most other RRs, they earn most of their revenue from freight rather than passenger fares.
pic related, it's their money maker.
>>873489
Nice looking electrics.
The Chicago Great Western. Established in the 1890s at the height of American populism and known as "the people's railroad," promised to reduce rates and improve local service for farmers and rural shippers and did just that, operating through Iowa to Chicago, St. Paul, and Kansas City. Lasted into the 1960s and provided rival companies with strong competition in the Midwest.
>>873489
Are mixed trains a thing in Japan?
>>867875
BN was great tbh.
>>865135
You're telling me m8. I live on the east coast.
>tfw where I live is CSX land everywhere
>tfw no C&O, B&O, Seaboard, Conrail
>tfw CSX will never make heritage units
>>879403
They should have at least kept Conrail in place to keep competition in the East. Pretty shitty we have duopolies on both coasts now. And I guess KCS somehow still exists in the middle of the country. I guess even the big players don't want their shitty redundant line. Oh, and CN for some reason.
>>879405
CN bought the IC after all of those megamergers. They must have seen something in that north south connection.
>>879433
CN's north-south line runs down to NOLA, so I'm guessing they wanted in on the oil business from the Gulf wells.
>>879441
That didn't exist until recently.
They bought the IC in the late 90s. They only have 2 terminals for crude oil in the gulf south. And one didn't exist until last year.
>>879470
There's a big trade in chemical manufacturing in the Gulf states, access to that trade is one of the main reasons that UP bought MP and BN bought Frisco in the early 1980s. CN probably bought IC for the same reason.
>>879473
Well yeah, the chemical biz there is HUGE.
I should know, I work for them here. :p
KAE
I have a strange fetish for Amtrak, for reasons I can't explain or justify.
>>861749
ICG was pretty great tbh.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy had an interesting history and some neat trains.
I used to prefer UP, but now going more for SOU and N&W.
Too bad it's dead.
>>861717
Torn between this, CN, and VIA.
This image is probably going to be flipped.
>>885433
SNCF?
Also isn't VIA just a shitty(er) Canadian version of Amtrak?
>>885737
>LRC: big windows
>Amfleet: tiny windows
VIA is therefore better than Amtrak.
Sup /n/
>>885832
>gay-r fifteen
Step it up, son.
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>>885835
>AUG
Disgusting, I'd post some pictures of my C-96 resting on D&RGW #315 and #463, but the archive's down and none of the shots are on my phone.
>>885737
>SNCF
It's a TGV. So yes.
>Shittier version of Amtrak
But It's Canadian. And I'm biased.
>>885837
I've seen them before.
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>>885873
Yeah, but how many /n/tards browse /k/ancer?
>>885877
Or, how many /k/ommandos browse /n/?
Other than me and you, of course.
Also, the most /kn/ picture I have.
>>885975
>>886876
I like the idea of Tacoma Rail and support it's continued existence.
>>885975
>It was a Class 20 all-along
3rd /k/ommando checking in
also, COPR is my favorite
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>>886903
Nice Baldwins.
Garbage
Train
ITT: People from [s4s] and 8ch's /sp/ board who have been waiting on /n/ for the past 20 hours for it to go up 200 posts just so they can spam their GET script in the spam of 5 milliseconds to go for sextuplets on a dead board that will result in a pure luck-based coin flip start to lose their minds and are now posting non-sensible ramblings.
>>888849
huh?
>>888849
hit the nail on the head my man!
>>888849
please post trigger warnings on anime-related posts
thank you
>>888833
Checked.
Amtrak is a pretty cool system.
If they funded it I'd imagine it'd be fucking useful for everyone who isn't a college student, black person, or single mother.
Dibitty dobbity dibbity doo
>>888874
Really nice!!!!
Garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry amerifags, but europe has the best trains like Euromed
>>889057
What's the point of using TGVs or Talgos on lines lines that barely exceed 200km/h? Wouldn't a Pendolino be better suited for that type of service?
>>889066
I have a lot of history with Euromed, and plus, back in the day the Euromed was pretty fast, and also Euromed goes from Barcelona to Alicante with stops in Valencia and Tarragona, its not a long distance to cover
>>889066
Not him, but Talgo has tilting trainsets as well. In the case of the Euromed, there's two things, firstly they were trainsets somehow left over from a change in an order to Alsthom for the first HSR line in 1992, which had to be iberian gauge until this was changed in the last minute. Typical spanish megalomania caused the train order to be way oversized, and the units that weren't really necessary were ordered as originally intended with iberian gauge, and put to work on the "Euromed" corridor between Barcelona and Valencia along the mediterranian coast, which had been upgraded on a large part of the line to semi-HSR standards of 200km/h in the 1980's (this part of the line could also eventually be upgraded to 300km/h full HSR standards without changing the ROW, just the tracks and signalling and electrification and all that stuff). For this same reason there's no point in using tilting train sets, since speeds aren't limited due to many curves, which is where a tilting train set would benefit, but because the line isn't up to HSR standards.
Kinda off-topic, there's lots of controversy right now about this so-called "mediterranean corridor", which is a project spanning from the french border north of Barcelona all the way to the southern tip of Spain, which only in the part mentioned has been upgraded to standards for high level of service, while in other parts there's 160km/h single track, or even no rail line at all.
>>889079
Spain is a fascinating country. The central government has spent around 40-50 BILLION euros on the radial HSR lines which lead from Madrid across hundreds of km of nothingness to the other populated parts of Spain (sometimes sparsely populated) traversing extremely difficult terrain, essentially making those lines useless sine they offer no benefit over air travel, because there's no significant intermediate stops and travel time isn't that competitive: usually 2.5-3.5 hours from Madrid to wherever, while flying would be about an hour + to/from airports. We now have the second largest HSR network in the world, second only to chine, while we have about half the population of Japan and two-thirds of that of France, in a very sparsely populated country, with a few dense population in rather specific areas. Yet, the suburban and regional trains in these areas are in a very sad shape, not just because train sets are old, that I could live with, but because of constant breakdowns, failures and bottlenecks make delays almost systematic on many lines.
The only stretch that could probably make sense as a HSR line or similar, as well as for freight, is the line along the mediterranean coast, sine it's almost continually populated and reaches many important ports. Yet, this stretch as I mentioned is often single-tracked or lacking rail service.
Meanwhile, regional governments do little to help this situation, since all they ask for is for the AVE to reach their region, just the other day I saw the fucktard president of Cantabria (on the atlantic coast in the north) yelling like a town drunkard that the government is leaving their region "isolated" because they don't have HSR connection, and so "freight can't get to the ports" (sic.). No mention of the dilapidated conventional line which would take a fraction to modernise, and would actually allow freight to get to the ports, which the HSR line wouldn't.
And all this while we have about 25% unemployment.
>>889091
yes it is, fuck you.
>>889079
>Talgo has tilting trainsets as well
The passive Talgo system is far less effective than the active system employed on Pendolinos though
>>889150
Spain doesn't need good tilting trains, they either put down a HSR line next to the old one, or they don't give a shit and have the line run trains at 100km/h. No middle ground.
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I like the Spokane Portland & Seattle quite a bit tbh fam.
no love for the thoroughbred? where my east coast fam
>>890919
Because the Southern and Norfolk and Westerm were both better.
>>861717
The west coast main line is pretty.
Western Pacific was a true underdog railroad in the West that nonetheless survived for over 70 years.
Some of the private railways in Italy are quite cool. Just for the unfortunate acronym (and that the two main towns it serves, which are both rather lovely and delightful places), the FUC train (a.k.a. the Ferrovie Udine Cividale), up in the far north-east, near the Slovene border, has a special place in my heart.
But for an entire network, of a mixture of new and archaic and decaying trains, an abundance, at several locations, of abandoned, really decayed old trains, and links to several really fascinating places, the Ferrovie del Sud Est in Puglia is hard to beat. One peculiarity is that a lot of the network is run as self-contained branches, with the need to connect at junction stations, even to make short journeys. The whole thing is wildly impractical - - and well, really could do with having the fresh air of market forces blowing through it, really. It shares some stations with the main national FS/Trenitalia network, but there are no through tickets - and actually finding the FSE ticket office, or indeed information about where and when their trains depart from can be quite a challenge on the spot.
>>888868
They need dedicated track for the longer runs so they can implement HSR. It takes two full days to cross the country as is, but you could probably do Chicago to the west coast in six hours with sufficiently high speed rail.
>>894549
>and well, really could do with having the fresh air of market forces blowing through it
Privatization didn't work the first time so why would it work a second time?
Sbb cff ffs
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>>861957
People who support Obama deserve to be in a mass grave.
>>876573
Rarely now. You may see a few tank cars and container flat cars together but most everything that's left is unit freight.
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Lehigh Valley had a pretty good run.
I like riding the NCTD Coaster whenever i'm in san diego.
>>862148
The engine looks like Finnish Sr2, love it.
>>897656
Damn, did that thing hit an animal? looks awesome though.
>>897657
Hitting reindeer with trains is a Finnish winter tradition.
>>897661
*moose
>>885976
kek'd
>>888831
What is this a train for ants?
The Mainstreet of the Northwest
>>901547
Nice shot with the GN unit and SP C-628. The SP unit dates this photo to late Spring/Summer 1970 when SP leased its six-axle ALCOs to the BN shortly after the merger.
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Early BN was best BN.
>>873479
>two trains an hour
For a single track line, that's about as good as you can get (actually 30 minutes is the best headway for a single track rail line)
>second most expensive railway in NIPPON
Economic of scale. Being a private owned railway operator isn't helping either
>>901550
Love that yinyan logo
>>861717
THE BEST ONE
>>876572
>TFW parts of this line keep getting obliterated.
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Hirakatashi reporting, I love this railway.
>>903673
Toukai shinkansen is the best desu.
>>861717
All this time and still noone's mentioned God's Wonderful Railway?
>>867875
Damn, I miss that BN green. Lovely.
>>903806
Why didn't you reply to Noone's post?
>>904064
It's too bad no one maintains armored trains anymore.
The two best railroads in one train. It's too bad BNSP didn't become a thing, it makes more sense than BNSF 2bh.
BNSP and UPSF would be more competitive in the West than the current situation.
>>862124
come visit Norway, from the inside...
Trondheim-Bodo ftw
here you have the whole thing in HD in case you havent heared about it, which I doubt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIdnzamYDmQ&feature=iv&src_vid=TY1sbKvjNcY&annotation_id=annotation_703701
>>861717
>Favorite Railroad?
if somebody started a thread by simply asking 'favourite bike' there'd be all levels of autism on display and several samefag demands to use a general.
/n/ is truly dead.
and it's not even worth saving.
>>861803
Santa Fe used to come through my neighborhood near my house when I was a kid, I think. Did Santa Fe run with these colors past getting bought out?
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>>913280
Some engines still run with those colors. They revived the warbonnet scheme in the early 1990s just prior to merging with BN and some early BNSF locomotives were painted that way with "BNSF" instead of "Santa Fe" on the sides.
>>913280
>Did Santa Fe run with these colors past getting bought out
BNSF has a number of locomotives painted with heritage color schemes, that's probably what you saw if it was post buy-out
>>865252
wut station is this?
>>913282
i rode one of those through nevada or new mexico or something, took a shit off the edge of the car in utah. bitching
>>861717
mee
New Haven
>>916712
One of the few images where CSX looks nice.
>>862125
beautiful
>>861957
>Ftfy, he's made mistakes but a white man in his shoes wouldn't have three fifths the political trouble this one does
That's not true. FDR was an even bigger anti-constitution communist than obama, and he gets slightly less love than obama.
Way up north. North to Alaska.
This. Two family members started here and retired from MTA in 2000. That's just over a combines 120 years of railroading.
Pacific Surfliner
>>913299
>what station?
I think it might be dachau
>>865203
SZERGEJ!
>>928430
>he didn't even post the passenger cars or the snow-blower engine.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Foamer
Happy St. Patrick's Day from BN!
