Indeed.. I misread that this was for utopialectriclocos.Or how about... real afterburners?Real afterburners in dinosaur/plant-juice-less electric motors usually result in reduced lifespan.Why fake? Didn’t your spin-out link also include a fire-belching exhaust stack?
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I can't help noticing those vacuum motors sound a bit like a DC9.
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This showed up on my FB feed today.
Either Mark Zuckerberg is a lurker, or he monitors my activity on www.internet.com.
Mr. Snappy, and supreme commander, Vlad, and friend clearly have superior railway system, Da!
Either Mark Zuckerberg is a lurker, or he monitors my activity on www.internet.com.
Mr. Snappy, and supreme commander, Vlad, and friend clearly have superior railway system, Da!
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I love it when I discuss a product with relatives either by chat, phone or in person (but in presence of an El Teléfono Inteligente or similar ungodly device) and then we (Not_italics) start getting ads for said product. It's a conspiracy and I blame Elon X, Tim Apple, Bill Microsoft, Mark Facebook and Sundar Google.This showed up on my FB feed today.
Either Mark Zuckerberg is a lurker, or he monitors my activity on www.internet.com.
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For what it's worth, i found another group of people that don't seem too enamored with the braking ability of a train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUKPn73I5hk
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All you engineers do is complain.
What suggestions, albethem outsider suggestions, do you have to improve train braking?
https://youtu.be/_RxTTd2_yzs?si=bogSfpETj7tVcnGl
What suggestions, albethem outsider suggestions, do you have to improve train braking?
https://youtu.be/_RxTTd2_yzs?si=bogSfpETj7tVcnGl
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Do they know that cars have had disc brakes for about half a century?
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I haven’t studied disc brakes on US passenger trains (they exist and work smoothly based on some train rides). But I suspect they are better than the crazy levers and rods and chains and God knows what else that transfers the pressure from a couple brake cylinders under the car through the trucks to eight brake shoes…Do they know that cars have had disc brakes for about half a century?
I find it reminiscent of MCAS, DC-9 ailerons, and Lockheed Electra APUs.
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Fixed.Do they know that trains have had disc brakes for about half a century?
From Wikipedia:
Even we (Not_italics) have disc brakes in our new Chinese trainies (embedded in the wheels in EMUs, inboard in locomotive-hauled cars). I believe our semi-vintage (1982) Japanese EMUs also have disc brakes.Successful application began on railroad streamliner passenger trains, airplanes, and tanks before and during World War II. In the US, the Budd Company introduced disc brakes on the General Pershing Zephyr for the Burlington Railroad in 1938. By the early 1950s, disc brakes were regularly applied to new passenger rolling stock.
International Ban ALL Aeroplanies Association, founder and president.
"I think, based on the types of aircraft listed, you're pretty much guaranteed a fiery death."
- Contemporary Poet flyboy2548m to a Foffie.
"I think, based on the types of aircraft listed, you're pretty much guaranteed a fiery death."
- Contemporary Poet flyboy2548m to a Foffie.
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You know, I DO care about train braking, but maybe I’m more interested in making sure they work, versus improving their nominal performance.
https://www.deseret.com/1998/10/17/1940 ... -engineer/
A total train disaster in Flyover: Brakes fail, engineer did dies.
https://www.deseret.com/1998/10/17/1940 ... -engineer/
A total train disaster in Flyover: Brakes fail, engineer did dies.
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An interwebs search reveals that this is far from the first TOTAL RAIL DISASTER!!!! at El Zoológico de Paso Elevado...A total train disaster in Flyover: Brakes fail, engineer did dies.
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"I think, based on the types of aircraft listed, you're pretty much guaranteed a fiery death."
- Contemporary Poet flyboy2548m to a Foffie.
"I think, based on the types of aircraft listed, you're pretty much guaranteed a fiery death."
- Contemporary Poet flyboy2548m to a Foffie.
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Si.
y hay otros zoológicos que han tenido accidentes de trenes. Prohibir todos los trenes del zoológico.
y hay otros zoológicos que han tenido accidentes de trenes. Prohibir todos los trenes del zoológico.
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I was thinking of banning ALL Flyover...Si.
y hay otros zoológicos que han tenido accidentes de trenes. Prohibir todos los trenes del zoológico.
International Ban ALL Aeroplanies Association, founder and president.
"I think, based on the types of aircraft listed, you're pretty much guaranteed a fiery death."
- Contemporary Poet flyboy2548m to a Foffie.
"I think, based on the types of aircraft listed, you're pretty much guaranteed a fiery death."
- Contemporary Poet flyboy2548m to a Foffie.
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El bano de paseo supero no solvo otro zoologicos todos trenes disasteros.I was thinking of banning ALL Flyover...Si.
y hay otros zoológicos que han tenido accidentes de trenes. Prohibir todos los trenes del zoológico.
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I have a vague recollection that the new Red Line trains that came in in the 90s had some amount of regenerative braking.To expand a bit on your teeny text I have 2 words: SUBWAY TRAINS.
Unlike freight trains, they're already electric. And also unlike freight trains, they spend a very large portion of their operational time accelerating and decelerating (or accelerating toward the rear if you're a physics major). And they always have an "alternate power source" available if the battery is in a mood. The ability to travel to a nearby station under battery power if line power is lost would be another big plus.
Why no work seemingly is being done in this area completely baffles me.
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Also in the annals of railroad braking: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/l ... -1.7180715
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