I want to strangle every single big buck roadie fred and especially every single downhill-bike-in-a-park pomp who rides around just to do chainsaw sounds with their bicycle's very very expensive hub. "Give way, the asshole is coming!". Like, if you wanna make motorcycle sounds, get an actual motorcycle. A Harley actually sounds cool. A freewheeling bicycle sounds supremely annoying, and also means you are a weak shit who is not pedalling. Fuck you, go ride into a river.
>>2064840bump
>>2038848Aren't you guys required to have backup cameras? My car had a whole panic around a mass recall because the firmware made the cameras sometimes not work, surely commercial vehicles would be more strict not less strict?
>>2031845Welcome! (Or b8? Can't tell anymore.)
>>2064840No one here actually rides, they just look up specs to get angry about
>put a Sturmey freewheel on my bike>RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR>replace it with another of the same model>.......................................................
Why weren't these a thing more often in the heyday of railroads?>gives freight trains an additional source of income>passengers can presumably pay for tickets less since freight trains usually run on slower schedules>allows for mixed trains without the need to pull a coach from regular passenger service>can be coupled to the back of a regular passenger train during periods of high demand, the crew will enjoy the added privacy too>lonely freight train crews will enjoy the additional company>can be outfitted as extra crew accommodation when not in revenue service
>>2041441>Trains du BiereBeer trains?
>>2041354Nice red vs blue reference.
>>2041436>Passenger rail is a lot more profitable than the highway network though.road network provides benefits that go beyond catering to mentally ill impoverished losers.
>>2041354Not sure if this counts, but here's a passenger car that was converted into a caboose. It belonged to the Arcata and Mad River Railroad. I took this photo at the Ardenwood Farm Railfair last year. If anyone's interested, I can put up a new thread and upload my entire album.
>>2041354This is peak cheap travel."Following the start of Parcel Post in 1913, a few parents in the US briefly mailed their children to relatives, often having stamps pinned to their clothes, because it was cheaper than a train ticket."
Ocean liner fans rejoice! The Queen Mary reopened for hotel guests in May and in June, I had the privilege of spending two nights on board. I'll be uploading my album of the ship over the next few days and discussing the history of the ship that I learned while onboard.
>>1956400fuck you, sicophant. you aren't that politician, you aren't winning.
>>2055193did you look through it yet?
>>2064012im looking through it right now thank yousurprised the thread is still up, just came here to bitch about aviation desu
>>2026834>mad about free money Why is it a dead industry?
Stay a man and you'll have more fun
I live in the USA and work for NJ Transit, in New Jersey. I'm a carman/car inspector in the mechanical department on the rail side. I normally tell people that we pretend to inspect and repair the trains. I find that the workers here are some of the most backstabbing, gossipy grown toddlers I have encountered in my working life. I think it's because most my co-workers have too much free time since most of them only do like 1-3 hours in an 8 hour shift, so they have too much extra energy to spare. Does anyone else here work for a railroad and feel the same or care to share contrary experiences? Could you cite your job title and which railroad you work for if possible also.
>>2067110>Does anyone else here work for a railroad and feel the same or care to share contrary experiences? Could you cite your job title and which railroad you work for if possible also.Is it worth it? How can you get a good railroad job off the bat? I wouldn't mind working for Amtrak or something like that, it seems somewhat cozy. But all of the railroad jobs around me are for stuff like switch operator or yard crew or something like that, and it seems super stressful. I currently work in public rail transit in my city and I have coworkers that have taken significant pay cuts to leave the railroad and work for the city transit system because it's a much better work life balance. They all say the pay at the railroad was great but they couldn't take being away from home 28 days out of the month etc. But being on a dedicated Amtrak route going between a handful of cities seems like it would be chill. Is it possible to get such a job without prior experience? I've heard that they mainly try to recruit from freight rail companies
I'm sorry if this is blogposty but I'd appreciate some input from you lot. After quite a bit of soulsearching and some nasty depressive episodes, I decided I'm not cut out for my degree and gave up on it. I realized that if I'm gonna be stuck doing something all day for the rest of my life, I may as well work on a railroad since trains tickle my autism. Thing is, in my uropeen country, the railway company posts for like, ten jobs every year and they're all given through nepotism. And I got zero qualifications to get hired, anyway.I've seen anons itt talk about apprenticeships and such but how do I find them? I don't mind packing up and moving anywhere in the anglosphere or in the EU for that matter.
>>2068727>But being on a dedicated Amtrak route going between a handful of cities seems like it would be chill.Back when I was seriously considering working on the railroad, I was looking at this one Amtrak crew base in West Virginia where the only work is the 3x weekly Cardinal into Charlottesville. The eastbound and westbound trains pass each other between the base and Charlottesville so you have to wait several days on both ends to work a train going back the way you came. It comes out to only three days a week worth of work. I thought it sounded super comfy and a way to make extra board life a lot easier. That and working the Auto Train (better crew base locations + only two daily shifts: either yard work when the train is loading/unloading cars or the run down to the halfway point) are the only times I could actually genuinely see myself applying. Needless to say opportunities don't pop up at those bases too often.
>>2068694No, I don't work Pascack Valley line. But I do frequently ride the trains and see the conductors are about as lazy as mechanical where I work. They basically try to keep the bare minimum number of passengers cars open so it requires minimal work for the them and the conductors with the most seniority can do much less. >>2069030I think its stupid to migrate to a foreign country hoping for the long shot of getting a railroad job. What country do you live in? Some people I know took years of applying before they got into New Jersey Transit.
>>2068104There were also a bad crash involving the MTA of NYC involving a drunk train engineer(the people who drive the trains) in 1991.>https://reason.com/1991/12/01/asleep-at-the-switch/>On August 28, a New York City subway motorman failed to slow at a switch and derailed his train, killing five passengers and injuring another 200. It was the worst New York subway disaster in 63 years. The driver, Robert E. Ray, had a .21 blood alcohol level hours after the crash. According to police, Ray admitted he had been drinking all day before going to work on the night shift and that he was asleep at the throttle when the train hit a switch at many times normal speed. He has been indicted on five counts of second-degree murder.>...
If steel is so great, why do the companies that make the best steel tubing in the world use carbon for their forks?If steel is so great, why do the finest steel bikes in the world use carbon forks?It seems to me that steel has an aesthetic value that cannot be substituted by anything else, but as a material for building bikes, its value decreases the more that is demanded of a component.
>>2070499it's not the length; it is that there is like hills and salt and snow and rain and shit. 1km here is like 100,000 in california
>>2070602Oh ok. I haven't been to california so I'll take your word for it. I just assume everywhere has hills and weather.
>>2070604california is constantly 72 "degrees" and sunny, with a lot of money allocated for road maintenance. it does have hills thoughbeit
>>2070609Sounds alright to me. Too bad everything is illegal there except wearing a grey organic cotton jumpsuit and eating beige vegan slop from a non-cancer-causing state-issued utility bowl
>>2070614the state of california is known to cause cancer
Or just the weirdest you're aware of?
>>2067417>i rode a horse once>i also sucked a horse's dick once but it was a different horseThat's really cool
>>2067376https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFdBcYN3sNw
Camel, it was pleasant
>>2067376rode in a palenquin onceit sucked, as the bearers were not of a uniform height
>>2067376This looks so cool. I wish we still used elephants for war.I used to speed around in forklifts in an empty warehouse as a kid.>>2067379>>2067382These guys know what's up.
Why did hydrofoils never take off?
So far the only foiler I have gotten to sail is one a guy I know made, great fun but you get a serious workout and it is kind of nerve wracking. Crashed at least a dozen times.
>>2067963>5500 pounds flying on those skinny little foils>the wing sail weighs over a tonSeems absolutely insane this works.
>>2044074They are abominations. It's that simple. A boat is not meant to fly. Ships are supposed to float on the water, not above the water. This paradox of their operation frightens and terrifies people, even if only at a subconscious level. You know it's wrong. It's like watching a dog walk on it's hind legs for an extended period of time. You know that if a dog is walking on two legs like a person, it's likely because it has been trained to do that with merciless, abusive beatings.
>>2067961Is that one of those crazy boats where the hull is full of 20 year old twunks hopped up on EPO
>e-scooters of the sea
>*combines the aggressive solipsistic entitlement of an exurban helicopter parent SUV karate lessons karen with the sanctimonious humblebrag better-than-you instagram mentality of a childless upper middle class urbanist in your path (literally in your path because it's in your physical path being as expensive and space-hogging as an actual car, while being as slow and annoying and needy and pointless and "look at me" as a dutch bike, in everyone's path) in your path*>*heh, nothin' personnel kid, as in, look at these kids of mine that I am effectively using as human shields, so give me everything in return for nothing or you're a monster and I will have you cancelled for not buckling immediately and catering to my massive sense of entitlement, kid*When did cargo bikes go from being a crusty, get-it-done, no-nonsense niche improvised delivery tool for reasonable humans, to being the single most punchable conspicuous consumption fashion accessory in the history of wheels?Also, cargo bikes hate thread, and yes I took my meds thanks for the reminder though
Does anyone still make non-electrified trikes? There are some geriatrics who ride them around town to pick up groceries, but they all look like antiques.
>>2070133theyre huge in india
>>2070133>they all look like antiquesThe geriatrics or the bikes?
>>2070133Worksman Cycles and Sun Bicycles.
>>2070504That's very good. Thank you.
Hear me out, we need one of these.
>>2068330if a man did that to a woman he'd be flayed alive
>>2068330it would be so fun to pants her
>>2053962
>>2070506"Overlay timber enough times" meaning overlap the planking enough? The way you worded it makes it sound like double or triple planking.
>>2068605Yeah
>>2070451>4m wide bike path can support nearly infinite bike traffic,not when it's nice out and the dentists get out there and slow everything down by riding their 5200$ bike right in the middle at Two Miles An Hour
>>2069712>Making nitrocellulose based smokeless powder at home isn't exactly all that difficult,when someone tried to bomb a DNC office during the jan 6th shit a bomb specialist had to go on record "AKSHUALLY"-ing the autist's attempt at doing this because it is in fact quite hard to make high enough quality gunpowder to do anything useful and is only the realm of hobbyists because simply buying it is so fucking cheap but requires so much inexpensive but unfamiliar to normies manufacturing equipment that you would have to be a moron or an enthusiast to bother making it at hometurns out you dont just mix the ping pong balls and horse piss in a bag, you also need to use a sieve and have a proper drying oven and shit that internet weirdos somehow always seem to miss
>>2069752>no need for the acid,>bacteria growth, That's not what the acid is for.
Should pets be allowed on public transport?
>>2066896Allergies rule out general transportation. Trains can have dedicated space for them.>>2066901God I hate The Dodo.
Pets > children > niggers
sex with creatures should be not just legal but REQUIRED on public transport
This guy comes on public transport for vets. I usually cover him in a blanket if its very busy.Old ladies love him. His favourite transportation type is the bus, then S train then Metro.
>>2066896>>2067050>>2070381I'm a Streetcar Operator in a major midwestern US city. Our official rule is that only "service animals" are allowed. However, we aren't really allowed to check and ask people if the animal they have with them is a service animal. In addition, I don't even know if our state even offers documentation to that effect. So basically the de facto rule is that you can bring your pet on the streetcar as long as it is well-behaved. If your dog starts barking, attacking other people, or pissing/shitting on the streetcar, then you and your pet will be kicked off
How in the fuck are they pulling this shit off? These commies are making us look like clowns! What is the reason for this?!
>I bump this thread again guys! Having shit threads die? hahah not on my watch!
>>2068617Seethe more, I'm going to keep this thread alive until the heat death of the universe just for you
>>2067888>>2067887But the powers that be banned "discrimination" 80 years ago, you can't have nice safe segregated communities anymoreSo everyone wants their own fancy home
>>2056405retarded subhuman opinion.
>>2031743yeah we spent our debt on protecting israel tho
Space transportation general: Stage Separating into a new year edition. This general is here because spaceflight is increasing exponentially. We are up to at least a launch per week and we are now in the midst of flight testing an industry revolutionizing fully reusablesuper heavy lift launch vehicle.Upcoming launches:>https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/2025-launch-schedule/SpaceX livestreams on Twitter/X:>https://x.com/SpaceXUpcoming NASA operations:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2069322Checked
>>2069342Their contributions will be part of the Commercial Payload Services Program where they're not being cockblocked by 16 year old ULA contracts.
Jared posted an update on the heatshield.https://x.com/i/status/2043172376167256396>I am hesitant to get ahead of a proper data review, but I understand the space community’s curiosity, especially when imagery can give the impression of a problem.As you would expect, engineers were eager to inspect the heat shield, starting with diver imagery shortly after splashdown and continuing with the review aboard the ship. No unexpected conditions were observed. I suspect when the images are released, it will be pretty obvious the stark difference between Artemis I and Artemis II head shield performance.As to the question specifically, the discoloration was not liberated material. The white color observed corresponds to the compression pad area and is consistent with the local geometry, AVCOAT byproducts, and transitional heating environments. We observed this behavior in arc jet testing and expected it in this compression pad area.We will complete a full data review across all systems, including the thermal protection system, and make the results publicly available.
What a mission!
>>2070424>>2070422What is going on here. Are there people who unironically care about this shit or is it just bots? The enthusiasm seems fake. No one actually feels this way, right?
My city is starting to build its first line of metro system. How can i expect it to economically enchance my city? I suppose people would be more productive because they will be able to get more sleep. Other than that i can see people using less fuel (my country is net importer of oil), less need for imported cars (domestic car production is maily exported), people would be able to find jobs easier which might suppress wages Other than that effects seem mostly social and health related
>>2070407Serbia?
Initially there will be jobs related to construction. Then there will be jobs related to operation and maintenance. If it's a large enough system this can have knock on effects. For instance machinists or electricians starting up their own businesses in machining or electricity or cannabis, after they get fired from the metro system due to a positive result on a marihuanas test.Additionally, the areas around the metro line may either see gentrification (if city planners get the zoning and tax incentives right) or a concentration of drugs and vagrancy (if they don't). That could lead to better and more retail shops like Jamba Juice and White House Black Market, or it could lead to a surge in nonprofit/social services organizations and a boost in Timberland sales.
Why are trainfags obsessed with HSR when 99% of mechanized passenger travel is local.
why not just have high speed lanes on the interstate so people can drive 150 mph ?
>>2070380americans can barely handle low-speed maneuvering on empty streets, you think they're ready for autobahn type shit?
>>2070392>americans can barely handle low-speed maneuvering on empty streets???
>>2070420Pic is on a driving test route near me, it is on the brow of a hill so you only get to see a bit of it at a time.I have never heard of someone nailing it through a red light there.
>>2070432Driving school vidhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jzeuW75Ihw
