Amazing machines. I have done some contract work in the engines but honestly the engine is the least of what makes these beasts so incredible. The literal centuries of improvements resulting in an efficient and effective mode of transporting goods is truly a testament to the white race.
I don't believe I've ever seen nigger conductors or operators. They're probably in the office admin or on the track maintenance crews. Only a white man can handle these powerful machines.
Big woop, Its just some traction motors and a diesel generator. I guess the amazing part is how these 2 stroke diesels run so long between overhauls. Then they got it down to kits called a power packs that includes everything for a cylinder, down time is minimus.
[ - ] Trope 1 point 5 monthsJan 16, 2025 00:19:45 ago (+1/-0)
There is a very old tourist town in Illinois just east of the Mississippi River. It was once a booming city of trade having a port. However, the railroad came about mid 1800s which had the city fall out of favor as a trade hub.
Many years went by and the city saw little to no infrastructural improvements. After several decades, the old architecture began to bring in tourism. To this day, the lead-mining city of Galena Illinois is a historical time capsule.
I've always loved trains. I've had many electric train sets growing up too. It's interesting that I never sought employment in the field. I might have been happy just driving a train for a living.
Engineers can easily be replaced by automation that will be safer. It used to be a skilled job, now it is a union racket. I love unions but I have to call it as it is. If you keep talking about it they will replace all the white conductors with DEI's assisted by computers, then gut the unions and end it by turning it into a min wage babysitter job.
You say "centuries of improvements", but someone posted a video awhile back that showed that they used to have trains in 1920 that had just two inline wheels, placed under the center of the train, in the middle, and it rode on one rail.
Neat idea in theory, but needlessly complex for the time and required every car to have its own powered gyroscope. The hunting oscillation they were designed to eliminate has since been solved by the Shinkansen and TGV, both of which regularly run at 200mph on standard-gauge track (the TGV holds the current steel wheel speed record at 357mph).
Beyond that you have things like maglev trains that will end up going even faster, riding just a few inches off the ground. The Shanghai Maglev was designed and built by Germans, and can easily run at 268mph (although it runs at 186mph at all times since 2021). The Chuo Shinkansen between Tokyo and Nagoya will run at roughly 315mph, and currently holds the speed record for any train, clocking in at 375mph.
Impressive! I'll check out those trains on a video site.
My comment though was centered around the fact that they were producing this kind of technology back then, sure it was somewhat impractical, but they had the talent to create a one-track train in 1910. That's a feat of engineering prowess that rather surprised me.
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Its just some traction motors and a diesel generator. I guess the amazing part is how these 2 stroke diesels run so long between overhauls. Then they got it down to kits called a power packs that includes everything for a cylinder, down time is minimus.
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Many years went by and the city saw little to no infrastructural improvements. After several decades, the old architecture began to bring in tourism. To this day, the lead-mining city of Galena Illinois is a historical time capsule.
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Watch Bullet Train if you have the means and like action movies with a good amount of blood.
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Beyond that you have things like maglev trains that will end up going even faster, riding just a few inches off the ground. The Shanghai Maglev was designed and built by Germans, and can easily run at 268mph (although it runs at 186mph at all times since 2021). The Chuo Shinkansen between Tokyo and Nagoya will run at roughly 315mph, and currently holds the speed record for any train, clocking in at 375mph.
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My comment though was centered around the fact that they were producing this kind of technology back then, sure it was somewhat impractical, but they had the talent to create a one-track train in 1910. That's a feat of engineering prowess that rather surprised me.