Any Railfanners?

[ben7]

Any body else here like to go train spotting?

And for those who don't know what this means:

You go to a freight line a little while before a train comes through and wait until the train comes, thenyou watch the train,
really gets your adrenaline going!


My Fav is Norfolk Southern

 

[RODALCO]

Any body else here like to go train spotting?

And for those who don't know what this means:

You go to a freight line a little while before a train comes through and wait until the train comes, thenyou watch the train,
really gets your adrenaline going!


My Fav is Norfolk Southern

Yes. I do.

Only our NZ trains are not as big and long as the massive American double stacked freight trains.

We still use the 3 ft 6 gauge here which has its limitations.

 

[bryan1]

I used to take terryrists to the bridge lookout at Pt Hedland to watch the longest trains in the world pass underneath the bridge. One asked me why did I bring a deck chair and esky full of beer along. About 10 minutes after the train was going under the bridge he soon worked out why I brought them as it took over an hour for the train to pass under the bridge.

Cheers Bryan

 

[ben7]

We still use the 3 ft 6 gauge here which has its limitations.

That's suprising!

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

That's suprising!

As railways started in the UK there were historically a number of different gauges used here, but it was all rationalised a LONGGGG time back to a single standard gauge. With the exception of a few specialised narrow gauge systems - such as mines and quarries etc.

 

[JimB]

When I was much younger, best part of 50 years ago, I was very interested in trains when there were steam locomotives.
Now that there is just diesel and electric, it is just not as interesting.

JimB

 

[ben7]

When I was much younger, best part of 50 years ago, I was very interested in trains when there were steam locomotives.
Now that there is just diesel and electric, it is just not as interesting.

JimB

C'mon, don't you enjoy the rumble of diesels too?!

 

[jrz126]

I don't have to go train spotting, I see them every day at work.

The Norfolk Southern locos derate them to 4000HP in the software (they're capable of 4400HP). Less wear and tear I suppose.

 

[3v0]

Every day people are forced to watch trains.

 

[ben7]

I don't have to go train spotting, I see them every day at work.

Lucky ducky!!!

 

[bryan1]

There is a train line about 2K from the farm and hills drown the noise out, I have seen some properties sold near trainlines and be on the market within months. Just the grinding noise of them would be enough to drive any one crazy over time.

Anyway on another tack those long trains that cart the ore that I was talking about before. They pass monitoring stations from the mine to the port and if say a bearing goes on a ore carriage it will send a signal to the port then back to the train to stop. I did do a few contracts on those monitoring sites and scored a few 80 solar panels so I guess that was the bug that got me started. 7 years off the grid and no noise from trains, hell a mate has paid more money in power just living in town with the noise of trains everyday than I did for batteries in the same time so who is the winner. No power bills and no noisy trains....

 

[atferrari]

I can see cars and locomotives when we discharge them from the vessel directly onto the rails. In three weeks time we have another shipment with several locomotives of 130 tons weight.

The house where my mother lived her last years was some 200m away from the rails. When her dog started to howl around 21.00 hours we knew a train was coming. The poor puppy suffered a lot the sound of the train horn.