Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT
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@collectifission Good lord! It looks like that video of the moose charging down the ski slope (the one that gets captioned "Dashing through the snow, get the fuck out of my way...")
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And when that won't do the trick, there's always this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPc3ceGIlegThough I don't know where that one is, I've seen videos of them used in Canada - lake-effect snow is crazy sometimes.
@cazabon @collectifission it monch
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOTAlso, the trans-siberian railway exists.
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What happens if a tree has fallen across the track?
@Susan60 @collectifission splinter shower!
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT@collectifission Snowpiercer is just a random December Thursday in Edmonton, isn't it?
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOTI took Amtrak through the Sierras, and the folks working on the train said the previous winter they had been driving the train through snowbanks higher than the top of the train
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT@collectifission Never saw any shutdowns in Moscow even when blizzards
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I took Amtrak through the Sierras, and the folks working on the train said the previous winter they had been driving the train through snowbanks higher than the top of the train
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I ixi@mastodon.online shared this topic
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@Susan60 @collectifission the trees are kept far away from the tracks. Ongoing maintenance.
Still a bit disconcerting if the driver is sometimes unable to see ahead.
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What does a tree across the track have to do with snow? (Genuinely puzzled by the question as a Canadian.)
It’s wind and ice storms that take out trees not snow load. Not to mention locomotives capable of pulling hundreds of cars can clear their own routes. (The train in the video have three locomotives at the front, with the first two back-to-back, and the front one with a basic V-plow for snow that’s not super deep.)
Trains here have had snow plows on front of the locomotives here for more than a century.
ExpoRail — Canada’s national trail museum on the South Shore of Montreal — is having a special exhibit on *Ice Trains in Winter* this month.
#Railways #ExpoRail #IceTrains #icestodon #Snow #Canada
https://exporail.org/en/activities/iron-and-ice-trains-in-winter/
@AlsoPaisleyCat @collectifission
I’ve never lived n a snowy climate. I’m just concerned about the train driver having his vision impeded.
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT@collectifission@greennuclear.online Last time I was on a Canadian train was awhile back but once over the US border and transferred to their trains the cars were clean and the HORRIBLE STINK OF PEE magically disappeared!! +1 for Canada -1 for the stinky US of A
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@Susan60 @collectifission
Looks like anything less than a large tree is ignored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7QCnv0QpfgThe younger engineer on that run followed up with a Q&A more recently.
Apparently there *were* a lot of trees down in central BC after the first big snow that year. This video is an empty grain car train that was sent through to clear the track for others. It just had the regular *cow catcher* on the front, not even the plow.
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@AlsoPaisleyCat @collectifission
I’ve never lived n a snowy climate. I’m just concerned about the train driver having his vision impeded.
The Q&A video with the younger driver who was on the track-clearing run says it all.
It’s Canada, they can’t wait for perfection so they just sent an empty train on a bright clear day to clear it. They let the cow catcher force the trunks down under the wheels of the train. Only branches less than 10 cm could get through and the windshield wipers kept the view clear.
The image of a locomotive pushing forward through the snow is classic, one that stays with you having seen it since childhood.
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What does a tree across the track have to do with snow? (Genuinely puzzled by the question as a Canadian.)
It’s wind and ice storms that take out trees not snow load. Not to mention locomotives capable of pulling hundreds of cars can clear their own routes. (The train in the video have three locomotives at the front, with the first two back-to-back, and the front one with a basic V-plow for snow that’s not super deep.)
Trains here have had snow plows on front of the locomotives here for more than a century.
ExpoRail — Canada’s national trail museum on the South Shore of Montreal — is having a special exhibit on *Ice Trains in Winter* this month.
#Railways #ExpoRail #IceTrains #icestodon #Snow #Canada
https://exporail.org/en/activities/iron-and-ice-trains-in-winter/
@AlsoPaisleyCat @Susan60 @collectifission
Tree on tracks and snow aren't inherently related, a tree can be there for any reason. Snow load is one reason, btw.I guess it wouldn't matter in this situation, the train is going pretty fast, so I bet it would hit the tree even if it was seen well in advance.
I'm sure a good sized tree strike would go unnoticed while plowing the snow like this. A follow-up question would be; when is a tree too big for a locomotive?
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@AlsoPaisleyCat @Susan60 @collectifission
Tree on tracks and snow aren't inherently related, a tree can be there for any reason. Snow load is one reason, btw.I guess it wouldn't matter in this situation, the train is going pretty fast, so I bet it would hit the tree even if it was seen well in advance.
I'm sure a good sized tree strike would go unnoticed while plowing the snow like this. A follow-up question would be; when is a tree too big for a locomotive?
@Jourei
In the second video, where the train is clearing trees with just a cow catcher on the front of the locomotive, not even a snowplough, they go rightfully through some very large trunks. The locomotive is very heavy, it would take a large rockfall or damage to the tracks to derail it. -
Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT@collectifission and that's not even a special plow. But, it's all what you're used to and set up for.
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@collectifission Good lord! It looks like that video of the moose charging down the ski slope (the one that gets captioned "Dashing through the snow, get the fuck out of my way...")
@collectifission @epicdemiologist Canadian af, the moose.
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOTMeanwhile, German railways Deutsche Bahn:
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT@collectifission brutal!
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT
