Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT
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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 best argument for mass transit
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@collectifission Spanish railwais do not work if it has snowed. Actually, they do not work if it is a sunny day, either.
@qualcu @collectifission London Underground extension to Heathrow Airport did not work in the rain. Fortunately the private Heathrow Express did.
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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
can't have any stolen resource extractivism going being delayed now...(' will leave any factual comments on passenger rail delays to the knowledgeable enthusiasts)
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOTAnd 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.
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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 Difference is that Dutch rail is mostly electric, maybe 3rd rail or overhead.
Diesel power in Canada is brute force without need for a good electrical connection -
Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT@collectifission so nice too watch, thanks
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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 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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@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.
