#rail transportation

[4lexandrea]

This this this this

[i-am-mr-k]

It's so possible from so many places

@amtrak-official

[dame-de-pique]

Train on the Remutaka Range, 1925-1935

[global-twilight]

Interstitial Spaces - Industrial Decay

[bruitmoderniste]

[lionofchaeronea]

The Third Avenue Railroad Depot, William H. Schenck, ca. 1859-60

[nieleczony]

PKP class Pm36 - the aerodynamic steam locomotive

Pm36 was an experimental 4-6-2 (2'C1', "Pacific") steam engine designed by Fablok engineer Kazimierz Zembrzuski and his team in 1936 to serve as an express train.

Two locomotives were built for testing purposes. First (Pm36-1, factory number: 662) was finnished in the early 1937 and was fitted with aerodynamic shell, that coverd everything (including tender) outside of the driving wheels, helping to achieve higher speeds.

The shape of the shell was accepted by the Institute of Aerodynamics of Warsaw University of Technology after its wooden replica was tested in the wind tunnel.

Later that year it arrived at Paris World Expo where it was awarded a gold medal

Second locomotive Pm36-2 was built in october of 1937 and for the purpose of comparison it didn't have a shell. Although it was lighter by 2,7 t than Pm36-1 it was slower by about 20km/h (12,5 mph).

During the war both locomotives both engines were lost around september campaign and eventually became a part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn fleet (Pm36-1 in 1939, Pm36-2 in 1941 after operation Barbarossa). Pm36-1 was lost (presumably destroyed) during the war but Pm36-2 was evacuated to Austria in 1944 from where it was sent back to Poland in 1947. It was expoited until 1966, in 1970 it was crossed off of the PKP inventory and in 1973 it was given to Warsaw Railway Museum.

on 1995, on "150th anniversay of railway on polish soil" Pm36-2 was renovated, given the name Piękna Helena (Beautiful Helena) and it stations in Wolsztyn Steam Locomotovie Depot whare it's in active service to this day.

[fishe-tm]

some shots of Englewood Station tonight

i only had around 5 minutes to get them, so doing editing after the fact saved the pictures quite a bit lmao

[kaninchenzero]

design your rail system based on those illustrations of hilbert spaces for non-mathematicians

[darkredlightyears]

[nickelplatestudios]

Here's some examples of my works for those who might be wondering what it is I do.

[vivekguptahal]

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[bruitmoderniste]

[afrotumble]

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[alertbrilliant4204]

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[53rdcenturyhero]

Rail travel in England and Wales.

Close ticket offices eliminates 12% (one eighth) of passengers, means losing 12%(one eighth) of ticket revenue. Upswing in fare non-payment has been clocked to be a rapid 25% increase in recent identical implementation.

Which means 88% of passengers have to pay more very quickly to make up that gap. And even slightly more very quickly so 14%...

A 14% fare price rise (slow or fast) would cause unemployment and a rise in working from home, which would irritate the city office landowners... a proven lobby that the Tories pay attention to. So they stopped the closure of over a thousand rail ticket offices. For now.

For now.

Stop forcing disablement onto people. Allow accommodation for different physicalities to remain. Stop the constant upmove of profit and lack of investment in stock line and comms. Allow rail usage to be helpful to the user not a constant money mill.

Other countries manage better. We see this.