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Don't see this everyday...
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Begs a few questions.
Neighbours complaining about noise. Which was there first, rail yard or the houses close by.
Re locate the yard, wait for the nimby's who's houses it's going to be near hear about it.
Lower powered shunter required with better braking, Yard driver required who lives across the road.
All problems sorted.:hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe:
Neighbours complaining about noise. Which was there first, rail yard or the houses close by.
Re locate the yard, wait for the nimby's who's houses it's going to be near hear about it.
Lower powered shunter required with better braking, Yard driver required who lives across the road.
All problems sorted.:hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe:
Ya know what strikes me as odd about those photos? The flanges don't seem to have cut ruts in the pavement. Sharp as they are and as much weight is on them you would think they would have sliced the pavement up like Swiss cheese.
Some years ago we had some hopper cars derail on the local bridge (the guard rails and timbers kept them from falling into the water). They finally left the rails and missed the local donut shop by inches (the police were horrified, lol).
Ben
Some years ago we had some hopper cars derail on the local bridge (the guard rails and timbers kept them from falling into the water). They finally left the rails and missed the local donut shop by inches (the police were horrified, lol).
Ben
cascaderailroad
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It always amazed me how complicated and strange the control stands are on locomotives...difficult to learn how to operate, non-user freindly, and very un-ergonomic. Perhaps if locomotives had easy to operate controls (resembling the simple systems employed in a car or truck)...maybe reflex actions would be cut 10 fold and emergency braking would be instantanious...as in this case it appears that the train took forever to stop.
It appears that locomotives controls, and their braking systems...etc...are not much varried from their original designs 100 years ago. Still very complicated with dozens of levers and switches.
I guess some things are destined never to change: Example: The vaccuum cleaner (still doesn't soap, scrub, and dry floors), pants pockets and zippers (still stupidly designed so you cant work them), the shoe (I wear a 9 1/2 regular, but have to buy a chineese made 11 1/2 wide).
It appears that locomotives controls, and their braking systems...etc...are not much varried from their original designs 100 years ago. Still very complicated with dozens of levers and switches.
I guess some things are destined never to change: Example: The vaccuum cleaner (still doesn't soap, scrub, and dry floors), pants pockets and zippers (still stupidly designed so you cant work them), the shoe (I wear a 9 1/2 regular, but have to buy a chineese made 11 1/2 wide).
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American_Connections
AC MonkeyWrench Models
Stupid is as stupid does!
Did they ever think that possibly the terimal was there before the city surrounded it! I think there needs a better look into things like this! I remember people in California being upset that coyotes were coming into thier yards and taking thier pets, but they they moved into the coyotes hood! So who is really at fault!
Did they ever think that possibly the terimal was there before the city surrounded it! I think there needs a better look into things like this! I remember people in California being upset that coyotes were coming into thier yards and taking thier pets, but they they moved into the coyotes hood! So who is really at fault!
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Whoopsy!
I bet! :hehe:
In Adelaide there have been a few derailments in the Adelaide hills where wagons ended up in the back yards. The local residents complain all the time about the squeal of the wheels. The line was there long before houses.
They want the line from Melbourne to detour round the hills from Murray Bridge. This would cost many millions to accomplish, add over 50 km to the journey.
Another problem has been where a fancy new suburb has been built near the Deep Creek Yards north of the city. Residents then complained about the noise at night with Locos idling. The Government had to build a massive earth bank to deaden the noise. Must have cost a lot to do that too.
Funny how people never notice these things till after they buy their houses.
Cheers,
Mike
They want the line from Melbourne to detour round the hills from Murray Bridge. This would cost many millions to accomplish, add over 50 km to the journey.
Another problem has been where a fancy new suburb has been built near the Deep Creek Yards north of the city. Residents then complained about the noise at night with Locos idling. The Government had to build a massive earth bank to deaden the noise. Must have cost a lot to do that too.
Funny how people never notice these things till after they buy their houses.
Cheers,
Mike
cascaderailroad
New member
My GF bought a house and never once took note of the surroundings. Now a 4 lane highway sits just across a noise barrier, the airport has re-routed air traffic over the nearby area, and the CSX RR tracks runs just 300 yards away (complete with crossing gates, bells, and loud train horns), enabling me to enjoy all kinds of transpotation sound effects 24 hours a day !
And now for some totally annoying sound effects and videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYH2pzil1UY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuudm4OGbTc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uei_wuV8n1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUDuPWRiRug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_5er5P2ibg
And now for some totally annoying sound effects and videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYH2pzil1UY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuudm4OGbTc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uei_wuV8n1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUDuPWRiRug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_5er5P2ibg
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There shunting in the yard .Whats the problem?
Exactly. My point as well.
What I don't get is why people buy houses so close to a rail yard or industry then complain about it. They do the same thing with farms. When I live in Andover, there was a developer that put in these huge, I mean humomgous homes on 2 acre lots. The houses were so big that they took up 1-7/8 of the 2 acres. They were built right next to a farm that had pigs and other smelly critters like cows and sheep.
The farm was there for over 150 years, passed down between generation to generation, and the farm was quite successful. Well these NIMBYs moved in and complained so much that the town caved in and forced the farm to close. What was once a farm is now another housing development that is named after the farm that was once there.
Go figure. Just like rail-to-trails. They complain about the trains, but when the tracks get taken up and the road bed is turned to a trail, the NIMBYs become all sentimental and name the trail after the railroad, put static coaches and locomotives, and fix up the depots.
There is something odd about the pictures though. Where are the grooves in the road?
John
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I don't even see grooves in the dirt! That doesn't seem possible...
I don't even see grooves in the dirt! That doesn't seem possible...
http://theland.farmonline.com.au/multimedia/images/full/512767.jpg
I don't even see grooves in the dirt! That doesn't seem possible...
The Streets & dirt have to be that hard so the kids can play Cricket.
But as you said no marks just a tree & fence down near the house & another tree across the road, even mounted the gutter ( sidewalk without chipping the concrete.Those flattops even look like they have self cleaning wheels.
Dave
They've been known to go one on top of the other when placed at the front of a train with loaded flats behind them... Ghostryder
QDRN CEO
the ground would almost be as hard as the road surface as that Part of NSW has been suffering drought.
a little off topic
IN northern NSW the NIMBYs have been at it as well, Grafton located on the Clarence River has had a railway running through is for around 100 years one guy buys a house opposite the line then whinges about the said rail line, he whinged enough now that bar all crews changes have to be done at a passing loop just outside of the town, he has even objected to shunting during the day as well, but wait it gets interesting, now he is whinging as the trains come through town at the limit making more noise in doing so. the fight over this situation is far from over.
cheers
ghosty
a little off topic
IN northern NSW the NIMBYs have been at it as well, Grafton located on the Clarence River has had a railway running through is for around 100 years one guy buys a house opposite the line then whinges about the said rail line, he whinged enough now that bar all crews changes have to be done at a passing loop just outside of the town, he has even objected to shunting during the day as well, but wait it gets interesting, now he is whinging as the trains come through town at the limit making more noise in doing so. the fight over this situation is far from over.
cheers
ghosty
WileeCoyote
Eatibus Almost Anythingus
My rant for the day...
Somehow what I fail to understand is how these whining, griping idiots even have the right to complain about such things. In all of these instances I'm seeing people who have procured homes within reasonable hearing distance of an [insert railroad related infrastructure here] that was there well before these people were even born, resulting in large amounts of whinging from said people. I find it remarkable that all of these people somehow don't appear to have done any research on the area and what is near them, simply waiting till they get there to find out.
How does one even have the right to complain about something that was there well before them? For the sake of example, a certain heritage line in Germany - one of the newest ones in fact - has promised the populace along the line that they won't allow any freight traffic on the line, even though the line was there before those peeps and was actually a major freight corridor in the 70's and 80's.
If a railroad line or anything else really is built after you move somewhere I can see some sense in complaint, but the fact that so many people think otherwise is nothing short of ridiculous.
WileeCoyote
Somehow what I fail to understand is how these whining, griping idiots even have the right to complain about such things. In all of these instances I'm seeing people who have procured homes within reasonable hearing distance of an [insert railroad related infrastructure here] that was there well before these people were even born, resulting in large amounts of whinging from said people. I find it remarkable that all of these people somehow don't appear to have done any research on the area and what is near them, simply waiting till they get there to find out.
How does one even have the right to complain about something that was there well before them? For the sake of example, a certain heritage line in Germany - one of the newest ones in fact - has promised the populace along the line that they won't allow any freight traffic on the line, even though the line was there before those peeps and was actually a major freight corridor in the 70's and 80's.
If a railroad line or anything else really is built after you move somewhere I can see some sense in complaint, but the fact that so many people think otherwise is nothing short of ridiculous.
WileeCoyote
poppins122325
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i wondered about that too unless the kicked up or jumped the road