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Post by calzephyr on Apr 15, 2013 11:46:51 GMT -8
Photobucket is not working again with their updates, but the picture below works if you click on it. Strange looking Talgo train. Larry
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2013 20:13:50 GMT -8
I was on Photobucket today and I can officially say.....it sucks pond water. You can't break down the photos into sub-albums, to keep things tidy, because this forum will not accept the link. If you post the photo in your general album, everything between this forum and Photobucket is ducky!
I don't know what genius thinks these talgo trains are a "great idea" for the knock on the articulated Zephyrs, M-10000, etc. was they were highly inflexible. You couldn't delete cars during slow periods, you couldn't add cars during heavy ridership and if one car breaks....the whole train is broke!
He who ignores history is destined to repeat it........
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Post by bigzmn on Apr 15, 2013 23:49:33 GMT -8
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but that thing is just straight out ugly.
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Post by calzephyr on Apr 16, 2013 5:54:57 GMT -8
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but that thing is just straight out ugly. We all can agree on that being ugly. Larry
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Post by calzephyr on Apr 16, 2013 6:00:03 GMT -8
I was on Photobucket today and I can officially say.....it sucks pond water. You can't break down the photos into sub-albums, to keep things tidy, because this forum will not accept the link. If you post the photo in your general album, everything between this forum and Photobucket is ducky! I don't know what genius thinks these talgo trains are a "great idea" for the knock on the articulated Zephyrs, M-10000, etc. was they were highly inflexible. You couldn't delete cars during slow periods, you couldn't add cars during heavy ridership and if one car breaks....the whole train is broke! He who ignores history is destined to repeat it........ Jim Photobucket has continued to get harder to use since the new version was installed recently. The Talgo was interesting and is used for commuter service in the Northwest area around Seattle. It was being moved by Amtrak after FRA testing in Colorado. Those cars are really low in height when you compare them to a normal passenger car. Larry
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Post by jlong on Jun 8, 2013 15:48:23 GMT -8
That is one fugly train! Whatever happened to E6 styling???
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Post by trebor on Jun 26, 2013 6:13:38 GMT -8
This is what happens when non-railfan yuppie scum play with real trains. They don't kmow about or recall the Aero-Train, Commet, Turbo's Keystones etc that really were shots in the dark. Railroads are a slow evolving industry by nature and need. Some ideas work and evolve, others don't. Articulation is a bad idea and always will be. Lower initial cost and operating cost may be lower, but long run maintenance and flexibility issues usually outweigh the benefit.
Back to P70's and GG1's!!!!!!!!
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Post by mlehman on Jun 26, 2013 23:01:42 GMT -8
I'm not so sure they even had yuppies in 1942 when the first Talgo patents were issued to the newly incorporated company. In Spain. If you're talking about that weird-looking control cab, I suspect that wasn't yuppies either, but some US-based engineers, who might be geeks, but who just don't sweat that cultural stuff too much. There are requirements for crew protection and crumple zones that the straight-up Talgo doesn't meet in the US. I had a buddy who rode out a crossing-at-grade accident in your standard low-hood configuration. Even the modified one looks a little scary to me to by my office every day. But the view would be great, the pay excellent, and the work enjoyable. In Europe, the loading gauge is smaller and there's a variety other railcars also running, as well as Spain's long-standing operation of the Talgo on many routes. So they get sleek new Talgos, which do have some, ahem, rather strange styling cues. We get the really ugly ones. With the mix of equipment that operates in North America, efforts to improve survivability are something worthwhile.
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Post by John Sheridan on Jul 8, 2013 4:54:48 GMT -8
Photobucket is not working again with their updates, but the picture below works if you click on it. Strange looking Talgo train. Larry Rode on it a few years back from Seattle to Vancouver. Not too ugly IMO when everything is coupled together as a unit.
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Post by sd80macs on Jul 8, 2013 9:54:04 GMT -8
I'm not so sure they even had yuppies in 1942 when the first Talgo patents were issued to the newly incorporated company. In Spain. If you're talking about that weird-looking control cab, I suspect that wasn't yuppies either, but some US-based engineers, who might be geeks, but who just don't sweat that cultural stuff too much. There are requirements for crew protection and crumple zones that the straight-up Talgo doesn't meet in the US. I had a buddy who rode out a crossing-at-grade accident in your standard low-hood configuration. Even the modified one looks a little scary to me to by my office every day. But the view would be great, the pay excellent, and the work enjoyable. The view out of these things isnt the best, LOL
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Post by mlehman on Jul 8, 2013 10:23:24 GMT -8
Mark, Thanks for the great pics. Those are some impressive looking collision posts. Yeah, the view is somewhat more restrictive than I imagined, but I think it'd make me more comfortable if it was my office everyday knowing they're where they're at for a reason.
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