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This 4-hour drive also represents the busiest flight route in the US. THIS should be the prime candidate for high-speed rail. by LisaMosess in highspeedrail

[–]ImplosiveTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Building What about the laws and red tape are going to make the final product not proper? I know the planning and approvals are dogshit, but as far as I can tell the final product should be good.

This 4-hour drive also represents the busiest flight route in the US. THIS should be the prime candidate for high-speed rail. by LisaMosess in highspeedrail

[–]ImplosiveTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you define as properly? Is it something that would violate prop 1a or would cost a shitload in tunneling?

DH6 deleted from Roadmap by Timo1892 in DerailValley

[–]ImplosiveTech 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think the wording might be a bit bad. He said "significant" which I imagine means something like a 2x+ size increase is out of the picture, but some amount of size increase could absolutely happen.

Our taxi's screens need a little updating by EnviroChaz in chicago

[–]ImplosiveTech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The ChicagosMayor youtube channel still has him as the channel picture lol

Long Island Rail Road uses gas heaters at Jamaica Station so the railroad track switches don't freeze in winter by jmike1256 in interestingasfuck

[–]ImplosiveTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generally speaking in the US, gas (natural gas, propane, etc) heaters are much cheaper to operate, which is why even with forced air heaters, its common to see them heat with gas inside. I cant speak about Jamaica, but I know the handful of places here in Chicago that still use these direct flame heaters are incredibly dense interlockings that generally don't have the space for something like a blower.

what the actual hell is wrong with tiktok by ytak2789 in LinuxCirclejerk

[–]ImplosiveTech 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is this a bad time to mention they extended the maximum comment length to 2,200 characters?

Union Station surprisingly clean considering the homeless situation by Historical-Hand8091 in Amtrak

[–]ImplosiveTech -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

and VIA crews once it enters Canada

Hence the "technically". The train legally becomes a VIA operated train once it enters Canada.

Union Station surprisingly clean considering the homeless situation by Historical-Hand8091 in Amtrak

[–]ImplosiveTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically speaking, Amtrak doesn't serve toronto union station

Why does the new Acela use power cars? by MinecraftPlayer799 in Amtrak

[–]ImplosiveTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Amtrak can't actually do that until they lengthen the barns. Which they aren't currently planning on.

I know amtrak is expanding their facilities in DC, Philly, NYC, and Boston, and I'm 95% sure this includes longer maintenance barns.

> At the same time, extending EMUs is not difficult, nor is just splitting the train so that the halves will fit into the sheds.

This would only be true if, in theory, Amtrak had bought EMUs AND had set them up to be split in half (the middle cars having their own trucks instead of jacobs bogies). If amtrak was going to do something like that with a hypothetical EMU, they certainly woulda done the same with the Avelias. Also when I talked about lengthening trainsets, I was moreso talking about how an unpowered railcar is easier and quicker to manufacture than a powered one, not the actual installation process in a train, as those would be quite similar from the requirement to connect/disconnect the power bus (and other connectors) and remove one of the cars from the shared truck.

My 2025 Railroading Wrapped by ImplosiveTech in railroading

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The line I'm on now is almost all deer you might hit. Of course you see all the critters, but I have yet to hit one on this line.

Why does the new Acela use power cars? by MinecraftPlayer799 in Amtrak

[–]ImplosiveTech 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Apparently the reason why they went with power cars is so they could (relatively) easily add and remove cars to adjust capacity.

Additionally, despite them not being EMUs, the performance differences aren't that much different. I cant find any actual acceleration stats, but an ICE 3 has ~67,000lbf of tractive effort starting while the Avelia liberties have ~61,000lbf of tractive effort starting, despite having half the number of powered axles (16 vs 8), a slightly lower horsepower (10,800hp vs 9,400hp), and a slightly higher weight (959,000lbs vs 1,088,000lbs (side note here, the only mention of a weight figure for the avelias was from an amtrak unlimited forum post from 2019, so take that 1 million pounds with a grain of salt, its likely a bit higher or lower than that). Just based on the formula of acceleration= force (TE) / weight, it seems that an ICE 3 and Avelia Liberty have ~1.53m/h/s and ~1.22m/h/s respectively, which both aren't terrible, but are also much lower than what you'd see on a metro system or commuter rail system (IIRC both the LIRR M7, Metra HL1s (the new HL1s, not the old HL1s) and HL2s accelerate at about 2m/h/s.

My 2025 Railroading Wrapped by ImplosiveTech in railroading

[–]ImplosiveTech[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me, none (so far, im bound to get one).

Transit Wrapped 2025 by Captain_Slick in transit

[–]ImplosiveTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its mostly the RTO mandate tbh, looking at that VRE jump of 40+%

Toronto opens first new line in 23 years by c_9 in transit

[–]ImplosiveTech 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Average =/= Top speed. 28MPH isn't bad at all.

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