• Railway Construction with Giant Machines
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This is nuts. [URL="http://dc132.file.qip.ru/flash/player.swf?file=http://dc132.file.qip.ru/img/135218468/cfbba8b3/dlink__2Fdownload_2Fx3UWWolQ_3Ftsid_3D20100723-132526-f1240c3b/preview.flv&image=http://dc132.file.qip.ru/img/135218468/cfbba8b3/aefc0a75_kak_kladut_relsi.flv&l"] Video Here[/URL]
The engineer who built that sure didn't lose his [i]train[/i] of thought.
Looks like all they're doing is replacing ballast and railroad ties.
Fucking iPhone cant download the video :argh:
I had no idea that kind of stuff even existed.. pretty cool if you ask me.
Jesus fuck, they really made a science of this, didn't they? Always thought it must be a nail-biting process to keep everything even and proper when constructing a railroad. But those machines? Man, regulation-spec is their ONLY setting. You almost expect something working so perfect to be in some wacky cartoon. I'm pretty sure I saw some of those in the "Atlas Shrugged" movie though. Speaking of, that movie was interesting and all, but given it won't get it's sequel, why the fuck would you divide it into three parts? It's a slow-damn movie. You could fit the whole thing into one if you just trimmed it down to the necessaries...
Trains are out of date, why are we even wasting resources building tracks.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;29882233]Trains are out of date, why are we even wasting resources building tracks.[/QUOTE] Because semi-trucks aren't THAT numerous or effective, and not every major city has an ocean-based harbor. The fuck do you think, dude? Ever notice when a train passes by, that it's followed by a skyscraper's bulk in various materials stretching about a mile behind it? A semi could barely haul ONE of those car-loads. Then consider just how many freight-trains you'll see pass by if you hang out at a rail-crossing long enough. Trains are no longer most effective means of transportation, but they've lasted well over a century because they can haul massive loads between hundreds of miles, surpassed in bulk only by cargo ships, each of which are bigger than the RMS Titanic was. For getting shit from a to b on LAND, there's no better alternative to this day.
Very interesting, it makes you wonder how it was in the past before we had these. Holy fuck it must've been torture.
A machine for everything... wow.
in the frist part theres a train on a train.
Video could've used a commentary.
[img]http://www.tf2.lv/images/tf2crafting/engineer.png[/img] [b]"I built that."[/b]
[QUOTE=Jimmaye;29882744]in the frist part theres a train on a train.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt53/Pct1995/Pics/YoDawg2.jpg[/img] But seriously that is fucking awesome, the machine is building rails on which it is driving on at the same time. Love the way it has a conveyor to take the excess gravel/rock from digging to pit which transports it over the sides of the rails to cover it up.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;29882233]Trains are out of date, why are we even wasting resources building tracks.[/QUOTE] I don't even.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;29884879]I don't even.[/QUOTE] I'm assuming he's never left the farmstead.
That is really clever, a train track on the wagons that run on the train tracks that makes train tracks. :psyduck:
[QUOTE=farmatyr;29885648]That is really clever, a train track on the wagons that run on the train tracks that makes train tracks. :psyduck:[/QUOTE] y ur avatar so big?
[QUOTE=Meloan;29878127]The engineer who built that sure didn't lose his [i]train[/i] of thought.[/QUOTE] ahahahahahahahhaahahahaaha
How hard is it to keep track of all of that?
The railroad on top of a railroad part had me laughing. [QUOTE=Ultimate7MK;29882424]Very interesting, it makes you wonder how it was in the past before we had these. Holy fuck it must've been torture.[/QUOTE] We just brought in thousands of Chinese slave laborers to work the railroads because we were too lazy to do it ourselves.
[QUOTE=nox;29889844]The railroad on top of a railroad part had me laughing. We just brought in thousands of Chinese slave laborers to work the railroads because we were too lazy to do it ourselves.[/QUOTE] Also, Irish workers. 'Cept we paid them a little.
Holy crap that is awesome.
Concrete ties? GENIOUS
Now if we had a device that could build railroad tracks and lay them down that'd be wonderful.
[QUOTE=angelangel;29885723]y ur avatar so big?[/QUOTE] probably someone who knows garry personally, like firerain
For those of you that are intrigued, It's a concrete tie track layer used for high speed rail construction. It's over a mile long and there's only two in the world currently; one in Germany and one in America. Wood is much to frail and flimsy to use on trains going at that speed, so concrete is the alternative.
Looks like chain gangs are out of a job...
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