[QUOTE=nox;52476516]Ping pong played at hypervelocity.
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Looks like a shot straight from a ping-pong anime
Boy watching a TV for the first time in a window shop.1948
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[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;52478955]Boy watching a TV for the first time in a window shop.1948
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I can already see people replacing that tv reflection with other things.
Postwar television was a magical thing.
Before the war Televisions were still very much a thing of novelty for the upper class with two or three stations broadcasting at least six hours per day. The sets were also in two styles: massive or ugly.
[img]http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk/MuseumHMV.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.earlytelevision.org/images/Silvertone_TT5.jpg[/img]
They were also very very crude in nature. The electronics were simply not there yet to produce high quality mass production sets. After the war however thanks to the many innovations and inventions made specifically for the field TV's were being manufactured as much higher quality devices.
[img]https://www.antiqueradio.org/art/RCA721TCSCabinetFinished.jpg[/img]
[img]https://antiqueradio.org/art/RCA630TS35.jpg[/img]
While miniaturization of components was one thing other advancements included more reliable components and better standardization between brands and signals. By 1951 there was 107 registered television stations operating in the United States alone. By the end of the 50's that number had more than tripled and likewise the cost per set for a television and dropped so low that you were hard pressed to find a reason NOT to own a television.
[img]http://gestionpyme.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/tv.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;52478984]I can already see people replacing that tv reflection with other things.[/QUOTE]
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I should Probably start making a photoshop contest.
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Dead Italian soldier clutching a photo of (presumably) his child. WW2
[QUOTE=EcksDee;52478523]Looks like a shot straight from a ping-pong anime[/QUOTE]
since i figured it'd fit the thread, here's what a ping-pong anime looks like:
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[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AluWV2yyGNA/VOpRR4iKLwI/AAAAAAAAXtY/kVHPKPKlmqU/s1600/ping%2Bpong%2B4.gif[/img]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/s7ZA1hu.jpg[/t]
[t]http://puu.sh/wNJw1/650b409caf.jpg[/t]
from [url=https://myanimelist.net/anime/22135/Ping_Pong_The_Animation]Ping Pong The Animation[/url]
This is what happens when a locomotive is wrecked multiple times and repaired with parts from other railroads without bothering to repaint any of it.
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Turns out this is the real story about it:
[QUOTE]By 1995 the WC had assembled quite a group of experienced craftsmen at North Fond du Lac Diesel. Always on the look out for ways to upgrade the power on the system, WC had bought three ex CSX GP40's that had definitely seen better days. After quite a bit of shop time this former Seaboard System wreck was made whole and operational. In this photo it is ready to depart Shops for a full WC paint job at the WSOR in Horicon. It would be renumbered in the process and emerge as WC 3018. It is quite the kit bash incorporating parts from the original unit plus many parts from wrecked WC 3015 along with a BN cab and short hood via VMV.[/QUOTE]
Here is what it looks like now:
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If you ever wondered how the legs of a cyclist look like after 16 stages of the Tour de France, Paweł Poljański has the answer for you: [URL="https://www.instagram.com/p/BWshQ0FhGhY/?hl=en"]NSFW (No blood)[/URL]
[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;52487404]This is what happens when a locomotive is wrecked multiple times and repaired with parts from other railroads without bothering to repaint any of it. [/QUOTE]
Locomotives are amazingly durable.
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This GG1 is probably the best example. The thing loses it's brakes due to a cutout valve being snagged closed, and ploughs into the station a week before the inauguration of Eisenhower. Somehow nobody was killed, and only minor injuries sustained by anyone. With the inauguration coming up, it was decided the best thing to do was fully lower the engine into the basement, put up a temporary floor, cut the locomotive frame into 12 sections, wait for traffic to subside and crane it out. Then it was sent to altoona and welded the hell back together, where it served the latter half of it's 50 year life, and still survives to this day.
[T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/PRR4876.JPG[/T]
GG1's are fucking indestructible.
Supposedly there exists a photo of the nose of this thing having just bonked the door of a waiting room open, but i've yet to see it. I'd also like to know how well those welds are holding up 60 years on. Supposedly the G's had poor metallurgy due to 30's metal, and the frames started to crystalize and crack in the later years of life. I have a feeling the welds are now the strongest part of the frame.
It's a shame - looks like the museum looking after that locomotive has abandoned it. They have apparently had it sitting on a siding outside since 1983. :(
Yeah there's a couple GG1's that look pretty sad. The worst offender being the prototype, 4800
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/GG1_in_Lebanon_Station.jpg[/t] [T]http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/9/2/8/5928.1393348039.jpg[/T] [t]http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/54287/gg1 4800 strasburg 6-2-2012.jpg[/t] [T]http://img03.deviantart.net/bf63/i/2013/110/d/1/prr_gg1_prototype_4800_by_rlkitterman-d5marpo.jpg[/T] [T]https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16684021_1041356635994360_7188398731360018764_n.jpg?oh=a37bc3ca0b67ad4a9d383373f1ed8fa9&oe=5A007ACC[/T]
It's the oldest of the lot, and it's been sitting outside forever, and they even took away it's pinstripes. Which is obviously an unforgivable crime.
I wonder why there are no (or at least not many) heritage railways using electric locomotives. They have to be cheaper to keep running than steam.
Well steam is what brings in the people, nobody really cares about something that goes "wrrrrr". And also while the locos as a unit are cheaper and easier to deal with, the infastructure is order of magnitude not. Any heritage place with a digger and the knowhow can maintain a roadbed, but that roadbed plus overhead wire, relay stations, transformers etc, not so much.
Fair enough. I just hate seeing old machines languishing in the weather. The GG1 looks so classically art deco.
Looks like all of these have been parked by their transformers blowing.
Vancouver ran a heritage streetcar for a number of years. Service ran from Science World to Granville Island and the tourists loved it because it was a hassle-free direct route instead of making at least one bus transfer to reach the island.
[img]http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/cms/binary/9652684.jpg?size=sw620x65[/img][img]https://stephenrees.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/1231_at_crosing_point.jpg[/img]
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They ran it until around 2008 or 2009 when they decided to rebuild the grade for a Bombardier streetcar. It ran on the renamed "Olympic Line" until after the 2010 winter games, then it was shipped back to Brussels.
[img]http://www.heritagetrolley.org/images/Vancouver11.jpg[/img]
Not long after the line fell into disrepair because the city refused to renew the operating license for the trolley and Vision Vancouver abruptly stopped caring about funding because they were too busy with chinese dicks up their asses. The eastmost arm of the line had the Olympic village built on top of it. The remaining line has long since been stripped of any and all copper. The trolley and another mysterious car has been hiding under a tarp in a fenced compound ever since.
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The city caved once for funding repairs but only $400000. They seemingly do not want to put more in because SURPRISE! There is [i]an investor in Asia[/i] offering several tens of millions for the right of way due to its prime location for revelopment.
Problem with the GG1's is twofold. For one, as stated above the frames aren't the best in terms of metallurgy and they're not in great condition. Second is that their primary transformers had to be ripped out and scrapped due to the use of PCB oil, which allegedly also contaminated most of the other switchgear so power wise, they're basically gutted.
I'd also reckon that if they were to be looked at for operation again, their traction motors are probably in pretty bad shape and would need to be rebuilt/replaced. You might see one rolling again, but there's a good chance that it won't be under its own power.
Then again I also said that they'd never build a T-1 from scratch and it looks like that might happen so idk
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52496382]I wonder why there are no (or at least not many) heritage railways using electric locomotives. They have to be cheaper to keep running than steam.[/QUOTE]
The Illinois Railway Museum operates some electric locomotives and street cars although they're mostly known for Frisco 1630.
[video=youtube;_1uqEwjwTr4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1uqEwjwTr4[/video]
At 3:10.
But steam locomotives generally attract more attention, hell Union Pacific refers to 844 as a PR atomic bomb due to how many people it brings to the tracks when it passes through somewhere and look at any video of NKP 765 and N&W 611.
It's kinda cool but also kinda weird how there are train people, plane people, car people, boat people, who just nerd out about these things but not the other things. How does that happen?
I don't know. Personally I'm not a [I]train person[/I] specifically, I just love machines and machinery. Trains, planes and automobiles and everything in between fascinates me.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52498315]I don't know. Personally I'm not a [I]train person[/I] specifically, I just love machines and machinery. Trains, planes and automobiles and everything in between fascinates me.[/QUOTE]
I'm just as fascinated by industrial blowing engines as i am steam engines or cars or whatever. I'm a sucker for complicated moving parts that do something amazing. Bonus points for anything designed on a drafting table and not on a computer. That math is complicated yo.
[QUOTE=papkee;52497343]Problem with the GG1's is twofold. For one, as stated above the frames aren't the best in terms of metallurgy and they're not in great condition. Second is that their primary transformers had to be ripped out and scrapped due to the use of PCB oil, which allegedly also contaminated most of the other switchgear so power wise, they're basically gutted.
I'd also reckon that if they were to be looked at for operation again, their traction motors are probably in pretty bad shape and would need to be rebuilt/replaced. You might see one rolling again, but there's a good chance that it won't be under its own power.
Then again I also said that they'd never build a T-1 from scratch and it looks like that might happen so idk[/QUOTE]
I don't think the frames are un-workable. Only a few of the frames failed in later years, so i'm sure there's one solid platform of the 16 remaining. But the amount of guts you'd have to replace to get one running on the modern grid is so great that it'd basically be a modern engine running on a GG1 chassis and shell. And at that point it's a GG1 in the same way a promod is the car it preports to be. It's just a shell with the right sticker on the front but nothing else.
I'd rather that than see the shells rotting away to nothing, abandoned on some siding somewhere. Those things are works of art.
The Jupiter trojans, commonly called Trojan asteroids or just Trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun.
[img]http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/files/2015/02/Petr-Sheirich-2005-our-solar-system-in-motion.gif[/img]
Mercury needs to chill the fuck out.
Mercury:
:excited:
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