We had streamlined duplex locos plus its not like were using compound steam when we have simple steam expansion and besides the Union Pacific Big Boys could average a top speed of 80 mph so why is it we didn't get an articulated streamliner during the steam era in any form and on any country's railway network.

Hi there,

First time poster and am hoping this is the right place! Please remove if I should be posting somewhere else. I live in Michigan and This project has been going on for the better part of almost 2 years it seems and I have been curious as to what is going on here. It’s got security there 24/7. Thanks in advance!

It's a daily occurrence in summer time. Drivers never know how to respond once the Santa Cruz Big Trees & Pacific passenger train starts its journey northbound. July 2022.

Canon 7D Mark II
Canon EF 70-200mm ƒ4L
ASA 100.

Big steam power that fly under the radar. My picks:
- Milwaukee Road #261
- Spokane, Portland & Seattle #700
- Texas & Pacific #610
- Grand Trunk Western #6325

NY Central and Hudson River Railroad wreck, Batavia, NY, February 18, 1885. The little engine thought he could.

Plus Fort Wayne acquired the Great Steel Fleet coaches, that would pair up with 3001 really well.

Great trip from Fairbanks to Denali, then Anchorage. Final stretch from Seward back to Anchorage was stunning.

Intercity Notte (Night Train) 795, from Turin to Reggio Calabria, seen today in Monterosso al Mare, Italy.

Here it is as it pulls into KC (compressed video tho because of course there's a 1GB limit and the original is 1.4GB)

From Australia to see the Big Boy and caught this going past

This is probably a controversial opinion, and I want to preface this with the obligatory “4014 is a marvel of engineering and its pretty neat to see one of its class running on rails,” but uh…

I am over hearing about it at this point. Also, thank you to the people who are posting content that has nothing to
do with 4014 on here.

is this just me?

Believe this to be a N&W train derailment in Virginia in years past

I feel like we live in times where we should absolutely do everything to nudge people into taking more trains than more polluting alternative like cars and flights, to avoid climate change to turn europe into a desert and render many countries in the south unlivable by humans.

However still if you want to travel from Brussels to Eurostar kind of spontaneously you often see absurd prices like over 300€ one way. In contrast in Japan people seem to take the shinkansen as you would take the metro: you just arrive at the station by a fixed-rate ticket and hop in the next train leaving from your station.

Eurostar but also SNCF and Deutsche Bahn still seem to be applying dynamic pricing to a large extent, and ticketing policies are pretty unflexible (annoying cancellation fees, weird conditions for getting discounts). I feel like this still discourages a lot of train travels and creates modal shift to cars and flights just because of the uncertainty of the total cost of the trips. Actually this research paper (not mine, but found it pretty interesting) studies the extra co2 emission that might be induced by dynamic pricing https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18/6/2802 .

This leads to my question: is it true that eventually HSR companies should aim for flat-rates and much more flexible train tickets? Or are dynamic pricing and rigid ticketing policies etc fundamentally necessary to keep prices affordable? Can Eurostar, ICE or TGV do better to make spontaneous travel by high speed rail trivially easier than flying or driving?

I just feel like that's kind of a low-tech, low-hanging fruit solution to decarbonize transport.