Can we learn train Capacity?

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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I think Amtrak you learn from India. [bow]

  1. Can anyone find the engineer?

  2. Look at the guy in the front coupler… Hard core Railfan!

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And everyone wonders why India has SOOOOOOO many passenger train accidents.

Nice photo though.

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Wait’ll they get up to 79 mph…

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I would like to see train go thru a tunnel [8D] then, let’s see how many are still on the train.

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Better yet hit an open Drawbridge. Yes I am being Sarcastic

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I wonder how many of those outside riders actually bought tickets. How would you check?

For that matter, is there any catenary mileage in India?

Do they run a cleanup car after the train, to gather the remains of the people who fall off?

Just a few random thoughts from someone who insists on riding inside the cars.

Chuck

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Few thoughts. Is a dual guage route and the train appears to be the norrow guage as the front left side does not hang over the outside rail.

Concrete ties are very close together maybe gecause of the overloading of the wheels with so many people. Maybe even exceeds US wheel loadings?

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Okay,

At what speed will the3 men on the coupler’s toenails drag on the concrete ties and the two other’s tenny’s blow apart?[:-,]

Anybody else remember the You Tube video that was posed on the FORUM awhile back, about the man who while standing on the top of a passenger car stretched up and grabbed the overhead catenary to steady himself?[xx(][angel]or[#oops]

( In response to the poster who asked if there were any electrification in India.)[}:)]

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I wonder were the engine and cooling fan exhausts are on that locomotive. Where are the lawyers?

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  1. If you notice the guy with the coffin getting ready for another dead body.

  2. The guy wearing a mask concern about his health plan instead watching his step. [X-)]

  3. Then we have the flag guy thinking he’s going to hold the flag at 79 mph.

Priceless!!![banghead]

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They are all more than likely HP’s tech support team headed to work at their local office. I wonder how many have the name Jim or Bob on their ID’s

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[:-,] I wonder how the engineer/ ‘driver’ sees through those corrugated sheet metal windows - even if they’re just metal grilles on the outside, and some kind of shade or sheet metal cover for the window on the inside ? No question about why they would be needed, though . . .

Perhaps this is the rear of the train - it’s heading away from the photographer ? That would make the hangers-on at the coupler slightly less reckless . . .

blue streak 1 - Good question, but passenger loadings are almost always way less than freight loadings. Let’s assume there are 10 people across per each foot on length of train, and that they are each crammed into 1 sq. ft. of space, and weigh 100 lbs. (Yes, many - including me - weigh much more, like double that - but then we also take up somewhat more space = square feet. So, I think i

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PDN: My reasons for the loading question is that as I understand it; in the US maximum axel loadings are a function of the wheel diameter to spread the weight over a longer distance on a rail. The Narrow guage loco in the picture definitely has smaller wheels but size unknown. As for each size wheel loading I have no idea. As noted the concrete ties (sleepers in their vocabulary) seem much closer than in the US reducing rail deflection when wheel is between sleepers. Do they have a different standard than Cooper’s or does it apply anywhere?

ie does the formula take in account rail weight, cross section height, space between weight bearing tie plates, wheel diameter, or anything else? edit to add this question.

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Priceless!