So Cred Forums i live in Preston. Meaning im surrounded by railway tracks...

So Cred Forums i live in Preston. Meaning im surrounded by railway tracks. My autistic brain has learned the difference between loco engine tones, to the the point i can hear one and go "class 37" (fucking beast) or "class 66" or whatever. My wife says I'm Weird. What's Cred Forumss opinion on trains?

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She's right, I think you should broaden your horizons, move to Crewe

In my opinion, they are machines that travel along tracks.

My opinion is that most people are similar to trains in that they have enough steam to blow the whistle but not enough steam to run the train.

Trains are cool

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I've been to Crewe. It's very grey and sad. It's like its just there because all of its residents couldn't be botherd to hang themselves.

Thanks dude, i think so too

Class 37 is what, 100 tons for 1750 horsepower? Hardly a beast.

Yeah but the noise it make shakes the entire house. It's all mouth and no trousers.

Crewe is there because of the Crew interchange. So many more trains for you to identify, you'd be in trainspotting heaven

Trains are ok.

I have a similar OCD thing; I saw the Blue Angels when I was 4 & have wanted to be a pilot ever since. That was over 30 years ago & I'm still not a pilot.

So I compensate: I study aircraft. I've lived in the flight path for Sea/Tac, Charlotte & BWI over the years & have gotten (I think) pretty damn good identifying various airframes. But I don't go by the sound; have to go by silhouette. Pretty gratifying sometimes.

Just look at all those lines Cred Forumsro. Imagine the trains.

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Yeah i know, I'm just being sardonic. They have the APT at the the heritage centre. And a tiny little train that runs about the place, its pretty cool

Show us your wife

100 ton of shite....anybody who likes them a retarded homos

Yeah jets are cool af. Never seen the blue angels but my aunty pats farm is next to RAF scampton. (red arrows home base) so when we visit we get to see them practicing.

Ten years ago I was in Preston for uni. Still a depressing shithole?

I lived near the train tracks too. Did they knock down the mental asylum? Always wanted to go in there

Have you guys ever heard of Stobe the hobo? He’s a very articulate and autistic hobo who makes his own train hopping videos. They’re sort of a mix between travel shows and how to vids. He meets lots of other homeless and drinks all day on trains while shit talking the railroads and society. It’s great. He actually died by being hit by a train a couple years ago but he shall live on. Check him out on youtube.

Yeah depreston is still shit. Whittingham?

Been a locomotive engineer for a decade now. I hate trains. AMA.

Have a tit, you tit

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You ever run anyone over?

I unironically feel like OP would genuinely enjoy 1chan.

Call me old fashioned, but I think trains are kick-ass

I haven’t hit anyone with the head end of a train yet but killed a homeless guy last year who was either trying to get on or off the train 80 cars back. Next train through the area found the body and upon further investigation the yard crew found chunks of his head on one of the cars.

Trains are Great. I'm doing the lovely Bergen-Oslo trip soon

>80 cars back
Fucking hell here the max length is 23 cars. Gauging is a bitch

You killed hobo with a shotgun?!?!

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Biggest mixed freight I’ve run here is around 150 cars bit 50-60 is the norm these days for road trains. Intermodal shave dropped from 10,000 feet to about 4,000 feet. Yay trade wars.

Forgot to mention that most of our track is shit too. Gauge & surface issues mostly with a healthy side of sperry rails.

I live near crewe. Its depressing and known to the locals as 'little Poland'

BR's most versatile diesel. Southern Region FTW.

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Have you (driven? Operated?) the one with the gas turbine engine?

I got the same thing with aircraft.
I live close to a large international Airport, and I can always tell the model and manufacturer, even if they're a few km flying overhead. Also i can tell turbojets from turbofans just by the noise, sometimes there's fighters flying over our area and I always know before seeing them just by the noise.
My gf thinks I'm a little autistic for this.

Class 33. Underpowerd turds when it entered service. Frequently had to get kettles to rescue it.

Diesel is getting old. We are considering replacing our remaining with either battery or hydrogen trains. Battery trains would have catenary at some stations and so on.

Choo choo

Sounds gay. Don't you have live third rail down there? Just use the infrastructure you have instead of making 'eat the bugs instead of meat' jobs for your self's

Indeed m8....indeed

I'm the same with plane engines, Having lived in flight paths my whole life. Can tell what plane is flying overhead without even looking at it

No other diesel could do what a 33/1 can. Still can't now.

How can you tell an airbus from a Boeing if some of them use the same engines?
Plane nerd myself, calling your bluff.

Your GF is wrong. I don't see anything wrong with enjoying what your town has to offer. If you lived in the countryside, around farms and cattle owners, you would have probably tried to learn more about animals. Or exploring the area.

This is an interesting thread and I'm not even into planes or trains

Preston has the best bus station in the world.

A320s have a higher pitch whine than the 737

Full frontal

Not weird at all. I used to live right next to a set of tracks that ran straight to the biggest heavy industry area in the American Midwest--steel mills, refineries, power plants--and trains with 10,000 ton loads would roar past at 70 mph with 6 engines up front--a solid mile of coal or iron ore pellets or petrochemicals of one kind or another. There were plenty of times I hated the long interruptions of all that racket, and others that I enjoyed the spectacle of it as reassuring in its combined might & dependability. It's all still up and running, but because of automation employs a fraction of the people it used to.

#1 suicide spot in Lancashire

I am quite jealous of yank trains. That are fucking huge and sound awesome.

Move to Wales, where you can learn to identify whether it's the local farmer in his New Holland TS115 or if it's the contractor in his Case CVX.

Pretty jealous when I saw Honey Boo Boo’s back yard

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And how do you tell an a330 from a Boeing 777?
They are have the exact same engines and are very similarly proportioned.

I just can't believe you man.

Though the sound isn't hard on the ears up-close, like when you're walking along the tracks when one of those trains passes, the tremendous mid-bass can be a little disorienting for how hard it shakes your ribcage. Among the quieter engines, some of those used by the Metra commuter line of Chicago have a beautiful turbine-like purr, so someone posted a clip on a sound-porn thread in /wsg/.

Nope. Just diesel/electric.

they also have wheels

in order to travel along said tracks

Wrong. Some float on magnets

What is so unique about the 33/1?

>I live in Preston
Fucking Hell lad I feel sorry for you

It could have been worse. Imagine if he lived in Basingstoke.

This is the type of thing autismo used to mean before today. Also jay kay could tell you the year and modal of a Ferrari by the sound of the door closing.

68s are the best locos.

youre not really autistic or even special. you just paid attention. nobody gives a fuck.

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More wife tits ... bonus if she’s flashing in front of or on a train ... I’d fap to that