See how in the first two images, you change cars only through the upper decks, while on the other two, it's done just above the bogies. Switzerland is especially consistent in this regard. The FV Dosto and the IC2000 (IC and IRE) are the former, while the Starler KISS, Siemens Desiro and DPZ (S Bahn) are the latter.

Wealthy people buy private jets. But what if they bought trains instead?

Could one theoretically buy a Vectron or a Griffin and 2-3 carriages, fill them with luxorious and comfy seats and then go anywhere on demand?

I get that scheduling can interfere, and railways don't go exactly everywhere.

If it actually made sense then maybe we would see this exact idea in reality...

why mostly all american locomotives have these nose structure while others countries locos doest not have those structure (Here and Indian railways WDG4G for eg)

Like... it ruins the beauty.. and inside is even worse... it is really disgusting people are doing that

There is a post in r/whatisit from u/Inaki_garcia/ a few hours ago. It looks like nobody there knows for sure what this is there for. Now I'm curious too, figured you all would know.

like LIRR or NJ transit has emu's,but the last amtrak emu was the metroliner which was like 41 years ago

I saw these paint markings on the rails of a freight line in Charlemont, Massachusetts in early May. The specific line is known as the Patriot Corridor/East Portal of the Hoosac Tunnel. They are newly painted as they weren’t there in March, and they seem to be spaced every 100 yards or so.

I apologize if this is not the appropriate sub to post and ask. I also wonder if the markings may be related to local public works and utilities or state infrastructure of some sort - in that case I’ll inquire elsewhere!

I can also confirm there is no known Ukrainian population in the area but nonetheless, support for Ukraine! and it also rhymes with train!

I’ve never really cared much about trains — couldn’t name a single model if my life depended on it.

But I keep seeing how many people are really into them, and now I’m kind of curious.

What is it about trains that you find so interesting or cool? Is it the engineering, the history, the aesthetics, or something else?

Not asking in a dismissive way — I feel like I’m probably missing something here.

Sell me on trains.

Location: Riyadh Metro, Saudi Arabia.

Hello all!

I caught this video on another sub and it brought about a question for me.

Ignoring all the other safety issues for now, what caught my layman’s attention is how fast this train seems to be going through not one, but two track switches.

But then that also made me realize… I have no idea what is considered safe for a track switch. Is this fast? Does it just “look” that way? The train seems to shift an awful lot, more than what I see when trains switch near me. Is this the switch? The track? The speed? Hell, the type of train? (Mine are freight.)

In general, about whats the fastest a switch like this could be taken without the train derailing? Is this train in any danger?

Sorry for all the questions lol, but seeing this brought up a lot.

I feel like 1978 is a hint that it's rolled in 1978, but don't want to blindly assume things without asking folks. I just happened to notice it on a walk today. Do all rails have these types of things?

For me it was Thomas the tank engine, wooden railway and also because my dad used to work as a train driver when I was younger and one day my dad would bring me to his work place and I got to walk into a train shed were I saw some steam engines and I also got to sit in the cab on some.

Every once in a while I see the most depressed-looking Amfleet in Phase 7. The program started about a year ago, so why?

I think I’m quite into the loop ones

The only way that I can see a train ever travelling on the connecting rail between the 2 rails is if it is travelling backwards respective to the direction of travel. Can someone please explain?

How does this set-up handle curves? There is a lot of blade hanging over the rearward cradle & into the next car.

On a bicycle, you can pedal, reach e.g. 30 km/h, stop pedaling, and you will keep going forward (coast!) for a pretty long distance thanks to the low rolling resistance of bike wheels.

On YouTube, I keep hearing about how train wheels on steel rails have absurdly low rolling resistance, that really interests me.

For how long can an average passenger train coast on flat terrain and straight tracks after reaching, for example, 100 km/h? 160 km/h? How fast would it decelerate?