Jeffed Car Talk - Now with Trainwrecks, Formerly with Manual Gearboxes
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Actually, it would probably be safer to follow the road straight away from the tracks.
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Or put the car in first gear and use the starter motor to break the barriers (in sweden, at least, they are designed to break)
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That's where we started.
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Ok. That's what happens when I am too lazy to actually read the entire thread. Sorry.
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Or put the car in first gear and use the starter motor to break the barriers (in sweden, at least, they are designed to break)
That'll work as well if and only if your problem's simply an engine stall -- it could be that your driveline has gone "clunk", or that you're high-centered on a humped crossing, and in both of those cases your starter motor is just as useless as your engine is when it comes to getting you out of the train's way.
Be sure to keep several meters of distance there. Do not walk right besides the tracks, you'll get sucked under the train and die a horrible death.
Sucked under, eh? Not that I've heard of; my understanding is that you only need to stay clear of the dynamic envelope, which is <1.5m from the outside of the rail...anyway, in the ditch, as I originally suggested, is more than safe enough.
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Well, here, the 'ditch' is at least 1m of water. The path next to the tracks is too close if the trains are going at full 130 km/h.
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Well, here, the 'ditch' is at least 1m of water.
Sheesh -- I didn't know you folks were in that much of a swamp!The path next to the tracks is too close if the trains are going at full 130 km/h.
I suspect that's actual dynamic envelope effects (i.e. equipment contact) not anything aerodynamic. Besides, where do your track workers hang out when a train is blowing through (your equivalent of) a Form B? (P.S. in US railroading, a Form B is a type of instruction that says to a train crew "call the person in charge of the worksite at MP such-and-such on your radio and he'll tell you if he can let you through or not"
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The one they're working is closed. So's the one next to. I don't think anywhere runs <2 trains per hour per direction here.
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BBC needs to fire Jeremy Clarkson and hire Rowan Atkinson instead. JC's petulant child schtick is really old, even if it was cute at first (like 15 years ago).
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I didn't know you folks were in that much of a swamp!
Those dykes are there for a reason you know ...
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Rowan Atkinson
I'm trying to imagine Mr. Bean making snarky reviews about 7-figure hypercars.
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Sucked under, eh? Not that I've heard of; my understanding is that you only need to stay clear of the dynamic envelope, which is <1.5m from the outside of the rail...anyway, in the ditch, as I originally suggested, is more than safe enough.
The aerodynamic effects aren't linear (as you might expect for anything to do with fluid mechanics). For a train doing, say, 40 or 50 miles an hour, they're not the main event at all. For a train doing, say, 120mph, they're really significant. Thus, when you've got crews working on the permanent way (but not on the track itself) you can get away with automated warning systems when the line speed is low; I think (based on what I've observed when commuting) that they hook them into the signalling circuits so that sirens sound if a train has permission to move on the section (with the sirens being disabled when no work is being done, of course).
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I'm trying to imagine Mr. Bean making snarky reviews about 7-figure hypercars.
I'm trying to imagine Blackadder not making snarky reviews about 7-figure hypercars!
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Only if they are cunning ...
“I have a cunning review, my liege!”
“You wouldn't know a cunning review if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing "Cunning plans are here again!"”
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Now compare that to having to work under noise curfews, in a busy urban area, with very limited space for construction easements, and massive queues of cars snaking around every single worksite....
To get to work in my city I need to get through three different railway level crossings, and one of them is on heavy public works duty (to finally make it go under level) on a big avenue crossing so I get all the traffic that gets deviated from the avenue in a single lane crossing.
It's fucking hell on earth every morning.
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danced naked on top of a harpsichord
Not a terribly good idea; harpsichords are not very sturdy.
Filed under: Discourse is a Jeffed trainwreck.
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It's fucking hell on earth every morning.
But if some of that is works to make it less hellish (am I interpreting what you said right) then you're left with sucking it up, or shifting working times. If you refuse to ever let people do anything that impinges on you, you guarantee a slow (and then not so slow) slide into mediocrity.
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Of course, I'm just complaining because poor planning means entire key points of the city are all in public works at once because of the coming elections in October. I'm all for improvements but sometimes you feel kinda dumb.
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singing "Cunning plans are here again!"”
I are
I read this as "cutting planes" and thought we were back to Maths.
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your solution:
get a work in the suburbsseriously, it's not dumb, it's downright idiocy. about 50% of the entry points are blocked in a way or another.
in a city that already has a major problem with transport.
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The interpretation kinda lingers
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Sheesh -- I didn't know you folks were in that much of a swamp!
Well, pumping to keep our feet dry kind of thing? That water has to travel somewhere. Dry ditches are rare.
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And it's already hatted awesomely! :)
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