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Originally Posted by Braineack
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for joe:
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SILVER LINE TWO WEEKS[/IMG]
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Originally Posted by rleete
(Post 1146882)
I worked at Morrison-Knudsen in the late 1980's to mid 1990's.
Originally Posted by rleete
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R-44 was interesting, because I got a very free hand designing the cab/control consoles, so it was sink or swim all on my own efforts.
Originally Posted by rleete
(Post 1146882)
R-44 chassis were made a very long time ago, and they varied in length by over a foot from shortest to longest.
Is that why the seating configuration on them is so weird? https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1404950634 |
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Ukrainian Astronomers Officially Name a Star "Putin is a Dickhead"
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1404952799 The Kepler Astroseismic Science Consortium has a funding project called the Pale Blue Dot Project, which allows anyone to purchase naming rights to a star for the astronomically (see what I did there?) low price of $10.00. A group of Ukrainian astronomers did just that, and elected to name a star "Putin-Huilo," with "huilo" being Ukrainian slang for "dickhead," "asѕhole," or "dipѕhit." The astronomers got the name from Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia's now-famous outburst in June, in which he yelled "Putin is a dickhead!" in front of an angry crowd outside the Russian embassy in Kiev. The diss may seem rather pedestrian to the rest of us, but it's rather unique coming from a government official. The Kremlin called for Deshchytsia's resignation after the outburst, to which Deshchytsia presumably replied "lol no." |
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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I love urban infrastructure, especially those cute little mini-metro systems like DC, Chicago and St. Louis.
Pfft, those are goliaths compared to some. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1404955302 https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1404955302 Look at how cute. |
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future dc metro cars under test:
http://wamu.org/sites/wamu.org/files...?itok=t9m5I6M2 https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1404956110 https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1404956110 the faster they replace the 1000 series, the faster they can stop worrying that a collision wont squoosh the cars flat. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...oto_422860.jpg Right now they have the 1000 series cars restricted to internal positions only. |
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Originally Posted by Erat
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Mini-metro systems?
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1404958548 Tokyo's subway system: http://www.bento.com/pix/subway/subway5.gif Ive heard that even the locals get lost inside some of the bigger stations. |
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Originally Posted by Erat
(Post 1146939)
Mini-metro systems?
Pfft, those are goliaths compared to some. (Detroit) Look at how cute. When you look at the NYC Subway, things start to get impressive. 232 route-miles of track, and 5.4 million riders per day. That's 79x the entire population of Detroit. Per day. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1404958793 |
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To spare you of long and boring stories that i don't even really feel like typing. Our public transport and metro systems are non existent in this city.
Mainly because we were the car capital of the world. Everyone owned a car here, thus the city streets were built accordingly. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1404958837 A random google image of a random street in the city of Detroit. 8 lanes with a turn lane. They're all like this and bigger. Normal random side roads 4 or even 6 lanes wide. One way streets 5 lanes wide. It's pretty cool to see and drive on. Rarely ever congestion. |
Originally Posted by Full_Tilt_Boogie
(Post 1146957)
Tokyo's subway system:
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Mandatory Fun is nearly upon us.
And soon, I shall rejoin the ranks of car-owners. |
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Originally Posted by thirdgen
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He says there's a subway that goes from Manhattan to NJ?
http://www.panynj.gov/photo/path/PATH_system_map.jpg I actually live in Hoboken, NJ and work in Manhattan, so I ride the PATH train (blue line) every day from Hoboken to 33'rd st. You can see two of the PATH lines (which go through hundred-year-old cast iron tubes at the bottom of the Hudson River) in the NYC Subway map above: https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1404969926 In total, we have 9 major rail systems here, all of which connect at at least one point with the exception of the SIRR, which connects to the NYC Subway (1 line, South Ferry Station) only by way of the Staten Island Ferry: PATH NYC Subway Staten Island Railroad Long Island Railroad Metro North Railroad Amtrak New Jersey Transit Newark Airtrain JFK Airtrain Actually, since the NJTrans train (from Penn Station in Manhattan to Secaucus Junction in NJ) also runs under the Hudson river, it could technically be considered a second subway system joining Manhattan and NJ, however it is generally considered to be a railroad system rather than a commuter subway. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1404970721 |
Built back in 1875, Istanbul happens to have second-oldest subterranean urban rail line in the world.
There is no map. The whole thing is 573 meters long. That's about half a mile. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...l_Istanbul.jpg |
Originally Posted by Godless Commie
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Built back in 1875, Istanbul happens to have second-oldest subterranean urban rail line in the world.
Sidebar: Funicular is a funny-sounding word, at least in English. |
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The Riverline is scary. Full of people who won't pay the $1.50 one-way ticket price.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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Mandatory Fun is nearly upon us.
This makes me far more excited than it should :party: |
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Originally Posted by viperormiata
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I'd only feel safe in the New York Subway system with these guys watching my back.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1405116458 I'm not taking any chances getting attacked by the lead singer for Rush...... http://scriptshadow.net/wp-content/u...ors-luther.jpg |
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