Continuous Transportation: Rail

Un État de Transport Continu
inspiré par le film Transperceneige

SAFEGE Monorail 1959
Chateauneuf, south of Paris
It appeared in Truffaut's film Fahrenheit 451

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Continuous Transportation: Rail

Un État de Transport Continu
inspiré par le film Transperceneige

Transpercemer

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Continuous Transportation: Railroad, Road

Un État de Transport Continu
inspiré par le film Transperceneige

Railroad Culvert

photo:  http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/

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Continuous Transportation: Railroads

Un État de Transport Continu
inspiré par le film Transperceneige

Chatham, NY.

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Continuous Transportation

Un État de Transport Continu
inspiré par le film Transperceneige

 Sukhumi Railroad Station, Abkhazia

Serving as a bus terminal, and falling into ruin.

Railroad Tunnel in Abkhazia

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Continuous Transportation

Un État de Transport Continu
inspiré par le film Transperceneige

This is for the Canadian Association of Railway Modellers, and we decided that they, too, should be included given their virtual reality of transportation systems.

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links:

http://www.caorm.org/index.php

http://winnipegmodelrailroadclub.blogspot.com/

Continuous Transportation

Un État de Transport Continu
inspiré par le film Transperceneige

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Schrödinger's Railroad Train

I go to this website often, being able to subscribe due to my previous employer, and to the years I spent making small rocks out of big ones - in this AREA #57 out of boulderous limestones. (American Railroad Engineering Association; ballast rock sizing 57)

My younger brother, God rest his soul, was more a fancier of lake vessels.

In the spring of 2014, we sat together at a scenic lookout in Port Huron just south of the USCG ship Bramble, and we were gazing across the river to Sarnia, Ontario or Point Edward, Ontario... never sure where the boundary was.

Anyway, there were two Canadian Steamship vessels which had wintered there in a slip just south of the fishery. One of the vessel had the normal lakes configuration of bridge in the bow and motors, stack, engineering, etc. in the stern. It had a clear, open deck. It was the most westerly vessel.
The other vessel was configured that all superstructure was in the stern, the bridge and all, with a self-unloading conveyor stretching forward.

What was amazing was that the angle at which we viewed things, the two boats looked to be exactly only one vessel! A vessel over-bridged, as it were, a bridge in the bows and a bridge in the stern!
As the minutes wore on, I strained more and more to try and disambiguate the vision. I mentioned it to my brother, and he noticed it, too.

CSL (Canadian Steamship Lines)  Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin

This was not the first time I had gazed at that spot. I remember a day earlier in the winter when the sun disappeared early and the lights came on the vessel with the clear deck, and I watched them twinkle in the darkling evening.

The other boat seems to have come later, possibly early in the spring. Else, I would have noticed the strange effect before.

That's not to say that Railroads are not without their enchanting visions!
I remember sitting on train A at rest, all the while Albert Einstein was on train B moving past us at a good clip, and for all the world, I thought my train was moving!!!

Schrödinger's Train, eh?

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Continuous Transportation

Un État de Transport Continu
inspiré par le film Transperceneige

MARC   

Maryland Area Regional Commuter

and

The Washington D.C. Metro station at Grosvenor-Strathmore

Bethesda, Maryland

The Strathmore Music Center right next to the station

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Continuous Transportation

Un État de Transport Continu
inspiré par le film Transperceneige

Children traveling from Vladivostok to Moscow aboard the Trans Siberian.


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Railroads

http://www.aar.org/

Become involved in the continuing story of American Railroads. They are an important facet of our economy and an important and fuel efficient way to get from point A to point B. We hope to see more about rail in the future.
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The Future Of Rail

photo: Tiddlycove in FrEAKING NEWS 

There is a blog and there is a letter about Amtrak:http://www.kunstler.com/Grunt_trains_and_planes2.html 

People are always talking about "Manhattan Projects" to solve the energy crisis. 

As pointed out before, such projects do not stand a chance at present because they are totally government controlled and directed. The US government did not stand around and wait patiently while the free market system came up with an atomic bomb on its own. 

Of course, logically speaking, the Iraq War is a sort of "Manhattan Project" itself, being totally government controlled. No free market there. 

A government subsidized rail system is logically a "Manhattan Project", although it is truly a messed up project and has been so for 50 years or so. The problem is (1) a vision of the desired transportation system, and (2) the political will to implement. 

Recall when Dwight Eisenhower proposed the interstate highway system. That was one humungous investment in infrastructure. Since that time, we have become afraid of investment in infrastructure. We do not want to save; we wish to consume now. It's rather as if every road were a toll-road, and once we drove over it, it vanished into nothingness. ( After 9/11, if we had had an moderately sharp president, he would have not said "Go shopping!", rather he would have said "Save for investments in the future of America!")

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