All aboard the NOPE train to FuckThatVille, Ohio.

Mar 5, 2018 5:59 AM

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All aboard the NOPE train to FuckThatVille, Ohio.

That locomotive is well trained.

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Guy driving the train prob

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Upvote for the title alone!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The engineer has turned on the seat belt sign, we are expecting turbulence.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Trackulance....

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Meanwhile Japan's trains float magnetically over tracks at 1000mph

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought rails were continuous welded, and had been for a long time.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

They do that for metro trains to make them quieter. More expensive to maintain.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’m no expert on trains, OP’s mom is, but that doesn’t look within safe standard operational limitations.

8 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

OP's mom here, it's not..

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

+1 for the "op's mom"

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That train would have it easier on a dirt road.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

stabilize plz

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Its amazing how this is even running at all. According to experts, US trains do the same speeds today as they did in 1953

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Reminds me of Cities: Skylines

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

GIF progress bar FTW!

8 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 1

*mp4

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I like the fact that the surname of the photographer is Taipale, which means trek or journey in Finnish.

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No yelling on the train!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This has to be the best comment gif I've seen in a while!

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FUCK I WAS TOO LATW

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*late. Fuck

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What third world shithole is this?

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At first I thought this was fake still. Until I saw it was an animated gif...

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

At least you got 1 thing right, it is a gif indeed.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Your country has so much money tied up in inflated peronal assets and the ultra rich, you don't have enough left over to fix this shiz.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

And thats why we’re so pissed off.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Did no one notice the tiny dude on the scrollbar at the bottom of the screen?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Yeah, those are getting pretty common now days, and rarely elicit comments any more.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I'm getting old, I guess.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You have to age gracefully. That's what I love about Keith Richards. He's falling apart right before our eyes, and he's doing it gracefully.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He didn't mention that now days started about 1-2 months back!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The US is letting all of its public interest infrastructure go to ruin. USA is no longer the example for the rest of the world to follow.

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Actually USA was not an example to follow...in any way.

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And yet the UK is still following it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hey now!!! Those tax cuts are important okay!! They’ll trickle down to us ANNNNNNNNYYYYY Day now.... just don’t hold your breath for them!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The gov't doesn't pay towards railroads like they do regular roads. We re-invest in our own physical plant without taxpayer money.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And freight railroads are not public interest (unless you are a stockholder), nor are they considered infrastructure.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This looks like a private freight line. Many train companies own their own lines so it's up to them to fix them.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I mean that's kind of the problem isn't it

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why? Private train lines are a private resource, has nothing to do with public infrastructure.

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Big wigs are spending tax payers money on war instead of upgrading the infrastructure

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Bring on the Small Wigs!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Aaah very untrue. I actually test track and the FRA requirement is rather frequently for a track to be tested (depends on weight going 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Over it on average.) When we test there is most generally a crew right behind us fixing the defects. Derailment is more expensive than 1/3

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Fixing the track, too.

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Ok, so what are we watching?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because this track seems overdue for an upgrade.

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My boss said what we were seeing here was a veteran conductor transporting a train (more cost efficient) after this crappy sub was bought

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh that wasn't India?

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Welcome to Ohio where if the Weather isnt to your liking, just wait 5 mins, but other than that absoulutely nothing happens here.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Look at the corn grow , eat the corn , wait for the next corn to start growing.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I like corn.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

me too!

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I don't think India is that bad actually.

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As a born and raised resident of Ohio, a nice chunk of our state looks like a third world country.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Surprisingly enough, even though the trains can be overcrouded, India has one of the most impeccable railways in the world.

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They have better trail lines than that in india

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Not India! There aren't people on the top and hanging from the sides

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Yeah, realized that too.

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No, different third world country.

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If it was on india, there will be a lot of people hanging outside of that train

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Indian railways are actually in great shape

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Fun fact, most of Africa has better roads and railroads than the US.

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Sauce? I’ve only seen a small portion but the roads were shit. The new nearly completed railway seemed nice though

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Having been to Africa I'm loudly screaming absolute bullshit here.

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I thought it was russia, but the train is too new.

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So you thought it was Russia but you knew is not russia ?

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Thought at first, realised after.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Nope. Over the past 5 years, the loco park has almost renewed. And In Russia, even in 1990s, railroads were not brought to such a state.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Out in the country... I've seen videos of trains out there, it's disgraceful.

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In Russia somebody would have be shot and jailed for neglecting railroad like that.

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Shot AND jailed?

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Yes, in that order.

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And yet their apartment buildings have stalagmites made from frozen poop water.

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Nobody cares about apartment buildings. Railroad is a strategic asset.

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You have no idea how badly their military assets are maintained, to say nothing of civilian assets, even of strategic importance.

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v We have the technology, we can rebuild them

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They got a system working.

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i like how those guys trust the operator so much

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Everybody in the world has better technology than this. US trains havent been renewed since 1953. But USA dont have the budgets.

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How do they set it at the right height?

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well, at least sweden has the tecnology...

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We don't have the budget, we can delay them.

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Much better!

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That sounds like infrastructure repair, and that is socialist B.S. as we all know if we wait long enough people will die and 1/2

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Corporations will take care of the problem.

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Ayn Rand said so.

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BITCH IT MIGHT BE.

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SO sastisfying!

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Yes we can

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I think this is one of the best looped gifs i ever saw,...

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Holy shit that is sexy

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This is so cool

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That requires actual spending though. On something that just sits there and isn't somehow "sexy".

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How is *that* not sexy?

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yes but not the money

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We can make him better, stronger, faster...

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Honest question - the gif seems to have very warbly rails. Is that just the uneven terrain and is fixable or do you bring in new rails?

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Just a railcar mechanic, here, but the track in OP's gif looks decent, mostly just ridiculously rotted ties making it so uneven.

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I... I’m not gonna say how long I watched this.

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I think I went slack jawed

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Right... I was amazed at the loop

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Flawless loop

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Oh please, our german friends are way a head https://youtu.be/_MKcTbYDP7w

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oooOOOOOOHH!

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one cost hundreds of millions. The other lives paycheck to paycheck and needs pizza and beer to function.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

belgian railways in the footage :)

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Noticed too that it's Belgian railway.

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But still here in Germany the trains are fucking late every single time. Sry to break it to u outside of Germany the saying is wrong!

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no, the German railroad company is never ahead of anything - 5 minutes late is the best they can do. Nice machine, though :D

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O.O

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Damn impressive, those machines are huge. In the future it will all be automated putting us humans out of work....lol...sob.

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I feel like "machine" underrepresents the complexity of the system. It's like 3 different entire trains devoted to just relaying the track.

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As a German: engineers internally

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Goddamn, what a ride!

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Gosh damn do I love some good fucking hydraulics.

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not sure that really is in Germany

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Never the less that's a machine manufactured in Germany and/or Austria.

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you SURE about that?

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Could an engineer please explain why this is easier/cheaper/faster than tearing everything up and rebuilding?

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Replace bunch of concrete supports. Or do that anyways, AND replace tons upon tons of steel rails too. Now which sounds faster and cheaper?

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Idk removing the rails before replacing the sleepers still seems easier. And replacing the rails would increase longevity

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Because it's easier and faster. That's why it's cheaper.

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Because it's cheaper and faster. That's why it's easier.

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Because it's easier and cheaper. That's why it's faster

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Okay, so I'm not sure if it was morning wood or this sexy fucking video, holy shit.

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Everybody is... Not just the Germans. Even India is ahead of this. US trains do the same speeds today as they did in 1953.

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all we use rail for is bulk freight: not about speed, but cost efficiency.

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Thats because your car industry bought it all up and shut down all passenger transport with trains. To sell more cars. As stated above.

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I read somewhere that the car industry bought a lot of rail systems and let them rot, so people have to buy cars.

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GM bought all the trams in the cities and shut them down. The US car industry did these things back then. Look up "GM streetcar conspiracy"

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Ford bought the land and tore them up to push auto sales

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GM too. They bought all the city trams and put them up for scrapping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

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Good ole US scumbag corporations, putting themselves before others and hampering human advancement. Hope they all burn.

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Well... They didnt burn. And US corporations has kept on doing the same right up to modern times.

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