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edk256 wrote:Which one?
I ment the R40.
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Okay.

BTW, here is an excellent website about the NYC subway system: http://www.nycsubway.org
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Purno wrote:I like this train (I think lots of you think it's ugly), but I like this:

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It's from Danmark.

Would be a big splash when you jump just for the train. :wink:
LOL last day i was driving train... i live in denmark... and we got delayed because some idiot jumped out in front of a train... not the train i was in... and i think its cool :D
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sorry for double posting !

heres a train i like.... a japanese mag-lev ! :D
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Wow. Is that a pair of points I see there. and does the section that is visible in that picture cost more to run than some countries rail networks (and I am not just talking about the Vatican branch.)
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Yes to both counts. I'd be interested to see exactly how those points work. I can only come up with one good answer, involving opposing electromagnets on the opposite walls, very finely controlled.
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What's that brown dirt at the top of the first 'loc' of that Maglev? Is that Diesel smoke??? :wink:
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Purno wrote:I like this train (I think lots of you think it's ugly), but I like this:

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It's from Danmark.

Would be a big splash when you jump just for the train. :wink:
Looks more like you'd bounce off, like its a big rubber dinghy
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Born Acorn wrote:Looks more like you'd bounce off, like its a big rubber dinghy
Safety comes first :wink:
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Oops, pictures don't show. European Railway Server has moved :mrgreen:

Ah well, from Norway:

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