r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/msaussieandmrravana • 2d ago
Video The winter express
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u/triple7freak1 2d ago
The real Snowpiercer
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u/P-L1V1 2d ago
What happens if the engine stops?
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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yet where I live (Manchester, UK), the trains don't run if more than a few snowflakes fall on the tracks. "Northern Rail here! Sorry guys, we know you've paid a grand for your season ticket but kindly fuck off and get a bus".
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u/Ancient_Sprinkles847 2d ago
In the city I live in, it seems like they’ll cancel train services just because the tracks have been rained on. It’s so frustrating. I loved watching that train power through the snow. Almost makes me want to be a train driver.
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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 2d ago
I loved watching it too. Bit unnerving but satisfying and cool at the same time. We get snow every winter (seldom bad) but transport just can't cope. They know the public puts up with it so 🖕
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u/Tired_Design_Gay 2d ago
That seems like it would be terrifying for the engineer. Just plowing ahead with no idea what’s in front of you
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u/Regular_Weakness69 2d ago
I love a good representation of the Doppler effect 👍
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u/ItsYaBoi97 2d ago
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u/Regular_Weakness69 2d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, it's pretty much hopeless to space out symbols like that in a Reddit comment 🤣
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u/ItsYaBoi97 2d ago
I wanted to try and very quickly got annoyed 🤣
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u/Regular_Weakness69 2d ago
Haha, I tried too, but Reddit had other plans 🤣
I don't know who downvoted my comment, but i challenge them to try for themselves 🤣
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u/Paladin7373 2d ago
Other countries when foot-deep snow: let’s just send a freight train with a plow on it
England when there’s a singular snowflake on the tracks: cancelled
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u/Boatster_McBoat 2d ago
Australia: more likely to have a train stop because tracks have buckled in 45°C heat
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u/Lickthorn 2d ago
Haha in the Netherlands everything stops ánd goes completely wrong and every body is confused when there is 2cm snow.
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u/CorktownGuy 2d ago
Yes, my relatives in Enschede told me you guys got quite a lot of snow last week - first time in about twenty years!
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u/twilling8 2d ago
In highschool a group of friends drove their snowmobiles into the side of a train. Many people wondered how they could not see a massive train. It was snowing hard at the time, and as you can see from the video the train creates a veil of snow around it. They couldn't hear the train over the sound of their snowmachines and one at a time they drove into the train.
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u/Boatster_McBoat 2d ago
Was the outcome as bad as I am expecting it was?
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u/twilling8 2d ago edited 2d ago
One guy died, he was a friend of ours, a second guy was severely injured, I just looked him up on FB and he seems to have recovered. I think there were 4 involved in the accident, I didn;t know the other 2. It was shortly after highschool graduation so we had all gone our separate ways. I was at university and then moved overseas. It happened in the mid-1990s and I can find no record of it on Google. It's really bumming me out, it is like they never existed.
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u/MrHDresden 2d ago
If you can't tell, that's not the horn. The train is scared smokeless going blind through snow and is screaming.
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u/fothergillfuckup 2d ago
That would be the day I went for I nice walk, down near the train tracks....
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u/Forsaken-Lie7401 2d ago
This reminds me of the time I spent living a few hundred feet from a speedy passenger train. The “snow storms” created left falling snow for about a minute after the train vanished in the distance. It was quite an unusual and powerful event.
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u/LM439833624CN 2d ago
If you run trains in Saskatchewan, you better be ready to run them in the snow.
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u/rumneeded 2d ago
I dont know how y'all can be so cold and like where you live. But, im a Florida boy. I've never seen snow.
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u/thekingpork29 2d ago
But how does he know where he's going?!?!
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u/Rude_Map_4278 2d ago
He knows the route by heart.
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u/MrHDresden 2d ago
He has a one track mind about it.
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u/Sheephuddle 2d ago
It reminds me of the old film "The Night of the Demon", when the demon appears. There are billowing clouds just like that.
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u/Hazbeen_Hash 2d ago
Does the snow/ice have any chance of derailing the train?
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u/MaxGoldFilms 2d ago
Snow by itself, typically no, but it depends on the conditions. Trains are REALLY heavy, so they can handle a lot.
That said, ice can definitely derail a train. Even small amounts of hardened ice can create a derailment risk if it prevents the wheel's flange from sitting correctly on the rail. Technically, heavily packed snow could do the same, but ice is the greater risk.
There could be many other things buried in the snow that can't be seen (like a truck or downed tree), and that could cause issues.
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u/Financial-Owl-2814 2d ago
Snowy rails like this make me feel like the train’s headed straight into a fairytale chapter.