by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 11/14/2017 at 15:50
by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 11/14/2017 at 15:50
Tags: Americana
STARS: 1
Engineer
Sidewalk
Wrench
Back yard
Street car
Railroad ties
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
11/14/2017 at 15:57, STARS: 5
I don’t know many train operators, but I do know a lot of engineers. Mechanical, aerospace, electrical.
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
11/14/2017 at 15:57, STARS: 6
Is this a quiz? I’ll play.
Bendy Railbus Driver
Pavement
Spanner
Garden
Tram (I rarely hear streetcar in the US, it’s more historical)
Bendy Railbus Timbers
"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
11/14/2017 at 15:58, STARS: 0
Cheese eating surrender monkey
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
11/14/2017 at 16:00, STARS: 15
The only confusing part is when they all show up at once, like “Take the dual carriageway through the roundabout, and pull onto the verge just beyond the forecourt and open the bonnet...”
Not sure what’s happening here, but I’m pretty sure I’m about to get raped.
"Shamoononon drives like a farmer" (shamoononon)
11/14/2017 at 16:09, STARS: 0
I don’t get it. Are those the American or European terms?
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
11/14/2017 at 16:10, STARS: 0
They’re the American terms.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
11/14/2017 at 16:15, STARS: 0
Hey I’m an engineer and I don’t drive trains.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
11/14/2017 at 16:15, STARS: 0
Nearly. The last are railway sleepers (so called because they somewhat fancifully look like something lying down asleep).
"Shamoononon drives like a farmer" (shamoononon)
11/14/2017 at 16:19, STARS: 1
I think I would have called them -
Conductor, Sidewalk, wrench, greenspace (no fence), tram, train tracks. I’m kind of simple.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
11/14/2017 at 16:26, STARS: 2
No they just warned you that your British car was going to break down after the forecourt. Then you get raped.
"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
11/14/2017 at 16:32, STARS: 4
i dunno... thing ive found seemed to confuse americans most is getting directions in pubs n post offices.... aye just keep going till you hit the dog n bone then take the first left and left again at the queens head take a right at the post office and keep going till you see the arm and hammer... should sail you right home :)
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
11/14/2017 at 16:33, STARS: 1
And I’d say: train driver, footpath, spanner, garden, tram and sleepers (the wooden things under the rails).
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
11/14/2017 at 16:36, STARS: 0
You disappoint me on the tram!. Should “A Streetcar Named Desire” be renamed to suit?
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
11/14/2017 at 16:47, STARS: 0
“Railway Eternal Dirtnappers” in Sicily.
Not to be confused with Dirty Nappies
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
11/14/2017 at 16:50, STARS: 0
Stella suggestion!
/said with weak British accent
//ahhh, souls
"Wacko" (wacko--)
11/14/2017 at 16:52, STARS: 0
in america they call this a Mental Problem
"jimz" (jimz)
11/14/2017 at 17:10, STARS: 4
ME: Excuse me. Could you tell us how to get to Buckingham Palace?
BRITISH PERSON: Right. You go down this street here, then you nip up the wickershams.
ME: We should nip up the wickershams?
BRITISH PERSON: Right. Then you take your first left, then you just pop `round the gorn-and-scumbles, and Jack`s a doughnut, there you are!
ME: Jack`s a DOUGHNUT?
BRITISH PERSON: Right.
"user314" (user314)
11/14/2017 at 17:24, STARS: 1
Yeah, “streetcar” went out in the ‘50s Nowadays they’re Light Rail cars, or occasionally trolleys.
"facw" (facw)
11/14/2017 at 18:20, STARS: 0
Normally that would be called a light-rail train here. Tram isn’t used, but streetcar is really only used for vintage vehicles (though the Washington DC light-rail is called DC Streetcar).
"facw" (facw)
11/14/2017 at 18:22, STARS: 0
From what I can tell most Americans would call the train driver the conductor, even though that is just wrong (give them a break, we don’t have many trains here). Transit systems do seem to refer to them as drivers rather than engineers.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
11/14/2017 at 18:39, STARS: 0
Operators here tend to distinguish between trams (used at least partially on road, although ideally in their own lanes) and light rail, using dedicated tracks with no interaction with road traffic except for frequent level crossings. It’s a bit of an arbitrary distinction and as far as I can see the same vehicles are used.
"user314" (user314)
11/14/2017 at 19:26, STARS: 1
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"facw" (facw)
11/14/2017 at 19:58, STARS: 0
In the US, every light rail I know of runs on roads at least part of the way. The closest I know of to a fully separated system is Austin, which mostly runs on old freight tracks, but has a little stretch downtown where it runs on roads (though in lanes that have been set aside exclusively for it). Austin calls its system “commuter rail” though (normally commuter rail in the US is served by heavy-rail vehicles)
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
11/15/2017 at 11:54, STARS: 1
As it happens I was in Stockholm on holiday recently and for a relatively small capital city they’ve quite the range of public transport options. There’s the (heavy) commuter rail, various local rail lines usually using older stock, a traditional road based tram which shares a dedicated lane with buses (they used to have more but scrapped them when they switched to driving on the right fifty years ago), a tram line which uses a mixture of road and dedicated track and a light rail line which trundles through leafy and startlingly expensive suburbia using the same vehicles the tram lines use. Plus of course a variety of diesel, ethanol, biodiesel, diesel hybrid and PHEV buses and a ferry, all on the same ticketing system. The PHEV buses are intriguing as they use a pantograph to recharge for a few minutes at one end of their short route.
"19JRC99" (19jrc99)
11/18/2017 at 19:54, STARS: 0
There’s two in this that I don’t use. I call trams trolleys (where I got this from, I can’t remember. I think Stuntman Ignition on PS3) and Rail spikes (which is a good name for them, considering I like to tell people to use rusty ones in a certain way as a more interesting form of “fuck off”)
EDIT: Rail spikes are another form of those tie downs, apparently.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/20/2017 at 16:59, STARS: 0
Whatever you want to call it, the top guy has a cool office.