Talking About Buses.........

[Glennwood Road Ent 21]

Who is on the autism spectrum loves trains?

Post it here!!!!

10-4, and over

Edit: Sorry. I meant to ask 'who loves buses?'

 

[Gerontius]

Most people here like trains!

There are a few good train threads already started including one for scale model trains. But there's nothing wrong with more trains. The other week a friend and I went trainspotting on Sunday and we saw something I'd never seen, but they had seen--the bogies under the freight cars had numbers stencilled on the frames. I checked another freight train last Sunday and only the older cars were missing the numbers. This is on the CSX RR. I'd sure like to know what I'm looking at--

 

[Captain Caveman]

Me!

 

[Rodafina]

I like trains. Especially, steam trains. I like to ride them and photograph them.

From a trip to the train yard a couple years ago:

 

[Captain Caveman]

We often see steam locos and diesel locos.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Their is an old steam locomotive in the town I went to high school in not sure how old it is part of park, Old train station, I like visiting with my wife brings back memories.

 

[Captain Caveman]

 

[Captain Caveman]

 

[Captain Caveman]

There are four different railways in Porthmadog. These four level crossings are on two of the railways.

 

[Outdated]

I never had any fascination with them but a lot of people do. There's quite a few steam trains in use as tourist attractions in Australia, the most famous one being Puffing Billy that takes tourists on trips up in to the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne.

Official site for Puffing Billy Railway - Melbourne Family Attraction

 

[Judge]

Our local railroad just south of Reno. The Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Occasionally used in movies and tv.

 

[Angular Chap]

This is a local landmark, the top of a very old steam locomotive on a carriage. No idea of the exact history or reason. It sits next to the road on the site of an old coal mine, now a museum. They keep the restored engines indoors in the engine shed, but this poor lad has been left outside for at least 30 years. It’s tradition to stick magnetic learner driver L plates to it, but there’s none on the Google street view and Google hasn’t been out here since 2008.

And this is my local heritage railway. It is a museum, depot and station. Runs a combination of diesel and steam. They have a huge amount of restored trains.

 

[Outdated]

This is a local landmark....

When I was 10 I was just old enough to realise how old my great grandmother was. I said "Gran, you were born in 1880.". She said "That's right.". I said "You saw the first steam train.". She said "We rode on it!".

Her father took the family to Edinburgh to see the train, there was 6 miles of track. Her father didn't have much money so they could only afford one way tickets and had to walk the 6 miles back to their horse and wagon.

 

[Aspychata]

Buses are great, but bus exhaust? Oh no. What a smell to disrupt my fragile senses.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Smell o burned diesel fuel.

 

[Judge]

The last public transportation bus in Reno was replaced with all electric buses back in 2022.

 

[Outdated]

Buses are great, but bus exhaust? Oh no. What a smell to disrupt my fragile senses.

Buses in Brisbane have been running on canola oil for about 20 years now, their exhaust smells like donuts.

 

[RemyZee]

Who is on the autism spectrum loves trains?

Post it here!!!!

10-4, and over

Edit: Sorry. I meant to ask 'who loves buses?'

I love trains, have taken the Sunset Limited line across the country 3 times and the palmetto line along the east coast twice. I also love buses. Take them as often as I can. Yes, the stereotype reigns. But WHY? WHY do autistic people love trains?

https://media.amtrak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SunLtd0AM1395-R1-E001-1024x652.jpg

 

[Shevek]

I like that buses sometimes approach 50% payload, but most of the time, they are dreadfully inefficient. I used to drive taxis on the night shift, and I'd see them go by, very infrequently, with two or three passengers. We could have taken over their routes with cars, and if there was some rare need for more seats, we could have had more cars there within the bus schedule tolerance. There are laws against that, though, and I've never heard of a bus line having a set of vans for light or more frequent loads - it is all or nothing.
General Motors and Firestone once got hit with a huge fine for sabotaging public transit. They'd buy up bus lines, and then, whenever they had made a mistake about hiring a manager, instead of firing them, they'd transfer them to the bus companies to screw up there.
Whole Earth ran a great story about a race in Central America between two "highway" buses over lethal mountain roads. The drivers had made a bet.

 

[Captain Caveman]

The last public transportation bus in Reno was replaced with all electric buses back in 2022.

I can't figure out why they made electric buses. Trolley busses do the same without the need for polluting the enviroment to make all those batteries.