Category: AI

Koleje Czeskie Hauls Persing 163 Kasia (Katka), or Railways Without Borders

⚠️ Note: the images in this post were lost during an outage in 2016. Missing images are automatically replaced with a funny placeholder by the Broken Image Placeholder plugin. The locomotive of the Polish subsidiary of CD Cargo is hauling a Czech locomotive from the days when Czechs deliberately ran trains in Poland and vice …

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30-Year-Old Class 460 Unit Gets a Modern Upgrade

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOWhP1Lu-eqItpDGOkd0KuNI3cKp7pmWStD4bUfe9T-ECCEqbtWiicKX-mHSHSafg?key=NnQ2VGtVVzNJdXBjRFM2djM1eGhGYi1LM0E5cnVn Is it straight from the factory, or is Czech Railways renovating 45-year-old trains? There was even an audible signal, slightly different from the one in the 471, and even the door handles were different, touch-operated, but above all they were more sensitive – no extra force was needed, it worked very gently, almost by …

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There’s a Mess Everywhere, but RegioJet Won’t Put This in Its Company Newsletter

⚠️ Note: the images in this post were lost during an outage in 2016. The Broken Image Placeholder plugin automatically replaces missing images with a funny placeholder. A few unflattering news stories from the last few months or days about RegioJet: Stewards caught scabies ( https://www.idnes.cz/ekonomika/doprava/svrab-v-regiojetu.A160921_151901_eko-doprava_rny ) A man ran to catch his train and …

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Tearing Down the Overhead Wires Once Isn’t Enough, Better Do It Again … Jancura’s Yellow Convoy

👻 The domain ran out like prepaid credit on an Oskar phone. That’s what you get when Jancura, a self-proclaimed authority on absolutely everything to do with trains and railways, claims that 15-year-old retired locomotives from Italy are in much better condition than the 3-year-old ones at Czech Railways, then couples them with 8-10 carriages …

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By Double-Decker over the Polanka Link, or Riding a Line That (Doesn’t) Exist

⚠️ Note: the images in this post were lost during an outage in 2016. The Broken Image Placeholder plugin automatically replaces the missing images with a funny placeholder. I’m heading to Cesky Tesin via Vitkovice. The station announcement says the train will be diverted, so I figured it could only go via the main station, …

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The Renovated Trinec Railway Station, Almost a Showcase (and in Another Sense a Costly One) for Czech Railways

⚠️ Note: the images in this post were lost during an outage in 2016. Missing images are automatically replaced with a funny placeholder by the Broken Image Placeholder plugin. I recommend taking a look at the photos. I find it nice, but maybe someone will come along who will tear it to shreds: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNx7k9gUJQ0n0C15P468y19pLsaEQrhpWi2CzRyJ4CNpxy8czV5MxJ6k5D1yBNZzw?key=OVFRbXBQVUlxWDJxQTRseXVYamx6UHVLdHZRSlVR I …

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