boogietrain94
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we all have our stuff like some people look at me like I'm crazy spending the amount of money I do on magic or model trains again if you know you know
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I'm one of those too. Last year I didn't know who played in the Superbowl until it was on the news the next day. Same for any other sport except maybe drag racing. I've got no dog in those fights either, but I like to see who will get to the line first. Probably because I used to do it in my youth.
That is an E7 (or W7) Shinkansen. Designed for the Hokiriku Shinkansen that will end up going from Tokyo to Osaka through a roundabout way along the Hokiriku area of Kaplan along the north coast and the Sea of Japan (big loop). It’s partially built now. I have both an E7 and a W7 train by KATO. We road an E7 when they first went into service. We didn’t go far. It’s quite built out now so you can go far.
One special thing about the E7/W7 is that it’s made to be multi frequency in its electricity. It runs on 25kV at both 50hz and 60hz. The electrical system of Japan is split between 50hz (roughly Tokyo north) and 60hz (roughly south of Tokyo). For historical reasons. So the major bullet train Shinkansen lines that run from the south to Tokyo run at 25kV 60hz and those that run work Tokyo north run at 25kV 50hz. There are two separate sets if Shinkansen platforms at Gonyobstation because of this and if you’re traveling from say Osaka to Sendai and passing through Tokyo you have to get off in Tokyo and get on a new train to Sendai. Totally different models of trains run south and north. South you get N700A and N700S and 500 and 700 and similar and north you get E3 and E5 and E8.
The E7/W7 however can run on both as it runs north of Tokyo on 50hz but as it loops around eventually it reaches the trackage of JR West which is 60hz so they made it dual frequency compatible to be able to span systems.
The E7 are the version bought by JR East and the W7 are the version bought by JR West. Same basic train but both companies will run the service so each bought some.
The Shinkansen leaving Tokyo and going south are run by JR Central, another company but. Out one involved in the Hokiriku service. The JR Central ones go into JR West territory at Osaka where they take in a JR West crew but the trains themselves run all the way to the end of the main island. JR West also runs N700 series of their own starting at Osaka and going south.
Your train useless fact lesson of the day.
It looks like they are in Gran Class? JR East runs three classes of service. Gran, Green, and Ordinary. Every other JR company runs two classes. Green and Ordinary.
JR East’s Gran is like international Business class on an airplane, while Green is like domestic first class and ordinary is economy. Only JR East has Gran so the most popular Shinkansen lines on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen going from Tokyo and south don’t have it.
some years ago (maybe 20) there where some swiss guys in Singapore. They painted a train there, and got caught. went to prison, and should get 7 strokes if i remember correctly. the graffiti did run a whole day in the system because the workes accidently hold it for a advertisement
because they where not use to it.
The swiss artists then got home (without getting the strokes) but went in swiss prison for 1 month. at this time a graffiti crew from zurich painted a wholecar with the saying 7 strokes for switzerland
damn i miss the late 90ies
cheers
Marco
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Yes, it's been freely available since the Window 7 days. Starting with either 8.1 or 10, it was included. I delete whatever add-on antimalware comes preinstalled, and use Defender. It used to be called Microsoft Security Essentials.
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NYC_George
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I don't know chadbag I wasn't interested in anything they told me after they sent me an email 2 days after they tried to take money out of my bank account. I read their policy and that email is to be sent before they charge your bank account not after. So it's always just a scam. It's like Norton telling me I have 28 viruses when I have none. After I canceled, now they'll take 40% off the price but if I let the auto renewal happen, I would have paid the full price $162.00. Scam, Scam, Scam Swal
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I use a mac
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So I put a new-in-box John Wayne commemorative on line Sunday. I didn't have any high expectations, but I am being proven wrong so far.
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I'm one of those too. Last year I didn't know who played in the Superbowl until it was on the news the next day. Same for any other sport except maybe drag racing. I've got no dog in those fights either, but I like to see who will get to the line first. Probably because I used to do it in my youth.
chadbag
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Like I said, I'm not on windows, but you may want to try what I believe is the Microsoft anti virus anti malware stuff now in Windows... Saves you money?
TLOC
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DeaconKC
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It's even the cartridge I use for CAS! AAAAAAAGH!
TLOC
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Hey, this was me without the mustache 30 years ago!
Sometimes this happens iPhone to iPhone and I can’t rotate it! Was able to do others. Terry please help…
Thanks
A picture inside the car they got tickets for. He said by time they pulled away the car was maybe 60% full
The train they are on
Sometimes this happens iPhone to iPhone and I can’t rotate it! Was able to do others. Terry please help…
Thanks
A picture inside the car they got tickets for. He said by time they pulled away the car was maybe 60% full
The train they are on
chadbag
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Yeah you won’t see graffiti on Japanese trains.
That is an E7 (or W7) Shinkansen. Designed for the Hokiriku Shinkansen that will end up going from Tokyo to Osaka through a roundabout way along the Hokiriku area of Kaplan along the north coast and the Sea of Japan (big loop). It’s partially built now. I have both an E7 and a W7 train by KATO. We road an E7 when they first went into service. We didn’t go far. It’s quite built out now so you can go far.
One special thing about the E7/W7 is that it’s made to be multi frequency in its electricity. It runs on 25kV at both 50hz and 60hz. The electrical system of Japan is split between 50hz (roughly Tokyo north) and 60hz (roughly south of Tokyo). For historical reasons. So the major bullet train Shinkansen lines that run from the south to Tokyo run at 25kV 60hz and those that run work Tokyo north run at 25kV 50hz. There are two separate sets if Shinkansen platforms at Gonyobstation because of this and if you’re traveling from say Osaka to Sendai and passing through Tokyo you have to get off in Tokyo and get on a new train to Sendai. Totally different models of trains run south and north. South you get N700A and N700S and 500 and 700 and similar and north you get E3 and E5 and E8.
The E7/W7 however can run on both as it runs north of Tokyo on 50hz but as it loops around eventually it reaches the trackage of JR West which is 60hz so they made it dual frequency compatible to be able to span systems.
The E7 are the version bought by JR East and the W7 are the version bought by JR West. Same basic train but both companies will run the service so each bought some.
The Shinkansen leaving Tokyo and going south are run by JR Central, another company but. Out one involved in the Hokiriku service. The JR Central ones go into JR West territory at Osaka where they take in a JR West crew but the trains themselves run all the way to the end of the main island. JR West also runs N700 series of their own starting at Osaka and going south.
Your train useless fact lesson of the day.
chadbag
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It looks like they are in Gran Class? JR East runs three classes of service. Gran, Green, and Ordinary. Every other JR company runs two classes. Green and Ordinary.
JR East’s Gran is like international Business class on an airplane, while Green is like domestic first class and ordinary is economy. Only JR East has Gran so the most popular Shinkansen lines on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen going from Tokyo and south don’t have it.
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traiNscale
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about graffiti
some years ago (maybe 20) there where some swiss guys in Singapore. They painted a train there, and got caught. went to prison, and should get 7 strokes if i remember correctly. the graffiti did run a whole day in the system because the workes accidently hold it for a advertisement
because they where not use to it.The swiss artists then got home (without getting the strokes) but went in swiss prison for 1 month. at this time a graffiti crew from zurich painted a wholecar with the saying 7 strokes for switzerland
damn i miss the late 90ies
cheers
Marco
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Have a great day!
NYC_George
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chadbag I'm switching to Windows Defender
NYC_George
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I didn't know you were into magic boogietrain. I spend very little on magic as shown in my video. Swal
RetiredinIowa
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Morning ladies and gents
10 degrees now and snow later today
Dang, this 'climate change' each winter is sure getting harder to tolerate as I age
Today I hope to start designing the second track on my layout and also adding a turnout or two on my first track
Headed up Saturday (an hour north of me) to the model train store to examine more goodies for the eventual scenery/terrain build
10 degrees now and snow later today
Dang, this 'climate change' each winter is sure getting harder to tolerate as I age
Today I hope to start designing the second track on my layout and also adding a turnout or two on my first track
Headed up Saturday (an hour north of me) to the model train store to examine more goodies for the eventual scenery/terrain build
boogietrain94
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wait what even that one got me how the heck
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