Post #1145855
2026-04-14 08:56 UTC
Replies (31)
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@woffs@fe.disroot.org 2026-04-14 22:34
@GreenSkyOverMe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j9ZDOJ6f0U
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@FediThing@social.chinwag.org 2026-04-14 09:29
@GreenSkyOverMe That is going to cause UFO reports 😆
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@ic5146@meow.social 2026-04-14 09:35
@GreenSkyOverMe the flying banana is actually only one of the multiple test trains we have in the UK! There's iirc something like 6 or 8 HST power cars used, but the actual consists they run with are not consistent, and often you'll see them run with a Class 37 and a DBSO (oldddd cab car)
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@zugkatze@norden.social 2026-04-14 09:35
@GreenSkyOverMe Banana :ablobcathappypaws:
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@patterfloof@meow.social 2026-04-14 09:52
@GreenSkyOverMe are you ready for an hour long video on them, from a current rail engineer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWpXNc0g1E
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@starkiakaha.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 2026-04-14 09:53
I feel a childlike joy seeing the flying 🍌
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@SarahAS2@mastodon.scot 2026-04-14 10:34
@GreenSkyOverMe I did not know about the blue laser! I’m going to have to keep an eye out for that - sometimes it lays over at a yard near me.
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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 10:41
@GreenSkyOverMe Japan has 'Doctor Yellow' for their maintenance train. Flying Banana was used as a nickname for all the high speed train units in their original livery long before the NMT, and that was a reference to 1930s use for GWR railcars
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@samerion@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-14 11:04
@GreenSkyOverMe Funny! Personally, I call the black-and-yellow service trains I have in my Minecraft world "bees". Called the last one "Andrena" (mining bee) because it's a driller train, haha
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@chiffchaff@tech.lgbt 2026-04-14 11:32
@GreenSkyOverMe They always remind me of this scene in Dr Zhicago because of how they arrive unannounced at small stations going line speed and surprise everyone. https://youtu.be/wRXKHTTzayU
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@Christofurio@newsie.social 2026-04-14 11:37
@GreenSkyOverMe Leaned something new. Goooo flying bananas!
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@Christo_459@mastodon.me.uk 2026-04-14 11:56
@GreenSkyOverMe I didn't know about this and now I do . Thank you
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@lopta@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 12:08
@GreenSkyOverMe @nigecube Did you know about this? :-)
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@mherbert@social.chinwag.org 2026-04-14 12:20
@GreenSkyOverMe video for the curious (not the one from BBC News as in the screen caps, I couldn't find that) https://youtu.be/BVa0TR7YByc
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@tay@transfem.social 2026-04-14 12:37
@GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social i want one of these
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@jgilbert@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 12:43
@GreenSkyOverMe the measure and maintenance trains on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines are similar; they're named "Doctor Yellow" :D
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@qwazix@bananachips.club 2026-04-14 12:51
@GreenSkyOverMe why is it so long?
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@olasd@mastodon.opportunis.me 2026-04-14 15:29
@GreenSkyOverMe clearly the purple light is the bat signal, but for train nerds
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@thecreaturescollective@made.asterism.gay 2026-04-14 16:11
@GreenSkyOverMe today i learned: bananas have a blue laser at night
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@AlineHayes@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-14 16:33
@GreenSkyOverMe Well that’s interesting. I’ve seen it multiple times in several mainline station sidings and wondered what it measures. As a regular rail user, am grateful for its yellow/blue work.
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@GiantGinkgo@mstdn.party 2026-04-14 16:39
@GreenSkyOverMe I first thought you were talking about the original Flying Banana, the Piasecki/Boeing Vertol H-21 helicopter! Shame they didn’t have blue lasers…
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@seabass@social.seabass.systems 2026-04-14 16:50
@GreenSkyOverMe It's funny to think that the vehicle that tests the overhead lines... runs on diesel traction :D Obviously it's more versatile that way for a largely unelectrified network in the UK, and Deutsche Bahn also use the diesel BR 605 for testing, so hardly unprecedented. But lovely to see the old British Rail class 43s still in use in one way or another all the same!
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@Sobex@social.sciences.re 2026-04-14 18:22
@GreenSkyOverMe Hmm, wouldn’t this make plane pilot mad ?
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@markhysted@federate.social 2026-04-14 19:02
@GreenSkyOverMe This is a rabbit hole I am more than happy to enter.
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@ipd@universeodon.com 2026-04-14 19:55
@GreenSkyOverMe I bet those play well with the Aviation Authorities, or whatever they call it over there.
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 2026-04-14 22:50
@GreenSkyOverMe Wow, that is some incredible light pollution... Why is its intensity set so high? (I know I'm focusing on the wrong thing here, but geez...)
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@ddlyh@topspicy.social 2026-04-14 23:24
@GreenSkyOverMe Didn't realise people called them that!
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@Umbreon@donphan.social 2026-04-15 08:37
@GreenSkyOverMe Are you sure the aliens aren't invading the UK's transport sector?
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@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net 2026-04-15 17:57
@GreenSkyOverMe Holy crap it's an ominous purple light tornado, haha.
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@Yza@plush.city 2026-04-15 15:27
@GreenSkyOverMe trains are so precious. imagine not wanting more rail
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@ericjames@booping.synth.download 2026-04-15 03:58
@GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social reminds me of how the sacramento kings' arena installed a "beam" that lights up every time the team wins a game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_the_Beam#%22Light_the_Beam!%22_and_2022%E2%80%9323_season