QuixoticgeekAnother question for the #TrainNerds, do locomotives have a toilet for the driver, or do they just have to hold it from rest area to rest area ?
波鉄 (Hatetsu)@quixoticgeek Pretty sure they don't have a toilet
🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉@quixoticgeek you have to run to a bathroom at a station or well not... Seems like a pain.
rainynight65@quixoticgeek There is a type of locomotive here in Queensland that was upgraded with onboard toilets. However they're at the long hood end (opposite from the driver's cab). As per a retired driver I know, the main freight operator does not allow drivers (there's normally two) to use them while the train is moving. So sometimes signal stops become extended 'comfort stops'.
I video these trains quite often and just found a video of mine with a loco where the toilet door is open. You can see it at about 17 seconds in.
2309D and 2350D through Laidley
Seth@quixoticgeek The giant diesel freight engines in the US do have toilets
Her Holy Ribboner; Ngarewyrd@quixoticgeek American style locomotives use the area under the nose for theirs, The local to me (Queensland) trains tend to have them in a little room just behind the co-driver's seat
But yes, many locomotives do have toilets for the crew
Bebef has moved@quixoticgeek German locos usually don't while American ones (at least sometimes) do.
MaxiPalle@jubeldoktor Wie ist das bei Dir und den Zügen, die Du fährst geregelt?
Jubeldoktor@maxipalle In Deutschland ist das mindestens unüblich. Möglich, dass es Güterverkehrsunternehmen gibt, die das haben, ich kenne keines. Reisezüge haben natürlich oft Toiletten, aber generell geht man halt strategisch auf Klo. Die Toiletten in Pausenräumen sind ja auch sauberer als die im Zug.
[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD@quixoticgeek I know the deltic has a urinal somewhere in the engine area. You probably wouldnt want to use it while the engine is running (they are fucking loud)
Its definitely not a universal thing on all trains though (I see no evidence of such a thing on the HST power car, for example)