Nostr notes by Vlado Vince

Anti fa Sunday ...

2026-09-20T07:23:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…qmxe
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Anti fa Sunday

Tattle tech shows a video card installed in the PDS slot?? And ...

2026-09-09T15:10:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…ywf3
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Tattle tech shows a video card installed in the PDS slot?? And this is regardless of whether the network card is installed or no? Is this normal on an SE/30?

RE: https://mastodon.vladovince.com/@mejs/117233071622918286 Ugh. ...

2026-09-09T11:50:41Z

RE: https://mastodon.vladovince.com/@mejs/117233071622918286

Ugh.

After pulling this blueSCSI out of my SE/30 for some imaging work, I'm now dealing with a (likely coincidental) issue with my ethernet card (SEthernet/30

After putting the drive back in, first boot failed at raster. Then I booted successfully without it, but ever since then it's like the PDS card is not detected at all.

Any and all attempts to get it working with a fresh install failed (makes sense). Ugh!

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note12ay…nwaa

I was successful imaging the drive but it required A LOT of meticulous work to get it working well enough to copy with my trusty #bluescsi

I was successful imaging the drive but it required A LOT of ...

2026-09-08T02:31:51Z

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I was successful imaging the drive but it required A LOT of meticulous work to get it working well enough to copy with my trusty #bluescsi

But the travel time improvement was real. Compared to the heavy, ...

2026-08-29T07:49:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…4qg8
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But the travel time improvement was real. Compared to the heavy, diesel locomotive hauled trains, the ICN cut down travel time by a few hours. The new, air conditioned train was much more attractive at first than the decades old carriages still used on most Croatian lines at this time.

First to demystify some "nagibni" legends - these trains ...

2026-08-29T07:40:06Z

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First to demystify some "nagibni" legends - these trains were never a good fit for the 5+ hour Zagreb - Split line. This was way too long of a distance for a tiny DMU and even in the best of times spending 5 hours in the two carriage train was uncomfortable

Annoyingly, HŽ never attempted to improve travel comfort by replacing the infamously bad seats. Like elsewhere, tilting technology caused motion sickness for some passengers. There was no dining car, so catered food had to be served at seats

This was a brief time of optimism for the Croatian railways. ...

2026-08-29T07:35:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…sk44
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This was a brief time of optimism for the Croatian railways. Wartime repairs were completed, the economy was doing well, the EU accession was just around the corner.

The RegioSwingers were supposed to be the first step in the new, better times to come soon.

It was not to be.

With the RegioSwingers HŽ (this was before the railway ...

2026-08-29T07:31:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…g842
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With the RegioSwingers HŽ (this was before the railway businesses split) managed to cut down travel times below 6 hours, getting to about 5 hours at the peak of InterCity Nagibni service.

The trains were catered with food and drinks. All the seats featured headset jacks for music, which actually played on multiple channels. It was an ambitious time and for a few years the RegioSwingers looked like a great success.

Attached photo is mine, taken in 2007 soon after they were introduced

So the RegioSwingers came to Croatia because the former main line ...

2026-08-29T07:21:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…gw80
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So the RegioSwingers came to Croatia because the former main line between the two largest cities was no longer viable. They were a stop gap to be used on a line that was already obsolete and was suddenly turned into the main line and the only viable connection.

There used to be two routes from Zagreb to Split. The older, ...

2026-08-29T07:15:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…tps5
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There used to be two routes from Zagreb to Split. The older, slower Lika line, which went through the mountains, and the Una line, which follows the Una river on the border with Bosnia until it meets the Lika line in Knin.

The Una line was completed soon after WW2 and was much more popular. It was fully electrified to Knin by the late 1980s. It suffered significant damage in the war, and even though it was repaired by the year 2000, it was never fully reactivated

https://blog.vladovince.com/traveling-the-una-railroad-thoughts-on-potential-revitalization/

The story of the RegioSwingers in Croatia is complicated. 8 ...

2026-08-29T07:11:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…khp6
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The story of the RegioSwingers in Croatia is complicated. 8 trainsets were bought in the early 2000s for a very specific purpose = to improve speed and quality of service on the Lika line towards Split before necessary infrastructural improvements could be made.

That wasn't all that different from the main pitch for tilting trains = using the technology to compensate for track limitations. But what made the "Nagibni" use special was the Zagreb - Split line.

Bittersweet news this weekend on the Zagreb - Split line with the ...

2026-08-29T07:05:45Z

Bittersweet news this weekend on the Zagreb - Split line with the last run of the ICN (InterCity Nagibni = "InterCity Tilting") service after more than two decades.

ICN was introduced as HŽ's premium product using Bombardier RegioSwinger tilting trains in 2005. They will soon be replaced by Končar 7024 EDMUs hybrids