That picture is priceless.
Mikado463 Audioholic Spartan Nov 17, 2025 #562 here's to 'cleaner windows' !! Rail Insider-Amtrak cleans up with new washing machines. Information For Rail Career Professionals From Progressive Railroading Magazine www.progressiverailroading.com
here's to 'cleaner windows' !! Rail Insider-Amtrak cleans up with new washing machines. Information For Rail Career Professionals From Progressive Railroading Magazine www.progressiverailroading.com
Mikado463 Audioholic Spartan Nov 17, 2025 #563 FWIW, the CPKCS Holiday Train will be traveling via the Moosehead sub division and stopping at Greenville Jct, Maine this coming Sat, 11/22 to perform. ETA is 1815, Greenville Jct is a 'cam site' on Virtual Railfan.
FWIW, the CPKCS Holiday Train will be traveling via the Moosehead sub division and stopping at Greenville Jct, Maine this coming Sat, 11/22 to perform. ETA is 1815, Greenville Jct is a 'cam site' on Virtual Railfan.
Out-Of-Phase Audioholic Field Marshall Nov 18, 2025 #564 https://www.cpkcr.com/en/media/HT-Oct2025 Wish I could see it.
Mikado463 Audioholic Spartan Nov 18, 2025 #565 Out-Of-Phase said: https://www.cpkcr.com/en/media/HT-Oct2025 Wish I could see it. Click to expand... me too ! I'm a member of the 'Greenville Jct Depot Friends' and the Save the Depot project. For 20 plus years I snowmobiled out of Greenville Jct on the southern end of Moosehead Lake in Maine. If it wasn't for the twelve hour drive I'd love to be there this Sat when it pulls in !
Out-Of-Phase said: https://www.cpkcr.com/en/media/HT-Oct2025 Wish I could see it. Click to expand... me too ! I'm a member of the 'Greenville Jct Depot Friends' and the Save the Depot project. For 20 plus years I snowmobiled out of Greenville Jct on the southern end of Moosehead Lake in Maine. If it wasn't for the twelve hour drive I'd love to be there this Sat when it pulls in !
Eppie Audioholic Ninja Nov 24, 2025 #567 Holiday train in London, Ontario had Smashmouth! (Facebook link)
Mikado463 Audioholic Spartan Dec 9, 2025 #569 Excellent vid of B&W photos from the sixties and early seventies of a side by side comparison of the PC and EL. At the 7:29 mark is a pic of the 'Buffalo Day' leaving Harrisburg, Pa, as a young lad I rode that train many times back home to Buffalo, right up to the very end, 4-30-71. 5-1-71 Amtrak began and the train was gone, sad, one of the best daylight cab rides I've ever been on. Last edited: Dec 12, 2025
Excellent vid of B&W photos from the sixties and early seventies of a side by side comparison of the PC and EL. At the 7:29 mark is a pic of the 'Buffalo Day' leaving Harrisburg, Pa, as a young lad I rode that train many times back home to Buffalo, right up to the very end, 4-30-71. 5-1-71 Amtrak began and the train was gone, sad, one of the best daylight cab rides I've ever been on.
Mikado463 Audioholic Spartan Dec 10, 2025 #571 I really believe the B&W photography made the whole presentation even more pronounced .........
Out-Of-Phase Audioholic Field Marshall Dec 11, 2025 #572 Bad flooding all over Western Washington state right now. Skykomish is currently down.... The Skykomish River is at or near record flood stage.
Bad flooding all over Western Washington state right now. Skykomish is currently down.... The Skykomish River is at or near record flood stage.
Out-Of-Phase Audioholic Field Marshall Sunday at 11:41 AM #574 Criticized as "dirtier than coal power plants" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/how-us-freight-rail-industry-got-dirtier-than-coal-power-plants-2025-12-14/
Criticized as "dirtier than coal power plants" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/how-us-freight-rail-industry-got-dirtier-than-coal-power-plants-2025-12-14/
Mikado463 Audioholic Spartan Monday at 9:10 AM #575 Interesting article, it does 'gloss over' several points of comparison. I like the fuel efficiency one regarding intermodal, imagine if all the current intermodal traffic BNSF handles had to move OTR ?
Interesting article, it does 'gloss over' several points of comparison. I like the fuel efficiency one regarding intermodal, imagine if all the current intermodal traffic BNSF handles had to move OTR ?
Mikado463 Audioholic Spartan Yesterday at 9:46 AM #576 'Donnie' likes to say 'drill baby drill' , well for the railroad enthusiast it's 'dig baby dig' ! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hudson-tunnel-digging-start-boring-201503605.html
'Donnie' likes to say 'drill baby drill' , well for the railroad enthusiast it's 'dig baby dig' ! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hudson-tunnel-digging-start-boring-201503605.html
H highfigh Seriously, I have no life. Yesterday at 10:05 AM #577 Out-Of-Phase said: Criticized as "dirtier than coal power plants" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/how-us-freight-rail-industry-got-dirtier-than-coal-power-plants-2025-12-14/ Click to expand... I wonder if location has anything to do with the amount of pollution produced- I saw a train passing over a road, carrying coal- no odor from exhaust, no plume of smoke, less noise than I remember from the past. I didn't stay long enough to see how many cars were being hauled, but they don't usually pull a small number through this area, on their way to the docks or possibly, to Chicago and beyond.
Out-Of-Phase said: Criticized as "dirtier than coal power plants" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/how-us-freight-rail-industry-got-dirtier-than-coal-power-plants-2025-12-14/ Click to expand... I wonder if location has anything to do with the amount of pollution produced- I saw a train passing over a road, carrying coal- no odor from exhaust, no plume of smoke, less noise than I remember from the past. I didn't stay long enough to see how many cars were being hauled, but they don't usually pull a small number through this area, on their way to the docks or possibly, to Chicago and beyond.
Mikado463 Audioholic Spartan Today at 8:23 AM #578 highfigh said: I wonder if location has anything to do with the amount of pollution produced- Click to expand... Miles of trackage, number of locomotives, topography, number of Tier 4 compliant locos, it all adds up.
highfigh said: I wonder if location has anything to do with the amount of pollution produced- Click to expand... Miles of trackage, number of locomotives, topography, number of Tier 4 compliant locos, it all adds up.
D Dude#1279435 Audioholic Warlord Today at 6:50 PM #579 I was a school bus driver in '95-96 and remember this video and another in Illiniois I believe from a driver safety meeting. I remember doing a fill-in route where there's this crossing with multiple tracks. I had to wait till one of the conductors came and turned the signal off. You can't really see sh-t so it was wise to stay put. Back then it was assumed the bus driver in Illiniois was completely at fault but in hindsight I believe the crossings dimensions were fucked up. Though if I was the driver and that happened I move outta state. (Actually the driver did move out of state.) The Fox River Grove incident is 30 years now. I remember my driver trainer during a meeting saying they went to trial a second time to investigate a conductor, but it turned out they had honked their horn well in advance during a crossing. Anyway not the most optimistic thing on trains but my experience way back.
I was a school bus driver in '95-96 and remember this video and another in Illiniois I believe from a driver safety meeting. I remember doing a fill-in route where there's this crossing with multiple tracks. I had to wait till one of the conductors came and turned the signal off. You can't really see sh-t so it was wise to stay put. Back then it was assumed the bus driver in Illiniois was completely at fault but in hindsight I believe the crossings dimensions were fucked up. Though if I was the driver and that happened I move outta state. (Actually the driver did move out of state.) The Fox River Grove incident is 30 years now. I remember my driver trainer during a meeting saying they went to trial a second time to investigate a conductor, but it turned out they had honked their horn well in advance during a crossing. Anyway not the most optimistic thing on trains but my experience way back.
D Dude#1279435 Audioholic Warlord Today at 7:23 PM #580 This one gives some visuals. Yeah the driver was at fault, but what a f--ked up intersection to sit a bus on.
This one gives some visuals. Yeah the driver was at fault, but what a f--ked up intersection to sit a bus on.
