Administrators Eric Posted July 9, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted July 9, 2023 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted July 16, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted July 16, 2023 If I was that guy in the locomotive, I think I’d get my dumb ass out of there before that train finished its crash. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 8 hours ago, Eric said: If I was that guy in the locomotive, I think I’d get my dumb ass out of there before that train finished its crash. Damn termites... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 15 hours ago, Eric said: If I was that guy in the locomotive, I think I’d get my dumb ass out of there before that train finished its crash. Look at the guy standing right below. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 When travel was usually enjoyable and relaxing. (Sigh) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 With its taxpayer funded interstate system and numerous airports and air traffic control system the United States has demonstrated an aggressive dislike of long distance railroad passenger service. The freight railroads whose track passenger trains must use are indifferent at best and hostile at worst to long distance passenger trains. Only commuter distances get respect and many of them only because they own the track they use. Amtrak was created to relieve those want-to-be freight only railroads of any remaining obligations to carry passengers. Even it sometimes seems to wish passengers would just go away. It proposed using highway buses for several short segments of “The City of New Orleans” while waiting on Positive Train Control installations to be completed. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DAKA Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 On 7/19/2023 at 6:24 PM, railfancwb said: With its taxpayer funded interstate system and numerous airports and air traffic control system the United States has demonstrated an aggressive dislike of long distance railroad passenger service. The freight railroads whose track passenger trains must use are indifferent at best and hostile at worst to long distance passenger trains. Only commuter distances get respect and many of them only because they own the track they use. Amtrak was created to relieve those want-to-be freight only railroads of any remaining obligations to carry passengers. Even it sometimes seems to wish passengers would just go away. It proposed using highway buses for several short segments of “The City of New Orleans” while waiting on Positive Train Control installations to be completed. I seem to remember the Railroads selling off the Right of Way years ago....Trucking industry involved ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 29 minutes ago, DAKA said: I seem to remember the Railroads selling off the Right of Way years ago....Trucking industry involved ? A lot of railroads got paid to allow fiber and other cable to be buried in their right of way. Many years ago Tennessee Central was in bankruptcy and sold its southern loop around Nashville to the Tennessee Highway Department. That became the bulk of Interstate 440. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted July 25, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted July 25, 2023 For some reason, this train reminds me of the movie Species. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 More info on the F7: https://american-rails.com/e1074.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 33 minutes ago, pipedreams said: More info on the F7: https://american-rails.com/e1074.html WWII killed the American steam locomotive manufacturers by allowing EMD (General Motors) to obtain an insurmountable market lead with the new technology while forcing steam locomotive manufacturers to keep on keeping on. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Trolleys/streetcars were not just local to a city. There was once a network of streetcars connecting cities all over America and the world. If you search interurban railway for your state, you will find them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DAKA Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 1 minute ago, pipedreams said: Trolleys/streetcars were not just local to a city. There was once a network of streetcars connecting cities all over America and the world. If you search interurban railway for your state, you will find them. When I was "growing up" there were still a few streetcars in Brooklyn NY We put pennies on the track and got them flattened...I seem to remember putting some 22 blanks too (Statue of limitations ?) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Buckingham Branch fall dinner excursion train. Staunton, VA. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Conductor Harry Renshaw consults his pocket watch just prior to the departure of a Boonton branch suburban commuter local on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the mid 1920s. Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Abandoned. Undisclosed location somewhere in New York. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Number 6 at the Scottsdale Arizona railway museum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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