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The chances of any abandoned railroads coming back are always next to nothing... especially in the public sector. I'd say if they were making a decision on which route to keep today, they would probably have kept the ex-main Line instead of the Graham since most traffic is now passenger and that li...

Roger that. Why West Yard? Probably because CSX does not have direct service from Selkirk to Cedar Hill anymore while there is daily service to Oak Point and the West Yard. The cars would be delivered a lot faster than making a detour through West Springfield then waiting to be transferred to Cedar...

Have to admit, I do sometimes wish we here in the US were more like the UK, where an across-the-platform transfer from a standard network train to a "heritage railway" is the rule rather than the exception. They did make a connection with the Naugatuck on a special excursion about six yea...

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=215312482559953359515.000496b73cabd9916320d&msa=0&ll=41.164182,-73.883057&spn=1.147551,2.469177 - Pascack Valley line / Old Erie Main line restoration from Spring Valley to Suffern , this would be very easy to do , the ROW is relativy intact and NYSDO...

yup just got called for OT to run a pair of those trains on Harlem tonight. Be safe out there, I gotta report in later as well. For those that don't know... track circuits do not detect fallen trees across tracks. Hitting a tree a track speed can be -and in the past has been -deadly. I remember 199...

RearOfSignal wrote:Im not an engineer, but the MC is in coast when going through changeover, so it's not like you feel a sudden jolt. Acceleration is better in AC mode though.

How is it being an Engineer? Is it a stressful job? There are factors that can make the job stressful. I had two students who resigned during the program while I was teaching it because of stress from close calls to hitting other employees and trespassers. Unfortunately, suicide by train still happ...

I knew I had a photo of Ed from the 2004 Harmon Open House when he was still in good shape. He's talking here (on the left) with Walter Zullig on the right.

NJ.com features a "reader submitted" photo of the crash. I guess the photo ban was suspended with the service

Can't imagine derailing IN the tunnel. The benchwalls would prevent the engine from going anywhere but the cars might have jacknifed up into the wire. LIRR is reporting that service will not be back to normal until Wednesday, so it must be pretty bad. The location could not be worse. I would not wan...

There is frequent NJT service from EWR to Newark Penn Station early in the morning and the fare is $8.25. The monorail to the train station connects from all the terminals at EWR. There is also frequent service to Metropark but the fare is a little more at $11.50. Depending on your connection to Was...

It's not particularly large, but Tampa Union Station is a wonderful little 1912 Italian Renaissance wedding cake of a structure: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amtrak_-_Tampa_Union_Station.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TUS_Exterior_Front.JPG If only it had more than two trains ...

Nice shot, Fred.

When Amtrak began service in 1971, Montgomery Union Station was a stop for The South Wind, which was later named The Floridian, with service between Chicago and Miami. When The Floridian was terminated in 1979, Union Station was closed. Although The Gulf Breeze stopped in Montgomery from 1989 to 199...

DutchRailnut wrote: Beacon line has some washouts and Maybrook east is still out of service from Botsford to Derby.