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this thread is great. also phil, that bit about the bel-del and the CT1250 is being saved into a long word doc of facts and antidotes i have about that stretch of railroad, great stuff. no radios? even with the LHR being an early adopter of the onboard radio? well i suppose thats a question and disc...

MNCRR9000 wrote: Still showing a revenue service date of December 2022 total cost of 10.8 billion.

know plenty of hoppers out here in the midwest, they would fall out laughing at this jamooks un-professionalism

heard the greens is a really nice neighborhood to visit, especially after dark on a weekend!

it's been a good 3+ years since i've rode the LIRR but i always liked getting the odd set of M3s on a late night KO train, the lights going out occasionally helped the sober up nap on the ride back.

is it 2005 again???????

one final bit about the MO wye, a friend of mine growing up lived in the house along RR avenue that occupied the former property the tail track was on. there was a very obvious former track profile in the backyard visible when i was back there last about 2009 or so. the yard dipped and then raised u...

after looking hard at that photo again, no evidence of the MO team track that was double ended and curved away from the main/siding a bit and would have tied back in at about where the photog was standing. a leftover from the old wye that was removed pre WW2. it was still in place as late as the 72 ...

really striking resemblance* to MO, especially from that angle. had this 25+ year resident of the moriches scrambling to check all the stuff i had on the ol home town to figure it out.



* striking resemblance to MO or i've been in minnesota for too long..

there is too much industry in the back ground to be East Moriches. Just my thoughts. east moriches had quite a bit of industry around the old station. to the east was a long siding that was a team track that had a lot of local cosignees, and to the west across pine street there was a large (for eas...

ah yes, new york before giuliani secretly had most of the homeless and street population killed.

Slip I remember an obese conductor who constantly complained about his wife, his knees and his dog dying from an accident. He blamed poor train handling on his knee problem and ignored 30+ years of gyros and soda crushing the cartilage in his knees. I dont know if his dog was hit by a car or if he ...

haha a route from new haven to KO, what knob wrote that in crayon on the map with a bunch of doodles of money bags around it? ESA is how many years over schedule? hahahahha

Amtrak7 wrote:They ran everything west on 2, necessitating the use of train orders and only one train at a time from Y to BABYLON, plus the speed restrictions (if any) near the MofW crew.

maybe if they ever re-do speonk yard for electrics they can extend the tail of the wye onto that guys property again