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What happens when someone falls from a train? Police / EMS / whatever shutdown a railroad so they rescue the person or retrieve the body and to investigate. If this happened on the (just for the sake of the argument) on the NEC approaching Secaucus Junction This is commonly the line heard from UK r...

ExCon90 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:09 pm SEPTA rents out former living quarters in suburban stations for law offices,

LAUPT is owned by LACMTA, There's probably a deeper analysis required on this issue. LAUPT may be owned locally but Amtrak probably has a contract saying they manage certain aspects of the operation that might include veto power over certain issues. Do they control the tower and thus the traffic in...

The rule is now 20+ years old, and other heritage/charter operators have these mechanisms on their trains. Why should this one company (that has been repeatedly fined for safety violations and had a train operator jailed for violating a stop signal) get special treatment? An older BBC pieces notes ...

To clarify the scenario I'm thinking of is heavy rain at ~32deg F. Then temp drops and it freezes. Can the steps open after being saturated with water and snow and then freezing solid?

So there is a big kerfuffle over in Scotland right now over "central door locking". You have the Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig that runs a steamer and 6-8 Mk1 coaches from long ago. The doors, just like on our rolling stock, do not lock. This is a violation of UK code t...

Any word on how they perform in the winter? I just saw this video with the traps and that looks like a nightmare in Michigan or New York ice.

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I don't know where they did their math and on what assumptions but there is a large body of research that shows trains are more efficient per passenger mile than planes by a lot. Not that I trust a word that comes out of the NY Times these days, it is clickbait garbage like the rest of them.

what will become of traditional automakers who, as both Messrs. Dunville and Olesen have surmised, simply want to replace the internal combustion engine with electric motors and a battery, and hoping that their longstanding nameplates will hold them market share in the EV universe. As Lensovet has ...

Was thinking last night I could use a good martini and wound up with a bottle of Costco Malbec, which aint bad for $6.

Before Covid, Detroit's central core was overcapacity and rapidly renovating buildings. After the cash Ford put into this place and the urban renewal around here, they could probably rent the whole thing and make a tidy profit with no regard to their EV plans.

Why would Metra want a locomotive without PTC? Or would the price be low enough that they could afford to add PTC and still be less expensive than other options? Given that this is heavy on the gossip/rumor side, I don't know what the answer is. But the current order of SD70MACH all went through si...

The Blommer thing has been curious. Perhaps it's just too expensive to produce in the heart of downtown. Also perhaps the city found an angle to tell them to get lost, the smell is a bit funky for a high rent district. Or perhaps a developer offered them a terrific price to replace with condos. As f...

Legacy auto needs to realize that simply sticking a battery and electric motor into their existing fleet is not going to be sufficient to get people to buy their vehicles. Certainly not for the crazy prices they are asking. This. Most important thing that nobody is saying right now. It's important ...

Business Insider has been doing a lot of these lately. I don't bother to read it as I find the publication to be abject garbage*, but its curious how much they are pushing railfan material. *The owner was convicted of securities fraud and banned from Wall Street so he now publishes "news"....