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Re: Amtrak Empire Connection outage due to parking garage issues

 by Fishrrman ¦  Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:10 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak Empire Connection outage due to parking garage issues ¦  Replies: 34 ¦  Views: 2532

This incident exemplifies why it can be a disastrous mistake for railroads to sell "air rights" above their tracks. (although I realize that a building put up in 1975 long predated the Empire Connection) That building is almost 50 years old now. The parking garage is probably poured concre...

I ran some "inland route" trains out of New Haven years ago when they were running. The difference in mileage wasn't much, but the running times were longer. There was an afternoon job that left New Haven (I forget the train number, may have been 474), ran to Boston via Springfield. The re...

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Fishrrman ¦  Sun May 14, 2023 4:46 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112916

I didn't read the whole thread, so my apologies if this has been asked before.

Who is operating the M-8's now?

Is SLE service east of New Haven still crewed by Amtrak crews, or is it now someone else running them?

Re: Derailment= East Palestine Ohio

 by Fishrrman ¦  Thu Mar 02, 2023 9:22 pm ¦  Forum: Norfolk Southern ¦  Topic: Derailment= East Palestine Ohio ¦  Replies: 283 ¦  Views: 26419

railjunkie wrote: "It does not matter how much money NS throws to EP that town will never be the same. Sure it will still be in the news cycle for a bit but when it comes time to sell sell sell all those people are going to hear are crickets." I read of one family that has already been bar...

Re: Derailment= East Palestine Ohio

 by Fishrrman ¦  Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:07 pm ¦  Forum: Norfolk Southern ¦  Topic: Derailment= East Palestine Ohio ¦  Replies: 283 ¦  Views: 26419

uur noted: "Then there is a rush to another panacea, electronic braking" This is a yellow-journalism equivalent of Alfred Hitchcock's "MacGuffin". What would EP braking have done to prevent a bearing journal from self-destructing? And... once the derailment began... what could EP...

Re: Amtrak’s Growing Pains with Siemens Locomotives

 by Fishrrman ¦  Mon Dec 26, 2022 8:22 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak’s Growing Pains with Siemens Locomotives ¦  Replies: 348 ¦  Views: 41529

After reading posts from early December to the present, my reply is: Bring back the F-40's ! Great engines that seldom failed. Even if one was having some problems, chances are you could still get over the road with it (was able to do that once or twice). In my working days, I think most enginemen w...

Re: Southwest Chief on the Ground in MO

 by Fishrrman ¦  Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:53 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Southwest Chief on the Ground in MO ¦  Replies: 186 ¦  Views: 21186

John Perkowski wrote:
"You can bet your bottom dollar NTSB will be looking into why the entire consist fell over."

Tightlock couplers.
They did exactly what they're supposed to do.
They remained locked together, tightly.
Even as they pulled the entire train over on its side.
(J. Albert)

Re: Amtrak’s Growing Pains with Siemens Locomotives

 by Fishrrman ¦  Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:11 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak’s Growing Pains with Siemens Locomotives ¦  Replies: 348 ¦  Views: 41529

Approach Medium: "I can also vouch that the ACS 64 is just as much of a big software problem pileup and poorly located parts with poor components that love to accept water intrusion and cause chaos. If you lick your fingers or get a snowball and open an MU port on a Siemens and put said moist o...

Re: Questions about Penn Central.

 by Fishrrman ¦  Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:41 pm ¦  Forum: Penn Central ¦  Topic: Questions about Penn Central. ¦  Replies: 22 ¦  Views: 14064

BR&P: "Absolutely they did, the punchcard system lasted to the end of NYC, through Penn Central, and was still in use with various modifications on Conrail in September 1979. How long after that it was in use I can't say." Seems to me they were still using the punchcards when I worked ...

Peter C. McLachlan, RIP

 by Fishrrman ¦  Tue Dec 21, 2021 10:18 am ¦  Forum: New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad NYNH&HRR ¦  Topic: Peter C. McLachlan, RIP ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 734

From the Danbury News-Times: ========================== Peter Connors McLachlan 1933-2021 Peter Connors McLachlan, formerly of Newtown, died on Sunday November 7, 2021 in Danbury where he lived for the past two years. Peter graduated from St. Peter's School in Danbury and from Newtown High School. H...

Re: Empire Builder on the Ground in MT

 by Fishrrman ¦  Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:17 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: All Things Empire Builder ¦  Replies: 854 ¦  Views: 174539

photobug wrote: "One person who claims to know the area is making an educated GUESS that the train was coming out of a siding at low speed (hence no telescoping style damage obvious) and that there was something 'wrong' with the switch, and that the train could not make it through" This WA...

Fearless prediction, after having worked as an engineman on the New Haven Line for 32 years: The trains are going as fast now, as they will ever go in the lifetimes of anyone reading this post in 2021. Indeed, the trains today run slower than they did some years ago, due to PTC/Acses and the additi...

I agree, the name "Canadian Pacific Kansas City" doesn't make sense -- too hard to say.

Alternate names:
Canadian Pacific, Kansas, & Southern
Canada, Kansas & Southern
CP-Kansas Rail

Re: new ROW around Hoosac Tunnel?

 by Fishrrman ¦  Sun Feb 28, 2021 11:27 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Southern (PAS) / Berkshire Eastern Railroad ¦  Topic: Hoosac Tunnel Discussion & News ¦  Replies: 384 ¦  Views: 72993

They'll put all the double-track back in on the B&A and go that way instead...

Ridership is down by something like 80% on Metro-North over the course of the year. It looks like major cuts in existing service are coming before too much longer -- they just can't continue with no passenger revenue coming in. Gonna be many years before even the possibility of service extensions be...

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