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For CSX schedules try this site:

http://www.bullsheet.com/FreightMenu.html

Note that this is only a guide and trains can operate pretty much anytime, although from what I've seen the intermodals (Q100 series) generally seem to run on schedule if everything is normal.

At Gardner, many of the Guilford trains stop behind the Dunkin Donuts for coffee so it is not unusual to see a train there. Unfortunately with their schedules it is tough to predict when a train will be by. I used to see a local working the Heywood industrial track on Saturday mornings, although I h...

Do the 2 or 3 car trains require an operator in each car as they did in the PCC days, or can the first car operator work all the doors by him/herself?

Thanks George, I posted my message there.

That is an interesting site. I have been interested in the Tube for some time as we lived near London when I was growing up in the 1950's, and I have been back several times most recently last Fall when I also got to check out the new (for me) DLR.

Does anyone know of any active forums on the London Underground? I would be interested in finding out more about the operational effects of the bombing, what is involved in getting the closed lines back in operation, and general current topics. I have found some good sites but the forums if any seem...

Another factor in PC's downfall was the Enron style looting of the RR by the management for various pet non-railroad activities. If you read Daughen & Binzen's "wreck of the Penn Central" it is clear the management quickly lost interest in trying to operate the RR properly and saw it m...

According to an article I saw this morning's Worcester Telegram the state will boost the priority of the proposed increase in Worcester CR service using money saved by deep sixing Arborway and the Red/Blue line interchaneg (I assume this is the proposed project to connnect the Blue Line to Charles/M...

The discussions above have only focused on the various post 9-11 bailouts of the airlines. However there is an ongoing subsidy consisting of an infrastructure that is funded by the various d\regional, state and federal governments that is ignored when comparing airlines to "money losing" A...

Try going to http://www.fta.dot.gov then enter "TF Green" in the search field at the top right. The search will return a link to the document which is in MS Word format.

I have fond memories of riding the El from 1962 - 1967 when I commuted from Dorchester to school in West Roxbury via Forest Hills. I was not around to see the end of the El because by 1987 I was living in the Philadelphia area. I remember the crews were usually friendly. I got to know a couple of mo...

There is more detail in the following article in the Woircester Telegram: http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050501/NEWS/505010785&SearchID=73207043865109 The train in question was a Guilford train. The RR is in a cut here and on a curve, liniting visibility. The train crew imm...

I have seen such a system in London where they have it on most lines, but the best ones are on the Docklands Light Rwy and siome of the tube lines, (Central and Jubilee at least I think) where the sign indicates the next 2 train's destination and expected arrival time. The lines mentioned have the a...

Robert, if you ever got to ride the old Blue Line cars (the original 1924 cars) the experience was similar.

Jon

I gues I'm showing my age but I rememeber when the bluebirds replaced my favorites the 0600/0700 cars. I hated them because you lost the view out the front that the 0600's had. Also no more cool traction sounds. Another "feature' of the 0600's was on hot summer days they would open the front do...