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Grand Elk 302 leaving Elkhart 11:20am with the WSOR 4076 leading WAMX 4125 trailing.

I find it amazing how much money they are going to blow when I'm willing to tell them everything they need to know for FREE!!!Mike H You violated Section 1 of the Consultants Manual. Never clearly answer the question and never ever do it for free. If the answer isn't complicated the client feels st...

You could reinstate the old Airline yard in TR behind the old Iron and Metal on Broadway Rd. as the base for the 501 local. Leave a pair of locomotives there for the 501 and have the 302 job drop off cars there on the way north. They are looking at how to better utilize their crews overall. Among t...

302 went south with the 4002 leading and 3945 trailing. By Schoolcraft at 9:45AM. That will put the 3945 in the lead when they come back north. The 3945 was previously the UP 1231. UP rosters shows having been originally build for the Delaware & Hudson and making a stop on the Boston & Maine before ...

It's the second time in two days someone ran the gate.

Crewman might just have a bad sprain.

WAMX 3945 left Grand Rapids this evening. It's expected to switch Kalamazoo now for a while.

NSSD60M wrote:Pending update on the crew who may have been on the ground, or riding the tank car.

He was taken the Three Rivers Hospital with a broken leg.

MDOT could give Amtrak the boot between Kalamazoo and Ypsilanti certainly. Michigan made a significant investment in the Michigan line and should take Amtrak to task. But there is more to it than shape up or your fired. A new operator would need to equip themselves with cars, locomotives, maintenanc...

Kick Amtrak off MDOT's trackage and replace them with who?. Two truths. One MDOT and Amtrak need each other. Two winter has always impacted train operations. Even in the golden era trains ran late and trains were annulled when severe winter weather hit.

Your seeing ghosting which are reflections occurring between the front lens element and the sensor. It's light that is not being focused onto the sensor as part of the image. With bright points of light in the field of view or near to it all lens are susceptible to ghosts and flare. Some worse than ...

12Bridge wrote: I am not sure where you got the 5 mile thing

46 CFR Part 45 Load Line Requirements for Dry Cargo River Barges Operating on Lake Michigan.

SRI says "legal problems" and RYP's site says that SRI has the right to substitute motive power. But they are still selling tickets and pitching it's the 1225 return to the rails excursion.

BerkshireKid wrote:The engine is 100% ready to pull the trip but other obstacles are in the way that have nothing to do with the engine or certifications with the engine.

So is someone reneging on their agreement?

AARR wrote:Great, now foamers will try to gain access to private railroad property by claiming to be with Google Maps

Only the ones who don't have an old ConEd truck.

There has been testing done on models in Europe looking at barge designs that could run from the U.K. to Rotterdam and into Germany. A sea tug would take barges across the channel and a river tug would take over for the river transit. One of the design looks like the great lakes barges with the tug ...

The regulations for barge service on Lake Michigan have been in place since the 90’s. A small number have run from the Chicago area to Milwaukee. But it isn’t the big tows you see on the Mississippi. Among the regulations allowing them they are limited to three barges. The barges have to be unmanned...

Crop it tighter. The three thoroughbred logos and the frog in the foreground make a strong area in the image. To the sides though the white tank car on the left pulls the eye to the edge of the frame and the blank space on the right from the trash can up through the pines pulls the eye to the right ...

Marquette is sitting short of the Van's switch after switching them out, ready to head south but the crew is otherwise occupied...must be waiting or CSX. Rear of the train clear of North Park by a few cars but crossing still active. ALL FOUR SD40-2s leading. 3389, 3388 then the other two. Looks gre...

Four on a Jordan spreader.

All it takes is money.