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Is Viking the plant that burns all the railroad ties? If so let them close then maybe we can start getting good relay ties again.

God I miss the 90's so much variety of power from so many predecessor roads. Barely a widecab or a yellow nose in sight!

THE SHIPPERS ARE FIGHTING BACK!!!!!!

I call bull$h!t. They are using some pretty fuzzy math on that one. When you get down to it on strait and level roadway or rail the only big force you are dealing with is rolling resistance and the first thing you have to know to calculate that is the contact patch size. A railcar has a contact patc...

For a company that built it's reputation on manufacturing hard goods they sure are trying hard to get out of that market. Says a lot about where Wall street and the US is heading, make nothing and earn your money by passing money from one pocket to another.

The Qline is a novelty, intended to draw in tourists.

If that were completely true then wouldn't they have picked a more attractive and fun retro street car design instead of the slug on rails?

Finally, a new company has moved into the former Merillat factory at end of track in Adrian. They assemble cabinets, as Merillat did there for many years. But unlike Merillat, they don't do any cabinet production. All of the cabinet components are imported, likely from China. So, no potential for s...

. 3. I doubt ADBF wanted the SMRS to establish interchange at Raisin Center. Most likely they wanted it to store rail cars. There were many facets to the takeover attempt. I was not there during that time but the stories abound. Basically He wanted the South end for interchange with NS to avoid the...

Interchange in Milan? So haul South to Riga, trackage rights on I&O to Dundee turn North on the AA to Milan. He must stay up nights staring at rail maps. The proposed plan was to run from Adrian to Milan on NS, but NS has already shot it down. The matter has been discussed since this summer. I thin...

Interchange in Milan? So haul South to Riga, trackage rights on I&O to Dundee turn North on the AA to Milan. He must stay up nights staring at rail maps.

I think EMD is a victim of it's own good products. Class 1 railroads are still rebuilding SD-40 variants that are approaching 50 years of service soon. While GE for obvious reasons does not have that problem with it's own equipment(nobody rebuilds U-boats) they are competing with SD-40s as well in t...

Here is a very good article on the subject which also explains the different classes of track.

http://trn.trains.com/railroads/abcs-of ... ifications

Because now instead of needing to hump 1400 cars a day you only need to class a small fraction of that since you now pre-block your trains. So it is cheaper to have the originating terminals class and block the traffic, then have that traffic only block-swap at midpoints instead of hump, than to hu...

Sad sad day, not too long ago they expanded that yard. I have many a fond memory sitting on the foot bridge over the main next to the East bound hump watching endless streams of cars being shoved over the hump. This was in the 90's when as long as you weren't doing anything stupid nobody cared if yo...

They don't need an ABA set for 5 cars from a power standpoint, but from an attraction standpoint it will be quite a draw. 5 cars and 3 EMD 567s to pull it, darn I wouldn't want to pay that fuel bill. Surprised if they didn't turn the B unit into a slug and the second A unit into a power car or some...

Almost wonder if they'd try to make North Baltimore the crew change point and scrap Garrett and Willard? Audacious, but that's Harrison's part! Be an awful lot of dead crews between Republic and Fostoria just waiting to get through F tower on a busy night. I remember when CSX tried running the PIT ...

Was at the Stourbridge Line shop in Honesdale last week. One F already in primer in their shop with plans to paint it into the maroon Pennsy 5-stripe scheme to match their passenger cars. Personnel there said COE 725 and an ex-CP B unit will join this one in the PRR 5-stripe scheme to make an A-B-A...

This is my first thread I ever made when I joined Railroadfan.com on January 24, 2016 @ 4:43 p.m. EST. I just want to say after reading the lenconnect post, Why is that once they get the grant approved, why will the work be possibly completed by September 2023 :?: When is the grant supposed to be a...

I have read somewhere there is a 50 year rule. Any cars over 50 yrs old gets retired but i was in Bellevue Ohio back in May and saw a gondola that was built in 1949 Generally cars over 50 years are banned from interchange but wavers can be given and nothing says that they can't be used within the s...

Had to be them disgruntled CSX employees intentionally causing service disruptions again just like HH says. And nothing to do with cutting costs and deferring maintenece and inspections...