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Hi, Please be gentle with this newcomer to the forum! I am UK based and work in S scale (a glutton for punishment!) and after years of off and on interest, have decided to actually model the MEC downeast, and stop dreaming about it. The terminus at Calais is serving as primary inspiration (modified...

According to the Bangor Daily News story, the cars were mostly empty. ......."The derailment in New Brunswick happened about 3.7 miles east of the village of about 1,000 in a mainly wooded area, according to Sharon DeWitt, emergency measures coordinator for Plaster Rock. As a precaution, the fe...

MEC combine 501 was never part of the Steamtown collection, nor was it ever on loan to Steamtown. Thank You for the clarification! Was the car was sold directly by the MEC to the Otter River Railroad? This thread has been listless for a while, but has fascinated me as I am interested in the history...

......."As for rail versus pipeline, I'd have to place my vote on rail. Pipelines are only viable if there's no transportation infrastructure in place to move oil"...... The main reason that rail is moving most of the ND oil is because there are no pipelines to carry it in the directions d...

Mr Norman, Your points are valid. Unfortunately I wrote that in a bit of a hurry and did not really check my wording very well. Let me try again by making several points. 1) I am a long time advocate of railroad transportation in North America, nearly 60 yrs in fact. I have stated many many times th...

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll247/sandyriverman/ndakotatrainwreck_zpse5eae7f3.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; In this image made from a video provided by Darrin Rademacher, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, Dec 30, 2013, in Casselto...

The mayor has an obligation to protect her community. Her tactics in doing so may or may not be practical or feasible, but no one should be surprised by her statements and actions after the heart of her community was incinerated. The fact that she's willing to even entertain the idea of resumed rai...

Montreal Gazette, 12/5: ......"MONTREAL — The Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway hopes to restart rail service to businesses in Lac-Mégantic, possibly as early as next week, the company’s bankruptcy trustee said Thursday...........Robert Keach said MMA tracks in Lac-Mégantic have been repair...

As of Monday, the tourist train Orford Express was to bring visitors to Lac-Mégantic and its pristine surroundings, which were left unscathed by the explosion that devastated the town’s centre on July 6. Close to 5,000 tickets have already been sold for trips in the coming days. But late Friday, Tr...

Again, just to be clear about the investigation: The TSB did not investigate the Dryden crash as it was not in existence at the time, and the TSB does not report into TC. Exactly right on both accounts. The reason I have brought forth this information, at this time, is because of what was said, aft...

Just to bring up Newtons 1st law of motion, again, it states that "an object at rest....tends to stay at rest, and and an object in motion,tends to stay in motion. In practical terms this means that if a certain number of brakes were holding "an object at rest" and that object started...

I discovered some new material, related to the role that Canadian government "oversight" (or lack of it) as it related to Transport Canada's mission to see that all the rules and regulations, formulated to see that rail transportation in Canada, would be done while following the rules, was...

Re resumption of freight service in Lac Megantic, I came across another article on it this morning. Municipalities cheer new railway directive ......."The Transport Canada directive that came into effect Wednesday orders Class 1 railways in Canada — Canadian Pacific and Canadian National — to p...

as for the posts opining that he did nothing wrong? impossible to correlate with the facts. to me, he did everything wrong. starting with his decision to quit early, leave a smoking engine as the sole air supply and park on a hill for starters. criminal? 'reckless endangerment' ? i don't think 'equ...

Let's play "just suppose" for a few minutes. Suppose that engineer Harding parked the train at Nantes, got out and set some handbrakes, then did the required brake test, and the brakes held (presumably proof of this would be in the event recorder) then left the train, how could he be fault...