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Re: Adirondack Suspended (Just like that its gone)

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Mon Sep 11, 2023 6:33 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Adirondack Suspended (Just like that its gone) ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 11720

I don't know anyone that stops activity on 9/11 in remembrance of the terrorist attack. They take a moment of silence at United and American, and both used to pause advertising for a few days around the anniversary. I'm sure there are companies who were in WTC who do the same. Sent from my SM-S911U...

Re: Adirondack Suspended (Just like that its gone)

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Fri Sep 08, 2023 3:20 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Adirondack Suspended (Just like that its gone) ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 11720

I've always made a point of *going* to the office on 9/11. Watched the South Tower fall from my office window in Midtown, knew a few who are now "names on the wall" down there at the Memorial. Rounded up a bunch of my friends who weren't doing anything because the markets were closed and s...

The New Haven started design work on their main line electrification in 1903. Work on the catenary started in 1905. The wire was strung as far as Stamford by 1907 and electric service started that summer. By 1915 the wire reached Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven. Important note-- the "design phase&...

The lumberyard in New Canaan was there until the early '90s. I have vague memories of cars spotted there circa 1989 or so (my dad commuted from New Canaan from '86 until he retired in the early '00s). For a while after it closed it was a private parking lot - $3 a day, collected by an old man who sa...

Are diesels capable of 150MPH? Thought the fastest around were the ex-BR InterCity 125's in the UK-- which top out at 125MPH.

Re: Grafton & Upton Railroad (G&U) Discussion

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:08 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Grafton & Upton Railroad (G&U) Discussion ¦  Replies: 3853 ¦  Views: 1089562

That can be prevented to a certain extent by drip pans, drip pads and other types of containment systems... but those systems have to be maintained, and if they fail, groundwater contamination is possible. Rigby Yard, for example, has a number of containment measures in place, but those things can ...

Re: National Railroads Strike in September?

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:39 am ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: National Railroads Strike in September? ¦  Replies: 231 ¦  Views: 24595

I just love how people are always saying they don't want government involved any other time but now all of the sudden they want congress to get involved to force a contract on us. Not me. Let the strike happen. Keep Congress out of it. The harsh reality is most people in the US don't have enough sa...

Re: Impact of Precision Scheduled Railroading on the Industry

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:47 pm ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: Impact of Precision Scheduled Railroading on the Industry ¦  Replies: 48 ¦  Views: 26733

Messrs. Olesen and QB, I do not think that the "Big Seven soon to be the Six Pack" have lost their faith in Saint Elwood. As you both note, reopening two "hump" classification yards hardly makes the Saint a heretic. That the "bottom lines" of all seven Class I's have b...

Re: National Railroads Strike in September?

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:27 pm ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: National Railroads Strike in September? ¦  Replies: 231 ¦  Views: 24595

Sounds like Amtrak is canceling their long distance trains on Thursday due to the strike. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/09/14/congress-freight-rail-strike/ They have to. Can't have passengers stranded on some siding in the Rockies or the middle of the Sonoran Desert when the clock s...

Re: National Railroads Strike in September?

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:46 am ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: National Railroads Strike in September? ¦  Replies: 231 ¦  Views: 24595

Mr. Olsen, we are "on the same page". If, say, at Port of LA/LB, the striking railroad employees can set a line around the railroad facilities, surely the Longshoremen would not X. But the railroad employees cannot set a line around dock facilities that Longshoremen would have X in order ...

Re: National Railroads Strike in September?

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Tue Sep 13, 2022 5:10 pm ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: National Railroads Strike in September? ¦  Replies: 231 ¦  Views: 24595

Question for the order…how much of the alcohol for the Nations 90-10 gasoline/alcohol mix is transported by flatcar? How many days can our refineries make gasoline for shipment to the pump? I don't think there's a single bulk chemical that won't be affected by this. That doesn't just include ethano...

Re: Pan Am Southern / Patriot Corridor Discussion

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:03 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Southern (PAS) / Berkshire Eastern Railroad ¦  Topic: Pan Am Southern / Patriot Corridor Discussion ¦  Replies: 2260 ¦  Views: 607128

Passenger service west of Greenfield ended in December 1958 and everything west of Fitchburg ended in the spring of 1960. Have any of those towns along the line grown that much in the last 60 years?

One big reason there was no rail on the bridge was that Westchester didn't want it. Westchester is more populous and wealthier than Rockland. And even in Rockland there were a lot of NIMBYs. So unless a groundswell of demand for commuter rail from Rockland were to sweep Westchester there will be no...

Re: National Railroads Strike in September?

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Fri Aug 19, 2022 6:01 am ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: National Railroads Strike in September? ¦  Replies: 231 ¦  Views: 24595

BandA wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:20 am I am assuming that none of the unions are going to go on strike against the passenger railroads. Do some of the freight railroads still operate passenger service?
I believe UP and BNSF operate Chicago-area services over their own lines under contract from METRA.

Re: Ethan Allen Discussion, including Expansion (Burlington)

 by Ridgefielder ¦  Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:50 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Ethan Allen Discussion, including Expansion (Burlington) ¦  Replies: 372 ¦  Views: 129544

If you told me 30 years ago that in 2022 Inland Route service from NY to Boston via Hartford and Worcester was long gone, but they'd brought back the NY section of the Rutland's Green Mountain Flyer I flat out would not have believed it.

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