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Yes they do but the subject was on Pan Am...Thats why I mentioned it....The big roads put alot of money into track and equipment thus their trains run faster...P/A has a make do with what you have policy and thats what bothers me...They have been very fortunately not to have a disaster....It also bo...

Pan Am continues to push it's luck with deferred maintenance...What just happened in Canada,even though we don't know the cause, could happen on P/A with the same horrible result....It will unfortunately catch up with them.

In the movie "The Recruit" with Al Pacino and Collin Farell, there is a scene which looked like it was shot under Union Station and there were several Budd cars stored....I have seen that location before in another movie....Does anyone know about those cars and if there are any stored unde...

They could start by rebuilding the 470 steam engine instead of buying one from China!

Hello Mr. gokeef.....I have heard rumors to the effect that P/A is making great strides to improve service to the Mills...Is that true and have you heard anything??

Thanks!

It's always a pleasure to look at your photos...Thank you for posting them!

Just wondering if there is an updated list of engines being stored on the dead track?....I didn't know what else to put this under...Thanks!

What happened with the lumber yard just below Rt. 95?....Use to be Furnam Lumber....Looks empty as of last week..
Did they go out of business?

Thats a car shop truck used mainly for rerailing or changing out wheel sets.

If there is a local working there or stopped, they opposing train may be blowing incase there is a crewman on the ground working to warn him...Maybe thats what they are complaining about?

The Santa Fe had some really nice sets of F7 passenger locomotives and I was wondering if any still exist at some museums around the country...

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Hello go keefe.....Sorry I haven't responded to you're question sooner...As far as a first responder goes, that would be the conductor who has to walk back in very unsafe conditions to determine why the train went into emergency and face a whole lot of uncertanty as to what he is going to find.Now a...

At what point does safety justify it? ...Before or after the derailment when a section of rail comes up through a loaded hazmat car and wipes out half of a town!...I KNOW, i KNOW!...facts and figures don't justify but I had to get that in...I know from experience that the repairs come after the wrec...

watch for the yellow tape!....I wonder if they on Watervilles list? Or any where else....How do you find that list?

I don't know anyhing about cost and variables and formulars vs. expenditures or even how to spell them...I only know from what I read in publications like Railway Age and progressive rail that the Big roads consider intermodal their bread and butter..No switching involved,no crews to spot loads and ...