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After almost 650,000 views over 13+ years, it is clear a lot of people have valued your gawking. Don’t know if this turns out to be a permanent “retirement” notice of sorts, but I, for one, am grateful for your observations over the years. I second that; thanks for all of your reports over the year...

See if this link works for The Atlantic article
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archi ... 121775.pdf

Maine passed a highly restrictive mining law in 1991 after ME DEP negotiated the closure of the Kerr-American zinc and copper mine in Hancock County. Remediation in 2010 had cost approaching nine million dollars and several other expensive cleanups later, including the ongoing IMC/Sobin mess at Orr...

I think this should work
https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/ ... 307577.pdf

A bit off topic as well as a bit off rocker...

What I heard was that the temperatures at the first two detectors did not exceed the threshold of concern. At the third detector (close to the crash site) the threshold was exceeded, the crew began to brake, but it was too late. Sounds like a bad policy choice

Nice retrospective, thank you for that. Having lived through all of that, in the pre-internet/railroad forum days, I saw it all happen, but never appreciated the larger context.

Thanks for your reports; you may think no one reads them, but we do! Not much news about the P&W these days

Maybe a sale in the works?
https://www.alamosacitizen.com/no-buyer ... -railroad/

As for the Hillsboro, an offer was made, and the M&B rejected that first offer. So we'll see if CSX comes back with a second or if negotiations just fizzle out. What does this mean? An offer was made to buy out the M&B so that CSX could operate it? Abandon it? Or was an offer made to sell t...

Seven months later... finally a notice of acquisition filed with the STB yesterday. Looks like they will be changing their name to Hood River Railroad. The lumber transload in Odell is still going great guns, and apparently they have resumed passenger trains, but only from Hood River to the new owne...

They could always nationalize them, it has been done before

well said

Mount Hood Railroad sold to local investment group
https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/eedit ... 4b4da.html

I grew up close by to that area, and was in high school when they were planning the "new" I-190 highway which cuts through part of the watershed. I remember that there was a lot of engineering done to capture the storm water from the road surface and direct it to detention facilities that ...