Yes, I can assure you that GCT is still there, the cabbies waiting outside are still the same reckless drivers as ever, and homeless people still take sponge baths in the lavatories....
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Yes, I can assure you that GCT is still there, the cabbies waiting outside are still the same reckless drivers as ever, and homeless people still take sponge baths in the lavatories....
STrRedWolf wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:59 am .....sigh....People, there IS a difference between "isles" and ''aisles"....................
22"-24". You can just fit a max-sized luggage case in the isles.
What trains would you consider to have been the best on the following routes, according to levels of first class service . 1. Key criteria to be best first class accommodation/s available on the route, best dining service and menus, best on board services available. 2. Secondary considerations, bes...
Maybe CSX track connects to either BNSF or UP track somewhere, either Chicago or St. Louis?
Man, even in it's current sorry state, that is one sharp locomotive! Seeing as how the engine seems to be toast on this unit, perhaps the best we can hope for is an exterior restoration, as a static display. Maybe the other one will be restored someday. As being arguably the best artistic design for...
I'm assuming that the 'mixed' train was really a freight with just a very rudimentary car with hard benches, maybe with heat, certainly without air conditioning, and toilet facilities were the trees along the tracks...cigars and bottles of brown liquid were likely consumed onboard in large quantities.
Man, I've seen this same sad script before; small group raises money to just barely save an old car/locomotive of barely any historical significance, then runs out of money, and 5 years later the axe finally falls anyway. Sorry, but unless you've got somebody with deep pockets who just has to save t...
Here in the northeast, we are well-acquainted with the problem of "one railroad too many" for a given area. In the west, SP became the 'red-headed stepchild' of larger, better funded roads. UP is an absolute colossus, with easily the best route to the west coast, and the ATSF benefitted fr...
I assume you mean a "Railroad Express Agency" building. American Express in those days just acted as a bank in foreign countries to cash traveler's checks into local currency.
Can't read the article because of a paywall.
As to why UP#4014 was making so much steam: it seems that the steam injector has been using more steam than it is supposed to. Last week when it was going through LA and TX, this caused excess water usage (more than the normal 12,000 lb/hr), and they had to refill the water tank car from a small tow...
Maybe a pumphouse?
Also, what's with the dozen rusty hopper cars on the end? Are they carrying anything more important than maybe maintenance ballast? And couldn't they find a dozen cars fresh out of the paint shop?
Yeah, it is a big locomotive. I was wondering if anybody here might have some inside info? I'm suspecting that they are bleeding-off a lot of steam to keep the pressure lower than it was originally designed to run at. It seems that every time they take it out, it's paired with a modern diesel which ...
It seems like every video I see of 4014 since she was put back into steam has her surrounded by big, billowing clouds of it, even at speed. some videos look like there is so much steam coming off of her that forward visibility is essentially zero. I've seen enough working steam locomotives, and many...