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This isnt good: AM 62 is now a parts donor as pieces are slowly stripped off this once proud running Alco. from photo: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=449987&nseq=53" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Arkansas & Missouri 62 is LV 406. the A&M is retiri...

I am not trying to offend anyone at all because I never use the word but in Centralia WA the cleanout tracks used to be called negro 1 and negro 2,the other "N" word as african americans worked cleaning cars that were spotted on these tracks. Of course that was long ago, the NP changed the...

I thought KB&S 318 (NP 913) had been scrapped?

I know you NH guys can answer this one in two seconds. I found pics of Winchester and Western RS3 527 online and was wondering what ever became of it. Thanks

Thats bs. I got on the mechanical screen (I am a BNSF engineer) and typed in the first few of the first list. A couple were in CA and the rest are scattered around the system. Most of them are actually still in service. As an example the BNSF 1957 is in Aberdeen SD and under comments it says '' hold...

I dont know the exact numbers but you have it nailed. Generally speaking coal trains=AC power. Everything else is DC. Older power (spartan cab stuff SD40-2's and Geeps) handle locals, road switchers and yard assignments. Out here in the Northwest they have been running SD40-2's and Geeps on drag fre...

I know I was just being dramatic. As long as there are parts for them people are going to use them. Especially 251 powered stuff.

I am not sure what country or planet you guys railroad on but these rules for rest have been in effect since July 16 2009. Nation wide all railroads must comply. It was part of the Rail Safety Imrovement Act.The knee jerk reaction for this legislation was created by the Chatsworth CA accident inclu...

The future? There isnt one. Some day they will be like steam engines, a few operating here and there....

Yeah it was a good story but the BN dispatchers would have known the Rock was done. Kinda funny though, in the midwest the BN took in a lot of Rock guys and out west we got a lot of Milwaukee guys. As a matter of fact I have had the privelege of working with a few Milwaukee guys.

It usually takes a few weeks to find out the results. If they cancel the class they will let you know.

I read a blip on another rr related website that all of the U25B's that MK rebuilt for the Oregon California and Eastern in 76 have been scrapped except one. I cant seem to find anything on them on line thats not over 10 years old. Kind of hard to believe theres no new info on them considering how r...

Wow, shining like a new penny!

I would disclose it. Someone with mental health issues would fit right in out here with the rest of us...

A fellow engineer I work with from that moved out here from Nebraska said the trainmen just sat on there respective jobs waiting for a call to go to work that never came. He also said the day of the shutdown they came up to an interlocking and couldnt get ahold of the Rock dispatcher so they called ...