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You are correct. Swing-nose frogs are not new in railroading. They are a long-standing feature of high-speed turnouts.

Yes. See the photo of 5741 at the arrts-archives web site.

One thought, there was no East Side Access when the current diesel equipment was ordered. While it is true thst the tunnel existed, it was a tunnel to/from nowhere.

CSX uses single head signals between interlocking distant signals, which are themselves multi-head automatics. Interlockings usually have three heads, which provides for a slow or restricting signal. BUT, what I find interesting about the NS signal card is that new installations are Southern legacy,...

Distributed Power Unit, one or more locomotives remotedo to the lead unit(s). Generally, longer trains with better handling characteristics.

In February the new county exec talked about it in an interview.

It is not a silly ultimatum to NYS's taxpayers: they would like to see a company that fails to comply with a state contract held accountable. They may say that this type of action is long overdue, and that low-balling a bid just to get a "too big to fail" contract will not be rewarded by n...

Schedule 2018 is up

A couple of notes: In their last years of use, the South Farmingdale, Landia, Grumman, and Republic stations were serviced by one train each way daily, an eastbound in the morning and a westbound in the afternoon. These were reverse-commutes for factory workers (note: therefore no parking required)....

What they said. The short hood housed the steam generator; to avoid boiling the engine crew in a grade crossing misshap the control stand was installed with the long hood as the "F" end. As the rest of the world was going short hoods forward, I was told the unions wanted the collision prot...

All of the cars look to be gray (including the train distant left), so into the 1950s.

nyandw wrote:Here's the cab interior: Perhaps we can ID the numbers name/function? Is #5 three individual gauges? Thanks.

The Pink Gondola is still in Kenwood: looks like it's on the cripple track.

How sad. I feel like an orphan, having worked both the cars and carts. Wherr is the harm?

Is that a blue stripe on the first car behind the power? If so, I would guess this is the Sunday afternoon eastbound Montauk shuttling locomotives for the evening westbounds. A few years later that train would have six Alco 420s.