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If they were riding on the end they could have been 20 cars from the autoracks

My impression is that fluting is pretty much a US and US export thing. Can’t think of many European examples, there were the French Mistral Inox (stainless steel) coaches. https://retours.eu/en/54-inox-grand-confort/
The Danish IC3 (as trialed by Amtrak) has very shallow fluting

Quite a lot of photos and info on their Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/BaltimoreStreetcarMuseumInc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Damage to track and overhead. The building with their electrical sub station suffered a direct hit from a centerbeam but the actual electr...

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With the question of where in the train the 1st class is, this is easily handled by announcements and on the departure screens. Trains on the route I catch (which are not necessarily commuter trains) may have the first class at the front or rear, or at the front and rear, or at the front and middle ...

1st class exists on many, but not all commuter trains in the UK. There doesn't seem to be any particular logic as to which lines get it. However, due to the pressures of fitting more passengers in, the quantity of of the provision has reduced over the years. Also the quality has gone down, to, in ce...

Congratulations. I've seen so many places (not just here) where you have contibuted useful information to the discussion, so I'm please that you will be able to do the same at RMC.

Thank you. What I am writing is making the assumption that an 8 car Stadler KISS or Siemens Desiro double deck. I am writing this for California and our stations were built for low floor double deck rail cars. From the numbers I have seen, a 6 car KISS can fit about the same number of people as a 6...

It depends how you define cheapest. You might have to spend least money up front, but buses have other costs. The roads they run on are subsidised, they cause pollution and congestion, and they are less likely to get people out of their cars than light or heavy rail. On a busy route there’s no way y...

The main advantages of an EMU over an electric loco+coaches are: -EMUs can have more axles powered so can get the power down better, giving better acceleration. As well as providing a faster service for passengers, this also translates into allowing a higher frequency service witht he same infrastru...

CarterB wrote:Look at the very upper right corner of the map I posted above. Shows the DuPont RR not connecting to anything. Must have been barged from there on the river of canal.

This 1873 map shows a railroad going right to the river, but not the works end of it http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/14752/Hollenback++Hobbie++Wapwallopen/Luzerne+County+1873/Pennsylvania/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; wapwallopen.PNG Also note that while the the ma...

Is this the location of Powder Hole? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Big+Wapwallopen+Creek/@41.0674961,-76.122781,135m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c59e2c5e632529:0x4249e41ad258d8ce!8m2!3d41.0725839!4d-76.135208" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This 1864 map shows many mor...

Could someone give me a quick precis of what Precision Scheduled Railroading actually means and how is differs from previous practice? Bear in mind I'm from the UK, where all freight trains run in timetabled paths (but may or may not take up those paths depending on circumstances on the day).

Can anyone identify this truck type? It’s under an Evans built coil gondola. http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?o=ple&i=ple42268detail2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It’s definitely at least a 100 ton, possibly a 125 ton. I’ve had it suggested that it...