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Glad to hear you are making some progress. Do not give up, sometimes things come to light years, decades or even a century later. A few years back someone posted on Facebook the first (and so far only) known pic of a railroad facility in Rochester, which ceased operation in 1910. You are covering a ...

That's a good suggestion, and worth trying. However timing might work against you. As noted, filming was in 1967 or 1968. The NYC and PRR merged February 1, 1968. The NYC Headlight was replaced by Penn Central Post . But the movie was not released until September 19th, 1968. There was a strong focus...

Wow, tough crowd! (or indifferent). 3 days, over 125 views, and nobody picked up on the posting date and hollered BS? I'd better turn myself in, before somebody takes it seriously and passes it along as "truth"

Given the size of GWI's rail holdings, it's hard to believe the growing pains when they first began expanding from a small salt-hauler to something bigger. But things were not easy. In its infancy R&S arranged to lease the LV 211, now at the RGVRR Museum but privately owned at that time. But the...

There at least used to be (I couldn't find it the last time I was in New York) a "stuffed and mounted" NYCRR switcher (an Alco S1? S2? S4?) in the former 72nd Street yard, at about 70th Street, a hundred feet or so from the Hudson River and closer than that to the Amtrak line. I had forgo...

Gotta love it. Guy joins the forum, asks a detailed question, several members provide helpful info - and a month later we have heard nothing more from the OP. Oh well.....hopefully we provided the info he was after.

selfkumquats wrote:I think that when driving a engine it is important to observe signals.

Now to dress it up with a stuffed-and-mounted old NYC switcher and wooden caboose on display.

Good to hear it's found a home.

It's my understanding almost everything on OMID was scrapped - locos (except for the 2 noted above), plow, flanger, side dump, boxcars, MW equipment, whatever else they had. Have not had confirmation but multiple reports to that effect. Interesting, 408/40 was built in 1962 IIRC, spent 17 years on N...

I thought PTC was supposed to make collisions like this impossible Once the first 2 trains collided --for whatever reason -- and fouled the adjacent track, PTC could not have prevented the sideswipe of the wreckage if the 3rd train had come along soon enough afterward. Why didn't PTC prevent the re...

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Frankly, if that is a highway bridge, why would a Carrier be responsible for it? It's not a RR bridge and besides that track is long gone during ConJob. It seems there are conflicting opinions on what various laws do and don't require. It's not surprising that one law would suggest it's totally the...

Here's a thread on this site which discusses the various different arrangements. It could be the unit I'm thinking of had 16-pin cables. https://www.railroad.net/mu-pin-arrangement-t87831.html

Not all locos used 27-pin, had an SW9 which I believe had fewer pins. Never paid attention because we didn't have anything to MU it WITH. But be aware the units you are interested in may have had something other than 27-pin. I have an EMD Operating Manual #2313, for SW8 and SW9, and for TR5 and TR6....