Perhaps converting it into an Armstrong turntable would be a better solution. They're primitive but effective!
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Perhaps converting it into an Armstrong turntable would be a better solution. They're primitive but effective!
Letter to the editor — Concord Monitor: Letter: Conway Branch Railroad Line deserves an honest look New England’s railroads have been changing in the last few years. CSX has taken over Pan Am Railways, the St. Lawrence and Atlantic is wrapping up an infrastructure upgrade, the Conway Scenic Railroad...
"What to do with trash?" is definitely going to be a hot topic for the foreseeable future. Front page of today's Portland Press Herald: Some of Maine’s defunct landfills are leaking harmful "forever chemicals" into the drinking water supplies of nearby homes at levels that are up...
CPF66, thanks for the excellent and thorough report. Keep 'em coming!
A container port at the B&M site is pure fantasy. The Roux Institute has fully realized plans for their research campus and plan to start construction this year. The site isn't for sale and the obstacles to developing a container port on that site are too numerous to count. Thank you for being ...
ExCon90 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:36 pm I'm not familiar with Eimskip -- are they Danish?
That's cool. An interesting piece of Maine railroading history that would've been all too easily forgotten.
Unsurprising, considering that they are essentially a totally new type of locomotive. There are always teething problems to be worked out with new technology. Hopefully Wabtec will send some of their people up to Maine to figure out what's going on.
It could potentially work, but raising that kind of money for railroad-related causes is very difficult. Here in New England we've seen many examples of it taking years or decades to raise enough money just to restore a locomotive or a trainset (e.g. MEC 470, Flying Yankee)... and those are tiny sum...
From Progressive Railroading: Now called the CSX New England Zone, the former Pan Am system will receive additional investments and extensive work again this year, said Ed Sparks, CSX’s chief engineer-bridges, design and construction, in an email. . . . Much of the work is associated with a $17.5 mi...
The LSU monstrosity was generated by AI, which is why it has three different numbers and the smoke is coming from the roof of the cab.
I'm pleasantly surprised that it works at all, considering how difficult it must be to maintain a stable satellite connection from a train moving through urban communities. 5G (with fallback to LTE in non-5G areas) would likely be much faster, though. A journalist from Florida recently tweeted his e...
How much of an increase in ticket prices are you willing to accept for an improved Amtrak wifi system that supports video conferencing and 4K video? Alternatively, how much are you willing to pay for Amtrak wifi that isn't free? (For the sake of argument, let's say they charge for it in 4-hour block...
The passengers who complain the loudest about not being able to do Zoom calls or watch movies in 4K are generally people who can easily afford (and probably already have) an unlimited data plan from their own wireless provider and/or their employer can afford to set them up with a mobile hotspot for...