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Re: Jet Train

 by raytylicki ¦  Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:49 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Jet Train ¦  Replies: 70 ¦  Views: 39286

What if there was a transition car where the Monorail train would roll on to conventional railroad flat cars with the monorail installed on the cars. Then the train would be pulled to its final destination by convetional locomotives

Re: What Railroad in Jersey City ran on this Proposed Rail T

 by raytylicki ¦  Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:42 pm ¦  Forum: Rail Trails & Rail Recreation ¦  Topic: Sixth Street Embankment (Harsimus Stem) HBLR / Rail Trail ¦  Replies: 64 ¦  Views: 43327

That would be great to get those pics. In the meantime I will try google books with those titles

Re: What Railroad in Jersey City ran on this Proposed Rail T

 by raytylicki ¦  Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:58 pm ¦  Forum: Rail Trails & Rail Recreation ¦  Topic: Sixth Street Embankment (Harsimus Stem) HBLR / Rail Trail ¦  Replies: 64 ¦  Views: 43327

Last time I went thru there there were still GG1s parked in that hood...also there still is that tunnel under the cemetary in North Bergen.

Major KCS Yards?

 by raytylicki ¦  Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:53 pm ¦  Forum: Kansas City Southern and Affiliates ¦  Topic: Major KCS Yards? ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 9791

Lets see New Orleans, Houston, KC south , Laredo? KCS also seems to use other railroads yards rather then there own

CSX seems to be lacking Women Conducters and Engineers

 by raytylicki ¦  Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:50 pm ¦  Forum: Employment ¦  Topic: CSX seems to be lacking Women Conducters and Engineers ¦  Replies: 13 ¦  Views: 4765

Despite having a woman aka Lisa Manicini (http://www.csx.com/index.cfm/media/press-releases/csx-names-lisa-mancini-as-senior-vp--human-resources-and-labor-relations/) as head of human resources from my years of travels on Amtrak and Freight there seems to be way more women working as engineers on UP...

Re: What Railroad in Jersey City ran on this Proposed Rail T

 by raytylicki ¦  Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:27 pm ¦  Forum: Rail Trails & Rail Recreation ¦  Topic: Sixth Street Embankment (Harsimus Stem) HBLR / Rail Trail ¦  Replies: 64 ¦  Views: 43327

The Wikipedia mentions Exchange Place Station--Of Course I know the Path Station now but I cant find a picture of the old PRR Exchange Place Station as it existed in 1962.

Re: Destroyed in Seconds-Houston LR vs Autos

 by raytylicki ¦  Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:23 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Houston, TX Transit ¦  Replies: 27 ¦  Views: 14040

Say aint that a Union Pacific Truck at 38 seconds into the video?

Re: Chicago Union Station Lockers?

 by raytylicki ¦  Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:15 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Chicago Union Station Lockers? ¦  Replies: 8 ¦  Views: 3597

Check you bag at the nearest hotel and tip the bell hop well. You dont have to stay there.

There seems to a correlation that whenever you have a big mega project in the US or elsewhere something will go wrong as in Murphys Law. Not only will there be a enginnering crisis and cost overruns but political graft as well. And it was a engineer who came up with Murpys Law- http://en.wikipedia.o...

What Railroad in Jersey City ran on this Proposed Rail Trail

 by raytylicki ¦  Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:28 pm ¦  Forum: Rail Trails & Rail Recreation ¦  Topic: Sixth Street Embankment (Harsimus Stem) HBLR / Rail Trail ¦  Replies: 64 ¦  Views: 43327

Destroyed in Seconds-Houston LR vs Autos

 by raytylicki ¦  Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:41 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Houston, TX Transit ¦  Replies: 27 ¦  Views: 14040

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ctarvAZpGE

Is most of the Dallas Light Rail on its own ROW? This is a good case for having a Auto Free Mall downtown for were the light rail is and a lesson for any city that wants to elminate its transit mall for mixed traffic.

Re: Carnival & Circus Trains

 by raytylicki ¦  Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:48 pm ¦  Forum: Southeastern Railfan ¦  Topic: Carnival & Circus Trains ¦  Replies: 4 ¦  Views: 4050

How does the railroad bill the rate for such moves?

Hump yards in Mexico?

 by raytylicki ¦  Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:46 pm ¦  Forum: Ferromex and other Mexican Operations ¦  Topic: Hump yards in Mexico? ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 6757

I know that there is a hump yard in Mexico City what about anywhere else and South America too.

Re: Need help translating Mexican Railroad Shortline page

 by raytylicki ¦  Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:44 pm ¦  Forum: Southeastern Railfan ¦  Topic: Need help translating Mexican Railroad Shortline page ¦  Replies: 3 ¦  Views: 3471

damn! Feel sorry for anyone who loses a car in that railroad.

Re: Denton, Texas - A-Train

 by raytylicki ¦  Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:37 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Denton, Texas - A-Train ¦  Replies: 60 ¦  Views: 23160

Umm what is preventing a one seat ride to downtown Dallas? What is interesting about this is that the Suberban RTA is sponsoring this service rather then the central RTA aka DART. Ridership will sky rocket with a one seat ride.