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It seems I was wrong. I was told years ago by somebody (and 'old crank with a failing memory', it seems....) that the R&E crossed the Auburn road, the followed alongside French rd. until the edge of the village of Pittsford. I have a framed county-wide topographic map from about 1911 that is......

Somehow, I doubt "Amtrak Joe" is going to let Amtrak's funding get reduced, so stop worrying about that. As for "how a road use tax would work", all you have to do is look at over-the-road commercial trucking; they've been doing just that for decades.

It seems I was wrong. I was told years ago by somebody (and 'old crank with a failing memory', it seems....) that the R&E crossed the Auburn road, the followed alongside French rd. until the edge of the village of Pittsford. I have a framed county-wide topographic map from about 1911 that is.......

That white house in the picture is probably the house on the topo map just left of the capital "H" on your map. Also, the gully was probably filled with the dirt removed from the higher ground on the right (which is now a flat area, with several storage garages for the country club. They p...

Those Alcos at the top (PA's? FA's? I'm not that up on Alcos...)-do they have shortened rooflines, or where they always lower than the switcher on the left is?

That's the problem with "railroad lore"; it's often the purview of a bunch of old cranks with failing memories, or sometimes with people who have an axe to grind. It sure sounds like SOMEBODY was miffed when his formerly cheap and reliable connection was lost. The story was probably passed...

I still think you are way off; what you are seeing back in the trees behind the storage garages in the village of Pittsford is nothing more than a loop connection between the Auburn and the South Shore. From that point all the way to Pittsford plaza, there is essentially zero incline, and the rail b...

If you are trying to be professional about filming/photography, you need something better than just a phone. Otherwise, you're just some rando hanging out by the tracks, and law enforcement will treat you that way.....

I dunno how "iconic" a train can be if it's based on a fictional place in a book written within the last 2 decades. Still, it's a good example of 2 completely separate British obsession coming together in a very odd way....

OK, I don't think you have it right. I was just down the Auburn road, and the place where you say the R&S crosses, there is NOTHING at all to suggest there ever used to be a 15' high embankment and underpass. It's also a very swampy area; a poor choice for a railroad crossing, especially with an...

Is that the Auburn road or the South Shore it's crossing? I regularly bike down the Auburn Road trail, and the only where there is the possibility of this underpass existing (from Highland ave. all the way to the canal) is that little underpass leading into the maintenance entrance for the country c...

The Burlington Northern tried using LNG on a 2-locomotive set that were specially modified; each loco had an NG carb installed on the intake, and had special diesel injectors that could run the engine only on diesel, or when running the LNG, would use a small amount of diesel as an ignition source. ...

The problems with all these ideas is that they would all still require multiple crews. The 'slip coach' idea is based on there being a switching locomotive standing by at the station in order to switch the car off the track, then onto the back of the next through train that stops. The idea of a comm...

I'm certain with today's technology, it would be possible. Something like this could be used for helper locomotives coupling to the end of a train. Suppose that a line was mostly flatlands, with only 1 relatively short steep section; a helper could couple 'on the fly' just for the ascent, then decou...

Isn't that the shelter that used to be just off 332 just north of where the Honda dealer is today? I remember going past a structure just like that at an intersection where a strictly N-S road ran off 332 at an angle at the top of a hill. It was there throughout the 80's, but I believe it was either...