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So what's it like working for Sunrail? Retired from up north, looking for something part time, conductor sounds like it would be fun. there are no "part-time" jobs at sunrail. without current certification, getting into the place as a t&e employee would be virtually impossible. riders...

The Xerox contract, ticket sales and associated costs are about $1.3 million a year. This number surpasses the approximate $1.1 million dollars in actual ticket revenues collected. So yes, it actually costs more to sell the tickets, than the tickets themselves bring in. We wonder if the Counties can...

i posted about those trucks a few years ago.

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going south tonight at sand lake, we took out a car that turned onto the tracks. nobody hurt, we lost an hour and a half.

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There's been a lot of chatter about the 188 incident recently. I, too, mourn the loss of 8 people and the uncertainty caused by this accident. But let me tell a far more troubling story. 244 people died in 2015. That's about 2 188-style incidents per month. Why don't they do something about this? i...

like the fec key west extension, this is literally the "railroad that went to sea".

having hit trees, cars and even a cinderblock in the windshield before, i can assure you, cnj4evar fan, a little plastic drone hitting a locomotive anywhere except maybe directly into the engineers head, isn't going to even be noticed, unless you actually saw it happen. windshields are bullet resist...

i saw it by "accident". was driving down us-1, and saw the road blocked by police. looking towards the east, there was the train, parked on the ave-A crossing, in downtown ft. pierce. the second unit had a pink stripe, maybe a breast cancer awareness scheme. behind the power was a wellcar,...

resurrecting this old dead post. mortimer jct on the lvrr nyc west shore, erie railroad in the upper left.

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shlustig wrote:While CNJ was not partof my territory, weren't there diamond xgs on the High Bridge Branch over the DL&W Chester Brandch @ Ferremont Jct. & with the PRR Greenville Branch @ Oak Island??

Rockingham Racer wrote:"Wireless streetcar system." What in the world is that?

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getting off work the other night, the conductor nudges me and says "hey look, the perfect foamer shot". so, here is the perfect foamer shot, from the vsmf in sanford.

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it's a done deal. the late train is now a mid-day train. the advertisements for the modified jobs are open for bidding now.