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Rapido has said multiple times that everything went onto the back burner until the Canadian was shipped. Best bet would be to email them directly for an ETA, as they are very good about responding. BTW, they appear to have exclusive use of their Chinese factory, so Rapido's problems are uniquely the...

I don't understand the desire to electrify. Increasing loading gauge and axle loading provides a positive ROI, but electification doesn't. Especially for freight, it just doesn't pay off. For passenger, it only seems to help if you want high-speed lines.

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Kirtland AFB/Albuquerque Sunport had a railroad crossing on taxiway M8 just past the east end of the main runway 08-26. http://www.globalair.com/d-TPP_pdf/00012ad.pdf The pads reached from M8 were all for hangars reserved to specific military R&D projects, so they were never high-utilization. No...

Pie in the sky? On what basis? Show me an alternative...any alternative...that has viability in a world where CSX has made it clear that it will not restore the mainline switch at its former location. You are going to have to go either north or south. How far north? How many grade crossings? This t...

Pie in the sky? On what basis? Show me an alternative...any alternative...that has viability in a world where CSX has made it clear that it will not restore the mainline switch at its former location. You are going to have to go either north or south. How far north? How many grade crossings? This th...

I know it requires a bridge instead of just a switch, but has CMRR ever considered tying in to what looks like a MOW spur just south of where its connecting track used to reach the CSX main? A mainline switch, even if manual, will be in the $500k - $1M range, and not very tenable to CSX unless it ge...

A little more detail this morning: http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/freight/short-lines/gwi-set-to-acquire-railamerica-inc.html?channel=94 At 12,000 route miles (TWICE the size of KCS), I don't think you can call it a Class III under any circumstance. Just because it's geographically dispersed do...

Consider mergers of orignal owners still orignal owner of unit,granted under a "new" name. "True" 2nd/3rd owners either bought the unit out right(Amtrak)or "conveyed" (NJT,NJDOT)when commuter services were spun out of the orignal operator to commuter operator of the se...

Oh really? So where does that leave Burlington Northern, Erie Lackawanna, Rock Island, or SCL? I suspect that there were others before we consider Conrail, PC, or indeed the dreaded passenger operators.

http://www.progressiverailroading.com/prdailynews/news.asp?id=31770 In one large gulp, we see the major shortline/regional holding companies go from three to two. Look for the newly combined company to shed itself of some lines to pay down debt. I also found it interesting that G&W is paying a m...

<sigh> It took until about 4 years ago before manufacturers (in this case Walthers and Atlas) realized that locomotives have second and third owners. Those two companies did short line and regional paint schemes on some basic stuff like 4-axle Centurys and GP7/9s, and you can't find 'em anywhere now...

timberley, I hear your rant. For some reason, the "experts" at the big modeling magazines never seemed to get it through their thick skulls that VIA's F40s did not have the phase I OR the phase II underframes, but instead yet a third arrangement...and as a result, most model railroaders se...

Look at a photo of the rear of a real E unit. Look at the P2K shell. The roof curve is all off. With that being wrong, the windshield contours are automatically wrong. Add to that the nose contours being off as well. Somewhere on atlasrr, somebody posted side-by-side comparisons of the different HO ...

Ummm...is there, uh, any chance, er...ahhh, maybe, that...uhhh, Walthers is maybe possibly thinking about tooling, ummmm, say, an SDP40, or uh, maybe a Pooch? It's kinda odd that they list the Amfleets under name trains but only admitted to tooling up for rolling stock. That don't jive. The SDP40 ac...

mlrr wrote:

green_elite_cab wrote:
I've only seen the San Diegan in push-pull mode and I'm not aware of any location in San Diego where a train can be turned (although I do not rule out that possibility).