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No. Brunel wasn't a maniac, he was more like a genius. Video - the end of Glasgow trams. http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/0987" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; See Glaswegians in action! The good and the bad: see a horse tram in action. See the rails being pulled up and the car...

I noticed somewhere that a certain type of diesel in Germany i think it was, is called a doodlebug. That's what we, in North America, call the old gas electric railcars.

This Wiki article contains a number of interesting facts about this pioneer railway.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monklan ... ch_Railway" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thank you, John. Now if someone would tell me what a bubble car on the road is..... A VW Beetle, perhaps?
Never mind. I Googled it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_car" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I didn't recognize Elizabeth, but it must be the shot of the CNJ Philadelphia train under the Pennsy main. Note the little Pennsy engine has a Belpaire firebox.

Movies from several locations in the east.


http://youtu.be/EQzXCoQRbas" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Amtrak fires rail worker over Chesterr train derailment - from Philly.com.



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The Wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociedad_ ... a_y_Minera" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

johnthefireman wrote:Last week I was staying in South Sudan with a nun from New Zealand. She is not a railfan herself, but she knows of my interest, and she took great delight in regaling me with stories of the beauty of New Zealand's railway routes.

Plamdampf in Germany last year. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LTFJsji_q6o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Plamdampf in the UK last February. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1kw_9xuET8M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; information on Plandampf. http://ww...

Excellent story, John. I have here a photo of similar police force about to encounter the Pirates of Penzance. "Though to us it’s evident, Tarantara! tarantara! These attentions are well meant, Tarantara! Such expressions don’t appear, Tarantara! tarantara! Calculated men to cheer, Tarantara! W...

The LIRR and NJT are e both being nailed by signal problems in the tunnels under both rivers.

[quote="johnthefireman"]perhaps forgetting that most of our ancestors could be described as "primitive people" 4,000 years ago.[quote] John - did you ever do "Princess Ida?" "With a view to rise in the social scale, He shaved his bristles and he docked his tail, He...

Employee pass privileges on my state owned company are nearly the same as they were on the predecessor private railroads, completely free and unlimited on the lines, bus and rail, operated by my company. Aparently it's somehow in our labor contract, because a few years back, pass privileges for mana...

Nope, those primitive people of our past never built anything worth saving: https://www.nps.gov/nava/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It looks like Montezuma's castle in Arizona. Amazing, but no comparison with the work of civilized peoples. it looks like a model; ...