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Whoa, what ? RS ? Customer in Hamburg ? Are you sure you are not thinking of the Buffalo Southern, running some cars down to Gowanda for storage on the NYLE ? BTW- I wonder what customer in Hamburg.

No, I took photos of a pile up east of Wayneport road at CP-356, that happened let's see... it must have been in like 1994 or 1995. There was still a brick relay house there, although abandoned and the windows broken out of it. That is correct. I was off by a few years, apparently. I guess my mind ...

Maybe the railroad company offered to buy the house and the owner refused, or held out for "big bucks" and the railroad just decided to expand their 2 track mainline to a 4 track mainline right near this existing house ? Cheers, Kevin. Since it is inside the curve, RR could have decided t...

Dumb question maybe, but why not just burn the darn thing ? Or does that just lead to an unwanted collapse ?

I don't see how you increase operating efficency by reducing number of trains. Without running sophisticated computer models, to me it is irrelevant that you have less train crews to pay, and less fuel is used. You lose all the gains from those when you tie up the sidings and yards with extra long t...

I was under the assumption the MP15 were handed back over to EMD for credits to use towards new road power. IIRC, I read this in TRAINS over 10 years ago. I know EMD allowed them the trade in option for new power in the late 70's when Conrail was swamped with exhausted 1st generation road geeps. It ...

The structure is being written off as a total loss. Apparently, they charged a 15 yr old for arson, and his 2 buddies trespassing charges.

I think that PC ballast car is their's now. Otherwise NS or CSX would have re-stenciled their initials on it. BTW, I forget which locomotive was used in the filming of "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles."

I always get confused. One is the former Lehigh Valley, & yet you call the other the Lehigh line. So this was the "other" redundant Conrail line between Southern Tier main and Scranton area. The Lehigh Valley line along the Susquehanna River between Sayre and Scranton (Wilkes-Barre) is...

I totally agree with what you said, Noel. My real question is why Conrail didn't rip it up. They might have if they could. When a RR files for exemption on an important well established line, the affected communities, on-line shippers and competing roads can all step in an petition the ICC or STB t...

People complain about dust from trains all the time. The lime plant near some homes used to deposit alot of white lime powder on the tops of covered hoppers, and as they were picked up and rolled away by local trains, you could see the white powder streaming off of them. Same with grain trains out i...

You realize it's worldwide? Britain's last mines have closed or are scheduled to close shortly. All the non-US rail magazines have articles covering other countries moving away from coal. It's not one person's fault. I believe I read that India will triple its coal consumption over the next...decad...

You realize it's worldwide? Britain's last mines have closed or are scheduled to close shortly. All the non-US magazines have articles covering other countries moving away from coal. It's not one person's fault. I did not realize Britain is following suit with O'Bama. Mother Earth thanks O'Bama and...

The only long term promise for rail at this point is the new intermodal stack train corridors that will develop now that the Panama Canal allows the monster container ships to the Gulf ports and the East coast, rather than exclusively the West coast ports. My wisdom guided opinion anyways I'm not w...

Well, no matter how much sugar they pour into the coffee, the bitter facts remain, somebody was bound to get out the choppin' axe. Maybe some of y'all weren't drinking enough coffee to stay keen to the issues with traffic levels across all sectors of business, widespread across the continent. CSX ha...