Was sent to that training at Fresh Pond Yard by the Police Department around 15 years ago. Fascinating.
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Was sent to that training at Fresh Pond Yard by the Police Department around 15 years ago. Fascinating.
In the end, more money will have been spent on this and the scrapping of the line than would've been spent on repairing the bridge.
Love it!!!! Great, as always.
I thought they double-head the power on The Cannonball????
Also, were the other armored vehicles and artillery pieces that were displayed at APG moved by rail, too, to Fort Lee??? Thanks.
Yesterday I had business in New Jersey, and was traveling southbound on the Turnpike in the truck lanes, as a passenger, so I was able to see passing scenery I otherwise would not if I was driving. Just before milepost 87, we passed over a single track, with the foliage of the trees on either side o...
If that service returns out to Port Jefferson, I wonder if NYA would seek business at the St. James team track, which lost service when they stopped the run east of Kleet Lumber in Huntington ten+ years ago.
This unit still have it's high-short hood, or was it chopped at some point after leaving the LIRR?
The lumber yard out there wants to return to rail service, perhaps????
What motive power does MRL roster now? Any SD-45s still on the roster? Any end-cab switchers, such as the MP-15ac???
Awesome work.
I think there were two lumber yards on the West Hempstead Branch that NYA inherited from the LIRR in the 1997 takeover, and which were served up until 2007, if that long.
Good stuff, as always.
After the 2005 BRAC axed the Army's Ordnance Center & Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, how did "Leopold," the German K5(E) 11" railroad gun that had been displayed there since being brought back to APG as a war trophy after the War get moved to the new BRAC-decreed location ...
The LIRR should just make Far Rock a highly-secured storage yard, with the first stop being Inwood. No reason for a station there.