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On the Roanoke rail cam, just saw a train go by with a caboose on the end. What would cause NS to put a caboose on a train now a days?

CP90 on the River sub is having new signal masts installed.

Congrats to Shore Line! "Governor Malloy, Shoreline Delegation Announce State Bonding for Shore Line Trolley Museum "EAST HAVEN—Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Democratic state legislators from the East Haven area announced today that the State Bond Commission is expected to approve a $1 mil...

I haven't seen The Bridge on the River Kwai mentioned here yet. One of my favorite movie classics. Actual train footage is brief, but sure makes an 'impact' at the climax of the movie.

How common was the triangle crossing sign shown here?

http://tinyurl.com/tmny6801

Though TMNY has a big grant for track rehab underway, I want to remind everyone that being a municipally administered capital grant, it adds a grand total of $0.00 to the museum's operating budget. The museum is still a private non-profit organization on its own for all expenses like fuel, heat, lig...

It's been a lot of work to get this far since the grant was announced nearly three years ago, but the construction portion of the project is finally out for bid! The public notice is in today's local newspaper and it is published in the usual places municipalities list bid invitations. http://dailyf...

I see on ringling.com that the Blue Tour's next show is in Trenton this Wednesday, so presumably that's where this train is going. Unfortunately I'm confined to my windowless office for a couple more hours.

My wife reports that a circus train is in the siding in Kingston (CSX River Line). Anyone know where its going?

The first two arrested for the wire theft, Clinton Padusnak and Julian Wynkoop, were handed felony grand larceny indictments by the Ulster County Grand Jury yesterday.

Depends which kind of fish plates you have. Our 80 Dudley and 105 Dudley has angle bars which splay out wider than the width of the base of the rail. Needs long plates with a set of holes inside the shoulder.

And this is a great reference of rail sizes:

http://www.lbfoster.com/Rail/rail_pdf_p ... ndbook.pdf

Most every railroad/trolley museum will have palates of miscellaneous donated OTM, some plates fitting the rail on hand, some not. And we've got sticks of rail with no OTM to go with it. Some of our double-shouldered plates actually have the rail size they match stamped on the field side, i.e. "...

There was a third arrest in the case in the past week. According to the detective, this completes their investigation of the theft.

We're already in touch with the DA's office regarding prosecution and restitution. They remain in jail with no bail, awaiting their first hearing next week. Really, the chance of collecting much real money from these bozos is low. I expect we'll run a fundraising campaign to leverage support for thi...