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Always nice to see your fine work...
Your sons can message me. Maybe I can help.
Everyone rides the LIRR, or did, before the huge surge in criminal assaults against employees and customers.
The latest legacy media stories of brave celebrity ridership on LIRR and subways are paid placement to counter the fears of the average rider.
Looks like a "wheel stop," a cheap, easy, movable and often somewhat temporary bumper that hopes to restrain a rolling car. Most today are cast iron; this one appears to be steel.
They say lots of things...
This thread brings back memories of the early 1980's: Flipping through Polaroid photos of 1940's lightweight railcars for sale with CMO trying to figure out which junk could get us through the parlor car season. Some of those wrecks cost the Long Island more for delivery than the cost of the car. Th...
Photos show steam trains on the Long Beach Branch with the engine west pushing equipment eastward. I don't know if that was regular practice or not. I do know that often the smaller engines were operated in reverse without being turned. There is a photo prior to the relocation of Long Beach station ...
When the M1s first arrived, the permanent No Smoking cars had carpet, the Smoking cars had vinyl flooring.
I can still smell that new tan carpet...
I recall that move well Krispy. The only problem running the Metro North cars here (beside the contact shoes) was the speed control. They would run non-equipped. Road Foreman was often The Shadow or Buffy. Maybe about 35 years ago?
Closing a station is always a political decision.
Car markers are generally placed to even out the loading of trains over the route. But other considerations are often used. Trains may have to be spotted to clear gate crossing circuits, or interlocking track circuits. Something as remote as a complaint letter from a commuter who has to walk too far...
Spent many a winter night up there with George Georke in the 1970s.
FDNY wants no part of an electric battery locomotive. They view it as a fire and explosion source. We'll watch who wins this debate or if it loses momentum and we live with the present solution...
Those side-dump hoppers are junk and were when the LIRR bought them. There was a loaded car behind empties, and the truck fell off one of them. This all happened at way less than 15mph; probably about five...
Two cars on the ground.