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Station signs with your last name
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I already know I got railroad blood in me and whats really interesting is there seems this distinct trail of towns with my last name from the east coast working south and west and even into Canada which seems to follow my geneaolgy almost to a T. According to the May 1966 Official Guide of the Railways th...
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Order Boards pointed up and upside down
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The GN/BN used the semaphore signals with straight up meaning green. The UP on the ex-Spokane International used the upside down semaphore which I have nevered figured out. How could a standardization of either "up or down" go on so long. Thankfully the tri-color street light came to the...
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Switchpersons nightmare...riding a flatcar
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Looking back at pictures I took in the early 1970's at Bellingham and I got some interesting pics of switchmen riding point on a flatcar. You got to be an acrobat to to get aboard a moving flatcar with nothing more than "one hand grip and a stirrup step". One of pics has the switchman hanging on...
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Operators Manual For a Sellers 50 inch car wheel Lathe
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http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3643455
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Homemade Boxcar
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I saw this "boxcar" sitting in Lynden WA served by the MILW at the time in 1972. No reporting marks whatsoever. Looks to be corregated tin roofing shaped in box on top of a 40ft flatcar. Whens the last time you saw a 40ft flatcar? Still has air hoses but I bet its never been hooked up to the "...
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Scumbags
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http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20141222/AP01/312229955
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Western Railroad Discussion > Map of North American Crude by Rail
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http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3423952
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Torpedoes
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I dint know what a torpedo was before I got on the RR. Learned quick. They were available at just about every depot I worked. Mostly used by train crews in certain situations and by trainmasters hiding in the nearby bushes. I had to think long and hard if I had to ever go out and "strap" one of the...
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Seats
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I don't have my CFR's with me, but I do have you guys. There has to be a seat on the locomotive for each man on the crew, right? So if you had a unit on a local that only had 3 seats you couldn't have a 4 man crew. Right?
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Its Official. Emergency Order has been released.
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http://www.dot.gov/briefing-room/us-dot-takes-new-emergency-actions-part-comprehensive-strategy-keep-crude-oil
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Inward Facing Cameras...
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Capture Phast Phreight Phreddie's last trip...
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TamPoon divulges privelidged information again?
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http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3334714Re: Entitlement Author: GenePoon Latest report: there is an E-mail confirming that CSX denied permission. Management of the film crew are specifically named in the E-mail. They should be prosecuted for t...
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Krinks old train pictures from magazines
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Before I had my own camera and was able to get trackside, I had to depend on railroad magazines and in the early 1960's there might be 3 to choose from if you were lucky enough to have a hobby store in your town. Trains and Railroad and Model Railroader were the choices. Think it was getting a HO set for xmas o...
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Employee Timetables
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Since I was an Employee of the BN/BNSF for 26 years I collected just about every employee timetable issued in that time. Think I got 43 BN/BNSF timetables covering my time there. More on that later. What was considerably harder to obtain was employee timetables from other railroads. Each of these tim...
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Finch Ontario Canada
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I spent a few hours today watching the you tube railroad section and they got everything today. I dont know how long You Tube's been around but it has been the grand accumulation point for any railroad video since. I mean its all going to be here eventually. So I like watching fast freights go by starting...
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"100 mile'r envelopes"...the envelope with 2 holes in it.
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I got out my huge tupperaware tub completely full to the top of nothing but railroad "paper" getting ready for MIR and scanning some of this railroad paper. When I hired on the BN 2-14-73 the inter-office or BN mail was mainly by these "100 mile envelopes" that had the 2-holes pu...
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Old passenger train timetables
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I started collecting everything that had to do with railroads back in 1966 as that seems to be where most of my collection begins. I wrote a letter to the AAR asking for anything like train schedules maps and shit back in 1966. They responded with the greatest package of shit I ever recieved. Probly the...
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Looks like Atlanta for Freddie.
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Well, looks like Freddie has to be in Atlanta by the 14th. I haven't received the ophphicial letter yet. Five op us are suppose to go to the next class. I believe I am number four...
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National Train Day B&P Chase! Notch 8 EMD's & More! 5/12/2012 .
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I figure most yard shanty's have internet access today so why not plug this video in. I get the impression the B&P is not a water level route.
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Foul-smelling trash trains? Zap them with Train Fresh!
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I mean it's all heading to a landfill to be buried anyway so why not add some "Fabreeze". Foul-smellinghttp://www.railwayage.com/index.php/mechanical/freight-cars/foul-smelling-trash-trains-zap-them-with-train-fresh.html?c...
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Challenges on the rise for Wyoming coal
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Challenges on the rise for Wyoming coalCASPER, Wyo. Despite strong profits, it has been a bruising 12 months for the U.S. coal industry, which came under fire for mountaintop removal mining and coal ash waste in the eastern half of the country, the Billings Gazette reports. Wyomings major coal oper...
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SEPTA's Doomsday Plan
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http://www.philly.com/philly/business/transportation/20130913_Short_of_funding__SEPTA_presents_doomsday_plan.html
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Buncka Slackers
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Hey, FMB, Uke, Wes, tu, you're all quitters: America's oldest dispatcher retires after 64 years with Erie, NJ Transit Published: August 13, 2013 NEWARK, N.J. When Frank Bookie Bookstaver hired out on the railroad, Erie K1 462 Pacifics were still roaming the rails and Alco FA1s were the flashies...
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Test Them Occasionally
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yr5EztEPJS8
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Safest Ever
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Well, it's no surprise to me, look at who among us has departed the industry:2012 safest year ever for railroadsPublished: March 12, 2013WASHINGTON 2012 was the safest year in the railroad industrys history, according to new statistics from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). In 2012, c...
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