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Where's the business?
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It sure ain't happenin' out this end! We've got more 'stored' power than ever. Not -2s either. Sure a few still hang around, but we're talkin' SD-60s, and SD-75Ms... Whole sidings filled, end ta end with 60s, and 75s tied up on stub tracks and unused dead-enders. The 75s are all sf power, since BN never o...
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Haven't heard much about this--is it for real? General Electric Co. said it will build a $100 million plant near Albany, N.Y., that will employ 350 people to make batteries for hybrid locomotives and other applications. The move will extend GE's decade-long effort into high-tech batteries, for wh...
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Locomotive repair company to close
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Locomotive repair company to closeTACOMA, Wash. - After repairing and refurbishing locomotives, rail cars and boat engines for more than six decades, Coast Engine and Equipment of Tacoma will shut down in early July, another casualty of the nation's deep, grinding recession, the Seattle Times r...
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NS furloughs 58 workers at Juniata shopsALTOONA, Pa. - Norfolk Southern has laid-off more than 50 workers from the Juniata locomotive shops, according to the WRTA Web site. The move came just a day after company CEO Wick Moorman said he expects train shipping demand to drop to its worst level by the en...
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Uke, just got in from NTW on a grain train. It had two GE's on the lead, and 2 DP, but I have never seen these things before. They were 6602,6603,6606,6607. They looked like they had some separate air brake systems on the middle axles, or something like that. Very weird looking thing. Plus the ICE screen...
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More from Interbay RoHo
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The bumpin' continues. Dayshift has been strengthened. Sort of. But swing shift still manages ta 'make' no fewer than at least two units in spite of being raped... While day shift manage exactly "0" most workdays. Surprising really. Actually, now on reflection, day shift hardly ever ma...
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The FRA's been cruising the Northwest in some kinda 'telemetry' car...which is now inside stall #1 bein' worked over by their guys. Seems ta be self-propelled. Diesel? DE? Saw some guy last week, asked him about it...but he was yakkin' on a damn cell phone, and he all but ignored me. Big surprise. I for...
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Big news for EMD! From...wait for it...South Africa!
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And ta tell y'all the awful truth, I'da never thunk it. Not at all. Seeins how RSA supplies castings ta GE for the Dash-9, and EVO lines... Big casings [steel] like truck frames, and other chassis components, that they'd buy EMD power. South Africa isn't exactly known for its abundance of oil...but ha...
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It hadda happen sooner or later...
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...EMD to slash Illinois work force Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. plans to eliminate 347 jobs at its McCook, Ill., plant as early as April, according to a layoff notice filed with the state of Illinois. EMD said reduced demand for its product line, due to the recession, prompted the move. -- Edited by Uk...
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Tools used by Uke (then known as Ook) to make the first wheel discovered in Colorado
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13,000-Year-Old Tools Found In Colo. Back YardBOULDER, Colo. (CBS) A homeowner in Boulder, Colo. is trying to learn more about the person who buried a stash of tools in his front yard. But that may be hard to figure out since the tools are about 13,000 years old. An anthropologist at the University of C...
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NS road slug, its purty
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Heres a pic of of a new road slug. I hope its better than the NS GP38-3 rebuilds, we had one, and it sucked!
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I am watching with morbid curiosity "Break It Down" on the NAtional Geographic Channel. They are scrapping 2 KSC SD40's. What an inglorious end to a couple of old war horses.
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I thought the SD40-2's were going the way of the buffalo and the Chrysler, when I caught this swoosh-painted SD45-2 at the west end last Sunday. I looked it up online and saw she was now a SD40-2R, the former BNSF 6489, etc. Still looks really weird to me, but I'm for anything that keeps the old girls pulli...
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CP cutting 37 mechanics in Ontario
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CP Railway cutting 37 jobs in OntarioCALGARY Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is permanently cutting 37 mechanical services jobs in southwestern Ontario, the Canadian Press reports. The railroad said Monday all of the work done by the employees in London, Welland, Lambton and Oshawa will be moved t...
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East Bridge Junction, New Orleans, Louisiana, 3/2/85After a crew change this train was led w/b by NS (SR) GP50s #7089 + #7041 + #7019 to a meet with an e/b train led by SP SD45T-2 #9344 coming off the Huey P. Long Bridge. From G. Putz website http://members.trainorders.com/gputz/
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Hey Uke
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Uke, as our resident wheelman, please answer me this. How much difference in wheel diameter is allowed in something such as a -9 vs. something older and less sophisticated, such as a 40-2?
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Follow up on the 5005...
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Lead unit on a Seattle bound grainer [corn] that smacked an auto-carrier tractor-trailer. And acquired a new 'hood ornament' for GE... At least temporarily. She was sitting in 11 stall awaiting the boilermaker's torch as we clocked out. Upper left corner of the nose shows a distinct wheel impressi...
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BNSF engine catches fire near Ferryville, Wisc. (The following appeared at WXOW.com on January 19, 2009.) FERRYVILLE, Wisc. Firefighters put out a fire onboard a railroad engine near Ferryville tonight. The fire was called in by the crew of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad engine shortl...
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Watch that slack (via e-mail)
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Breaking News
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Date: January 19, 2009 14:39 The Blue Door of the BNSF Author: mearsksealand It would seem to me by this time someone would see this little blue door orphan and replace the----door. My contribution to the time line of this unit------------any more contributions out there. Image number 1 June 7, 2008...
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...which all of a sudden seem ta flood [really!] Interbay! Admittedly at first they were just one more annoyance ta deal with. Lately...that's damn near all we see for major work. And IF the bigs are ta be trusted...we're about ta see a deluge! Few nights ago we pulled a motor which had the pinion choppe...
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This just flashed across the feeder...
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Freight Traffic Report Rail carload traffic tumbles 10% in November Reflecting a sharply worsening economy, U.S. railroad carload traffic was down 10.1% in November and intermodal traffic dropped 7.9%--"by far the largest monthly declines since we stated keeping track of monthly traffi...
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Uke......LAMCO may need to contract you out
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Astronaut Who Lost Tool Bag Admits Making MistakeCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) The astronaut who lost her tool bag on a spacewalk admitted Wednesday that she made a mistake by not checking to see if the sack was tied down, and said she's still smarting over the whole thing. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper s...
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