Another independent railcam much like Dunn or Medina MN or Greenville TX or Palmer Jct MA and a few more that arent part of the Virtual Railfan network. Mills Iowa near Iowa Falls and crossing of the Illinois Central line from Chicago to Omaha and the Rock Island "Spine Line" from Minneapolis to Kansas...
First sign of MIR. News hit YouTube Saturday late afternoon. Then it begins all the fucking confusion as to where exactly the Amtrak train derailed. I watched one live idiot on YouTube trying to make any sense of the derailment and he was scanning the net to find the latest and kept saying he couldnt say...
Just finished watching the rain shortened "Yellowfin Tuna 500" Monday at Talladega which was more like the "Yellowfin Tuna 260" and switched to YouTube. First on my recommended was "Amtrak Tragedy at Tucson". What kind of tragedy are we talking about? I wasnt sure I wanted to watch but I did. Wasnt re...
Q&A: RRB financial reports | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (ble-t.org) The RRB concluded in the report that, barring a sudden, unanticipated, large decrease in railroad employment or substantial investment losses, the railroad retirement system will experience no ca...
Just received my official notice that I am retired, and will be paid by the Air Force. I can get the blue identity card.... An emotion hit me....DD form 2 Service for basic pay: 35 years... 5 months. s7 days....Reserve order number EL-2633
End to end mergers the best as CP has the ex-MILW route Chicago to Kansas City and a couple other ways. KCS a plum to pick for a long time and nobody did nothing until now. Not official yet but a good shot at approval. CP wants the ex-Spokane International/UP from Eastport ID to Spokane WA so it can intercha...
Fifty years ago tonight a band that wasn't even the headliner took the stage at Fillmore East, Johnny Winters was. Play all night! an audience member yelled On March 11th, 12th, and 13th of 1971, TheAllman Brothers Band performed at Bill Grahams Fillmore East, and recorded it for a live album....
Imagine getting hit by a "900,000 Ton" freight train. The driver died in a "make sure event" as "900,000 Tons" doing 45mph...well it probly took 20 miles to come to a stop. I'm sure about 1% of the population knows that there could never be a "900,000 Ton" train. "9,000 Ton" train more like it. Sun conjun...
More than 20 cars of freight train derail in Plymouth | MPR NewsMore than 20 cars of a freight train derailed Sunday along a rail line in Plymouth. There were no reports of injuries.The city of Plymouth Public Safety Department reported that the derailment happened at about 1 p.m. along tracks at Nort...
A need to get everybody on the same page as every railroad doing things differently. Shouldnt be a big deal as I think everybody is wearing a mask to leave the house and go into any store anyway. Still non-compliance could result in big fines and worse. Think the railroad community can do the masks thin...
MIR in full force and several derailments around Chicago with the CN and UP but I dint hear about the BNSF stack train that peeled off the roofs of many containers going underneath a low clearance bridge and merchandise scattered everywhere. That could have been avoided if it wasnt MIR. [video=http...
A collision between 2 giant railroads in Texas with Mars square Jupiter/Sun conjunct Saturn aspects at the time. No TV stories yet but sure to be posted as the day unfolds. UP-BNSF Collision in Texas (images 697k)
Saw this story and thought, Snippy, this would NEVER happen to you. It's a long ways down:(CNN) A woman in Australia fell off a cliff to her death on Saturday after trying to take a photo at the precarious location.Rosy Loomba, 38, was with her husband and child when the accident occurred at Grampian...
A former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist and there is such a thing as a Galactic Federation. Haim Eshed, a retired Israeli general who is currently a professor, says both the U.S. and Israel have been dealing with aliens for years. [url]https://torontosun.com/news/world/israel...
I first learnt about this as a teenager. Never wanted to do it. Why. So its a couple of broads whose been racking up the numbers doing this shit up in Bellingham/Whatcom County and causing a lot of problems with setting up "shunts" and fucking with crossing signals and other things with the intent to cau...
This Chave weather website has all the current weather disasters and there is a new one every day around the world. Main theme is "torrential rainfall". Seems all the normally dry places like Saudi Arabia and those parts have rains that flash flood everything and cars floating away and many millions...
Something went wrong somewhere. Have you ever seen a HAWG listed as a suspect?PRICHARD, Ala. (WALA) A fatal train accident that occurred Tuesday now is the subject of a joint investigation by a pair of federal agencies.Representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Fed...
