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And we have 2. Ed- PM me your address again. Thanks
This one might be more of the keeper variety, rather than the read and pass along variety. I'll let Houston Ed decide that. Both copies should mail out early next week.
This is like most things in life that I feel I have a basic understanding - I don't. In 1906, the growth era of railroads appears to have ended. After that, was the investment more a case of investing in a mature industry, hoping for fair return on the money, verses getting in on the groundfloor and hoping for a windfall?
For what it's worth, many old lumberyards had them as well. Ours gave up the ghost about 10 years ago. I think Alexander Graham Bell istalled them. They were of spool & knob construction. They were probably hot stuff, back when they were first installed. You just pressed the button, took a deep breath and yelled NUMBER SEVEN !!! into the speaker. With luck, you'd get a faint response from somebody in the yard. Oh, the technology!
From the end of WW II until probably the passage of the Staggers Act, it seems railroads were on a downward glidepath. Was the decent gradual, or was there an event or change, that caused the people in the industry to feel railroads were headed for the point of no return?
Twofer: To give away to two (2) good homes: I have 2 copies of America's Colorfull Railroads by Don Ball, Jr. ( For whatever reason, I have 3 copies, but am keeping one for myself.) If you're not familiar with this author, his books are heavy into railroad photography, featuring late steam / first generation diesel. This book is copyright 1978. I'd be happy to mail these to the first 2 posters who tell me on this thread that they are interested .
How will an increase in domestic intermodal traffic nationwide affect those of us in the railroad outback areas like S.D.? I envision more origination/destination pairs between big places to help out with congestion and perhaps lower consumer prices. What about those off the beaten path?
[quote user="Railway Man"] . If the topic of whether rail market share of intermodal is increasing is uninteresting to us, and it's more interesting to talk about brownfield sites, let's go start a discussion about that. But if the point is to talk about intermodal market share, then a brownfield redevelopment discussion is at best a minor point in that larger discussion. We can note it as a constraint in about one sentence, and move on. RWM [/quote] I can see the outline of something
[quote user="peterjenkinson1956"] as to having a longwall mine under a railroad..... i worked at a mine in qld australia where the longwall extracted the coal from under the rail line the simple solution was to build a shoo fly infront of the long wall advance.... mine upto it the main line would be wrecked when the roof of the long wall collapsed trains would run on the shoo fly then the main would be repaired.... no lost production and only a smass delay to the trains as they had to slow
[quote user="Railway Man"] [quote user="greyhounds"] A reasonable VP of Distribution would plan for this by minimizing his company's exposure to the future price increases. Shifting as much freight as is reasonably possible now to a lower fuel intensive mode, such as rail, would make sense. If you change your distribution now you won't be left scambling with everyone else when the price of fuel goes back up. [/quote] Murphy -- read that paragraph above. Many people are
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