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I'd say more gradual - like the proverbial increasingly steep 'slippery slope' - with some notable drops along the way. Those would include the Interstate highway network for trucks and cars, the rise of the jet aircraft and passenger airports, the exit of Pullman from the operation of its sleeping and other cars, and several passenger car builders as well from the business, cancellation of US Mail by rail, the several big United Mine Workers strikes during that time which effectively
Carl - What do you do then ? Double the setting on the other half of the retarder ? I presume it's not the 'master' retarder, but one of the 'field' or outer ones ? - Paul North.
The caption to this photo - http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=216678 - says that the 7309 is a former Lehigh Valley unit. I suppose that's possible - I believe they had some - but the D&H lineage makes more sense to me, unless it's a 'one-of' kind of thing. I don't know how CP handles service, repairs, and maintenance of its units that far away - esp. breakdowns - but it's likely that ConRail and now NS have some similar units in the vicinity. So if CP needed
RWM's first link will take you to a webpage of photos of a 1995 railfan tour of the Bethlehem Steel plant, right before it closed - so I suppose that's why the infamous steel mill paranoia about photos of the plant didn't seem to apply. That page has multiple photos of the car dumper, as well as the giant traveling 'ore bridges' that managed and handled the iron ore stockpile after the cars were unloaded. At least 1 of those ore bridges is still there - it's now an icon for
Yes - I believe that you have the right ticker symbol - KCU - for KCS. Here's a link to an article/column dated April 5, 2007 - " Jump on the Kansas City Southern Bandwagon: Super Growth Ahead " at - http://seekingalpha.com/article/31636-jump-on-the-kansas-city-southern-bandwagon-super-growth-ahead - which indicates that high of a ratio is not a new thing, and for some of the same reasons that Mac alludes to - so you may find it interesting. Caution and disclaimer : Do your own research;
Here are some links to fair-quality photos of a 'similar 'recently' constructed railroad bridge over the Pennsylvania Route 309 Expressway, just south of Fort Washington, PA in Montgomery County, about 10 miles north of Philadelphia, also just south of its interchange with the Pennsylvania Turnpike I-476 there. The rail line is the former PRR's ''Trenton Cut-Off'' - I believe NS now calls it the Morrisville Line or Secondary, or similar. Note that if you look carefully
Here are links to other photos from the Philly NRHS site - though almost all of these are from up above, and don't show the sides real well. See if you can find the set with 'what went wrong' with one of the early trains over the temporary bridge - 'Murphy's Law' is still in effect, so it's a good thing that someone at NS was thinking 'Safety First' to have the bridge inspected after that . . . New track and bridge on NS Morrisville Line Fort Washington PA March
Carl - OK, thanks for the detailed and thoughtful reply. I looked at a close-up aerial view of the yard - this is at the west end of the yard, out by I-290, correct ? A pair of leads, each with a 'master' retarder, then the 'scissors' X-over connecting them, then the 'intermediate' retarders - 1 in each lead - just beyond that, then the 'group' retarders down at the bottom of the hump - 4 on the north, 5 on the south, and Tower C is on the southern side also ? Quite
[quote user="artschlosser"] Kootenay, you've missed your calling. You should be chalkin' these gems to Kalmbach and gettin' some dough. These items sure remind of those spun by Ed Blysard. Art [/quote] +1 ! One technical question, from the first story : When the engineer Dave used the hose wrench to tighten the gladhands - how could he have tightened the connection so much that they wouldn't disengage and come apart as normal when the locomotive pulled away from the idlers
[quote user="NittanyLion"] These are one of those things so common in my neck of the woods that I didn't know they weren't common everywhere! They come in a wide, wide variety of shapes and sizes, most of which have no commercial models and would be exceptionally difficult to kitbash. Like this here, about six miles away from me There's at least four lengths of car down there and three hood styles. . . . [snip] [/quote] Here's a link the webpage of a site that has more kinds
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