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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 9:11 PM

What is Grit TV? I'm dumb

 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 9:39 PM

Electroliner 1935

What is Grit TV? I'm dumb

 

Around here it is on the over - the- air TV stations on one of the sub channels.   As far as cable ? ?

EDIT here is link to their broadcast stations

https://www.grittv.com/find-us/ 

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, December 13, 2018 12:40 PM

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Electroliner 1935

What is Grit TV? I'm dumb 

Around here it is on the over - the- air TV stations on one of the sub channels.   As far as cable ? ?

EDIT here is link to their broadcast stations

https://www.grittv.com/find-us/ 

Any relation to the 'Grit' newspaper that I used to see advertised in the aggate classifieds on Popular Mechanics?

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Posted by Fox2! on Tuesday, January 1, 2019 9:53 PM

BaltACD

They now understand, when it's gone, it's GONE.  

 And in some places, if there is even the rumor of abandonment, you get the rails to trails people planning to pull up the tracks and make the ROW into a walking/biking/equestrian path. 
 
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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 7:20 AM

Fox2!
And in some places, if there is even the rumor of abandonment, you get the rails to trails people planning to pull up the tracks and make the ROW into a walking/biking/equestrian path.

If you're in the Adirondacks, people campaign to have the rails removed even though they're in use.  Any talk of of actually building a trail, however, is met with silence...

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Posted by zugmann on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 4:33 PM

Fox2!
make the ROW into a walking/biking/equestrian path.

Those 3 groups love to fight each other here.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by jeffhergert on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 4:48 PM

A few days ago a UP employee was killed in a "train-related incident" in or near Oakley, KS.  The linked story is also from a few days ago.  The current update on UP's employee site has posted the name of the employee, but no other details. 

https://www.ksn.com/news/kansas/union-pacific-employee-killed-in-western-kansas-1/1681204096 

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 5:03 PM

Rats - hate that especially at the end of the year..Somehow the near blizzard conditions out there in the open probably played a part.

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Posted by SD70Dude on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 7:56 PM

Sounds like it could have been similar to this:

http://tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2012/R12E0182/R12E0182.asp

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Posted by Justicar on Thursday, January 3, 2019 1:53 PM

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Grit TV is running several times Kansas Pacific.  Please do not take anything as gospel if you decide to watch !  Watched 5 -10 minutes and found these errors.  Supposely pre civil war but going west out of Kansas City. Locomotive certainly late 1800 -1900s,  Boss says lts go to town. Engineer tells fireman to fire up cold engine and then gives three toots to go forward.  Cars have type "E" couplers and have regular air brakes.  No brakeme with cars not having top brake wheels.  Track is ballasted and some welded rail.  End of track has about 5 sidings with a string of steel hopper cars.  

Couldn't watch any more !  Directors license ?  UGH !

 

 

Its a TV show called Kansas Pacific?  While it's entirely possible whatever it is is no longer showing on GritTV, I could only find a movie Kansas Pacific (1953) with Sterling Hayden & Eve Miller appearing on Amazon Prime and EPIX, currently.

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