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QUOTE: Originally posted by MAbruce Bizarre Train Collision Claims Life of Unknown Animal UPI – Belmar Valley WV. Investigators in this sleepy whistle stop valley are still guessing at what a Norfolk & Western express freight train struck yesterday. According to officials, the lead locomotive of a fast moving freight train struck and killed an animal that was in the tracks approximately 50 yards inside a tunnel leading into the Belmar Valley. Exactly what they struck remains a mystery. “We were close to the end of the tunnel at the maximum posted speed when we felt a thud.” Clarence Jones, the Engineer explained, “I put the train into full emergency and stopped a couple minutes later. We walked the train but only found remains of something scattered all over the place. It couldn’t have been a person because it was too big a strike. The nose of my engine was a mess, and I understand the shop is still pulling the guts of something out of the lead trucks.” Local police and state animal control specialist examined the remains at the scene a short time later. They confirmed it was not a person, but were unable to identify the animal involved. “My first guess is a cow, but there hasn’t been a working farm around here in many years.” Explained police Sergeant Iam Blind, “But there was no red blood, just tan goo all over the place.” State animal control specialists denied finding any odd body parts, and offered no explanation for their special armed SWAT escort in the tunnel. “There be some awful strange things on that there mountain.” A local resident reluctantly explained, “This is not the first time this has happened. They had a whole [expletive deleted] Marine battalion here the last time. A search of local news stories failed to turn up any account of previous animal strikes. The investigation continues.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by clinchvalley Originally posted by Junctionfan Do you mean another sub-forum in the model railroader forum? There already is, the PFMSig group on Yahoo. If anyone here has not checked out all the different groups over on Yahoo, you're in for a real big surprise. There are litterally 100's of them. Yup! "Paul [Kossart] - The CB&Q Guy" [In Illinois] ~ Modeling the CB&Q and its fictional 'Illiniwek River-Subdivision-Branch Line' in the 1960's. ~ Reply Junctionfan Member sinceFebruary 2004 From: St.Catharines, Ontario 3,770 posts Posted by Junctionfan on Friday, September 10, 2004 4:40 PM G&A awards contract to Trinity Railcar ------------------------------------------------------- As the Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad will be increasing the trash hauling business as the railroad has ordered 150 trash service covered gondolas from Trinity Railcar. This was outlined in the budget due to the increase business from Detroit, Montreal, Boston and now Toronto for trash haulage. The railroad and municipal governments secured the contract with each other through ECDC Environmental Industries. Andrew Reply Junctionfan Member sinceFebruary 2004 From: St.Catharines, Ontario 3,770 posts Posted by Junctionfan on Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:40 AM G&A watches for floods ------------------------------------------ With flood warning around south western New York state, the Great Lakes and Atlantic is monitoring its ex Buffalo and Pittsburgh lines for signs of floods. The railroad has informed customers involved with the line to be ready for the possibility of the temperary closure of the lines should the flooding reach the lines. Andrew Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 8, 2004 6:07 PM From the North Country Times: Unusual Locomotive Abandoned New-fangled machine to be converted to steam The strange locomotive that found its way to the tracks of the Muddy Creek Railroad and caused great consternation among the crew is today facing the cutting torch. The machine was apparently abandoned on company property some time ago and the train crew and mechanics attempted to place it in service with little success. The machine, fueled by a petroleum-based substance and similar in design to one championed by the late inventor Rudolph Diesel has never proved itself to be useful to the train crews. "The trucks are pretty good, but the rest of the thing was just too damn tricky to run and getting fuel up here in the woods was impossible. We tried converting it to run on corn-squeezins but no luck there," reported engineer Bud "Steamer" O'Toole. "We took a vote & the result was either the damn thing goes or we go." Following management's decision that the crew can go, a compromise was reached and the strange machine, whose builder's plate indicates it is a class SW9/1200, will be converted into a reasonable facsimile of a Class A Climax locomotive and sent to join the roster of geared locomotives working in the woods north of Muddy Creek. Though pleased with the addition of the new boiler, Engineer O'Toole conceded that the open wooden cab configuration of the new Climax would not have the comforts of the strange machine from which it is being transformed. "That thing was pretty weird, even for 1917, but damn, those seats were a mite comfortable and I'm gonna miss them windows." Reply Edit Junctionfan Member sinceFebruary 2004 From: St.Catharines, Ontario 3,770 posts Posted by Junctionfan on Wednesday, September 8, 2004 3:53 PM Great Lakes and Atlantic releases 3rd quarter ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad announced today that the 3rd quarter came short by $12 dollars due to aggressive investing. The Chairman and CEO of the company said that the fouth quarter would be very profitable because of such a small loss in the third. He predicted that profits will almost double if not double by the end of it. He said that the increase demand on the company to be aggressive against the class 1s was the culprit but promised that the shareholders would not be sorry. As a result, today's stocks on the S&P went up by 0.09 cents a share. Last year they made 46 million U.S in profits but the final quarter predictions are 89.91 million. The Chairman and CEO said that his final investment for this year is to invest in more steel loading cars, trash gondolas and hire more track gangs. Andrew Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 8, 2004 3:31 PM Yet another atempt to dieselise the Hootervill Cannonball ( running between Oklahoma City and Hootervill first over the RI then over the Hootervill and Chapel Hill RR ) failed. I was proposed that the train use RDC cars, howver this proposal did not go far. Reply Edit 1234 Subscriber & Member Login Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more! Login Register Users Online There are no community member online Search the Community ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Model Railroader Newsletter See all Sign up for our FREE e-newsletter and get model railroad news in your inbox! Sign up
Originally posted by Junctionfan Do you mean another sub-forum in the model railroader forum? There already is, the PFMSig group on Yahoo. If anyone here has not checked out all the different groups over on Yahoo, you're in for a real big surprise. There are litterally 100's of them.