Recent content by bmorechris

This sounds non-optimal Brief fair use quote: President Trump is pushing congressional Republicans not to fund a crucial infrastructure project a long-delayed plan to build a new rail tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey setting up a confrontation that could complicate passage of a...

I have a 2 1/2 year old and a 8 month old and we take them all sorts of places so deal with this sort of thing all the time. It's ridiculous to use a table to change a diaper, but it is also sometimes not always possible to have a fully private place to change a diaper. Not all bathrooms, and...

Immediate neighborhood can be a bit sketchy at times, especially night when the area is relatively empty. My Mom was just north of the station a few weeks ago going to a play, her and her friends had a couple guys deliberately cross the street to follow them and then they began yelling at mom...

Last year, my now 2 1/2 year old was in the car and I was asking him what kind of song he wanted to hear. He said a choo choo song. I had to think for a minute, but then realized my favorite band, Weezer, has a line about choo choos in their song 'My Name is Jonas'. Took him to see them in...

I didn't mean to imply that hitting the debt ceiling would actually happen. Far far less likely than a govt shutdown due to no budget.

This is conflating 2 issues, debt ceiling and the budget. A budget appropriates money to be spent by each of the government agencies. This is the issue end of April. Likely a continuing resolution that will maintain existing spending levels because I seriously doubt congress can get their act...

Density of steel, like gases and liquids, varies with temperature. The absolute numbers would probably be irrelevant though, you would want to just look for dramatic changes. I doubt that economical monitoring technology would be available for sun kinks. You would need some very sensitive...

Well, it appears the term was being more widely used, too bad a lot of the local anchors don't know how to pronounce "Acela" http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2016-04-26/all-aboard-what-to-call-tuesday-s-5-east-coast-primaries

The B&P tunnels are not deep bore solid rock tunnels, the image below is for the Pressman St Alignment, a few blocks removed from the existing tunnels, but largely the same type of profile. A lot of cut and cover, mixed face tunnel, and only about 25% rock tunnel (with only a max of 30 ft of...

Former Baltimore resident here, walking during the day should be fine. If you are not used to cities at all, you might feel a little freaked out. Likely a few homeless people, but also probably some students from University of MD medical school which is just on the East side of MLK Blvd. I have...

In my opinion and experience (primarily DoD projects) D-B isn't good for anyone, someone always gets screwed. I am currently working on a project that was put out for RFP 3 times as D-B, and no one would bite (actually this project is design-modification as its a mod to an already existing...

Just saw 601 at ivy city, driving by on New York Ave

On Good Morning America this morning they had cell phone video from one of the three Amtrak trains they said are stuck "about 80 miles west of Chicago in snow drifts". They said it was the California Zephyr, Southwest Chief, and Illinois Zephyr. The cell video they had showed people in...

Its possible it couldn't originally accommodate 85 ft cars, but after damage due to Hurricane Agnes (1972), it took a while to rebuild the OML (and was almost abandoned) and my guess is that it may have been reconstructed with better geometry. Also, at some point (not sure if pre or post Agnes...

The operator of the thruway connection is bayrunner shuttle -> http://www.bayrunnershuttle.com/ I would first call Amtrak, you can also call bayrunner to make sure everything will work out