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MARC Rider
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LIRR cleaning rails of leaves using Laser
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So how does this work? I watched the videos and couldn't figure out whether the laser was burning off the leaves or just drying the rail.
Saturday at 12:28 PM
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Thank you for adding "albedo" to my vocabulary. "Albedo, fraction of light that is reflected by a body or surface." (Most used in...
Friday at 5:37 PM
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Vanity Flight News: Condor Launching Frankfurt To San Antonio Flights ✈️
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Well, that part of Texas has a lot of people of German heritage, as one can find out if you visit the nearby town of Fredericksburg...
Friday at 5:33 PM
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Acela seating chart
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NYP - WAS Scenic highlights. Going southbound ("West"): On the right side, crossing the Delaware River after passing the Trenton...
Friday at 5:29 PM
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Potomac Long Bridge Project
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At least we should be happy that DC is only 220 years old. If this was a world capital of reasonable age, they'd have to worry about...
Thursday at 7:14 PM
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MARC Rider
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Brightline Trains Florida update
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They've been promising 2 hour NYP - WAS for decades now, and they still don't have it. Yet Northeast Regional and Acela have certainly...
Thursday at 8:53 AM
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MARC Rider
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New York Penn Station v3.0
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Another thing about Philadelphia is that the lines running out of the two stub terminals were (and are still) run by the same entity...
Thursday at 8:49 AM
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Indeed with the public sector model the reps can rightly put pressure on management - unfortunately this has the added problem when...
Wednesday at 12:13 PM
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In the US indeed the problem is lack of consistent commitment to adequately resource a national passenger rail system, or even a...
Wednesday at 10:19 AM
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MARC Rider
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Potomac Long Bridge Project
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Why would a "historic preservation officer" care about the design of a new bridge? It's one thing to want to preserve the old bridge if...
Wednesday at 10:19 AM
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MARC Rider
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Try this to get the information from the horse's mouth and avoid paywalls altogether...
Wednesday at 10:05 AM
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Loco Hauled Trains, EMU's or DMU's?
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It all comes down to market and the best examples I can give you really are in Germany. A place that has tons of the following types. In...
Wednesday at 10:01 AM
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MARC Rider
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Loco Hauled Trains, EMU's or DMU's?
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Yeah, like every commuter train I've ridden on in the US.
Wednesday at 10:00 AM
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Disagree. You can design emus to have end gangways
Wednesday at 10:00 AM
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Loco Hauled Trains, EMU's or DMU's?
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Loco hauled trains should have more usable space, as all the traction equipment is up in the locomotive and is not present in the...
Wednesday at 9:59 AM
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