MARC Rider

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.

Thank you for adding "albedo" to my vocabulary. "Albedo, fraction of light that is reflected by a body or surface." (Most used in...

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...

NYP - WAS Scenic highlights. Going southbound ("West"): On the right side, crossing the Delaware River after passing the Trenton...

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...

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...

Another thing about Philadelphia is that the lines running out of the two stub terminals were (and are still) run by the same entity...

Indeed with the public sector model the reps can rightly put pressure on management - unfortunately this has the added problem when...

In the US indeed the problem is lack of consistent commitment to adequately resource a national passenger rail system, or even a...

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...

Try this to get the information from the horse's mouth and avoid paywalls altogether...

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...

Yeah, like every commuter train I've ridden on in the US.

Disagree. You can design emus to have end gangways

Loco hauled trains should have more usable space, as all the traction equipment is up in the locomotive and is not present in the...