Roomette11

This is my first post on this forum. I'm currently working with the Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority (BSPRA) to restore the former...

Yeah, Sunday shutdown is unthinkable. Usually work windows are 2am to 4am or such. But, when they replaced the Route Relay Interlocking...

In many things in Railway Engineering I see tendencies to simplify the complex, but issues of wire height is one where there tends to be...

Roll Tigers!!!😉

Interesting, I'd not seen that rumor! I will say that, having attended the most recent Great River Rail Commission meeting (virtually)...

I think there's reason to be optimistic that TCMC will be extended to Target Field Station in Minneapolis once the NLX project turns it...

THe NLX (Duluth train) will NOT go to St. Cloud; it will be splitting off from the BNSF mainline that the Northstar uses to then head...

Thank you, Railiner, for helping me hypothesize how my beloved Uncle Rudy might've gotten home from WWII. I'm currently collating his...

"I also remember the dingy 70s-era P&LE commuter train at their station." Here it is at the station in 1979.

Yep. Sometime in the 80s, I think the private car storage moved over to the other side of Smithfield St. and the platform tracks...

Picture worth 1000 words dept: here's the former B&O Station on Grant Street, Circa 1979.

And it even has modern signage. Supposedly PIDS displays are on the way. Though I am still looking for the lounge. :)

This past Sunday (9/24), while watching #30 come through and then taking #42, I saw that the Pittsburgh station waiting room is under...

I think I saw that B&O station from a streetcar on the Smithfield Street bridge. I also remember the dingy 70s-era P&LE commuter train...

No, there's far too much work to do now, so that's long gone as an option. I presume that keeping the old PRR station fit with the needs...