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    OT: I've been workin' on a railroad :)

    About three months ago, I got a contract at Norfork Southern to work on a software project about trying to tell when the wheels will brake and fall off... :o I really enjoy this contract. I have done software contracting for 20 years and only once in awhile, do I get one at a company that I...
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    Bush Budget to Scrap Subsidy for Amtrak-Sources

    he Bush administration will for the first time propose eliminating operating subsidies for passenger train operator Amtrak as part of a push to cut budget deficits, people close to the budget process said on Tuesday. President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget, which he will send to Congress on Monday...
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    Notes on the City of New Orleans

    Short note on the City of New Orleans. The people were not talking about it jumping the tracks on the City. But on the Sunset they said nobody is "talking" about it and that normally points to crew problems with drugs or alochol. It appears Amtrak has gone to one menu for a train. So the...
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    STRANGE Sleeper ;)

    There is no "general forum" so I picked this forum. :P First you take one of these And place it on one of these: And go for a trip. :D I was googling the trains that do Copper Canyon in Mexico and came on this Airstreamer Caravan Here WE STILL HAVE RESERVATIONS AVAILABLE ON THE...
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    lol -Commuter Gets Arm Stuck in Train Toilet

    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/A...Potty-Stop.html October 31, 2003 Commuter Gets Arm Stuck in Train Toilet By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:33 a.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- A man riding a Metro-North train dropped his cell phone in a toilet and got his arm stuck trying to retrieve...
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    Bombardier – Jet Engine Powered Train

    To begin with I am not a train expert so you will have to understand if I miss up at times. :blink: Bombardier is completing with another company for the contract for a High Speed Trail in Florida. Bombardier entry would be non-electric and the other entry is electric. Bombardier has been...
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    Question for the experts Fluor - Bombardier

    Florida voters passed a High-Speed Rail law. In today's newspaper is an ad to come out and see the Fluor Bombardier this Wed. For you experts is there anything special I should watch for???? Thanks
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    Bush ‘escape train’ under N.Y. hotel

    http://www.msnbc.com/news/972285.asp?0cv=CB20 During President Bush’s two-day stay at the ritzy Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York this week while seeking international support for Iraq, a special escape train was idling beneath the hotel, ready to whisk him to safety at a moment’s notice in the...
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    Question on Philly Station and NJT

    My 77 yo father is thinking of taking the train from Rocky Mt NC to see his brothers in NJ. Amtrak connects with the NJT Atlantic City trains in Philly. Question as a guess how much walking would one have to do from the Amtrak gate/area to the NJT gate/area?? Thanks in advance.
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    Grrrrr $300,000 to CSX for a "flagman"

    I do not know why a simple gate crossing could not be used. Railroad Crossing Drives Up Trolley Cost By ANDY REID [email protected] Published: Sep 17, 2003 TAMPA - A rainy night and an approaching train threatened to bring Tampa's streetcar line to a screeching halt. Two months later...
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