Hello all. I've just produced another history video featuring the first railroad built in southern California, the Los Angeles and San Pedro RR, built 1869,...
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Nikos Kavoori
nikosjk1
May 9, 2010 5:52 am
Hi Group, Many of you have probably seen Robert Soule's great Gainesville Midland steam footage on youtube. I decided to make a photo comparison to show the...
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zeusface
May 9, 2010 3:43 pm
That's great!...
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Verne Brummel
hiawatha1958
May 12, 2010 9:34 pm
Hi Nikos, Thanks for sharing those photos! I've always enjoyed "Then & Now" comparison shots. You have a really interesting website! Verne Brummel, ...
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Kevin M. Smith
kevinsmithpo...
May 13, 2010 11:16 pm
I just added some great resources to the links page that I wanted to bring to everyone's attention: 1) UNFINISHED RAILROADS OF NEW YORK STATE Link:...
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Kevin M. Smith
kevinsmithpo...
May 13, 2010 11:18 pm
A very interesting site, and great photos! Thanks. -Kevin M. Smith...
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Kevin M. Smith
kevinsmithpo...
May 13, 2010 11:56 pm
Since several people have privately e-mailed me recently looking for abandonment proposals or related information on lines near them, I wanted to again post...
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Kevin M. Smith
kevinsmithpo...
May 20, 2010 7:31 pm
Although this is from Nova Scotia, Canada, I thought the very detailed photos and stories were very interesting! These links document three of the last trains...
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kq4le
May 27, 2010 12:07 am
Excellent! Thank you for the links. The rest of the website was also quite interesting. Kevin Loganville, GA...
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Dave Polson
dspolson...
May 27, 2010 12:29 am
I found what I believe is more recent news about the railway on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_and_Hantsport_Railway. I am fairly sure this is...
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ln41
hartsvilleln98
May 27, 2010 1:21 am
An email acquaintance from up in Nova Scotia told me that the Winsor and Hantsport just returned the GPs to Manitoba and are relying on two B23-7s they...
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Drew
laverdiereaf
Jun 24, 2010 5:24 pm
Hi Guys. I was wondering if you had any recomendations of any map programs for Win7 that are relatively cheap or freeware, if that's possible. Now that Greg is...
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Mike
mikeexplorer03
Jun 25, 2010 8:37 pm
If you want a good program to take scanned maps and calibrate them so you can use them with a GPS and waypoints. I use a program called "ExpertGPS" You can try...
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MikeP
casco17
Jun 27, 2010 8:00 am
Hello out there, In going through Passenger Train Journal from July 1988, it mentions that Southern (Norfolk Southern) had received the ok from the ICC to buy...
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Drew
laverdiereaf
Jun 28, 2010 4:48 pm
... Anything else? It does require that I can go any physically purchase it, since my problem is, I don't have a bank account or a credit card, so getting...
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Jeffrey Carlyle
sysinfo
Jun 29, 2010 1:30 pm
... I'm pretty sure NS ended up owning the line for a while. NS has trackage rights over part of the CN/IC in Southern Illinois and over the bridge at Cairo...
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Drew
laverdiereaf
Jun 29, 2010 4:39 pm
Man wins 1st round in railway dispute 6/27/10 By Eric Russell BDN Staff (Bangor Daily News) STEUBEN, Maine — If the fight between prominent Down East...
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rsynth75
Jul 1, 2010 1:51 am
I noticed on some intact but out-of-service spurs, industrial leads and even branch lines that the connection to the main track has been removed. Does this...
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Kevin M. Smith
kevinsmithpo...
Jul 1, 2010 1:47 pm
I do not believe severing the connection between a spur/industrial lead/branch and the mainline has any impact on or anything to do with ownership of the...
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Kevin M. Smith
kevinsmithpo...
Jul 1, 2010 1:57 pm
Although I just recently started my own mapping and have little experience with resources that may be available, I personally have been using Google Maps to...
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Drew
laverdiereaf
Jul 1, 2010 4:32 pm
... Oh yes, I've already been doing that. Greg features a number of them already on his site. I'm thinking of just a program that would install on my laptop...
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Harry A Marnell
redcarguy
Jul 1, 2010 5:20 pm
On the "Mapping_Rails" yahoogroup - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mapping_Rails/ - Google Earth (free) is pretty much our default program of choice. One nice...
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Verne Brummel
hiawatha1958
Jul 1, 2010 6:12 pm
In addition to what Kevin said, there are some cases where an industry actually owns the spur trackage leading into its plant, warehouse, etc. When the...
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Drew
laverdiereaf
Jul 1, 2010 10:16 pm
... Too bad we've lost stores like CompUSA. They were generally local, and you could just pop down and browse the software. Fry's is the local tech superstore,...
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stitchenal
Jul 1, 2010 11:14 pm
I use Google Earth extensively, but I add many overlays to more easily identify the exact location of long abandoned lines. A recent addition to my arsenal of...
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Dave Polson
dspolson...
Jul 1, 2010 11:30 pm
The best I've found here in Redding is Best Buy, I would love to know if there is another, I personally don't like best buy. Dave Polson Photographer/Notary...
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warren.riccitelli@...
wriccitelli
Jul 2, 2010 1:47 am
I have a program from I think Station Software showing all rail stations more info that you could ever guess at. It is downloadable and the company is in...
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Kevin M. Smith
kevinsmithpo...
Jul 7, 2010 4:17 am
My dad mentioned that while driving somewhere around the Syracuse, NY area, he recently (this spring/summer) observed crews ripping up the rails and ties of...
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Drew
laverdiereaf
Jul 9, 2010 8:21 pm
... I had a chance to check out the Fry's in El Segundo. The software selection was disapointing. Much smaller than the ones in Milpitas and San Jose. Hope I...
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don_l_kirk
Jul 9, 2010 11:29 pm
Dave, Et Al: I too live in Redding (S. Bonnyview Rd. 1st. house from the UP tracks) and when I want software about trains, I find out what major city is having...
