Watch fuel prices. Diesel is already $2.30-$2.50 a gallon in Chicago. That hits the railroads too of course but not in nearly the same proportion as it does...
I apologize if this is old news. General Motors to sell electro-Motive Division General Motors Corporation has agreed to sell Electro-Motive Division to an...
I am in the process of filing away old Trains magazines and came across a chart in the Nov 86 issue. It was a Class 1 railroad diesel census. ICG was listed...
... That hits the railroads too ... industry. I saw a press release that CP didn't hedge like CN in the some of the past few years. CN's use derivates helped...
I may be wrong, but those prices that you are stating are the inflated highway diesel prices that trucks and such use. Railroads use dyed "off-road" diesel...
... "off-road" ... taxes that ... I think that they actually just certify that they didn't use it for road use. They put down how much tax paid and get it...
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Should this go on the site here, or on the UP list????? I love my camera even if its getting old....but every once in a while, it doesn't advance the frame and...
... After the semaphores disappeared, AFAIK, only on inherited lines, i.e., the GM&O, which was primarily searchlight, or on the ex-Alton, B&O-style...
... What has happened, is the tentioner device in your camera has gotten week, and doesn't hold the film tight enough on the rotating device.. The same thing...
For those who were asking about the 60' bulkhead flats with the TRT markings, look here: http://rlehmer.50megs.com/photos/midwest/icg8749_unionjct.html Keith...
I don't know if that is exactly what is happening.....here's why.... My camera is a Canon A-1, and one of the features it has is a setting to allow you to...
Down here they used three color lights in the vertical format and some three color lightw with a round background and a triangular light arrangement. These...
... I met a railfan in Fulton, KY that threw out his camera after 2,000 - 3,000 shots; He would do it supposedly within a few years. He gave up on trying to...
In a message dated 3/3/2005 3:51:02 P.M. Central Standard Time, cbalducc@... writes: What is an "absolute" signal? God bless, AN Absolute signal has no...
From what some engineers have told me, the best description of an absolute signal is "thou shall not pass" used for such as an open draw bridge indication,...
Kelley's right. An absolute signal has no number plate, and if the indication is red, then a train 'absolutely' has to stop. Failing to do so, causes the ...
... At Broadview, IL on the Iowa Div., just west of 17th Ave. (mp 14.5), there was, at least up until late last year, I believe what they call a position light...
The signals at Broadview aren't position light signals. A position light is a signal that has uses two or more lights arranged either horizontally, vertically...
I saw a train going north on the Grenada sub between 12 noon and 1 pm today that consisted of 3 UP locomotives and a string of hopper cars behind. Anyone know...
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