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...
80 Billion more for Iraq and zero for Amtrak sounds like Bush.
6.1 BILLION for his fleet of Presidential copters but non for Amtrack. Oh by the way those 23 copters will cost $250 Million each without cost overruns.
And who is going to build the copters?
Looks like Bush's father favorite...
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...
One other note on the Sunset. I do not know about all the crew, but my sleeping car attendant was doing a round-trip from LA. She said she got only 8 hours sleep on the trip out do to problems.
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...
I might be riding the "City" on monday, if I get a contract in Monroe, La. :o
There is no real easy way to get to Monroe, but I can take a train to Jackson Ms and drive over.
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...
Good trip report amtrakmichigan.
I love Union Station and the Food Court. FYI there is a DC Metro station there and if you have time you can take the subway down to DC Mall. I did a software contract at the DC Metropolitian Police in the winter of 98. We would take the subway from outside HQ...
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...
I talked to the Bombardier people and they pushing Canada big time. The Montreal to Toronto is their first goal. BUT they listed a number of other city pairs that would be great for that.
IMHO within 10 years, there will be 200+ mph trains running in Europe. I am not all that interested in a...