Hi Betty,
It has been a long time, sorry to hear about your sickness. Glad to see about the medical help has lead to your improvement. I have not been on AU for ages maybe once since I heard about my namesake Alan B. I am now working with a tablet and it is very difficult with my vision.
I...
My wife woke me up to the news. I was stunned to hear about Alan B, I would tease him and tell him I was the real Alan B as I was about 12 years older.
Robin and I offer our thoughts and prayers.
We wish well to Grace and all of Alan's family and friends (especially thus that were with him) at...
I am sad to get this news, sorry for being so late but I'm working off a small tablet in Arkansas for the winter. Joe meant a lot to me and was the second A U,er I met. The first was Erik (GG1) 64is way too early. The honored member's list is too long. Condolences to Joe s family and friends...
I'm a member of both the Will County Model Railroad Club in Joliet IL and the Mountain Home Model Railroad Club in MT.Home Arkansas. I put together almost all of Amtrak's trains, as I began working on Amtrak equipment in 1972 until my retirement in 2008. I have a large collection of Amtrak...
Just wondering if anyone was going to "TRAINFEST"?
It is at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in West Allis WI November 12th and 13th.
It's a great show!
Eric, RIP, may you have high greens on all journies!
It is hard to express my feelings at this time. Eric was one of the/ first AU members that I met in person many years back. This happened in the Metropolitan. Lounge. Eric and I met many more times there, AU trip or not.
I really...
Eric you said "On NJ Transit we were so cynical about management that I suggested an appropriate theme song for them when there was trouble would be " Send In the Clowns. " I was a union rep for a long time and the other union reps agreed that the theme song of the group should be Stealers...
My Amtrak career goes back to 1972 and spent many hundreds of thousands of miles in various management and agreement positions including being a field technician in the days of Turbotrains and Turboliners.
My story of the day was on a trip on Amtrak 350 using a Turboliner. The crowd was light...
As a lifelong Amtrak mechanical department employee, now retired, I can tell you that the P40 and P42 Amtrak locomotives are a monocoque design which means that the frame is integral with the body and not a separate structure. It is impossible to determine the actual amount of damage and the...
Tne United Aircraft TurboTrain used #2 diesel. The RTG (French built)Turboliners used #2 diesel, but in extreme conditions ie below 0 degrees F. #1 was used. The RTL (Rohr built) also used #2. I am not familiar with the Super Steel rebuilds of the RTL's, but they used the same TuroMeca built...