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  1. Willbridge

    New member, hello world!

    Welcome! As a South Shore rider, you might enjoy my dad's quick 8mm views of IC Electric and the South Shore.
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    California Zephyr discussion 2023 Q4 - 2024

    Of course, 3rd Street in Oakland, but I looked in the Open Railway Map at other likely places where WP engines would have led the train and did not see anything. Note to younger readers: before Amtrak, the California Zephyr on the Western Pacific bypassed Reno. The WP had a 33-mile long branch...
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    Planes overhead

    I followed the process - agonizingly slow - of building the new BER airport. Staying at a pension near old Schoenefeld in 2002, I could sympathize with the neighbors because so many of the Eastern European, Russian, and low-cost/charter flights were painfully noisy. Some had a screaming effect...
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    Planes overhead

    I had the pre-internet experience in the mid-1970's with United's once a day 737 each way at Salem, Oregon. In a big snowstorm, I was asked to do a quick check for ODOT on how public transportation was doing. It would go into a brief for the governor. After I checked with the SP dispatcher for...
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    Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement RFP discussion

    Just to clarify, they tried Superliners on the Panorama between Edmonton and Winnipeg. Passengers loved them. Publicly, VIA liked them, as reported in Rail Travel News in 1985. Perhaps some insiders did not. Layover in downtown Edmonton in 1984.
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    California Zephyr discussion 2023 Q4 - 2024

    Well, they ran in 3rd Street in Oakland. The station at Washington Street is still there. It was an area of warehouses back then. There might have been someplace else, but this was an area often accessed.
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    Original railroads of current routes

    There were a couple of Sherlock Holmes lines that I had posted in my office as being relevant to transit planning. I don't have them handy, but can paraphrase: Looking in a guide, Watson observes "We're in luck, Holmes, it is only a five-mile walk from the station to the manor house." With a...
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    Ground Transport in the Pacific Northwest

    Flix is very flexible, which can result in slapdash stuff like a short run trailing a long-distance run. The 8 p.m. EUG trip was launched before Greyhound runs were integrated with Flix. They tend to patch up things through the variable fares, somewhat like Amtrak. I follow PDX<>EUG and often...
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    Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement RFP discussion

    I think I was wrong on the date because they kept using advertising photos that showed the dome lounge at the end of the train. (I won't upload it again, but the SP&S used a photo of the Portland<>Pasco Columbia River Express in the Columbia Gorge for years after it was discontinued.) Not a...
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    Colorado planning

    A bill has been introduced in the Colorado legislature to integrate funding of Denver <> Longmont commute service, Fort Collins <> Pueblo Front Range regional service, and Denver <> Steamboat Springs <> Craig tourist, recreational and ski-town commute service. More...
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    Original railroads of current routes

    I think it was Dr. Watson who checked schedules. The 1916 Guide reprint shows that level of service in New England and the mid-Atlantic states. I have a 1965 Guide that I just about had to arm-wrestle away from the Army's Berlin Rail Transportation Office in 1971. It was the last one that...
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    Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement RFP discussion

    UP favored that style of lounge. In the mid-60's when UP dropped running a tail-end lounge on the City of Portland, they moved it to the center of the train, between coaches and the diner. Train 106 departs Portland for Chicago.
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    Ground Transport in the Pacific Northwest

    Here's the PDX to SEA line-up for Sunday, March 24th as of Wednesday night. Note that some train times adjusted for the slide repairs are back to normal. 0645 AT $42/$87 0700 FB $49 0820 AT $66/SO 0830 FB $49 1040 FB $94 1040 AT $53/SO 1200 FB $72 1410 AT SO/SO 1500 FB $70 1556 AT SO/--/$509...
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    Most scenic route from east to west

    Triple Divide is my favorite non-rail place around the park vicinity. Port of Del Bonita is my favorite border crossing. And the Calgary <> Great Falls sleeper is one of my trivia favorites. It's an interesting area.
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    Winter Park (Colorado) Express is back

    All the theorizing skipped one point, refueling. Granted that doesn't happen every turn, but it should not take place in an unprotected location under a tent.
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