The San Diego & Imperial Valley RR operates over the trolley tracks late at night and hauls cars to San Ysidro most every night. Carrizo Gorge RR operates the old Mexican portion of the SD&AE (the T&T
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When I was CMO on San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad, I found a cache of old NW and SW NOS parts in the enginehouse in San Ysidro. Could have been taken there from this enginehouse. Unless somet
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Steve, Beautiful pics. I'm just guessing, but these look more like SW-9s to me or maybe TR-6. They appear identical to me of what SP was using in the L.A.-San Berdoo area to service ex-PE trackage i
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Folks,
The off again, on again proposed Punta Colonet container port in Baja is back in the news: [signonsandiego.com]. My interest ITT is in the engineering and operation of this proposed new rai
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Once again a chewing gum and bailing wire approach to a problem that requires a whole lot more than you think.More like a quarter billion dollars may very well fix this problem in a more perminant way
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That would cover ties and surfacing, be a bit short for more than about 50% of one large trestle.
With a conservative pro-Canal government going into power in Panama the new port at Ensenada might
b
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Anybody have an update on the carrizo gorge railroad. I see on there home page there is a press release on track upgrades, just wondering how soon they will be running trains.Thanks
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Here's some second-hand information to fill in the gap while we wait for someone with more solid info than I have to jump in.
1) Santa Maria Valley - from what I have been told, they moved out of t
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The carrizo gorge keeps there engines in campo,ca. Not sure if they are still running the american side though, last I heard they were not running anything.
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A friend of mine wants to take pictures of the Carrizo Gorge Ry, the Southern California RR, and the Santa Maria Valley RR during a forthcoming trip. Does anyone know where they keep their diesels an
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Freericks, I suppose one of the things that keeps my son into MSTS and everything else about trains might be that he has a wide range of other interest too. There are some people who live, eat, and br
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folks,
It seems some people don't understand how our robber-barons think or work. Robber-barons do not have any allegiance to flags or nation-states. Robber-barons use nation-states as what they
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Containers can go through the Carrizo Gorge, if you are willing to spend the money to upgrade that line. I was involved in an extensive study, and that's where the cost figures to do it that I cited
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Folks,
The new container port planned at Punta Colonet, BC, MX is being put up for bids again.
Punta Colonet is about 180 miles south of San Diego on the Pacific Ocean. What makes
this interest
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This sounds like the SD&AE, this shut down in the 80s but was recently repaired and brought back into service by the Carrizo Gorge Railway.
They have a nice web site, http://www.cgrp.us/czry.html
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Can anyone fill me in on what this railroad actually does, and how often? I have been unable to find any concrete information, and their own website was very vague. I thought the railroad through the
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I worked for the that wooden axel outfit. Spent a year and a half there. Loved what I did, hated the company. Safety comes behind profit, maintaince is nill to nothing. I was always asking for somethi
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I will second that! DO NOT go to work for CZRY! They are bad news and then some! I can also verify that they have had a management shake up, but I think there is new people running the joint.
Th
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I can't say that I know too much about Watco; just what goes around in the business...and they sound as bad as CZRY...I'm serious about this; go to work for another railroad, there are plenty of decen
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Check out Trainorders, there's some great pictures of Campo's new S-2 going through the gorge
on a flat car. Sorry Dave for the inadvertent ad!!
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