Altamont Press Discussion Board

12-04-2023 - 20:42

Good to hear

1. Re: DRGW/SP Intermodal prior to Phil Anschutz?

Still Around Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mistertower Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > DRGW unit was payback/run through
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12-04-2023 - 20:20

Still Around

2. Re: DRGW/SP Intermodal prior to Phil Anschutz?

Mistertower Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DRGW unit was payback/run through power. Yes, Jim > Speaker was taking pictures of trains in the > 1980s. Jim still
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12-04-2023 - 04:12

Mistertower

3. Re: DRGW/SP Intermodal prior to Phil Anschutz?

DRGW unit was payback/run through power. Yes, Jim Speaker was taking pictures of trains in the 1980s.
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12-03-2023 - 22:10

photo post

4. DRGW/SP Intermodal prior to Phil Anschutz?

Here is a slide of an intermodal on the SP coast line in 1986. Phil Anschutz bought the SP a few years later in 1988. So why might there be a D&RGW unit on this SP train? SP 9027, SD45, Ventura,
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09-24-2023 - 23:23

The Answer Man

5. Re: Empire Builder

Jim G. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can the Amtrak's Empire Builder make it all the way from Chicago to Seattle without stopping for fuel? No. > If not, whe
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05-24-2023 - 19:29

Jim Speaker

6. Re: UP cops using drones

No more climbing up signals or microwave towers along the rite of way anymore
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05-23-2023 - 21:33

utube clicker

7. UP cops using drones

Interesting... A train rider who posts on YouTube described how UP kicked him off a train. First, fixed wayside security cameras caught him, and the train stopped. Next, a UP drone with a speaker
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05-06-2023 - 10:56

Jim Speaker

8. Re: Is Class Ones railroading done by lawyers?

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04-04-2022 - 15:47

Jim Speaker

9. Re: Eureka Southern where-is-it

This is at Alderpoint. I shot here back in 1988
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03-17-2022 - 19:03

It's Jim Speaker's dad

10. Re: Phoenix - SP, ATSF,... SD&AE!

Tom H Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The guy on top of the lamp pole is a brave soul.
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12-31-2021 - 13:13

D76

11. Re: Winterail program

123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've never been Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I would for sure come to Corvallis if
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12-31-2021 - 13:06

123

12. Re: Winterail program

I've never been Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would for sure come to Corvallis if there was an > hour-long show of Jim Speaker's older slides from > the 70s, 8
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12-29-2021 - 19:58

Steve

13. Re: BATH 2022 Jim Speaker go to Donner and climb up to Switch 9

Jim Speaker! Go to Donner Pass and climb above switch 9 and get some great pics. Also above the big hole! Be careful.
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12-29-2021 - 19:35

I've never been

14. Winterail program

I would for sure come to Corvallis if there was an hour-long show of Jim Speaker's older slides from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. I heard he made some cool shots, sometimes from interesting elevations.
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12-28-2021 - 18:19

Jim Speaker

15. I aint no sinner!

trackwalker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am curious how many foamers have been tried as > terrorists. I have seen foamers across the Western > United States s
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11-11-2021 - 03:28

Jim Speaker

16. Re: I Wasn't Aware the Word "D E V I L" is a Naughty Word

Trigger is not A pretty man
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11-05-2021 - 08:48

This is Jim Speaker country!

17. Climbing Cuesta grade '83

Is the photographer on the upper grade? Can Cuesta's tunnels handle double stacks? Why didn't the Coast Line become a hot intermodal corridor? Photo from E. Paycheck Bay: https://www.ebay.co
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06-11-2021 - 19:55

SP 0-6-0

18. Chorro spur

Location: Chorro Date:1/16/82 The equipment on the spur appears designed for tunnel work. Probably Jim Speaker climbed up that thing for a photo once. :D https://www.ebay.com/itm/18474874763
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04-26-2021 - 22:26

subduction

19. Re: EIR notice of availability

Has tunnels? Where's Jim Speaker?
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04-25-2021 - 17:11

Nudge

20. Re: ^ I think the video is about Jim Speaker

You mean you got hit or bit by a "Snake" ? That would be a switchmen. Nudge
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04-25-2021 - 13:15

Jim Speaker

21. Re: Amtrak TurboTrain over Cuesta Grade ('71)

I was not happy with my shot! === Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whew, 50 years ago. > > Would be neat to see and hear this turbine powered > train climb the
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04-25-2021 - 12:10

Jim Speaker

22. Re: ^ I think the video is about Jim Speaker

The last time I climbed a ballast pile, I got bit by a snake. The special agents told me to stop being stupid at the ER.
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04-25-2021 - 00:02

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23. ^ I think the video is about Jim Speaker

The man who climbed up the pile of ballast might be Jim Speaker.
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03-16-2021 - 22:28

Good night

24. The real Drew does not post

The super troll has driven everyone away... Drew, Carol, Margaret, Jim Speaker, Pdxrailtransit, stash, who else? Many others... It is kind of depressing. I miss the old days. Hutch, KRK, Don-N
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12-24-2020 - 18:46

Jim Speaker

25. Re: Fly track plan to Redondo junction!

I don't know. I just photographed the train? http://www.altamontpress.com/jimspeakerphotos/Jims-Trains-Metrolink-880-Redondo-Junction-dave_1000px.jpg
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12-02-2020 - 09:45

e.h. fearyman

26. Re: Tenderloin-residents-struggle-with-bus-cuts

E.H. Scaryman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mouse Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Gotta get rid of the Rodent. This sit
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12-01-2020 - 16:18

E.H. Scaryman

27. Re: Tenderloin-residents-struggle-with-bus-cuts

Mouse Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gotta get rid of the Rodent. This site has been > successful in getting rid of Drew Jacksich, Grant > Buxton, Tommy J, Rick
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12-01-2020 - 14:34

Mouse

28. Re: Tenderloin-residents-struggle-with-bus-cuts

Gotta get rid of the Rodent. This site has been successful in getting rid of Drew Jacksich, Grant Buxton, Tommy J, Rick from Larkspur, Hutch Jim Speaker, et al. Some are missed, others not so much.
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11-13-2020 - 10:19

Jergan

29. Re: CZG2

Jim Speaker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't clime up the poles of trees . I go to the > plat forms of to areas along the strees and take > pictureswill on
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11-12-2020 - 16:11

Jim Speaker

30. Re: CZG2

I don't clime up the poles of trees . I go to the plat forms of to areas along the strees and take pictureswill on thrk
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