I never said rubber tire in 30 (I have made CSULB to CSUF in 23 minutes with my rubber wheel wagon) . This is about moving on STEEL WHEELS on STEEL RAIL . ...with no station stops, LAUPT to Anah
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OCTA has essentially taken over this moribund project from the dufus's at the CHSRA (and LOSSAN from the dufus's at LACTA) and want to use our scarce "HSR" taxpayer dollars to do something sensible, a
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BOB2 I typically agree with most of your posts but I have to tell you that you've got me wrong. My concern is legitimate. This is a no troll zone. BOB2 Wrote: -----------------------------------
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Is this just another dufus troll stealing the time of those who seem to know what they are actually talking about, and have well reasoned and better informed things to add to the discussion, as oppose
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I bought mineral spirits based thinner a couple of months ago at the art store..... And, I just saw it last week at Home Depot? This is the normal response to these things from the usual conspirac
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It works both ways. I was already at the end of a platform in San Jose with my kids setup for a shot on one of the 2472 last century. Some dufus came behind me pleading authority I was in his shot an
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I have read many of Doug Riddell's train stories. It seems to me that Doug's Amtrak career was spent South of Washington, D.C., which would have precluded him from operating any of Amtrak's Electric L
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I started years before him and ran thousands of "trains" and engines, with a perfect safety record, as a fully qualified RR engineer, But I've never once described a 1940's engine and brake controls
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Sorry to disappoint you, but this "dufus" ran Amtrak trains up until retirement in December 2012, starting with the SCL in 1977. How many trains have YOU run?
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Theb"dufuss" i believe is Doug Riddell who is a now retired Amtrak engineer of 40+ years or so running on the east coast who has written several books about his ATK experiences etc. He is highly re
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BOB2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe it's because, unlike you, I've always found > that BS is BS, regardless of the "breed" of steer > that took the dump? >
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Maybe it's because, unlike you, I've always found that BS is BS, regardless of the "breed" of steer that took the dump? Because, it's BS, and it's bad for you.
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Whadya expect from the Communist News Network. Brooke Baldwin is a POS who once claimed Military Vets who hired out as cops cause the violence in the Baltimore riots Guess everyone loves watchingD
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Who was that dufus, who claimed to be a RR Engineer, that appeared this morning on CNN claiming to Brooke Baldwin that the 1948 24L braking system, in some ancient diesel he was in, with the old style
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The US is already currently exporting crude to Korea, so there already appear to be a number of "exceptions" to this oft ballyhoo'd "ban" on oil exports. I expect enormous pressure to eliminate t
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BOB2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have run a 150+ car 13,000+ footers, and if my > experience, and the research on optimal train > sizes are anything to go by
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I have run a 150+ car 13,000+ footers, and if my experience, and the research on optimal train sizes are anything to go by, this is truly the last refuge of fools, before meltdown. Worse, most eviden
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First of all it's an LA News Group story, a clearly "looking for something" so-so reporter, who appears to knows a little about this proposed project and the tragedy last year in Canada, and even less
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Mica is truly a dufus. He's sure no Bud Schuster, so it's not just a Dem-Rep problem. The last House Chairman, Jim Oberstar, was very pro rail, but had problems with folks like Barbara (I'm not
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Zarkoff, I've only been in the business for fortythree years myself, a year on the ground laying track, 18 in a cab running, and the rest in a suit, figuring out how to keep it all paid for and run
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Is the story about the "study" no one using mass transit in Transit Oriented Development in the LA Times OP-ED the same one that they just had to print the retractions about--because they actually did
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