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09-11-2017 - 17:09
Margaret (SP fan)
Nudge Wrote:
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> Margaret,
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> Shame on you. You are not old enough to have seen
> & done that. :):)
>
>
> Nudge
Awwwww......Nudge.
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09-11-2017 - 15:54
Margaret (SP fan)
Thanks, HUTCH, for the post. Ahhhh..... memories.....
What I miss:
Crews on SP's commute trains
SP's commute trains with immaculate gallery cars
and Suburbans
The SP's San Francisco Subd
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09-05-2017 - 11:56
Margaret (SP fan)
B6b Wrote:
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> Theodore Wrote:
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> > Ross Rowland, the Eternal Moocher who lives t
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09-04-2017 - 18:49
Margaret (SP fan)
Here are links to the specific places and highways/roads Alf mentioned in his post:
California State Route 36:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_36
California State Route 2
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09-03-2017 - 19:13
Margaret (SP fan)
Thank you, sir, for the honest report on what
is going on now with Amtrak in Seattle and for
sharing your wonderful memories of an era that
is, sadly, gone. I, too lament the passing of
the rel
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08-21-2017 - 09:51
Margaret (SP fan)
Up here in the inner SF Bay Area, it is completely overcast.
And the Moon will cover 74% of the Sun here -- in about
30 minutes. Mama Nature is not exactly cooperating up here.
Rats! I was all
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08-19-2017 - 02:25
Margaret (SP fan)
BOB2 --
Thanks for your excellent reply.
You wrote --
> Unlike you I support a well planned "high speed",
> high frequency, high quality, reliable passenger rail
> system in CA in some form.
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08-18-2017 - 19:43
Margaret (SP fan)
Just clarifying for those who do not know
even what state this highway closure is in:
it is in Montana. That was not obvious from
the thread title.
(And, silly me -- I misread your thread titl
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08-17-2017 - 23:52
Margaret (SP fan)
BOB2 --
Thank you very much for your most excellent and
cogent posts on this interesting subject. We all
benefit from knowing the facts about this project.
However, you said --
> This routing
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08-15-2017 - 18:40
Margaret (SP fan)
100. Corporate bafflegab
Words ARE important. Very. And if the exact
words are not important at all, why don't we
just babble gibberish? Oh, wait -- isn't that
what has happenerd already -- with corporate
bafflegab an
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08-06-2017 - 18:53
Margaret (SP fan)
This link to the FTA article works:
rl=https://www.transit.dot.gov/about/news/us-department-transportation-announces-proposed-rule-streamline-private-sector]https://www.transit.dot.gov/about/news/u
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08-05-2017 - 23:44
Margaret (SP fan)
"GRRR" and "Google maps says..." --
Thank you very much for the facts about the size
of western Europe. I freely admit I was wrong,
and I do appreciate the corrections, and the
kindness with wh
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08-04-2017 - 00:58
Margaret (SP fan)
\Why, oh, why, must all public services be based
on a "business model" in order for people to support
them? What is wrong with using our taxes to "promote
the general welfare", which means, to m
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08-03-2017 - 08:32
Margaret (SP fan)
Long ago, I heard the slogan was:
"Uphill slow and downhill fast; profits first and safety last."
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08-02-2017 - 22:08
Margaret (SP fan)
George Manley --
Thank you very much for what you wrote. AMEN!!
This proposal is incredibly unwise and very
short-sighted and beyond ridiculous.
Yes, Amtrak service too often does leave
a lot
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07-28-2017 - 20:39
Margaret (SP fan)
Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> Thanks Margaret, that was good.
LOL! You're welcome, sir pdx! I cod've done better if I
had had more time. Sing
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07-28-2017 - 17:07
Margaret (SP fan)
[dx --
You were carping about no one getting your pun.
Well,I guess you will just have to wrasse-le with
that for a while longer. I know you cold scale new
heights if you tried, but I have to
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07-22-2017 - 20:16
Margaret (SP fan)
108. Re: The Virginian
vhs Wrote:
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> Hopefully things will get rectified.
>
> What? Too soon?
ROFL!! Comment Of The Month!
(And the Captcha I got was "PTCK
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07-19-2017 - 09:40
Margaret (SP fan)
Best info so far is from WAF on TO -- Summer, 1982.
Will post if / when I get more info.
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07-08-2017 - 09:20
Margaret (SP fan)
110. Re: FYI
Thanks, Drew! Those are wonderful photos.
It is so nice to know where to find a lot
of your superb photos. Memories of times
gone by, which I am very glad you photographed.
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07-02-2017 - 20:13
Margaret (SP fan)
I searched for "IHB 4010" -- because I remembered
that the Indiana Harbor Belt RR is her current
road and that she was numbered 4010 by the IHB.
There are 4 pages of photos of her in service on
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06-19-2017 - 18:35
Margaret (SP fan)
Hit an ag truck. Finally on the move now,
many hours late. I have no other info
than this.
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06-13-2017 - 10:51
Margaret (SP fan)
And how much track is covered? Any idea when it will be repaired? Did the Santa Cruz Big Trees & Pacific or Roaring Camp have any washouts? Thanks,
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06-13-2017 - 01:15
Margaret (SP fan)
Thanks, HUTCH, for this neat video of those
unique locomotives at work in Canada. I was
also fascinated by the other two unusual locomotives --
the tgwo odd switcher-type locomotives, the CN 1419,
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06-07-2017 - 16:56
Margaret (SP fan)
Thanks, OPRRMS, for the info. A sharp-eyed friend
noticed that this beautiful and impressive photo
was taken in SLO (San Luis Obispo) -- look at the
trees behind the locomotives. He also saw the
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06-03-2017 - 18:51
Margaret (SP fan)
Thanks, Webdigger -- and pdx for posting this.
Fascinating! (Said with a raised eyebrow. )
I love this site -- you just never know what you will find on here!
"Learn something new every day
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06-03-2017 - 01:27
Margaret (SP fan)
117. Re: Niles Canyon
RVJ Refugee Wrote:
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> PLA may have to once again learn the hard lesson:
> you gotta own the land. That's one big thing that
> BAERA got right
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06-02-2017 - 17:18
Margaret (SP fan)
But -- what is the point in the UP moving their trains to the old SP just between Niles and Sunol? What is the real need for that? (Not saying it will not happen -- just wondering why, in an era whe
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05-18-2017 - 00:22
Margaret (SP fan)
sfgate.com has an interesting article today --
Wed., May 17, 2018 -- which contained a link to
the official SMART schedule:
http://main.sonomamarintrain.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SMART-Trai
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05-16-2017 - 16:47
Margaret (SP fan)
I wanted to point out to everyone that automation,
not high taxes and supposedly onerous laws, is
destroying many jobs, even jobs held by pretty
highly-paid people who thought they could never
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