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04-06-2021 - 22:37
Shortline Sammie
trackwalker Wrote:
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04-06-2021 - 22:33
Shortline Sammie
The pandemic has doubled our pizza cheese traffic...two to three cars a week...that amounts to about 240,000 to 360,000 pounds of shredded cheese per week!
Now we need a BEER distributer to take fu
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04-06-2021 - 11:16
Shortline Sammie
Oregon Pacific ships an average of ten cars a week of framing lumber which goes to all areas of the US.
We are limited to one inbound and one outbound train a week due to track and bridge work duri
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03-22-2021 - 12:53
Shortline Sammie
Looks like an official in the straw hat keeping his eye on his territory!
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03-19-2021 - 15:07
Shortline Sammie
Except for our 1413's tendency to develop a harmonic roll on jointed (which was cured by installing shock absorbers) the rebuilt 1400's are some of the nicest units around.
Dick Samuels
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03-18-2021 - 11:58
Shortline Sammie
Think I would have let the train safely clear the burning truck before I dumped the air and subjected the passengers to the holocaust
Sammie
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02-11-2021 - 20:39
Shortline Sammie
Maybe 1979 is to commemorate the year UP started its decline from a premier transportation company to the disaster it has become today?
Sammie
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01-30-2021 - 11:29
Shortline Sammie
A start would be to use proper punctuation and sentence structure...for a start how about shortening "more good" to "better:?
More good would be more of the same whereas "better: would be a notch a
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01-15-2021 - 13:57
Shortline Sammie
While I realize this is not a "Classified" train parts site I figured someone on here might know of a GE 1942-vintage side-rod type locomotive hood that might be sitting around somewhere needing a hom
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01-07-2021 - 08:25
Shortline Sammie
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01-06-2021 - 17:20
Shortline Sammie
KWY Wrote:
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> Doesn't OPR's Canby interchange get served by the
> Salem Switcher which does a run around move at
> Coalca?
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> -Kyle W-Y
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01-06-2021 - 07:15
Shortline Sammie
The MPDWC-05 (I think) hit a tree at Coalca, OR around 1:30 am derailing three units and around ten cars mostly centerbeams of lumber. Derailment occurred south of the south siding switch at a place c
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12-29-2020 - 11:05
Shortline Sammie
Anxiously waiting the next installment!
Sammie
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12-26-2020 - 08:56
Shortline Sammie
Wonder if the interchange switch to the Class I is still connected or if he is working with their marketing departments?
Sammie
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12-23-2020 - 15:47
Shortline Sammie
Couldn't tell from the photos but did the SP 700 have MU capability to place it between units?
Sammie
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12-20-2020 - 09:43
Shortline Sammie
Diesel to the Rescue Wrote:
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> The Holiday Express Train did need Diesel
> help when they fell off the rail many years ago I
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12-12-2020 - 08:29
Shortline Sammie
17. Re: SW900 lights
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12-11-2020 - 18:00
Shortline Sammie
Not surprised the Yellow Peril is still the WORST! keep up the whippings until morale improves
Richard Samuels; General Manager
Oregon Pacific Railroad
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12-11-2020 - 07:28
Shortline Sammie
19. Re: SW900 lights
Our dynamic-brake equipped SW-8 1127 was originally built with the large "garbage can" headlights and when maintenance became a problem were converted to the dual side-by-side style. You can still se
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12-10-2020 - 10:46
Shortline Sammie
trackwalker Wrote:
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12-10-2020 - 08:17
Shortline Sammie
Since the right of way, track and bridges is owned by the State of Oregon (or other governmental body) any salvage from removal of the line should be offered to the state's Short Lines at current NLV
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12-07-2020 - 08:04
Shortline Sammie
On Saturday afternoon a four-alarm fire broke out in the now-closed former Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City. A long-time SP/UP customer the mill closed several years ago and was in the process of
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12-01-2020 - 17:02
Shortline Sammie
Great photo!
That photo was taken very shortly after acquisition of the Molalla Branch as the section of trestle under the second and third load of lumber which burned in late 1993 had not yet been
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12-01-2020 - 16:54
Shortline Sammie
At this point having reacquired the 803 it will not be scrapped but parted out to possibly become a slug to mate with SW1200RS 1202.
Current thought is for the prime mover which was rebuilt several
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11-29-2020 - 17:29
Shortline Sammie
Picture taken back in 2010 when we were swapping the friction bearing trucks for roller bearing ones that came from ex-EsPee slug 1013 which was scrapped.
Sammie
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11-29-2020 - 11:02
Shortline Sammie
As a replacement for OPR SW-8 #801 that was severely damaged in one of the Labor Day weekend wildfires former OPR #803 (for the last ten tears as WRIX 803) was repurchased from Western Rail. In 2010 O
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11-11-2020 - 22:17
Shortline Sammie
Mr. Holloway is correct...the BN green was the color of the vehicles of Samuels Steel Products Mr. Samuels operation prior to entering the shortline railroad business prior to 1991.
Vehicle was a 1
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11-06-2020 - 22:13
Shortline Sammie
The only drawback of the welded bond on the field side of the rail joint is that surfacing equipment (tampers) damage the bonds if the rail clamps slip which they often do on a joint.
Sammie
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11-03-2020 - 10:59
Shortline Sammie
Scott O'Dell Wrote:
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> No I was mostly in the shipping and receiving
> area. I drove a medium sized forklift with about a
> 7,000# lifting ca
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11-01-2020 - 21:26
Shortline Sammie
That would be most likely the Simpson Timber operation in Shelton who at one time had a vast network of logging trackage feeding the mill. I would imagine the caboose is one from that operation althou
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