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10-01-2019 - 01:47
Shortline Sammie
WOW! 142 pieces of equipment to cut up...hope for the creditors the scrap market improves soon...but I don't see it for awhile as I'm been sitting on 250 tons of scrap rail for two years but I can af
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10-01-2019 - 01:34
Shortline Sammie
ron Wrote:
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> Johnathan Wrote:
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> > Me and my wife walked the VCRR in Oxnard the
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10-01-2019 - 01:18
Shortline Sammie
Makes us nervous...wish we were captive to the BNSF instead...don't trust the UP any more. an operating ratio of 55% cannot support infrastructure investment for future growth.
The short lines will
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09-28-2019 - 14:29
Shortline Sammie
Thank you gentlemen for an EXTREMELY interesting discussion that I'm sure took a lot of time to prepare...there's always something new to learn!
Sammie
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09-26-2019 - 07:51
Shortline Sammie
At first glance the question comes to mind....how in Hell do you get under one to rerail it once it digs itself into the turf?
Sammie
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09-15-2019 - 11:25
Shortline Sammie
I imagine good old Kern Schumaker (A&K Railroad Materials) might drown from salivating over the prospect of when he can start scrapping the line!
Dick Samuels
O P R
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08-27-2019 - 11:48
Shortline Sammie
Only Bob Harris I knew was a conductor out of Brooklyn Yard in Portland that held down the Oregon City Switcher for decades. "Cowboy Bob" as he was called has a ranch in Eastern Oregon and retired se
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08-19-2019 - 08:33
Shortline Sammie
We will just shove back like we do every Saturday and with the Holiday Express at Christmas time.
Sammie
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08-17-2019 - 16:00
Shortline Sammie
SP 4449 will also be making four round trips for a private event from the Oregon Rail Heritage Center to Oaks Park on Wednesday August 28th.
Dick Samuels
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08-06-2019 - 19:39
Shortline Sammie
April Fool's day was four months ago...and eight months to the next!
Judging from the ages of these guys (OK...I'm 75) they likely won't be around when the first spike is driven let alone the first
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08-06-2019 - 08:31
Shortline Sammie
131. Re: Would A Simple SwitchStand With A Target Have Prevented The Fatal Amtrak Head-On In Cayce, SC?
I'm not familiar with that particular location or style of switch. If it were a power switch which usually does not have a mast and target that was taken out of power in "hand throw" then YES...defini
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08-05-2019 - 07:21
Shortline Sammie
You'd think the damn historians could at least get the name of the railroad right...CHEHALIS WESTERN...there's no "and" in there!
Dick Samuels
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07-08-2019 - 18:58
Shortline Sammie
133. Re: WADOT P&L Lease
Omaha Track is a scrapper outfit much like the infamous A&K bunch. When you see them operating a shortline it is most likely to run down the two-year common carrier requirement prior to lifting the ra
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06-23-2019 - 20:35
Shortline Sammie
Older equipment is always more desirable to move at the rear of the train. Depending on the railroad, some rules require the locomotives to be entrained behind the power with all of the mu hoses conne
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06-23-2019 - 18:59
Shortline Sammie
The four cars on the most westerly spur (track 606) are stationary offices and are not roadworthy. The car and tender on the next track belong to the PRPA and OPR provides free storage.
Regards;
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06-12-2019 - 10:18
Shortline Sammie
I remember the EsPee posting paper safety slogans in the shops, toolhouses, etc. in the fifties...some I recall were "Safe and Alive in '55"...."ACCIDENTS: Nix in '56"... "Don't rush Heaven in '57" an
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06-06-2019 - 20:25
Shortline Sammie
ron Wrote:
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> Dick,
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> I remember you use to have the Steven Segall Geep
> on your property but you didn't like it. What was
> wrong with
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06-06-2019 - 10:28
Shortline Sammie
Kcjones Wrote:
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> Dick. You either love center cabs or your still
> pissed about losing the 415 to Fife. Well?
Well...things have a way of
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06-05-2019 - 09:46
Shortline Sammie
W O W!!
It was a good thing I was sitting down when I read their asking price: a mere $300,000!
Given the UPY 2005's performance history we think will stick with good old EMD switchers!
Dick
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06-04-2019 - 18:18
Shortline Sammie
Received an E-mail today from S&S Sales & Leasing indicating they had the original genset UPY 2005 for sale or lease. The photos were still in UP paint. Anyone know anything about this disposition as
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06-03-2019 - 07:15
Shortline Sammie
Always great to hear these shortline success stories....ESPECIALLY without assistance from public funds.
Here's to another 100 years!!
Dick Samuels
Oregon Pacific Railroad
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05-20-2019 - 09:08
Shortline Sammie
Don't forget the Oregon Pacific with its fleet of end-cab EMD switchers!
East Portland Division has a GMD1 (kinda end cab) the famous SW-1 #100 and the ex-EsPee 1127 dynamic brake equipped SW-8 whi
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05-19-2019 - 01:16
Shortline Sammie
144. Re: Carrizo Gorge
Hi Tommy...glad to see you're alive and kickin'
Sammie
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04-18-2019 - 14:35
Shortline Sammie
My one and only contact with Bob Gray was when we were salvaging the Portland Traction line out to Boring. He inquired as to what we had available as far as relay ties went and I believe ordered three
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04-10-2019 - 23:00
Shortline Sammie
147. Re: PSR
Quig Wrote:
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> SP5103:
> I couldn't agree with your statements more. Glad
> someone out there actually "gets it".Thanks for
> that post.
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04-10-2019 - 10:10
Shortline Sammie
148. Re: PSR
trkinsptr Wrote:
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> Precision Shortline removal
OUCH!!!...not this early in the game!
Sammie
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04-09-2019 - 17:29
Shortline Sammie
149. Re: PSR
Dummy Wrote:
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> Again, thanks for all that gave a "real" answer.
> No, this wasn't a test. I honestly did not know
> what the initials stoo
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03-27-2019 - 08:16
Shortline Sammie
Bill Kohler Wrote:
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> I totally agree. Lets keep it fun and informative
> not personal and political.
I second that 101%....when you don
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