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07-28-2019 - 10:38
synonymouse
That's interesting but I have been watching free tv news out of Sao Paulo(FN1)for a week now and no sign of any overhead lines whatsoever. But I think they have electrified heavy rail commuter. Whol
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07-27-2019 - 19:51
synonymouse
One way to find out is to build another one, albeit IMHO with any improvements in tech that have occurred since 1946. And maybe oil-burning, if only to make the engine, at least hopefully, run cleane
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07-27-2019 - 18:10
synonymouse
Max, you have to understand this is the US; everything has to be as simple as possible to be maintained. IMHO in the case of Seattle or SF having everything in 750vdc or very close thereto would make
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07-27-2019 - 11:00
synonymouse
Like the N&W the PRR was loathe to ditch coal, a major customer. I suspect the Donora disaster of 1948 cemented the decision by industry, including the rr's, to move from coal to oil and natural gas.
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07-27-2019 - 10:43
synonymouse
Do you see Gavin dropping Pacheco and moving to the vastly superior and de facto Altamont route?
He would shortly being faced with a recall out of nowhere engineered by Liccardo and Guardino & Cie.
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07-26-2019 - 12:39
synonymouse
BART is having to add to its payroll to deal with its various social problems.
I should think MTC will try to divert some money from other entities to bankroll BART's budget balloon. BART uber all
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07-26-2019 - 12:30
synonymouse
1087. Re: California’s troubled bullet train project getting one of biggest management upheavals in years
San Jose, SVLG, Palmdale real estate developers, and naturlich the Ranch will have to intimidate and compromise some new people. Whoever agrees to try to operate this thing will have to be directly c
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07-26-2019 - 11:50
synonymouse
I think the SLUT is 750vdc.
Maybe you can still get something akin to a modern version PCC out of Tatra with step-up loading?
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07-26-2019 - 10:55
synonymouse
I wonder if some of this tech could find use elsewhere, like regauging BART or laying light rail tracks on the GG Bridge.
Still think Seattle made a mistake with 2 different operating voltages for
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07-25-2019 - 20:10
synonymouse
You forgot Santa Rosa wants to be San Jose and San Jose wants so bad to be LA.
Hong Kong would just like to not be Beijing. Lebec wants to be, quoi, Atherton? Good luck with that.
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07-25-2019 - 19:53
synonymouse
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/741/t/259651.aspx
I cannot vouch for any technical inaccuracies in this reminiscence but it sure shows the engineer in this case did know to handle a T-1 with kid gloves
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07-25-2019 - 14:30
synonymouse
I believe it was Alan Freed involved in that affair - he went big time, from Cleveland to NYC.
Radio in the fifties was a far cry from today. But the residual theme in payola is the bribe - in the
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07-25-2019 - 10:59
synonymouse
http://www.ktvu.com/news/ktvu-local-news/business-owners-say-theyre-being-crushed-by-sf-construction-projects
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07-25-2019 - 10:41
synonymouse
https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/bart-board-to-vote-on-new-agency-leader-and-theres-only-one-candidate/
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07-24-2019 - 20:46
synonymouse
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sports/sports-extremes/zapata-l-homme-volant-va-traverser-la-manche_3549805.html
When the elevator is always kaput and to avoid the dealers in the doorway you flyboard u
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07-24-2019 - 19:39
synonymouse
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/07/24/major-medical-emergency-causing-bart-delays-station-shutdown-at-lake-merritt/
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07-24-2019 - 18:44
synonymouse
It was a suggestion - if they are a historical property they cannot change the gauge? he he he
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07-24-2019 - 13:29
synonymouse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Heading-to-Chase-Center-The-Warriors-will-pay-14118011.php
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07-24-2019 - 13:24
synonymouse
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/07/24/barts-crowning-jewel-is-up-for-historic-recognition-leaving-some-riders-puzzled/
Brutalism meets Bechtelian.
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07-24-2019 - 09:55
synonymouse
1100. Monorail for LaLa?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-23/sepulveda-pass-405-freeway-metro-rail-line-monorail-cost-13-billion?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=3143a31600-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_1
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07-23-2019 - 17:46
synonymouse
The two people most instrumental in creating the Central Stubway you see today are not with us any more.
Maybe Muni was afraid they could not sell cut-and-cover on 3rd & Kearny Sts. Upside it did
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07-23-2019 - 11:03
synonymouse
1102. Tutor strikes again
https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/central-subway-contractor-dispute-threatens-to-bust-budget/
Breed is in way over her head. Grievance politicians are flyweights easily played by pros like Tutor
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07-23-2019 - 10:45
synonymouse
1103. Mean streets of BART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEEP19zmcR4
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07-23-2019 - 10:38
synonymouse
https://www.rainews.it/tgr/campania/notiziari/video/2019/07/ContentItem-2c620466-2c42-41c8-92eb-de8def12fe3d.html
Scroll to 03:30 or so.
California has got a ways to go to equal this level of dy
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07-22-2019 - 12:21
synonymouse
http://www.ktvu.com/news/ktvu-local-news/driver-killed-after-colliding-with-ace-train-in-livermore
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07-22-2019 - 12:08
synonymouse
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/07/22/caltrain-has-an-ambitious-plan-to-run-bart-like-service-heres-what-it-will-mean-for-bay-area-traffic/
"Over the next 20 years, regional planners estimate the
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07-22-2019 - 10:10
synonymouse
https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/edicao/2019/07/22/videos-rj1-desta-segunda-feira-22-de-julho.ghtml
Click on video #4. And on "ativar som". You can scroll past the anchors chatting at the b
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07-20-2019 - 19:51
synonymouse
Thanks for the info on the Santa Fe 2-10-4's on the PRR.
I suspect that if those guys who first got their hands on the T-1's were still around they would give you a good argument. You'd think they
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07-20-2019 - 16:58
synonymouse
In the summer of 1959 I visited with my grandparents some relatives in Penna. Most memorable was Uncle Mark, who was a retired hostler on the PRR at Altoona.
Naturally about my first question was
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07-20-2019 - 16:27
synonymouse
1110. Re: GGRM in Windsor
Those diesel mechanicals do have a kind of bass whine.
Any SMART traffic incidents at downtown SR and there will some serious whine from townie officialdom.
BTW what does the inside of the CalPa
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