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04-07-2019 - 11:34
synonymouse
Seems to me those junk locos belong to the "tierra" into which they are rusting.
If you are a broke-ass country why not sell off some boneyard stuff to people interested in rebuilding and operating
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04-06-2019 - 21:04
synonymouse
https://www.steamlocomotive.com/whyte/2-8-2/Guatemala/photos/fegua177-king.jpg
Maybe the Gavinator can score one for the Durango & Silverton to restore on his Grand Tour of Guatemala.
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04-06-2019 - 10:32
synonymouse
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/04/05/calif-high-speed-rail-brian-kelly-san-jose-update.html
Try as I might I could not get past the paywall on this piece to see if Kelly has anything
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04-04-2019 - 20:12
synonymouse
Is that Amur River bridge dual-gauge? I did not note any mention in the article.
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04-04-2019 - 19:53
synonymouse
But Mr. Siegel said: "We only kill each other."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLs78pDUHsI
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04-04-2019 - 15:22
synonymouse
The Casalesi clan has also been notorious for dumping all kinds of toxic waste and other refuse for rich industrial interests(mostly from the North)onto agricultural lands, especially in an area known
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04-04-2019 - 15:18
synonymouse
Once in a while in the quantum world something miraculous comes of out something definitely not. So the poorly conceived, gerrymandered PBCAHSR enables Caltrain electrification and MTC-BART proved to
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04-04-2019 - 11:12
synonymouse
https://www.rainews.it/tgr/campania/notiziari/
First story.
With so many billions being thrown around in transport it is understandable organized crime would be interested. Still none of the "c
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04-04-2019 - 10:47
synonymouse
For me the primary reason to electrify Caltrain is to humiliate BART and call into question the modal decision made by Bechtel ca 1960 to go for a mutant NYC subway.
So when the catenary is energiz
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04-03-2019 - 11:07
synonymouse
1420. Re: There are other solutions to increase Orangeline ridership, by operating the service better.
All due respect, Max, in the eyes of US politicians the diesel bus bears no stigma. They love them, tho some modifications may be necessary from time to time to satisfy political correctness standard
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04-02-2019 - 11:54
synonymouse
https://www.dailynews.com/2019/02/15/high-speed-rail-still-hanging-over-the-heads-of-the-projects-critics-in-the-san-fernando-valley/
'These are our homes, and we do not want high speed rail to go
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04-01-2019 - 10:02
synonymouse
Oops, forgot the link:
https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/train-service-returns-to-t-third-line-in-time-for-monday-morning-commute/
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04-01-2019 - 10:01
synonymouse
1423. SFO gets battery buses
https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/first-electric-plug-in-buses-coming-to-san-francisco-but-they-wont-be-munis/
Proterra destination sign board says made in USA.
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04-01-2019 - 09:58
synonymouse
1424. T line back in action
Back in service on April Fools Day. A state holiday, as I discovered trying to call FTB.
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03-31-2019 - 10:30
synonymouse
https://gvwire.com/2018/03/16/bullet-train-leader-is-ok-with-a-do-over-vote/
But you just know he would totally oppose placing Altamont and Tejon-Grapevine route alternative choices on the ballot.
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03-31-2019 - 10:24
synonymouse
https://gvwire.com/2019/03/28/why-gavin-newsom-is-no-fan-of-high-speed-rail/
Gavin is not moved by transport issues; he's a hot button social controversy kinda guy. When you listen to him on trans
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03-31-2019 - 10:01
synonymouse
That's not the real syno above - but it is kinda funny.
You oughta care since it is our money being flushed. I was going to suggest the State take over MTC-BART but since the FTB just effed up my
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03-31-2019 - 02:05
synonymouse
Who cares???? Wrote:
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> No one cares.
Your mom cares.
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03-30-2019 - 10:37
synonymouse
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-Transbay-Transit-Center-contractors-challenge-13724676.php
"But Skanska says the sole focus on the holes is improper and that studies they and Herrick
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03-30-2019 - 10:10
synonymouse
1430. BART body count
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Woman-killed-in-shooting-at-West-Oakland-BART-13726137.php
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03-28-2019 - 13:24
synonymouse
I am not sure things have changed all that much apart from a great increase in population. Beef costs a fortune and so does a college education.
Californians tend to be a bit naive about corruptio
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03-28-2019 - 10:41
synonymouse
https://omny.fm/shows/kgo-810/march-26-2019-bart-is-getting-out-of-control
She wants to go back to the idyllic past. No way - she does not understand the origins of the grunge. That is Manhattani
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03-27-2019 - 23:09
synonymouse
7,000 parking spaces - that's pure BART, the boon friend of the freeway and the airport.
Hell, there's still time to convert this thing to 5'6".
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03-27-2019 - 20:23
synonymouse
1434. Re: Bonds
Xi Ping would be most happy to dig base tunnels to Palmdale for Gavin.
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03-27-2019 - 10:57
synonymouse
1435. BART today
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/26/two-attacks-on-bart-trains-90-minutes-apart/
"BART issued orders prohibiting both from using the system."
Presumably they'll be intercepted when they jump
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03-27-2019 - 10:31
synonymouse
1436. Bonds
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article228430034.html
"Thompson and Helen Kerstein of the Legislative Analyst's Office said lawmakers need to decide if they'll provide more money or chan
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03-26-2019 - 16:03
synonymouse
The outfits look the same - same bowlers, pants and shirts and small cases. Farther off looks like it might be some sailors in white. Quality of the photo is not that of a of press camera of the '30
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03-26-2019 - 10:03
synonymouse
1438. body count
http://www.sfweekly.com/news/horrible-week-for-vision-zero-casts-shadow-over-s-f/
When we have self-driving vehicles everybody gets to have their own armored tank, especially the old people.
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03-26-2019 - 09:55
synonymouse
1439. BART blotter
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/25/man-found-dead-in-barts-macarthur-station-in-oakland/
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/25/woman-hospitalized-after-man-strikes-her-in-head-on-bart-tr
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03-25-2019 - 18:59
synonymouse
Buy something motive straight from India. Now if they start building some standard gauge(and they might given the magnitude of Indian Railways; they would have the loads to fill competing gauges)the
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