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This is the curve off the Hudson onto Metro-North's road up the Sputen-Duyville. Off the top of my head it's a 25 turn-out. Loco would have been at the back as standard formation and driver would have been in cab car. Who knows? This is the Metro-North road to GC - straight on at the...

Altofts?

Apperley will make money. The land is in place and ground surveys have been done. The deal was always that to put a blockade on the Aire Valley two stations would be built at the same time. Kirkstall Forge, I can tell you, will NOT happen under the original agreement as the developers of the...

Both routes ran through the Delaware water gap with some silly and ultimately redundant engineering. I may be getting confused here but wasn't it the D and L that got the "Route of Phoebe Snow" - in other words, the one that produced the lesser clag. We can't do them now.

Port Jervis is a joint operation, as the Northern section is in New York State. Operationally it is an NJT route - MetroNorths' contribution is purely financial. To be pedantic it's almost all Erie, but after the 1955 merger the best bits of Erie and D&L bed and infrastructure got chopped...

It will be re-used as part of the new South side entrance, I understand.

If you need a spin out - as others have explained, Washington isn't practical but there's a couple of options. As IanHR says, the Hudson Valley is a stunning route. A ride to Poughkeepsie and back is half a day. Either Amtrak from Penn for a lot of money or Metronorth from GC for half the...

I think the point here is - how could you have known that this was going to happen? I'm not doubting that you were there. My understanding about 47111 came from some bashers who knew that it was coming into position. 47483 was failed. How far in advance of the event did you know there was...

The above is correct but overlooks axle load. An easy way to look at this is to think of a car in snow. You'd rather have a front wheel drive car, because the weight of the engine creates a downward force on the driving wheels. 66's are a suspended solid frame, in which the whole weight...

They weren't very good - adhesion problems really. Ironically they'd probably have been decent for intermodal work if the 1994 shake up had put a few of them in the Freightliner fold. I do wonder, though, if the frames might not make a good base for a "genset" concept.

That seems very brief for an official report. I note it does not state where the driver realised there was a brake problem. Could it be possible that the train did not have a danger signal until the approach to Preston? Would the driver need to use brakes after, say, Shap? And how did we know...

That's not quite how it happened. Driver didn't realise he'd no brake until attempting to drop to mandatory 35 through Preston. Questions have been raised about drivers concentration levels due to possible unauthorised individuals in cab. 474xx had failed in 3B - booked for a following...

Valid on a Swiss Pass without question - it's seen as a Swiss internal journey because although you end up in Domodossola it's the most viable route between Lugano and Brig. Davetheguard - if you're an ex BW guard it's quite possible I was with you!

I think that's right. We never really had the concept of inter-urban here so the beasties that ran on the likes of the North Shore, Roaring Elgin, Illinois Traction and PE aren't really applicable. EDIT -Those things that go up the hill in SF are cable cars. Those things that go on the...

Bit of US/UK terminology slip here Taconite. Traction in the UK means motive power. What you'd call traction we call trams. What you call trams we call cable-cars.

The only possible and sensible answer might be that Mk III's - not II's - were banned on the Cumbrian Coast - initially throughout, then North of Barrow. I believe this still applies.

The reason Amtrak want to put you on a bus is that the Stairlift books full most days. It's actually not a bad alternative - the only through LA - SF train is the Stairlift, but by taking the Amtrak bus (integrated ticketing) you get more journey options because there are several buses a day...

It's been unit tractors for many years now. If you want a loco the shunt move for the through stock at Samendan is diesel. Usually 843. Edit - the old AB4/ii's - 47 -54 series - were always worth listing to.

http://www.usabyrail.co.uk/ Easy and fun.

For EMU look for Frank Sprague - invented the multiple working system and there's a very readable biography for him that I can't find a link for right now.