There was a minor issue where the brake hanger on the rear truck was rubbing up against the main reservoir connection pipe when the locomotive...
Just a quick update on SERA #133. It arrived at Woodland earlier in the month (September 5th if I remember correctly). Upon inspection at...
If I'm not mistaken, that photo is actually the California Western (Skunk Train) motorcar #M-100 and the photo appears to have been taken at...
Thanks for the "Head-Up" and posting a picture of it. I knew that it was scheduled to leave Oakdale sometime this month (September) but didn't...
Nice shots, John!! Those be my horses... :smile: The #47's exterior isn't chopped but inside the cab she's a not a stock GP-7 any more. The...
LEW, besides "feed valve braking", did you ever use (or work with anyone that used) the "humping" the brake valve method (placing the handle...
Welcome to the world of black magic... ;) First off, let me say that I'm no expert on air brakes and I can't tell you things like "rates of flow"...
It's a brand new boiler (built by some company in Washington, if I remember correctly). I'm not sure exactly why the old boiler wasn't used (age?...
The weeds and grass (including the pompous grass and probably the lupin) could be taken care via the "chain method" that you're describing (once...
If I remember correctly, that incident happened in the mid-1980s. The protesters where protesting "military shipments" to Central America (El...
I completely agree!! When you sit back and watch a lot of these "single industry" into "industrial (you-name-it)", they often start out gang...
I think that what we're seeing here is actually "excess power" being sold (?) off. The power is "excess" in the sense that it may have been used...
Probably. But to what extent it'll affect the Sierra may be anyone's guess. The Sierra also services the SPI mill at Chinese Camp... Over the...
From the Redding Record-Searchlight... Anderson-based SPI announces more mill closures By David Benda (Contact) Tuesday, March 24, 2009...
John, my guess is that those "stack covers" are really spark arrestors that have been applied to the standard EMD stacks...
Boxcab, you're definately excused and not a problem!! Sorry to hear you're not feeling well and I hope that everything is getting back to normal...
I've never seen anything in any of the sources (timetables, SSIs, etc.) that I have available to me that have had any sort of specific...
Dropping a car in this situation is legitimate as long as the RR in question hasn't "outlawed" the practice...If it were me, AND dropping a car...
You're talking about a "drop". Some RRs have outlawed it (by GO) but there's nothing in the GCOR (...or from the FRA, as far as I know...), that...
Plans are to repaint the 2008 (into the Sac Southern scheme) sometime in the future. It's unknown "at this time" as to when that may actually...