hi Bernie,
I agree with Gordon,
it soo nice to see things like that in person,
Nice photos Bernie,
best wishes,
byron

Collin County Sheriff's Office McKinney, Texas Facebook posting 2018-09-22 11:26 AM CDT

Train derailment at Cr 558 and Cr 605 in Farmersville last night. We ask that you seek alternate routes to avoid this area as clean up is underway.
(Tracks got washed out due to heavy rain fall):

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Saturday September 22nd, 2018 :: 01:15 a.m. CDT
Train Derailment CR 558 @ CR 605- Correction
CORRECTION: This is Kansas City Southern Railroad....NOT Sante Fe railroad

On 09/21/2018 at 11:31 p.m. Emergency Responder's were dispatched to CR 558 @ CR 605 regarding a train derailment. Upon arrival, crews discovered 11 cars derailed. It appears a low lying railway bridge may have been compromised due to heavy rain and flooding waters.

There have been no reported injuries. Upon inspection, there is no evidence of any haz-mat release from the train cars. The area around the crash site will be closed until further notice.

KSC Rail Road response team and management are on scene mitigating the incident presently. We encourage the public to stay away from the area.

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NYT - Grimy, Glorious, Gone. The Divergent Paths of 7 Train Stations

Thanks for that. An interesting read.

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Grant
Darwin NT

NYT - Grimy, Glorious, Gone. The Divergent Paths of 7 Train Stations

Thanks for that. An interesting read.

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NYT - Grimy, Glorious, Gone. The Divergent Paths of 7 Train Stations

Thanks for that. An interesting read.

+1

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Another interesting read (would takes weeks, maybe months, to go through it all I suspect).

Google Arts & Culture- India's railways.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Another interesting read (would takes weeks, maybe months, to go through it all I suspect).

Google Arts & Culture- India's railways.

Spent a very pleasant hour or so going through this. Thanks, nice stuff!

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Remember the new trains which couldn't run in the North of England? Well, they can't run to the West, either.

Paddington station: Passengers face major disruption

Network Rail said the disruption was caused by "500m of extensive damage caused to overhead power lines in the Hanwell area yesterday evening".

The cable damage was caused by a class 802 Hitachi train which was being tested between London and Bristol.

Oh dear.

The cable damage was caused by a class 802 Hitachi train which was being tested between London and Bristol.

Oh dear.

Oops...

A Hitachi spokesperson said that "after years of successful testing on the route" it was holding "a full and thorough investigation" to identify the cause of the damage.

Funny that as the 802's only started being built In 2017.

Not to mention that the Paddington route is the latest / last mainline rail route into London to be electrified (and it's still unfinished). You'd have thought that they would have worked out how to do it by now.

The 802 is a derivative of the "Javelin" which has been in service for a few years on HS1, but even so, to talk about "years" testing on the route is a bit of an exaggeration.
I bet it's going to hurt someone's back pocket quite substantially by the time all the penalty charges are sorted out - I wouldn't want to be sitting in the offices of Hitachi Rail, Network Rail Infrastructure, the OLE installers, or any of their collective insurers just now as the bill will be well into six if not seven zeros.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Not to mention that the Paddington route is the latest / last mainline rail route into London to be electrified (and it's still unfinished). You'd have thought that they would have worked out how to do it by now.

They did. :-)

The Class 802s are broadly identical to the Class 800 bi-mode trains used in the Intercity Express Programme, and are used in a similar way; they run as electric trains where possible, and are equipped with the same diesel generator engines as the Class 800. However, they utilise higher engine operating power – 700 kW (940 hp) per engine as opposed to 560 kW (750 hp) – and are fitted with larger fuel tanks to cope with the gradients and extended running in diesel mode expected on the long unelectrified stretches they will operate on.

By 'know how to do it', I was meaning putting up overhead wires that were robust enough to stand up to the English climate, and make connections with the passing trains that didn't tear the house down.

Britain was slow to electrify (by comparison with our continental European neighbours), but I remember being at boarding school in Cheshire from 1960, arriving at almost exactly the same time as the first stretch from Crewe to Manchester was electrified. We were close enough to see the flashes from the electric sparks light up the night sky.

Lessons learned from day one: start at the far end of the line, so mistakes don't shut down the busiest bit!

boss, the regulars were having issues, so we ... just like it says to do in what should be outdated standard ... ;-)

Here's one of Thomas's weird cousins.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Britain's rail ticket-booking systems crashes

Updated Train companies across the UK are unable to take online ticket bookings due to what has been described as a "national issue" with the country's reservation service.

The outage – which appears to have affected all UK train operating companies (TOCs) today – means that users can't book tickets on websites or on mobile apps.

The issues began at about 1030 this morning, according to users who took to Twitter to raise their grievances with the various providers.

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... Also not heard from David for 4 months, I hope he is OK and it is just his job keeping him away...

Wondering if anyone found out what the deal was? Afaik, it was Feb when he went awol?

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... Also not heard from David for 4 months, I hope he is OK and it is just his job keeping him away...

Wondering if anyone found out what the deal was? Afaik, it was Feb when he went awol?

David's last post here on main was 26 Feb 2018. His PC main is still sending / receiving results.

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