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Re: New Orleans Tuesday, 1977
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýMike, ? Maybe it¡¯s me, but I don¡¯t see any cars behind the baggage car.? Big ooops if I¡¯m mis-reading the picture. ? Phil Burton ? ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Tisdale via groups.io
Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 10:59 PM To: [email protected]; Richard Greenwood <steam.richard@...>; Grahame McDonald <grahame_robert_mcdon@...> Subject: [ObservationCar] New Orleans Tuesday, 1977 ? New Orleans, Panama Ltd. leaving for Chicago 16 June 1977. I'd arrived on the Panama earlier that day from Chicago. P30CH 724 leading. The train was all Amfleet other than the baggage car. ? ? ? Mike Tisdale |
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Turkmenistan
From Turkey we go north east to Turkmenistan, another of the central Asian "stans" that became independent countries with the breakup of the USSR. World Railways has some news of the country's lines, including a recently completed connection to Afghanistan that might eventually be pushed on to Tajikistan. The country also has a monorail, but as part of the Olympic complex a few years ago and the World Railways page photo of the monorail is today's photo. Mike Tisdale |
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Re: Trains in the Snow for Monday, 2021
Yes, in some cases, locomotives run through as pool power, so a train might run from Enola Yard in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Los Angeles without changing power.? In other cases, if a railroad has more units than it needs at the moment and another railroad is a bit short, units might be leased.? I think the KCS unit is on lease right now, from what I've heard.? UP has hundreds of stored locomotives, but might find it cheaper and easier to lease power than get some older units running. Mike Tisdale
On Monday, March 1, 2021, 02:23:09 AM PST, <steam.richard@...> wrote:
I've seen these gaudily painted KCS units when watching the live camera at Fort Madison. Also the occasional NS loco as well. They get about a bit. I suppose there is some computer somewhere reckoning who owes who in mileage terms. |
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Re: Turkey
Turkish steam was awesome 40 years ago. See Talbot's Steam in Turkey. BH
On Sunday, February 28, 2021, 10:21:55 AM PST, Mike Tisdale via groups.io <tisdalem2001@...> wrote:
Turkey has been expanding its rail network in recent? years with a trail tunnel under the Bosporus in Istanbul and new international rail links.?? ? ? has some details, as well as a photo of one of the country's high speed trains. Axel Bozier's photo of a Kriegslok on an excursion shows another aspect of Turkish railroading, which attracted fans to the country through the 1980s for regular service steam and still brings people for chartered excursions.?? Mike Tisdale |
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Turkey
Turkey has been expanding its rail network in recent? years with a trail tunnel under the Bosporus in Istanbul and new international rail links.?? ? ? has some details, as well as a photo of one of the country's high speed trains. Axel Bozier's photo of a Kriegslok on an excursion shows another aspect of Turkish railroading, which attracted fans to the country through the 1980s for regular service steam and still brings people for chartered excursions.?? Mike Tisdale |
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Re: Auburn Capitol Sunday, 2007
Photo from 12 May 2007
On Saturday, February 27, 2021, 10:59:53 PM PST, Mike Tisdale <tisdalem2001@...> wrote:
P32 #2051 leads Capitol Corridor train 729 across the Auburn Ravine trestle in Auburn, California.? The train has just left its terminal at Auburn and is en route to Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Mike Tisdale |
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Togo
The west African country of Togo had a meter gauge rail system that mostly closed in 1999. Now new lines are being built including a link to Ghana, shown in the photo from It appears that Indian YDM4s are finding new lives on several African railways as the Indian meter gauge network shrinks and they become redundant in India. Mike Tisdale |
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Thailand
Thailand's railways are mostly meter gauge, but there is some standard gauge and plans for more. More information and a photo of the Brige on the River Kwai may be found at http://www.sinfin.net/railways/world/thailand.html Part of the standard gauge is the Bangkok Metro, where Napat Kuhapunya got this spectacular view of a train on a bridge. Mike Tisdale |
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