Re: Springtime Tuesday, 2021
Hi Bill, The shop buildings in the background are being used by the California State RR Museum for equipment storage and restoration work.? The CSRM has been able to get nearly all of its equipment
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Mike Tisdale
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Behind Amtrak¡¯s new locomotive designs
Behind Amtrak's new locomotive designs - Trains | | | | | | | | | | | Behind Amtrak's new locomotive designs - Trains WASHINGTON ¡ª ¡°If you¡¯re planning for a 50th anniversary, you¡¯ve got to
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Bill Hough
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Re: Springtime Tuesday, 2021
In the background are the SP Sacramento shops, which at one time was supposed to become an annex to the CSRM? Are there any updates to this? BH
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Bill Hough
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Iowa
Our Iowa photo has a corn field with farm buildings and a C&NW coal train. Greg Mross summed up the state pretty well in his photo. RailPictures.Net Photo: CNW 8501 Chicago & North Western Railroad GE
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Mike Tisdale
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Springtime Tuesday, 2021
A flowering tree, F59 and SC44 on Capitols at Sacramento, California today. 22 Mar 2021 Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Re: Yahoo Groups
Depends on how much you transfer and when you transferred. If you were an early adopter it was ¡°free¡±, but that didn¡¯t last long until this platform started charging to import group files and
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Jeff Moore
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Re: Yahoo Groups
Why does it take cash? ?I moved my Yahoo group at no cost other than a little time to transfer everything. Sheldon
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Sheldon Perry
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Re: Yahoo Groups
Sheldon?I?do?not?recall
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Gerard Kelley
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Re: Yahoo Groups
I respectfully disagree. ?Much of what was posted was great, including stories and personal accounts that will now be unobtainable. ?And moving it over wasn¡¯t all that hard either. ?I know, as I
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Sheldon Perry
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Re: Yahoo Groups
I still have a lot of old posts from the Yahoo group, but as Mike says, most of them are not worth preserving. That said, there were some real ¡°characters¡± in that group who don¡¯t seem to be
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Phil Burton
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Re: Yahoo Groups
Hi Sheldon, We looked at the possibility of moving the Yahoo Group Obs Car to Groups.io.? There was a tool that someone wrote that would have cost and then it would have entailed a fair bit of work
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Mike Tisdale
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Re: Yahoo Groups
Did anyone even archive the old ObsCar archives? If so, someone with extra time on their hands could pick the highlights for a "Best of" book.
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Bill Hough
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Indiana
Tyler Guthrie's photo at North Vernon is our Indiana photo. North Vernon is on the former B&O Cincinnati-St. Louis line, now owned by CSX. The signal, which the caption says dates to the days when PRR
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Mike Tisdale
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Re: Yahoo Groups
Was any effort made to move all the contents of the old Yahoo Observation Car to this new one? ?It was a great archive of posts. Sheldon Perry
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Sheldon Perry
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Intermodal Monday, 2015
March 21, 2015, Westbound intermodal train with UP 5702 at the Planehaven switch. Sacramento, California.? Planehaven is the junction for the rail lines serving McClellan AFB, now an industrial
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Mike Tisdale
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Illinois
This photo from Chicago, Illinois of Amtrak's City of New Orleans crossing the Chicago River on the St. Charles Air Line at the blue hour struck my fancy when I saw it on Railpictures recently and I
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Mike Tisdale
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F59 Friday 2016
March 19, 2016 Capitol train 733 behind F59 2009 at Davis, California Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Idaho
Today's Idaho photo is from the camera of Steve Ellis. I don't recall seeing a shot of this bridge and what appears to be a long abandoned mill at American Falls, but it was on that jumped off the
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Mike Tisdale
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Oregon SD9 Thursday
March 17, 2017, Lebanon, Oregon, ex-SP SD9 5399 on Albany and Eastern excursion.? This was the day before Winterail Mike Tisdael
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Mike Tisdale
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Hawaii
Hawaii no longer has regular railroads, but a couple of tourist lines use the rights of way of older lines. The Hawaiian Railway uses a few miles of the Oahu Railway west of Pearl Harbor. The Oahu Ry.
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Mike Tisdale
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