Intercity Passenger Rail

[pcosmar]

Who says I don't like EVs?

I wasn't positive but now this film confirms it, I rode behind some of them while still in service on NJ Transit.

It was watching Trains that finally Convinced me..

Diesel is just Generator,,all Motive Power is electric.

a more efficient Generator/Electrical system would not be a bad thing.

https://www.wattfuelcell.com/portabl...watt-imperium/

[acptulsa]

all Motive Power is electric.

Not yet, thank God.

[pcosmar]

Not yet, thank God.

I heard one once,,laying on a cell bunk.

Eire

Most freight is diesel electric these days.

[acptulsa]

Most freight...

Thank God for that one incorrigible nonconformist in Iowa.

[Anti Federalist]

This one slipped right past me.

Reading "Northern" #2102 was restored to full service this year.

You can see why the "Road of Anthracite" kept Phoebe's gowns so white.

[Anti Federalist]

Michael Palin of "Monty Python" fame is by far and away one of my favorite travel show hosts.

Here's an early 1980 show of his on trains.

Missed this one, just watched it.

[Anti Federalist]

Can't get any more "Small Town America" than this...

[Anti Federalist]

What in the $#@! did we do wrong?

(yes, I know...rhetorical...the answers are numerous and we know them all.)

They got the date wrong as well...this is around 1950 to 1955 I'd say.

[Anti Federalist]

Damn...what the hell are we doing wrong.

The Soviets ran better trains than Anthrax.

[Anti Federalist]

[acptulsa]

I must confess, there's one thing communism is good for. It can't move past obsolete technology until it has had plenty of time to come back in style.

[Anti Federalist]

I must confess, there's one thing communism is good for. It can't move past obsolete technology until it has had plenty of time to come back in style.

The Green Marxists keep pushing things, we may end up right back using these.

I hope Jay recovers fully, he is doing great work keeping all this stuff operating and preserved.