Recent content by Bob Collins

Did you ever find any laundry drying that suited you for your layout? I remember you were looking and I don't see any in a quick look at your gallery.

Greetings Good grief. I haven't been on here in almost a year and still one of the first names I recognize when I look in again is you. How have you been:thumb:

On my way home awhile ago I noticed the Iowa Interstate was using a pair of their 38-2's to plow snow from their mainline out of council Bluffs. We had quite a bit of drifting from this last storm and I imagine with the climb out of Council Bluffs they might have trouble without cleaning the tracks.

I think one of the really interesting views in the original posting is to see an oxen with cart patiently waiting to cross on one side and a water buffalo doing the same on the other side. Water buffalo as a general rule did not like Americans. I don't think they were indoctrinated, they just...

My post on rail traffic is almost 6 weeks old now. Things here in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area are pretty much back to normal. The UP and Iowa Interstate have found alternate routes where there are still bridge problems and I see lots of trains headed in every direction every day.

I was down near where the UPRR, BNSF and Iowa Interstate all are within sight and except what is moving west across into Omaha there just isn't much going on in any of the yards. The BNSF/KCS yard is basically empty!

That bridge is across the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids. You are correct. I believe they put 11 ballast cars on the bridge to attempt to stabilize it and the whole thing went into the river.

Read yesterday that all of the east/west and north/south mainlines of the UPRR are shut down due to the extensive flooding throughout the state. There are many, many bridges that have been washed out on the Iowa Interstate as well as several short lines. The article that I read also stated that...

I know a guy by the name of Dave Flinn, but I think he is a lot older than the one posting here :rolleyes::mrgreen::mrgreen:

I thought I was going to London the end of June for a function, but the airfare costs have become too prohibitive and I can't justify spending that kind of money. I would have had the opportunity to ride the Picidilly Line all the way from Heathrow to the other end of the line at Cockfoster!

David; As I recall, we also rode electrified from London outbound, but for whatever reason rode the local puddlejumper back to the big city. That is the one I recall being diesel. That was in 2000, so things may well have changed.

Graham; Do you know where Stellarton, N.S. is? I have a good Rotary friend who lives in that area.

The various elevations of the rails makes it look like there are actually three sets of tracks, a double main down the middle, with a single on each side. I'm trying to recall from several years ago riding some of the locals into London from Oxford or Cambridge that were the...

Quite a variety of equipment. Are we seeing local and long haul on the same right of way? Bob

In 20 years the Vietnamese will be trying to figure out how to get rid of the ugly slag heap they are creating next to the steel mill :cry::cry: