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PRR Training film
I found this to be some very interesting information...
Signals sent to the locomotive, and an early form of stopping a train if the engineer isn't paying close attention.
My apologies if this has been shared before.
Book suggestions
I would like to get your suggestions on railroad books. I am not looking for modeling books, but rather books about real railroads. I just finished "Railroads Across Northern America: An Illustrated History". It was ok, but rather shallow. What books have you enjoyed?
Thanks!
A brakeman on the Yosemite Valley Railrooad
Back in 1989, I interviewed Bob Lunoe who was a brakeman on the Yosemite Valley Railroad beginning in 1942 when has only 19 years old and decades later, still remembering “…every single day”. John Abatecola, who filmed and produced the YouTube video on my layout, has now put together a YouTube video using that interview and a lot of YV photos. It is at:
Santa Fe Central Valley Division 1978
Recently I saw a video on Youtube about the Santa Fe Central Valley Division in 1978. Can someone point me in the right direction where i would be able to find information on railroading in this area during that era and the present day?
Sugar Cane Train in Florida
Sugar cane is big business in Florida and US Sugar has a railroad to move the cane to mills. Danny Harmon shot a video of some of the operation entitled "Sugar Cane Train Chase Winter 2018".
Here is his caption and a link to the video:
Round house on the Great Northern Railway, Minot, N. D.
Great Northern Railway (Gassman Coulee Bridge), West of Minot, North Dakota.
for the winter, after having issues constructing a trestle across Gassman Coulee. At least until the trestle
was built, and Until the spring thaw arrived anyway. When trains arrived in town the conductors would call out
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