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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Back from Portugal with a belly full of wine |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 12:18 pm |
| Tags: Virtual Tasting, Events, Portugal, Blog, Planes, Automobile, Adventure, Traveling, The, Cork, Forests, Implored, Communicate, Portugal, Trains, Start, Clarifyinig, Something, Starting, Catavino Net, Walked, Line, House, Terrassa, Week Four, Short, Days |
| of Portugal, followed by trains, planes and automobile adventures back to our house in Terrassa. Over the course of the past four days, we’ve tasted wines, met with people and seen things that we’ve never have had the opportunity to do/see before. And in the end, we walked away with one very important message from Portugal, |
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| Trains: Caltrain GPS Project Tracks, Locates Late Trains |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 4:40 pm |
| Tags: 511 Org, Bay Area, Caltrain, Gps, Trains |
| functionality for their trains. Caltrain, the SF Bay Area's commuter train, will then use the "Real Time Train Predictive Arrival GPS System" in nine train stops, allowing users to monitor the train's location/arrival via the website 511.org, and time their jog down to the train accordingly. [MercuryNews] |
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| Caboose Color for WP668 |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 7:56 pm |
| Tags: Caboose Project Other Trains |
| John is done welding the new caboose landing and place-to-anchor the new stairs and he has the wood for WP668's new landing mostly cut, primed, and drilled for bolts. We have been discussing what color to paint the caboose. The first color John tried on the new wood was on the orange-ish end of brown and would have made WP668 look like a |
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| Caboose Painting Next Week |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 5:16 pm |
| Tags: Caboose Project Other Trains |
| We are scheduled to start the final phase of exterior paint stripping and painting of WP668 next week. Avi Lenchner, who has painted two houses for us, of Avi Decorative Painting, 650-329-0770, Menlo Park, CA, has us on his schedule! Also, Tanya Jankot found a 2007-2008 Catalog of Classes for The Crucible (A nonprofit collaboration of Arts, |
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| Stalin’s Lost Railway |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 6:56 am |
| Tags: History, Photos, Technology, Abandoned, Railroad, Soviet Era, Trains |
| We’ve had recently an abandoned railway in Abkhazia, abandoned as a result of USSR collapse when new “independent” republics couldn’t maintain the complicated and high-cost USSR legacy objects. But this one was abandoned long before the USSR collapse, it was doomed to be abandoned from the beginning. It was built by a |
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| Soviet Jet Train. Some More History. |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 1:44 pm |
| Tags: Science, History, Photos, Technology, Jet Planes, Jet Train, Russian Trains, Trains |
| In our recent publications we’ve told once about the strange Soviet projects of terrestrial and water vehicles (a train and a ship) with jet engines. If you are looking for more, here are some additional facts about the train. (more…) |
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| Smoke Gets In Your Trains Dept.: Entire Metro System On Fire |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 10:29 am |
| Tags: Metro, Mysteries, Smoke Gets In Your Trains Dept, Terror, Transit, Washington Dc |
| into tunnels and seven trains losing power. Metro officials are bewildered and not even pretending to know what’s going on. Is it terrorism? Is it sabotage? All they’ll tell us is that we must all panic. “This is not normal,” Metro General Manager John B. Catoe Jr. said. “This is highly, highly |
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| Party in a Metro Train |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 11:36 am |
| Tags: Photos, Moscow Subway, Russian Art, Trains |
| Where do they carry this plastic tables? Can you guess? They going to have a party to commemorate a memory of one Russian poet Prigov which passed away not long ago, and they want to do it in a really extraordinary way - in the subway train. See more: (more…) |
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| Notes on America |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 3:53 am |
| Tags: Spleen, Amtrak, Gunnings, Jamestown, National Museum Of The American Indian, Steamed Crabs, Trains, Us Holocaust Memorial, Williamsburg |
| needs to spend more money on trains. My wife and i could have visited more places between Richmond and Orlando, if not for the crazy way the trains run in the Southeast. I wanted to visit Cowpens Battlefield in South Carolina, but the train would have had to return to DC just head southward again. The food was marginal, and the service was lousy. |
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| Train Wreckage Between Moscow and St. Petersburg |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 9:41 am |
| Tags: Society, Photos, Crash, Disaster, Moscow, St Petersburg, Trains |
| A few days ago a train crashed between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Some say there was an explosion of some kind of a mine on the rails. Luckily there were no victims. (more…) |
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| Liberal Democrats Launch Public Transport Initiative |
| Published: July 7, 2007, 10:40 am |
| Tags: News, British Rail, Charles Kennedy, Charlie Kennedy, Comedy, Fake News, Funny, Humor, Humour, Politics, Public Transport, Satire, Satirical, Satirical Website, Smoking Ban, Tobacco, Trains, Uk Politics |
| british rail, charles kennedy, charlie kennedy, comedy, fake news, funny, humor, humour, politics, public transport, satire, satirical, satirical website, smoking ban, tobacco, trains, uk politics |
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| Yellow Trim on Caboose |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 1:57 am |
| Tags: Caboose Project Other Trains |
| We painted the yellow trim on WP668 last weekend. The handrails and grip bars at either end of our 1916 backyard caboose will be classic mustard yellow. Painting bright yellow over rust brown takes lots of blue masking tape and several coats but the results are worthwhile. We will paint at least one more yellow coat on each end next |
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| Teens pull woman from tracks seconds before train destroys her car |
| Published: September 10, 2007, 11:30 am |
| Tags: Safety, Teenager, Teens, Thomas Foust, Thomasfoust, Trains |
| Filed under: Teenager, Making a Difference Thomas Foust is one brave kid. When he saw the driver in front of him turn onto the train tracks (apparently confusing them for a street), he knew he had to act quickly. Despite the fact that he and his friends had seen the lights of an oncoming train, they bolted out of their car and began pounding on |
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| Abandoned Soviet Trains In Belarus |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 3:27 pm |
| Tags: History, Photos, Technology, Abandoned, Railroad, Soviet Era, Trains |
| We’ve already posted the pictures of abandoned trains of Soviet Era in Abkhazia and Northern Siberian lands of Russia. Here are some new shots of such a place in Brest (Belarus). (more…) |
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| Rail Photography Day - Portola, CA |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 7:58 pm |
| Tags: Caboose Project Other Trains |
| freight and passenger trains on our track for the benefit of photographers. This is a great opportunity to view and photograph many of the new items which the museum has acquired over the last few years. The museum roster currently includes over 40 locomotives and over 100 cabooses, freight and passenger cars. John and I are trying to |
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