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- June 11th, 2014, 11:38 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line / Central Corridor construction thread (archive)
- Replies: 1597
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Re: Green Line (Central Corridor LRT)
How many of us will be riding and taking pictures like tourists all day Saturday and Sunday? I'll be out to get a few shots of the "first trains," but, unless the forecast greatly improves (as in sunny instead of cloudy) will probably leave documenting the early days of operation to when ...
- April 29th, 2014, 8:21 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line / Central Corridor construction thread (archive)
- Replies: 1597
- Views: 355171
Re: Green Line (Central Corridor LRT)
Only 3 of the 5 feature blue line trains; not too shabby!
That's what they get for farming out perpetual rights through a contest instead of hiring a professional.
That's what they get for farming out perpetual rights through a contest instead of hiring a professional.
- April 19th, 2014, 11:20 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Saint Paul Union Depot
- Replies: 374
- Views: 79192
Re: Saint Paul Union Depot
Brought my 2 and 3.5 year olds to the new Railfan Park at SPUD today; we'll be making many, many more trips there I suspect. It looks like they might have a webcam mounted on a pole there (in addition to a security camera); anyone happen to know if it's live online somewhere now?
- February 27th, 2014, 8:33 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line / Central Corridor construction thread (archive)
- Replies: 1597
- Views: 355171
Re: Green Line (Central Corridor LRT)
Yeah; their snow fighting plan is to simply run so many trains when it's snowing that it doesn't have a chance to accumulate; obviously wasn't possible to be doing that when the last storm came through. My wife got me a copy of "Twin Cities by Trolley" yesterday; TCRT actually had dedicate...
- November 4th, 2013, 1:07 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Saint Paul Union Depot
- Replies: 374
- Views: 79192
Re: Saint Paul Union Depot
I'd guess 4-5 trains / hour, give or take. The frequency is really variable though.I know I've seen elsewhere that this stretch of track is pretty busy. How does that translate into frequency? As in, how many minutes between trains?
- November 1st, 2013, 8:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Saint Paul Union Depot
- Replies: 374
- Views: 79192
Re: Saint Paul Union Depot
Getting back on topic, Trains Magazine ran a story this week (paywalled) on a new railfan park being built on the edge of SPUD's property; here's a photo of it from earlier today: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3712/10616008375_7434281a68_z.jpg Looks like a great addition, especially for families wit...
- October 26th, 2013, 8:10 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Saint Paul Union Depot
- Replies: 374
- Views: 79192
Re: Saint Paul Union Depot
Apparently Amtrak still offers some express freight service: http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=Page&pagename=am%2FLayout&cid=1241267371736 Here's a post from the Yahoo! Empire Builder group: In the late 90's-early 2000's Mail was handled CHI-MSP in express boxes and then trucked ...
- October 26th, 2013, 12:22 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Saint Paul Union Depot
- Replies: 374
- Views: 79192
Re: Saint Paul Union Depot
Are there rules preventing freight companies from adding passenger cars to their trains, or vice versa amtrak adding more freight cars? Airlines often add cargo to passenger flights, so why don't railroads? Amtrak trains hauled freight through the mid-2000's; lots of speculation online in other for...
- October 18th, 2013, 1:51 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Saint Paul Union Depot
- Replies: 374
- Views: 79192
Re: Saint Paul Union Depot
Here's a shot that helps to show how one set of tracks was shifted slightly, apparently to help with switch alignment. Also note the old "searchlight"-style signals. I believe this type of signal historically worked with a single bulb in back and a set of color filters which would rotate ...
- October 10th, 2013, 8:40 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Type II LRVs - Siemens S70
- Replies: 153
- Views: 31738
Re: Type II LRVs - Siemens S70
I got a photo of 229 undergoing a testing/qualification run today; assuming they're arriving in numerical order, there are now more Siemens cars than Bombardier cars, which is an interesting landmark of sorts. It was also noteworthy in how long I had to stand around and wait to get a photo of a soli...
- July 26th, 2013, 10:46 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line / Central Corridor construction thread (archive)
- Replies: 1597
- Views: 355171
Re: Green Line (Central)
FISHMANPET, thank you, thank you! The vast majority of my recent work is with an old-timey Canon 40D and a 10-22 ultrawide lens, although last night I borrowed my buddy's 60D so I'd have some more ISO to play with.
- July 26th, 2013, 10:40 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line / Central Corridor construction thread (archive)
- Replies: 1597
- Views: 355171
Re: Green Line (Central)
A couple more, for good measure... http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3826/9372199582_e637668a4b_z.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3722/9372199454_0d4a6d3f13_z.jpg It'll be interesting to see if there's a preference for the Siemens vs Bombardier cars on one line over the other. If you're into transit t...
- July 26th, 2013, 2:32 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line / Central Corridor construction thread (archive)
- Replies: 1597
- Views: 355171
Re: Green Line (Central)
... hopefully that worked, if not, just head over to http://www.flickr.com/photos/ottergoose/
It was nice meeting some of you out there last night; time for bed!
- June 4th, 2013, 2:59 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Minnesota Zoo Monorail to Close
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1368
Minnesota Zoo Monorail to Close
The Pioneer Press reports the MN Zoo Monorail is to be dismantled in the fall. In the fall, the zoo will dismantle the monorail that has carried riders around the grounds since 1979. Ehmke said the monorail is outdated and will cost too much to repair. Riders' interest also has declined. Transit gee...
- January 15th, 2013, 7:49 pm
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
- Replies: 385
- Views: 124199
Re: Forum Issues
I suspect logging into phpMyAdmin and optimizing the database would help. The vast majority of resources that you'd have to worry about here are going to be the interactions with the database. I'm a web developer but have very limited experience with the admin side of this platform; I am comfortable...
- January 6th, 2013, 8:52 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Monorail
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9585
Re: Why not Monorail? and transit / Elephant accidents.
Ski-Doo has a form of rail-based transit available in the Twin Cities?
- January 5th, 2013, 10:56 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Monorail
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9585
Re: Why not Monorail? and transit / Elephant accidents.
In other amusing transit trivia, Bombardier owns the rights to the monorail technology that's in use at the MN Zoo in Apple Valley, so, a transit fan could conceivably experience three different modes of Bombardier rail transportation here, if they so desired.
- January 5th, 2013, 10:53 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Monorail
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9585
Re: Why not Monorail? and transit / Elephant accidents.
One of my friends on Facebook stumbled across this gem to tonight - turns out we already had a monorail company in the Twin Cities... Enos Electric Railway Company of St. Paul: The railroad was incorporated under Minnesota law in 1888, had capital stock of $2,000,000, and had its principal place of ...
- December 4th, 2012, 12:12 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Southern Rail Corridor (Rochester bypass)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3131
Re: Southern Rail Corridor (Rochester bypass)
All of the slides that mention coal trains from the PRB were already out of date; but, now that Canadian Pacific has announced their plans to sell off the DM&E west of Tracy, MN, there's absolutely no risk of coal trains rolling through Rochester in the foreseeable future.
- December 3rd, 2012, 9:47 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: CP Ford Spur to Highland Park
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3556
Re: CP Ford Spur to Highland Park
CP's using the old Ford plant as a storage and training (as in "learning") yard.
Johnson Brothers, a beverage distributor, is the only remaining customer on the line.
Johnson Brothers, a beverage distributor, is the only remaining customer on the line.