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Interesting story at http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4098295-finding-694-106-years-after-tragic-crash-locomotive-located-lake-superior about finding an old Canadian Pacific locomotive that crashed into a rockslide and fell off a cliff into Lake Superior in June 1910. It was in the northeast ar...

Interesting story from http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/police-train-car-derails-iowa-hits-bar-called-41233609 about a covered hopper derailing into a drinking establishment named DeRailed. This apparently happened on 8/9/16. Police say a freight train car that derailed in northern Iowa rolled ...

Article at http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/07/07/public-transit-noreaster-lands-in-the-city-of-brotherly-love/ : Making the Trains Run On Time Public Transit Nor’easter Lands in City of Brotherly Love With the Washington Metro, NYC Transit, and Boston’s T all plagued by delays, equipment f...

I too am old enough to have been privileged to have seen Gordie Howe play live at Olympia Stadium. If you ever met him in person, the most remarkable thing about him were his "popeye" forearms--they were huge! He was especially good at controlling the puck in the corners of the rink. He would stick-...

From an article at http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/freight/class-i/total-us-weekly-rail-traffic-down-173-for-week-ending-june-4.html?channel=50 : For the week ending June 4, 2016, AAR reports total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 455,346 carloads and intermodal units, down 17.3% compared with the s...

From an article at h[url]ttp://fortune.com/2016/05/22/energy-storing-train-nevada/[/url]: In April, the Nevada Bureau of Land Management granted environmental approval and a land lease to Advanced Rail Energy Storage (ARES), a startup with an energy storage solution that’s both novel and old-school....

From http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2016/05/15/man-killed-detroit-people-mover/84429806/ : Police are trying to unravel how a man died late Sunday on the People Mover tracks. “We’re still trying to determine whether or not this was accidental or if there was foul play,” Sgt...

Story from http://www.computerworld.com/article/3065243/internet-of-things/kansas-city-gets-smart-new-streetcar-line-opens-amid-free-public-wi-fi-zone.html : Kansas City gets 'smart': New streetcar line opens amid free public Wi-Fi zone By Matt Hamblen Many smart city proponents speak in vast genera...

From http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2016/04/29/half-mile-addition-dequindre-cut-greenway-debuts/83723290/ : Half-mile addition of Dequindre Cut Greenway debuts Louis Aguilar, The Detroit News 6:18 p.m. EDT April 29, 2016 A smooth new half-mile addition to the Dequindre Cut ...

An article at http://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/ ... /83230926/ mentions some folks who are trying to save the 1871 Milford railroad depot from demolition.

Garry K

Interesting article at http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/rome-metro-eternally-delayed/news-story/66442f7582493c0d229289aa680e4bfe?nk=fe9bb801bdf40f9b3be76161760ea5a5-1461711906 about how a commuter railroad in Rome, Italy just can't seem to get going, regardless of how long they've ha...

If auto racing was run like a railroad... At the start of the race the cars would set at the end of pit road for an hour waiting permission to enter the track. There would still be cars in the pit waiting for a rested driver when the race ended. The rest of the cars would be setting on the track wa...

From an article at http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/274740-dc-metro-may-shut-down-entire-rail-lines-for-months : DC Metro may shut down entire rail lines for months By Melanie Zanona - 03/30/16 05:53 PM EDT Entire rail lines in Washington's Metrorail subway system could be shut down for mont...

Interesting article at http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/transportation/mass-transit/whats-frying-the-electrical-systems-on-bart-trains about electrical components getting fried on BART trains in the San Francisco Bay Area. As one person quoted in that story said: “Our system was built t...

I don't know when the video was made, but check it out at http://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/201 ... iddle.html. Cool!

It's even better that they left the natural sounds in and didn't spoil the video by dubbing in music. :-)

Garry K

Seeing as I'm an old electronics technician, my first thought when the space shuttle blew up was that some technician probably found some problem, but was overruled when they suggested holding the launch until the problem was corrected. And that's basically exactly what happened, what with some O-ri...

This appears to be from Russia.

http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com ... mmers.html

Kids! Don't try this at home! (And don't even try it on or near the tracks!)

Garry K

Buster beat me to it. Huron Parkway in Ann Arbor, crossing over Amtrak and the Huron River.

Garry K

I always liked Steve Goodman's tune "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request." Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xBxZGQ1dJk.

In the late 1990s I also liked singing "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over"! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_3wJuLIdk.

Garry K

Hey, folks, Rails on Wheels has their annual train show on Sunday, November 29 (2015) at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Saline. More info and a map at http://railsonwheels.com/#trainshow . $4 gets you in from 10am to 4pm, or you earlybirds can pay $10 to get in at 8am. Kids 11 or younger are ...