3 Railroads and a Switching Company Spotted This Morning in Decatur IL reddit.com/gallery/rbey0g
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Abandon railroad tracks that were used to haul dynamite for the DuPont Chemical Company, when it was operating the tracks would continue on to a pier where the dynamite would be loaded on to a ship.
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An 1876 engraving of the Wason Manufacturing Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1845, Wason produced the first purpose-built sleeper cars and supplied railroad companies nationally and globally with premier rail cars.
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I am looking for railroad companies

I am looking for railroad company that I can take a closer look at. Any ideas? Also gladly outside North America :)

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Glenbrook at the engine house of the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company Railroad at Tahoe City.
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Nobody in Belgium sells Irn Bru, nobody in Belgium knows Irn Bru. That doesn't stop the Belgian railroad company from using an Irn Bru can for its recycling campaign!
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Texas Central now has a date with the Texas Supreme Court regarding its status as a railroad company rtands.com/passenger/texa…
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Reminded me of that short film from the railroad company. v.redd.it/e1fa0yfluez71
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Private Label Trade Names on American Pocket Watches: The Non-Magnetic Watch Company: Part 25: The Railroad Market blog.pocketwatchdatabase.…
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A few photos of Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad 2-6-2 No. 25, built in 1925 by the American Locomotive Company for the McCould River Railroad. These photos are from 2017. reddit.com/gallery/rd5ojg
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Meanwhile at the railroad company: You hit a what?!

https://preview.redd.it/14qn8cpspfv71.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad2854d5fd6b58bbdc54a3b95076b47c6fba351a

https://preview.redd.it/l2cvdgrspfv71.jpg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74d4cc476e081d86f610d6c3fade31dafd36fba5

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My company just opened their new office in Nashville’s Gulch, right on the CSX yard. Also pictured is the historic Union Station, once home to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN). Looking forward to the railfanning ahead!
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This is something I've had in my closet for years and never opened until yesterday. It's a 1956-1966 Economics College book. For ex, it shows how $2.5 million investment lands you control over $1.2 billion of railroads. The Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890 is what gave rise to holding companies.

I dont feel like typing too much today but even feeling like shit I thought this book was way too fucking accurate to not show you. I can post plenty more. I can share photos of the book index.. just request in the comments.

Back in high school, I had a peculiar World History teacher. He said he was a Russian translator for the US Military, and while active in the field, always had 3 personnel instructed to execute him if ever captured. He literally told us about the World Trade center being a major target...2 days before it happened 9/11. I think I came in contact with someone who knew vastly more than I could ever imagine at that time in my life. Why do I think this matters to share? Because he's the guy who taught me that the stock market before October 24th, 1929, that stocks were used as collateral to buy more stocks.

The fraud has always been the same. My textbook here is important because it's essentially one of the last educational publications before Kennedy was killed. We all know Kennedy was absolutely disgusted with the Clown Intelligence Agencies and the Federal Reserve Banking system... They work together. This book, having read very little so far, shines a lot of light on financial systems that we would never find these days searching the internet. By now, with 108 years under their belt, the Fed most certainly has its way with how finances are taught in colleges across the world. They most certainly wouldn't allow you to know how they play the game against you.

https://preview.redd.it/9yd6rysgznw71.jpg?width=503&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7643c359a8f7007e0944971a55a2966c11a022c

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As soon as you open the book you get this graph from 1900-1960 and the great depression is odd. It seems the graph continues to grow tremendously and the depression was a hiccup only. But also I wonder, does this graph moving up mean that money was printed, inflating the supply, secretly making everyone poorer. Counterfeiting is the same no matter where these banks do it.. the stock market, bonds market, printing fiat currency so you can buy more of their counterfeit shares? It's always been doomed to fail, because you're fake currency eventually becomes worthless.

https://preview.redd.it/5gpcmysgznw71.jpg?width=926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50355507091f87d8ea7400723e5f646a67c5c362

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I am a former railroad employee with anti-fascist and pro-environment views. If you want to stop oil trains, please take your fight to the railroad company's corporate headquarters. Don't attack trains or track. You will only kill train engineers. Corporate decides what we haul, not the engineer.

tl;Dr: If you want to stop oil trains, please take your fight to the railroad company's corporate headquarters. Don't attack trains or track. You will only kill train engineers. Corporate decides what we haul, not the engineer.

Rail blockades like what the First Nations of Canada did or divestment campaigns can get across the same message without risking an oil spill.

Also consider that by sabotaging trains you are hurting the train crew who have almost know choice at all in what they haul.

I used to work for a railroad, and I can tell you this from personal experience. Most train crews just drive any freight or passenger train over an assigned section of track. One day it is oil. The next day it is food. The day after that it is a passenger train.

Unless you know the schedule, you are just as likely to God forbid sabotage a train full of food or even a passenger train. Moreover, you can have multiple trains running on the same track on a given day. Just because you sabotage or derail an oil train doesn't mean there isn't a passenger train on the same track behind it that could run into the back of the train you disabled and kill a bunch of people. The radios on trains are notoriously unreliable especially in rural areas. Cellphones don't work well either. Even if you derail or disabled a train without hurting the engineer, doesn't mean he will be able to warn the train behind him to stop. We have had trains run into the back of a stalled train because the radios didn't work.

Rather than hurt the train crew, hurt the corporate office that signs contracts to haul the oil in the first place. The train crew are just ordinary people who don't get a say in what they haul.

Sabotaging the track or the train only puts the train crew in danger. If you block the tracks, a fully loaded train takes 1 mile to stop!

See this video

https://youtu.be/szaQ3hXvzfw

Friends of mine have PTSD from hitting cars on railroad tracks. By the time we can see there is something blocking the tracks, we can't do a damn thing. We will hit it, and you risk killing yourself or the train crew.

Here is a video of what the train crew sees during an accident.

https://youtu.be/jXCTAreCQSU

We are so high up, we cannot see things like barriers, people, or stalled cars until it is too late. Train engineer friends of mine after hitting people have developed PTSD, become alcoholics, and committed suicide. Working on a railroad is incredibly dangerous.

It is the ni

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Texas Gulf Sulphur Company workers adjusting railroad tracks by Robert Yarnall Richie around 1939
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β€œThe Central of Georgia Railroad and Canal Company was chartered in 1833. By 1843, it was the longest continuous railroad under one central management in the world. The Central reached its peak in the early 1920s and was the largest employer in Savannah.” reddit.com/gallery/qiprk2
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Perpignan a Padres railroad company bond certificate 1867 πŸ‡«πŸ‡·
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"300 Days of Sunshine in Colorado" is a myth created by railroad companies in 1870 to trap tourists denverpost.com/2021/08/21…
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The Columbia and Nehalem Valley Railroad, a logging railroad for the Peninsular Lumber Company of Portland in Oregon, 1906
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πŸ“…︎ Sep 22 2021
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I think we found the reason other railroad companies have such trouble competing.
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πŸ“…︎ Oct 13 2021
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An 1876 engraving of the Wason Manufacturing Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1845, Wason produced the first purpose-built sleeper cars and supplied railroad companies nationally and globally with premier rail cars.
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πŸ“…︎ Dec 15 2021
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1905 McKeen Railmotor - The McKeen Motor Car Company of Omaha Nebraska, wad a builder of internal combustion-engined railroad motor cars (rail cars ), constructing 152 between 1905-17 .
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πŸ“…︎ Oct 19 2021
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Cabbage-stacked narrow gauge steam locomotives of the Argent Lumber Company meet at Bear Creek.#5, on the left, was a 1910 Lima 2-6-2, while No. 2, on the right, was a 1906 Baldwin 2-6-0. Argent Lumber Company was the only interstate narrow gauge logging railroad in the US and ran into the late '50s
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πŸ“…︎ Oct 15 2021
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One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin - Bob Dylan's Whiskey Company Unveils Two Limited-Edition Releases for Fall rollingstone.com/product-…
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πŸ“…︎ Oct 17 2021
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A children’s train ride at Grosvenor Park, Chester, UK branded in Union Pacific, which is an American railroad company.
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πŸ“…︎ Oct 03 2021
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Disneyland railroad supply company?
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Map Showing Property of Railroads in the Business Center of Chicago. By the Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company, 1898.
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πŸ“…︎ Oct 22 2021
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TIL That the Reading Company, immortalized as a space on the Monopoly Board Game, sold off all of it's railroad assets in the 1970s and now operates movie theaters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rea…
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Railroad companies hate him
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Does anybody know if these discarded railroad spikes are considered property of the railroad company?
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The Columbia and Nehalem Valley Railroad, a logging railroad for the Peninsular Lumber Company of Portland in Oregon, 1906
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πŸ“…︎ Sep 22 2021
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Map of the Mexican Central Railroad lines and connections. By the Mexican Central Railway Company, 1884.
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Map Showing Property of Railroads in the Business Center of Chicago. By the Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company, 1898.
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An Obstacle to Amtrak Expansion That Money Won’t Solve β€” Amtrak and freight rail companies have long clashed over the use of railroad tracks, a dispute that is now playing out along the Gulf Coast, where the agency is seeking to restore service. nytimes.com/2021/08/06/us…
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πŸ“…︎ Aug 06 2021
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Our national railroad company. "You know the rules. Red light green light" .
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A new merger of railroad companies could be a boon for the Port of Milwaukee urbanmilwaukee.com/2021/0…
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37057. English Electric/Vulcan Fountry works no. 3049/D7111, 1962. New as D6757 to 51L (Thornaby). In service, Harry Needle Railroad Company, Barrow Hill Roundhouse. BR blue 'large logo' livery. Photo: Tinsley, 30.06.1990.
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πŸ“…︎ Aug 18 2021
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The railroad company in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) "Contrack" is a combination of "Conrail" and "Amtrak" Conrail was a freight railroad that no longer exists, and you probably know what amtrak is.
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Hello r/trains! I present the Union Pacific Railroad’s Fetter Challengers, built by the American Locomotive Company between 1936 and 1937, they were named after Arthur H. Fetter, the UP’s Chief Mechanical Engineer at the time.
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37158. English Electric/Vulcan Foundry works no. 3333/D832, 1963. New as D6858 to 87E (Swansea Landore), withdrawn 2008. Scrapped Harry Needle Railroad Company, Carnforth, 04/2008. Photo: Bristol Temple Meads, 13.05.1988.
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Easement is 30 ft by 240 ft I'm told. I don't mind the Railroad Company using it. Or the power company. Or AT&T. Or Metronet. Or the high speed sewer they're putting in. Or the builder that put a pipe from a new home-across the street-that drains into the easement...

But I do care that I have to maintain and not be able to use this completely useless part of my property that's completely torn up by the different utility companies parking in and is a complete swamp because of the drainage.

I've had this property for 1 year and the first year was fine. I maintained it. But this year, 6 different companies have completely torn it up, leaving huge ruts, getting stuck and having to be towed out, leaving more ruts, which fill with water and now I have 4 mini ponds that I'm supposed to mow.

Can I just give it to the city and let them maintain it? I'm tired of it

https://imgur.com/gallery/4QgSFuq

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I am a former railroad employee with anti-fascist and pro-environment views. If you want to stop oil trains, please take your fight to the railroad company's corporate headquarters. Don't attack trains or track. You will only kill train engineers. Corporate decides what we haul, not the engineer.

tl;: If you want to stop oil trains, please take your fight to the railroad companies' corporate headquarters. Don't attack trains or track. You will only kill train engineers. Corporate decides what we haul, not the engineer.

Rail blockades like what the First Nations of Canada did or divestment campaigns can get across the same message without risking an oil spill.

Also consider that the by sabotaging trains you are hurting the train crew who have almost know choice at all in what they haul.

I used to work for a railroad, and I can tell you this from personal experience. Most train crews just drive any freight or passenger train over an assigned section of track. One day it is oil. The next day it is food. The day after that it is a passenger train.

Unless you know the schedule, you are just as likely to God forbid sabotage a train full of food or even a passenger train. Moreover, you can have multiple trains running on the same track on a given day. Just because you sabotage or derail an oil train doesn't mean there isn't a passenger train on the same track behind it that could run into the back of the train you disabled and kill a bunch of people. The radios on trains are notoriously unreliable especially in rural areas. Cellphones don't work well either. Even if you derail or disabled a train without hurting the engineer, doesn't mean he will be able to warn the train behind him to stop. We have had trains run into the back of a stalled train because the radios didn't workm

Rather than hurt the train crew, hurt the corporate office that signs contracts to haul the oil in the first place. The train crew are just ordinary people who don't get a say in what they haul.

Sabotaging the track or the train only puts the train crew in danger. If you block the tracks, a fully loaded train takes 1 mile to stop!

See this video

https://youtu.be/szaQ3hXvzfw

Friends of mine have PTSD from hitting cars on railroad tracks. By the time we can see there is something blocking the tracks, we can't do a damn thing. We will hit it, and you risk killing yourself or the train crew.

Here is a video of what the train crew sees during an accident.

https://youtu.be/jXCTAreCQSU

We are so high up, we cannot see things like barriers, people, or stalled cars until it is too late. Train engineer friends of mine after hitting people have developed PTSD, become alcoholics, and committed suicide. Working on a railroad is incredibly dangerous.

It is the

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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I am a former railroad employee with anti-fascist and pro-environment views. If you want to stop oil trains, please take your fight to the railroad company's corporate headquarters. Don't attack trains or track. You will only kill train engineers. Corporate decides what we haul, not the engineer.

tl;: If you want to stop oil trains, please take your fight to the railroad companies' corporate headquarters. Don't attack trains or track. You will only kill train engineers. Corporate decides what we haul, not the engineer.

Rail blockades like what the First Nations of Canada did or divestment campaigns can get across the same message without risking an oil spill.

Also consider that the by sabotaging trains you are hurting the train crew who have almost know choice at all in what they haul.

I used to work for a railroad, and I can tell you this from personal experience. Most train crews just drive any freight or passenger train over an assigned section of track. One day it is oil. The next day it is food. The day after that it is a passenger train.

Unless you know the schedule, you are just as likely to God forbid sabotage a train full of food or even a passenger train. Moreover, you can have multiple trains running on the same track on a given day. Just because you sabotage or derail an oil train doesn't mean there isn't a passenger train on the same track behind it that could run into the back of the train you disabled and kill a bunch of people. The radios on trains are notoriously unreliable especially in rural areas. Cellphones don't work well either. Even if you derail or disabled a train without hurting the engineer, doesn't mean he will be able to warn the train behind him to stop. We have had trains run into the back of a stalled train because the radios didn't workm

Rather than hurt the train crew, hurt the corporate office that signs contracts to haul the oil in the first place. The train crew are just ordinary people who don't get a say in what they haul.

Sabotaging the track or the train only puts the train crew in danger. If you block the tracks, a fully loaded train takes 1 mile to stop!

See this video

https://youtu.be/szaQ3hXvzfw

Friends of mine have PTSD from hitting cars on railroad tracks. By the time we can see there is something blocking the tracks, we can't do a damn thing. We will hit it, and you risk killing yourself or the train crew.

Here is a video of what the train crew sees during an accident.

https://youtu.be/jXCTAreCQSU

We are so high up, we cannot see things like barriers, people, or stalled cars until it is too late. Train engineer friends of mine after hitting people have developed PTSD, become alcoholics, and committed suicide. Working on a railroad is incredibly dangerous.

It is the

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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