Photos from The Jackson Citizen Patriot - mlive.com (Jackson Michigan)
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Train Detrailment in Jackson county Michigan.
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
This is supposed to be an argument FOR high-speed rail?
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A host of newspapers up and down the state have run an extremely long article that we guess is supposed to make a case for California’s boondoggle express, AKA high-speed rail. Did it occur to anyone what the bottom line is? It was 1,413 words into this epic, written by a Fresno Bee reporter and published in our paper, when the reader is given what we find to be the most pertinent of information: “There is no question whether (Spain’s system) can cover its costs. It cannot,” ...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
High-speed rail, the third-fastest way to Chicago!
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E.R. Companion, of Eagan, writing to the editor in Sunday's Pioneer Press, wondered why our elected officials would commit to spending billions of dollars for a so-called high-speed rail line from the Twin Cities to Chicago. (Well, because they're nuts.) Companion was referring to a story that appeared Jan. 12 featuring the idea that the Minnesota Department of Transportation has begun studying environmental impacts along the 400-mile route, which would take passengers to Chicago, through Milwaukee, in an advertised five hours and 30 minutes. Companion wondered what was high-speed about that, and I could not agree more with his sentiment....
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
Jerry Brown will request billions for high-speed rail project (Anticipated cost now triple!!)
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I missed this during my travel to BlogCon 2011 in Denver, which I reached by airline travel — an economical and safe choice on a route served by multiple carriers and requiring little government subsidy to use. The competition for this route falls short of that for the Los Angeles-San Francisco route, though, where more than a half-dozen carriers offer flights between California’s two largest metropolises, complete with choices of departure and arrival airports on either end. Despite the lack of need for fast and reliable transportation between the two cities, Governor Jerry Brown told the LA Times editorial board...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
Chasin da train in da sun wid snow 2011-10-08 (NM-CO photo gallery)
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Follow the link for the whole nine yards. I haven't had time to look at all of them yet Here is just a sample of what Ma nature did for us today AWESOME day! Picture link:http://www.chamasteam.com/images/2011-10-08/Gallery/index.html Video link:http://www.youtube.com/user/CumbresToltec#p/u/1/Uv7lBi_OP8c
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
The Great Crew Change: 'Honey, How Are We Going to Train All These Kids?'
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The petroleum industry is amid a tremendous wave of hiring that's occurring in response to the gradual retirement of the so-called "baby boom" generation, which was spawned in the wake of World War II. Much of the hiring focuses on the very young—both blue collar labor and newly minted petroleum geoscience and engineering grads. Another important trend is on the re-training of mid-career professionals into more labor-tight technical and management positions. The American Petroleum Institute says that it has no statistics on how much hiring is directed toward the young and middle-aged, but other statistics are compelling on how badly...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
Dutch trains to get 'bag toilets'
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Dutch National Railways is introducing emergency plastic bags for passengers to urinate in as part of its first-aid provision on some commuter trains. Spokesman Jeroen von Geusau told the BBC "wee bags" would be installed on commuter trains without toilets. He said the bags were for use in emergencies such as power failures. "When you have to wait three or four hours on a train, then it is quite logical you have some people aboard who need to go to a restroom," he said. "It is like when a plane is circling above London for two hours." About 16% of...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
US Oks $196.5M for high-speed Chicago-Detroit rail (train to nowhere in particular)
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US Oks $196.5M for high-speed Chicago-Detroit railAP – 25 mins ago KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Transportation has approved $196.5 million for part of a high-speed Amtrak passenger rail link between Chicago and Detroit, Michigan U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow said Wednesday. The funds now being obligated cover work from Kalamazoo in western Michigan to Dearborn in suburban Detroit, the Democratic lawmakers said. The grant to the Michigan Department of Transportation will cover track and signal improvements.
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
Fast Trains Sound Nice, But Who Will Ride?
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Boondoggles: How can we tell if Congress is serious about reining in spending? A clear-cut, permanent defunding of high-speed rail would be one sign. But the pipe dream won't quite die. Sometime soon — or so we'd like to think — the fast-train fad will fizzle out, the victim of fiscal sanity and critical thinking. Just this week, a Senate Appropriations subcommittee controlled by Democrats actually voted to give high-speed rail nothing at all in the new fiscal year. That got our hopes up. Then the full Appropriations Committee mixed the message by approving $100 million for the program, which...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
Do it yourself guy builds train detector to automatically shut bedroom window
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Do it yourself guy builds train detector to automatically shut bedroom window(PhysOrg.com) -- In a nice display of can-do thinking leading to positive action, a guy by the name of Ed Rogers has devised a device that automatically shuts the window in his bedroom whenever a train passes by, reducing the noise significantly. He has posted a video on YouTube explaining how he did it. To start out, Rogers first installed a linear actuator (a mechanical device for moving an object) connected to a part he printed off using MakerBot’s Thing-O-Matic, which was then connected to wires that snaked...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 07:27:56 PM
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