December 2007 - Posts

Railroad Costs

So I was reading one of the latest issues of Trains Magazine and came up with the following cost factors in railroading.  It really points out the difference between high volume freight vehicles versus low volume passenger equipment. Modern Freight Read More
posted Tuesday, December 25, 2007 11:13 PM by adron | 2 Comments
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Christmas Day

Not much going on today, being Christmas and all.  But I do have a few transit shots I figured I would share. Read More
posted Tuesday, December 25, 2007 9:09 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Streetcar Service Christmas Present Request

So every year TriMet gets part of my income from the Oregon Income Tax.  That money is one of the primary funding tools (I think right behind federal funds and fares).  So thus part of that money in some way goes to the Streetcar. I also have Read More
posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:52 AM by adron | 4 Comments
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A Few More MUNIs and Such

Just a few more.  I'm also doing this to test a new add on for SmugMug that I downloaded.  It allows me to browse my SmugMug without logging into the site and post the images here directly! Read More
posted Saturday, December 15, 2007 4:25 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Canon EOS 40D Images from San Francisco

Some Muni Ops.  Click on any of the images to go to my SmugMug site to check em' out.  You can change the size or even view the original size.  As for copyright, post em' where ever you might want, but please, just give me credit if you do.  Thanks!  Read More
posted Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:56 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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High Speed Rail in New York

I've read about the Turbo Train rehab attempt a few times.  Recently this process "kind of moved forward".  Still no word really on what the heck they're doing with the trains. [rant on] It also reminds me of something.  America never really Read More
posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:37 AM by adron | 0 Comments
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Portland Transit (and almost everything else) Kicks Your City’s A3$!

So here's the scoop. A couple people asked me recently, "who do you live in Portland, yer always fussing!" I've been rambling on about the frustrations of Portland Metro and Portland Streetcar blowing it on this, prospectively blowing it on that, and Read More
posted Monday, December 10, 2007 7:46 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Portland Snow

I decided it was time for one of those "out and about via TriMet". I always like to travel out via the Blue Line or even Yellow or Red to just see the development changes occurring. With the recent happenings with the extra police, pansy gangs, and other Read More
posted Sunday, December 09, 2007 1:06 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Continuous Mud Slides?

I was just wondering, why is it every single year when the rains start the BNSF main line is dumped with mud slides that always effect traffic?  Why does BNSF not fix these permanently?  Is there some issue with clearing out enough cliff face Read More
posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:41 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Portland Streetcar Failure?

So I just downloaded and am looking at the loop fact sheet.  For the Portland Streetcar Extension to the east side.  Being that I'm all for riding the streetcar around and in many ways am pro-streetcar.  Long time readers know though that Read More
posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:16 PM by adron | 6 Comments
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More Transit Increases, Slow Auto Mileage Increases

On one of my regular reads, and about every other transit related news site, there have been reports of increases in riders across almost every system.  Check out Progressive Railroading for the latest. I'm not going to list of the increases, just Read More
posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:35 AM by adron | 0 Comments
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Car, Bus, Air, or Railroad Business Travel

I commonly wonder why people use certain modes of travel.  Is it the control, the fear factor, the time savings, or the monetary savings.  The later big is always the least involved choice really, which is deplorably sad.  But I'm going Read More
posted Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:15 PM by adron | 2 Comments
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Amtrak Travel Tips

With the recent trip I've taken there are a few things that I wish I would have thought of.  With that in mind I've created this list of things to remember when taking a trip, specifically a long distance multi-day trip. Make sure to have some Read More
posted Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:46 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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