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"The First Transition Era - Wood to Steel"
Thursday, May 31, 2007
In the mail...
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.....the two volumes of John Thomas's " The North British Railway ". The North British was kind of an interesting operation -...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Man Bites Dog: People Hate Airlines
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So says the Seattle Times . But the surprise is the fact that they apparently hate them more than the Internal Revenue Service, surely the ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Jane Galt takes on mass transit...
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....and comes away with a slightly different answer than we might expect. I tend to agree, incidentally, that urban mass transit is preemin...
Monday, May 21, 2007
Wooden Hoppers
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The EarlyRail group at Yahoo has been abuzz with Westerfield's release of this beauty - a Pennsy coal hopper from the early 1890s. I...
Friday, May 18, 2007
Buffett drops the other shoe....
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......and it says " Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern ." So I was half right. The real question: what did he see in UP?
Thursday, May 17, 2007
The Economics of Kitbuilding
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Model Railroader has a review up of Walthers' new (well, relatively) USRA Heavy 2-10-2 in HO, with video, here . I haven't seen one ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Warren Buffett and BNSF
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So five weeks ago, Warren Buffett surprised the heck out of me by buying a ten percent equity stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe. He surp...
La Veta Pass behind Steam
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This looks like it's going to be a good summer for "rare mileage" fans: various operators are going to be running excursions o...
Richard Prince, FINALLY affordable.......
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Self-publishing is a blessing and a bane to railfans and modelers. Without it, a lot of stuff would never get published; unfortunately, it o...
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