Trains
London’s Retired Tube Trains Live on an Island – Atlas Obscura
Though it lies just a few miles off England’s southern coast, the curious, diamond-shaped Isle of Wight seems to exist in another era entirely. Once a beloved vacation destination for Victorian visitors, the island – still reachable only by boat from the mainland—remains a British family holiday favorite that capitalizes on the kitschy seaside charm of yesteryear.
But the end of an era on the Isle of Wight is approaching. The island’s train line, whose rolling stock has consisted exclusively of former London Underground carriages from the 1930s, is undergoing its biggest transformation in a generation.
ALCO
I was reading about the decline of ALCO in Schenectady. A pretty common sad story, new technology comes out and a business is slow and half heartily adopting as they can’t imagine a world where there old profit center doesn’t exist any more.
ALCO believed in steam locomotives, as they very profitable at one point, and while they adopted diesel electric locomotives eventually by outsourcing technology development to GE, they couldn’t be bothered to spend much money on developing a good diesel electric locomotive in house even though GM EMD and eventually GE developed their own superior models in their final 40 years that the corporation limped along.
For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes – Atlas Obscura
From 1896 until the 1930s, showmen would travel the country staging wrecks at state fairs.
The First Barcode
Railroads tracking their cars was where the first use of barcodes.
Weird Railroad Crossing With Its Own Horn!! Crossing Blows Horn Instead Of Train! Springfield Ohio
How to Find the Abandoned 100-Year Old Locomotives in the Maine Woods
Have you heard the stories of the West Branch Railroad in Maine??The remains of the short rail still stand ominous and spooky in the woods near Eagle Lake in northern Maine.
According to the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, "The Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad replaced the?Tramway. In 1926 this railroad ran from the Eagle Lake end of the tramway thirteen miles to Umbazooksus Lake, which connects to the West Branch of the Penobscot River via Chesuncook Lake."