It'll be in the papers in the morning. It's already all over Metra. So I'll pass it along to you: The Rock Island engineer who dumped the train due to taking a...
I thought cars 6651-6720 were NOT built with used PCC streetcar parts because they ran out of PCC streetcars. I recall those cars did NOT have bullseye lights...
The Westinghouse motors had a loud grinding noise the GE motors did not have. ... From: twtrains@... To: CHICAGOTRANSIT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,...
... There was once a conductor on the #1 train in Manhattan and the Bronx who was very folksy, very much loved for his varied and interesting announcements of...
... One of the reasons that London Underground routes that are more than 50 years old or so are so twisty and curvy (take the Central line around Bank station,...
... The old IRT cars in New York had end platforms (like those you see at the end of trains in old movies) that were between the cars and separated from the...
Just copy the police radio pronunciation. Or let them record it. ... From: Tony Coppoletta I doubt they'd let him record it like "Goeeth," "Goeethe," or...
The Svengoolie bit has been going on for over 30 years. Before Rich Koz it was done by Jerry G. Bishop. That was when Berrrrrrrrrrwwwwyynnnn was invented. Koz...
That hard-core braking happens from cab signal? Like if they don't respond to the alert sound within that 4.something seconds? See, I know there have been...
"...I just mean that it's undoubtedly not OK to let go and walk over to the other end of the cab while it's still moving..." -- Yep, this is one of the chief...
To add to Andre's summary: the State Street river tunnel was a double tube built in drydock, floated into position, and sunk into a trench. A tunnel bored with...
You know, even without the overboard act of having cupids, it would be really sweet I think, promotionally, if CTA had one train decorated for February that...
Ahh, that's right! He was "Son of Svengoolie!" See, I never saw either--both I believe were before my time. Only his bits on The Koz Zone on WFLD, Channel...
South Shore did use seat checks - that I remember very well. If you boarded west of Gary and were going east of Gary they left a little hatcheck with several...
As far as I know the subway is under the street and/or the parkways from just north of Belmont to Diversey. It swings a little to the west north of Diversey in...
In the 1890's the city renamed over 600 streets. Some several times. My favorite is how Cicero went from Cicero Avenue to 48th Street to 48th Avenue to Cicero...
Unfortunately, this is a side effect that possibly nobody thought about. Apart from timepoints (and even then, many drivers would recognize a timepoint more by...
In this era in time, if you can't demonstrate proficiency in a classroom setting, nobody will waste the time and money to train you any further. Maybe this is...
If CTA decided to call it "devon" instead of "dev-ON", within a year or two everybody would be calling it that. This starts getting into almost Pavlovian...
Apparently they can't prove "willful neglect" in the wreck. As long as a question remains, the easiest way to deal with it is to bust him down and be done with...
Westinghouse motors (cars under 6489) were quieter at low speeds, but had a severe vibration at 50+. GE cars (6489 and up) were much noisier at lower speeds,...
Sounds like the cab signal went to flashing red (loss of signal, most likely), necessitating a complete stop before the train can continue. Also, an emergency...
Beautiful. Run a train more than 55 miles an hour than the posted limit for that part of the track which results to no surprise a derailment and then get...
This story was sent to you by: Kelly Pierce Here's more detail than what was in the Sun-Times article. ... Metra demotes engineer investigated in derailment ...
I hope everyone knows that the conductor is the one actually in charge of the train. Man, from operating the train to second in charge. WOW! Boy this guy just...
... zone-specific. ... would not ... Except for xIC lines, yes. But the I would express the causation in reverse. Metra doesn't want to distinguish between...
... zone-specific. ... would not ... Except for xIC lines, yes. But the I would express the causation in reverse. Metra doesn't want to distinguish between...
... Sometimes doing the right thing is hard; shirking one's duties is so much less painless. But it's management's job to take the heat to protect the...
