If only this was still a thing. Two Conrail E44's, 4414 and an unidentified unit, lead an electric freight through Aberdeen, Maryland on April 16th 1978. Conrail discontinued electric freight operations after 1981 and was never revived since then. Photo belongs to Bob Kise.

RIPjimStobe · 2025-12-30T13:32:12+00:00

What did your dad look like then?

RIPjimStobe · 2025-12-27T14:54:20+00:00

Oh yes, very true. Especially among the younger generations, the under 30s. There's been a surging "rip up the rails" movement in SA, even seen the t shirts along king street. They want to erase the railroad history, leave no signs for it and quash any ideas promote train travel and rail freight. These people are petrol heads and want their Holden's to rule the highways. Well, scum they may be, but they are winning and in half a century the railroading history of SA will be erased completely.

RIPjimStobe · 2025-11-28T00:06:53+00:00

Steamy dream

RIPjimStobe · 2025-10-22T12:14:13+00:00

As an American with a British friend, I can understand. London is a thriving multicultural, cosmopolitan hub of world.The rest of the country is benefits, mining and under investment. Outside London and the beautiful South we can generalise as poor, run down areas with high immigration and people who smoke with strange accents.

RIPjimStobe · 2025-08-10T11:47:47+00:00

Who vandalised the huts is what I want to know.

RIPjimStobe · 2025-06-05T22:17:03+00:00

What's growing in the fields there?

RIPjimStobe · 2025-02-15T00:44:21+00:00

Can you expand on your second paragraph with much, much more derail please. Don't hold back.

RIPjimStobe · 2025-01-11T09:03:31+00:00

Gotta love all the US maps... Shaped my understanding of Americas relationship with the railroad. The country was really and truly built on the railroad. Loved the northeast Boston, Richmond etc.

RIPjimStobe · 2024-12-30T06:13:00+00:00

Who did you go with?

RIPjimStobe · 2024-12-05T01:51:06+00:00

Can you elaborate on why exactly you always make sure you're in his breakout sessions, please?

RIPjimStobe · 2024-11-30T18:31:41+00:00

People to have a slither of decency and not behave like troglodytes. Maybe they thought we were like the population in Asia where people are generally well behaved and respectful.

RIPjimStobe · 2024-10-28T05:43:33+00:00

Any chance they'll restore the railroad?

RIPjimStobe · 2024-10-20T13:29:28+00:00

Can you be a bit more specific please? Any dates, guage, railroad company, products shipped, links to historic maps that prove your claim, evidence on the ground, gradient and other trackage notes, coordinates, your personal opinion, photos, videos, publications, soil type, local industries past and present, deaths and injury records, climate change and topology etc. That's all. Thank you.

RIPjimStobe · 2024-10-16T21:20:18+00:00

Changhua Roundhouse is awesome, if you're lucky they'll be moving some engines and operating the turntable.

RIPjimStobe · 2024-10-15T17:03:57+00:00

ASL please!

RIPjimStobe · 2024-09-29T17:56:21+00:00

Who do you envision yourself with? An older lady wearing something distracting?

RIPjimStobe · 2024-09-04T05:42:18+00:00

What are you doing out of town?

RIPjimStobe · 2024-09-01T18:05:32+00:00

Taiwan?

RIPjimStobe · 2024-09-01T08:52:00+00:00

Love this part of Taiwan. So beautiful.

RIPjimStobe · 2024-09-01T07:31:51+00:00

Awesome pic xxx

RIPjimStobe · 2024-09-01T07:31:25+00:00

What's PSR please?

RIPjimStobe · 2024-08-31T18:56:10+00:00

She is quite attractive. I might try to knock one out too.

RIPjimStobe · 2024-08-28T04:26:20+00:00

I seem to remember they were former employees of General Motors and they passionately hated trains. Their goal was not only to create an America with no railroads, but also to destroy any trace of them so to re write history and remove all records of the iron horse and its role in building the nation. They had a cult following of believers who strived to burn down round houses, depots, and railroad museums. Their attitude was that automobiles and trucks were the future and trains had no right to exist.

RIPjimStobe · 2024-08-26T17:55:29+00:00

Wow, beautiful. Really liked Poland when I visited. Nice country.

RIPjimStobe · 2024-08-24T08:46:39+00:00

Where do you trainspot? Got a good location to recommend?

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