CM& St P was supposed to be electrified to the Pacific, but our capitalist oil companies do not like things that don't smoke. Many of CM& St P's new electrics were sold to the USSR. They realized a train going down hill can help power one going up hill. Now when a diesel electric used its dynamic brakes all the energy is wasted as heat. Electrified railways make good sense in this greener economy. I hope to see it happen. Phoenix now has light rail, but it is kind of a joke right now.
@Satchmoeddie The Pennsyvinia Railroad in my eletric railroads book tried to go to Pittsburg in the 1930's with plans of having full eletric trains running to Pittisburg in the 1940's but they stopped the planned building of it in the 1940's do to world war two and also the cheap diesels coming out in the 1950's. Conrail also had a fight with Amtrak which made Conrail cut the power to the fast eletric empire of the Rome of Railroads. Oddly though there has been talks of studying this project.
@RedShadow1917 I picked out the song under the youtube free songs part it's under easy listening folk music. The song might have the name Rivers in it.
The free songs part of youtube seems to be growing fast lately in the number of songs they have. The nice part about is youtube and the copyright people are made happy with it.
@RedShadow1917 There is a feature on the youtube videos called autio swap which allows you to replace a copy righted song with a free song on their free list of songs which shows up atomaticly when you hit the button autio swap. You can also use autio swap on videos that have no music on them too. The free list on youtube is very large with at least 500 songs on it but it is quickly growing it will take a little time to go though all the songs.
Nice work. I'm with you all the way -- in fact, far beyond Richmond and Petersburg -- to Norfolk, to Raleigh, to Charlotte, to Atlanta and Birmingham.
CM& St P was supposed to be electrified to the Pacific, but our capitalist oil companies do not like things that don't smoke. Many of CM& St P's new electrics were sold to the USSR. They realized a train going down hill can help power one going up hill. Now when a diesel electric used its dynamic brakes all the energy is wasted as heat. Electrified railways make good sense in this greener economy. I hope to see it happen. Phoenix now has light rail, but it is kind of a joke right now.
Satchmoeddie 9 months ago
@Satchmoeddie The Pennsyvinia Railroad in my eletric railroads book tried to go to Pittsburg in the 1930's with plans of having full eletric trains running to Pittisburg in the 1940's but they stopped the planned building of it in the 1940's do to world war two and also the cheap diesels coming out in the 1950's. Conrail also had a fight with Amtrak which made Conrail cut the power to the fast eletric empire of the Rome of Railroads. Oddly though there has been talks of studying this project.
OceanRailroader 9 months ago
what's the song?
RedShadow1917 1 year ago
@RedShadow1917 I picked out the song under the youtube free songs part it's under easy listening folk music. The song might have the name Rivers in it.
The free songs part of youtube seems to be growing fast lately in the number of songs they have. The nice part about is youtube and the copyright people are made happy with it.
OceanRailroader 1 year ago
@OceanRailroader How did you access the free songs part?
RedShadow1917 1 year ago
@RedShadow1917 There is a feature on the youtube videos called autio swap which allows you to replace a copy righted song with a free song on their free list of songs which shows up atomaticly when you hit the button autio swap. You can also use autio swap on videos that have no music on them too. The free list on youtube is very large with at least 500 songs on it but it is quickly growing it will take a little time to go though all the songs.
OceanRailroader 1 year ago
Nice work. I'm with you all the way -- in fact, far beyond Richmond and Petersburg -- to Norfolk, to Raleigh, to Charlotte, to Atlanta and Birmingham.
WoodyinNYC 2 years ago