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    Forum Glitches.

    If you try logging in to the forum, and either the forum is glacially slow, errors out, or you get an "account suspended" message, it's not anything you've done. We're experiencing some technical difficulties, and hope to have things back to normal (well, normal for us here, anyway) in a couple...
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    Mystery Engine

    Normally I can figure out what I’m looking at, as far as equipment, but one I encountered recently has me stumped. I was sitting at a grade crossing, and one of the locomotives in the consist was a strange looking one. It was painted reddish-orange, had a road number but no road name, with...
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    C&O 1309 Moves Under Its Own Power

    http://railfan.com/co-1309-moves-under-its-own-power-for-first-time-in-64-years/
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    Not your typical railroad story

    This video came across my desk, and I thought I'd share it. It's not every day something like this happens:
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    Rock Island Reborn

    A freshly-painted GP38 on a new short line is turning heads in Mississippi. In mid-April, photos of Rock Island GP38 4310, dubbed “The America Railfan,” began to emerge on the internet. But perhaps more amazing than the appearance of a Rock Island locomotive in 2020, is the name of the railroad...
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    RRF Coffee Shop

    Good morning, and happy First Monday of February! I've noticed the forums haven't been flooded with activity, so I thought I'd start a coffee shop thread, where we can discuss whatever's on our mind at the moment, other than railroad-specific content. With any luck, we'll swing by here for a...


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