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    humor and chitchat, eh?

    from the vast wasteland of the internets...
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    experimental podcast made up of train sounds

    here this podcast is again. it'll be up for a few weeks. http://savekusf.podomatic.com/entry/2016-05-07T10_46_24-07_00
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    funny things you've heard the dispatcher say

    cool story!
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    funny things you've heard the dispatcher say

    yesterday, i heard dispatcher 74 (for the UP roseville sub) tell somebody "if you don't get your heads together, we're gonna go from a one track railroad to a none track railroad"...
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    experimental podcast made up of train sounds

    boy, it's been a long time since i posted anything here! enjoy this three hour recording i made for my radio show at san francisco community radio (http://savekusf.org/) back in october of last year. it's made of audio i recorded from youtube videos of SP trains traversing colorado's...
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    funny--conductor kicks simpleton in the head

    this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8Yt-P614w
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    interesting link

    for ohio railfans: http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Rail/Programs/StatewideRailPlan/Documents/Chapter%203%20-%20Ohio%20Freight%20Rail%20System%20Profile.pdf
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    Fun with Google Maps (Railroad related)

    i've seen shots of the locos before somewhere...
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    Burned out

    i went on a trip in late september but this has been my new distraction for now... it does not help that san francisco is not that much of a railroad town.
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    interesting wikipedia article

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_train
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    freight service returns to the north bay!

    thanks for your most interesting and well written post, jeff!
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    freight service returns to the north bay!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqXO8P65LZY&feature=share
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    MTA Officers Detain Man For Taking Photos at Station

    "Those security guards are mouth breathing morons." that's why they're "security guards"... just sayin'...
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    off topic a bit but interesting

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/28/BUIL1JL3OH.DTL
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    I'm Too Infactuated

    ok, that's all well and good, but there ARE kids out there who know their stuff...one of the girls that did the 3AM-6AM shift before me on the now-defunct KUSF 90.3FM in san francisco constantly surprised me with her knowledge of older and obscure music...and she is only twenty years old. but...
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