SHOW NOTES
RAILROAD SHOWCASE Ep 004
airing Jan 28, 2019
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NEWS REVIEW
-----WABTEC / GE TRANS MERGER-----
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-----SIEMENS vs. WABTEC-----
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https://www.law360.com/articles/1122201/siemens-awarded-6-7m-in-wabtec-train-control-ip-trial
-----KCS PRECISION SCHEDULED RAILROADING-----
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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/railroads/kc-southern-precision-railroading?#.XEI2K7dcdCs.facebook
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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/railroad/csx-jbhunt-kcsouthern-psr
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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/railroads/kansas-city-southern-precision-railroading
-----THAT SMELL-----
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-----DERAILMENT-----
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2248134962116573&id=164697223559731
https://twitter.com/WarmanFire/status/1087791974453780483/photo/1
Railroad Scams
---1868 Western North Carolina Railroad Scandal---
https://www.ncpedia.org/western-north-carolina-railroad
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/swepson-george-william
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/littlefield-milton-smith
http://ncccha.blogspot.com/2006/11/george-william-swepson-1819-1883.html
-----CREDIT MOBILIER-----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6PRu9b3ykk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Mobilier_of_America_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Durant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Francis_Train
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakes_Ames
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuyler_Colfax
-----Holmans Absurdity----
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/holman/holman.html
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,3978023
Book: Development of the Locomotive Engine: A History of the Growth of the Locomotive From Its Most Elementary Form, Showing the Gradual Steps Made Toward the Developed Engine, With Biographical Sketches of the Eminent Engineers and Inventors Who Nursed It on Its Way to the Perfected Form of to-Day
(Lordy, that's a mouthful)
---Rerailing a Steam Engine---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzaI84GCFYk
-----PASADENA MODEL RR CLUB-----
----- FEB ISSUE OF TRAINS MAGAZINE -----
http://trn.trains.com/issues/2019/february-2019
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