SHOW NOTES

RAILROAD SHOWCASE Ep 024
airing June 24, 2019

[note: these are the notes for the full length episode. More material may be referenced that what appears on the segments found on YouTube, Facebook, etc]

Full Episodes available to members at https://www.rrshowcase.com/

NEWS REVIEW

----- BOMBARDIER -----

https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/bombardier-preferred-for-bart-contract.html

https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/cars

https://www.bombardier.com/en/media/newsList/details.bt-20190614-bombardier-announces-expansion-of-its-u-s--footprint.bombardiercom.html

https://www.progressiverailroading.com/mechanical/news/Bombardier-to-move-BART-rail-car-assembly-to-California--57827

----- GATEWAY INITIATIVE -----

https://www.rtands.com/freight/massive-gateway-initiative-could-happen-in-n-y-n-j/

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/transportation/2019/06/21/details-behind-gateway-development-commission-bills/1524511001/

https://nec.amtrak.com/project/the-gateway-program/

https://njbiz.com/ny-nj-legislatures-approve-commission-oversee-gateway-tunnel-project/

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/06/21/gateway-project-development-commission-plans/

----- SIERRA NO. 28 ----

https://railtown1897.org/event/return-of-the-sierra-no-28/

https://railtown1897.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/sierra-no-28-repair-project-a-history-of-the-no-28/

Kevin Hill video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsLXjhDllt0

----- BRECON MTN RY, "SANTA TERESA" -----

https://www.bmr.wales/about-bmr/our-locomotives/no1-santa-teresa-locomotive

https://www.facebook.com/pg/BreconMountainRailway/posts/

----- "INFINITY LOOP" -----

https://www.railwayage.com/freight/class-i/hdrs-infinity-loop-earns-national-award

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq6k6M-i3iA

https://www.hdrinc.com/portfolio/infinity-loop-rail-design

FAVORITE FINDS

----- ILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM, RPO DAYS -----

Matthew Gustafson images:
https://www.facebook.com/matthew.gustafson.56/posts/1273901092764677

https://www.facebook.com/matthew.gustafson.56/posts/1274338969387556

------ BALLAST UNDERCUTTER ------

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzLHxpzoC-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4KmX5Aajo

------ RAILFAN DAN -----

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBnSUgS_58A

----- EXTREME RAILBIKING -----

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viSJsOUCGu4

https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=GfXApajOnPI

TAIL MARKERS

Post by Elsie Venter

https://www.facebook.com/groups/158259854332178/permalink/1341160589375426/

Boyton Bicycle Railway

https://io9.gizmodo.com/incredibly-strange-railway-systems-1500937101

Donny Osmond, Disco Train

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