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Thank you, mcropod! That is the Pink Galah that my neighbor identified, tho I bungled the name. They were flying in a flock of 15 or 20 making a colorful sight! I do not know what the Red bodied aggressive bird i saw first was. It was similar in size to the Galah and the body was only a bit...

Dining trackside in Rawlinna was a lot of fun!

First time I saw the Loco we were at our walking stop in Cook. We took a route that did not go through Broken Hills on the way to Adelaide. The regular route has been damaged by flooding so we went down through Albury, if memory serves. No emu, but I have seen a couple really aggressive red...

Skyscape enroute.

Taking the Southern route due to flooding on the regular line so no Broken Hills. Rats. Good food, great company and nice vista's. Man, these single compartments are tight! Nice but the bed takes up 95% of the compartment. Arriving Adelaide now, off to Hahndorf for Herman food. On edit: That...

Just leaving ... Whoops, that one did not post...

Not sure if this is a remnant of the steam engine age or what...

Well, we are getting a bustitution to Goulburn, THEN boarding the Indian Pacific. I will try to download photos but not sure if I will have a connection.

Jis, way back in the day you mentioned how large India Rail was and I was gob-smacked. I had to look it up again tonight because I could not remember. Amtrak is not a great comparison because India Rail does a HUGE amount of freight too, but IR has 1,200,000 employees, Amtrak has 17,000. IR has...

What kind of stress would that put on the rail bed and the bogeys as this train goes around curves? I know steel flexes but this must push it pretty hard! 🤔 I have to admit that i am confused by this.

I went to Frostburg State for a year back in 1983-4 to get my Maryland residence when I moved east from Montana. It was an eye opening experience for a Montana boy to end up in the Appalachian mountains! I never even knew there was a train station still in existence. Beautiful mountains, albeit...

She was the "realistic" replica built in Appledore England and launched in 1973. (There is a non-seaworthy barge of the same name but it is a tourist trap) HMV Golden Hinde circumnavigated the world and starred in a mini-series called Shogun. She then returned to the UK and operated as a museum...

I almost had a close encounter with the fast ferry out of Harwich back in 1994. It was Zero dark thirty and I was the helmsman for HMV Golden Hinde and I spotted a ship way off in the distance to the Southwest of us. I talked with the other crew that were on watch and we checked the radar. No...

“Management by walking around” was how my Business Management prof described it. I think Boeing’s management team lost their ability to use that technique when they moved their HQ to Chicago and they definitely won’t get it back by moving the HQ to Virginia.

Not sure about financial "pulls" towards places other than Chicago, but there seems to be a "push" for companies to move out of the Chicago area. Citadel left for Florida and Boeing left for northern Virginia fairly recently. Crime in Chicago may be part of it, but it isn't the whole story.

I agree, I tried to state that these were appropriations for Amtrak, and I should have said that they are not its actual operating budget. There are jobs like bridge replacements and tunneling for the Gateway Project that soak up huge amounts of money but should not be listed as the operating...

Amtrak used to get around $0.9Bn to $1.6Bn from 2003 to 2016, if the FRA link below is accurate. https://railroads.dot.gov/grants-loans/directed-grant-programs/federal-grants-amtrak The amount appropriated did increase in 2016 and passed $2.0Bn in 2017 and went over $3.0Bn in 2020. So Amtrak...

I crewed aboard a ship with a young lady from Tasmania and she was pretty proud of the place too. I probably should take my time in both NZ and Australia and see as many of the sights as possible… 🤔

So there are safety cages. That makes sense but I didn't know if it was commonly done. Thank you all for the info! I rode in the locomotive with my Dad when I was 9 or 10 so I don't remember that much about it. He got promoted ( I think?) after the first trip so I traveled with him in the...

I am taking a long RTW trip starting in late September and should be arriving in Sydney in November. Are there any events in Sydney, Adelaide or Perth I should try to time my trip to complement? If I want to do a stopover part way through the trip, is Adelaide the best place to stop off? The...