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Here's how it works, Barb. When you exhale, the droplets from your breath get caught in the mask, and become dried out and non-infective from your breath. You will not generally exhale with enough force to remove the droplets from the mask with enough velocity and size to provide viable...

I did that last September on the Silver Meteor. I did a small bucket-list trip that involved riding the Meteor the whole length (never had quite done that before) and spending a couple of nights at Morris Lapidus's masterpiece (that would be the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach). The train ride was...

From what I can tell people tend to approach this in two formats- uninformed and overly cautious, or uninformed and overly reckless. I would suggest making an effort to not touch surfaces with your hands or frontal areas of your body you tend to touch with your hands, and certainly avoid...

According to my friend, who writes for Railway Age, and is extremely reliable on this kind of information, if always somewhat on the negative (aka accurate) side of perspective, its actually going to be that way through late fall.

It's a scary world when you can't be to sure of the honesty of things like that.

Equipment built constantly and regularly don’t seem to have these problems, although they do have problem; example, Hawker-Siddeley/Bombardier Bi-levels,

My local grocery store won’t let me and my wife shop together anymore. I mean I get it; their building is rated for 32 people; under our governors rule that means they can handle 16- they have eight employees. They just can’t afford having the two of us when they are only able to accommodate 8...

Moderation is for Monk’s. Everything in excess.

God help Brazil. I think they should focus on filing for receivership and put the worlds rail operators out of its misery. Budd, Pullman, and whatever else had perpetually rolling assembly lines, and for the most part, they did NOT have custom designs. They generally speaking built just one...

CAF was a completely incompetent choice. They have demonstrated a full and complete lack of understanding of North American industry and the problems associated with the lack of it. They had a huge back order primarily because they were not aware there are not a great deal of trained...

Lets remove "off-label" from that. Most substances that are generally immediately deadly to viruses (or bacteria, insects, and other living organisms) are going to be harmful in substantially larger doses (or extensive numbers of doses) to larger forms of life, such as, well, humans. Lysol's...

Be a lert. The world needs all the lerts it can get. (Sorry, my erstwhile sense of humor has not matured. The rest of me hasn't really either, but we'll conveniently ignore that.) My wife is a house cleaner, and guidance on our situation remains generally unclear. Some of the people who she...

Somebody must be responsible for everything. Take the Virus. Depending on who you ask, Trump, the Chinese, the North Koreans, the Illuminati, some governors, and for all I know the bloody Flying Speghetti Monster is fully responsible. I'm not exonerating anyone in the case of the Coronavirus...

The previous two comments are irrelevant to this discussion. The rattling of doors and windows, and the effkicacy and silence of suspension components are not important because these things are wear parts; those windows are replaced regularly; there is a manufacturing date inscribed on them if...

The forced air system of the car operates in such a manner, from my experience, that the likelihood of the virus entering your compartment is nearly impossible. By the time the air from a given compartment enters another compartment, I would guess it has travelled somewhere around 90 feet, not...

Now hold on, Jishnu, I bet this guy has some really top-secret rail road car engineering degree and has done a top-secret fatigue inspection on this very equipment.

Iused to run a safety business. I have learned that there are two factors in safety. One is the reality of safety, and the other is the perception. You would not believe how many of my customers who needed to purchase specialized respirators, such as organic vapor, would try to insist on N95...

I distinctly remember Amtrak swearing to heck and upon a stack of bibles they wren't going to sell their equipment to other train operators. Am I mistaken?

I don't think there is that much evidence of people directly contracting the virus as a result of the virus. [EDIT: WT*... I mean as a result of Amtrak. sheesh.] The thing is, its all a matter of spectrum. If I have MREs delivered to my porch, let them sit outside for 48 hours, and eat only...

This is going to be a longer slog than most realize, I think.