Archive for October, 2023
Movie “Unstoppable” = CSX “Crazy Eights”
by admin on Oct.03, 2023, under Uncategorized
I only today discovered that the movie “Unstoppable” about a runaway freight train was based on a true story about a CSX freight train. I was watching a YouTube video about CSX’s “Crazy Eights Incident” and realizing that at every turn the story sounded just like the movie. Turns out, there’s good reason for that. The movie was based on this 2001 incident.
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All Aboard!
The rails of a railroad track are kept shiny on the top by the regular passage of trains. Thus, "To Shiny Rails" is the battle cry of my personal effort to keep railroading activities of all kinds available to as many people as possible. It's tantamount to exclaiming "Keep those trains a rollin'!". And with any luck at all, I'll personally be on as many of those trains as possible! To shiny rails, Jamie
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