Recent content by perfessor501

The recent accidental blockage of the Suez by a single cargo ship and the resulting impact on the world's supply chain from that brief interruption should have governments world-wide considering long term alternatives to the Suez. Maintaining the flow of goods through that corridor is a...

I am making at the same CS - TE connection, and given the the recent on time record of the CS makes the appears reasonably do-able to me. Hopefully I won't have to use my back-up plan that involves an Uber ride, a late night airline flight, and a missed train ride.

I carry these gadgets to tighten loose sockets work reasonably well and take an unnoticeable amount of space in my bag.

I fell in love with passenger rail eighty or so years ago when my grandmother took me to see the Fort Worth and Denver's Texas Zephyr. It was another ten years before I finally got to ride it, but I was hooked. Since then I have satisfied my love of rails with annual narrow guage rides between...