Mitch H

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Rocket launch filmed from the International Space Station.

[Mitch H @Mkai2000]

@Eggoburner @PRRFanDoesTrain You're the one posting out your ass... I was there for the unveiling, and it's a set of decals over the grills; not paint. They had the thing isolated for the entire trip up the canyon because it won't get proper air flow for cooling. UP 1616 and the ACM were doing all the work.

[Mitch H @Mkai2000]

@SOU_railman As someone in this god forsaken industry, it's mildly insulting when someone prioritizes worries on the steam program over the actual industry itself going to hell in a hand basket. They've already paid crews off to get rid of the brakemen on local jobs... conductors are next.

[Mitch H @Mkai2000]

@SOU_railman @WyanoPenna The same can go for any steamer that has been retired only to be restored. Rebuild it from the ground up, then give it a proper maintenance schedule and you practically have a brand new locomotive that should *in theory* last a while.

[Mitch H @Mkai2000]

@WyanoPenna @SOU_railman It was John Rimmasch single handedly as CMO over Heber, Wasatch Railroad Contractors was not a thing by this point... at least to my knowledge and best recollection, the "business" came after he left HVRR.

[Mitch H @Mkai2000]

@SOU_railman @WyanoPenna It's been out of service BECAUSE of John Rimmasch... 75's firebox you could bend with your bare hands... That doesn't sound like a healthy and easily repairable locomotive to me, let alone restorable by this point of disrepair.

[Mitch H @Mkai2000]

@wdtx1402 Been waiting too long for Utah Railway content 😭

[Mitch H @Mkai2000]

@alon_levy @R4ba_Dader @Lib_Development @sleeplikealaura @gregdreifus123 Two man crews are NOT an assumption, the average European train length is 700 to 740 meters whereas US freights are ranging anywhere from 4600m to a ghastly 6400m. TWO people need to supervise movement of such large trains, not just one with occaisional checkups every 300 miles.

[Mitch H @Mkai2000]

@alon_levy @CSIT1986 Outside "experts" should NOT replace any of them, that's how we all got into this mess in the first place. The men and women on the ground who actually live the work experience should actually make the calls, and not some desk licker who stares at excel all day.