[HD] Ripping up the Newport, RI East Railroad Track - 6/21/2021
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Removing the East Track into Newport, RI for a bike path project. The west track will be the new access track in Newport once construction is over.
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I will try to organize a way to stop the trail and bring back the tracks
Good Attitude 👍......Look in Railway and Railfan mag on a article to fund trails etc only if they run alongside a Railway tracks Federal pays $3100 a mile of tracks to maintain both the track and Trail.....Part is double track .....Get a Railway car Storage broker to see if you could Storage of Railway cars .....($4.50 a car per .month...........God prays 🙏
I’ll join lmao fuck these stupid rail trails
Those last few ties were giving him a hard time. Either harder or newer wood than the rest!
It's so sad to see that go! Anyway, nice video
Such a poorly-thought decision for the long run. In 20 or 30 years, when the roads are clogged with vehicles/rigs (even worse than they are now), history will show that the decisions to rip up rail lines were ill-advised and will likely be regretted, but it will be too late. Railroads have always contributed to relieving highway and Interstate congestion that will no doubt get worse year-over-year, and my bet is the future generation will regret all of these railroads being ripped out in the present day.
depends where these rail lines go to. if this serves defunct warehouses and industries that are no longer there then it isn't practical. but on the bright side new right of ways are being built in states like texas and florida for private passenger rail networks. so there is some hope in the future.
Just makes me angry to see this. Pulling up the tracks to Falmouth for a bike path was the stupidest thing Massachusetts ever did and it was done in such a way that the rails will probably never go back!
Ikr
Agreed
I always found it interesting they could make money on recycling the track. Well esp. now in today market. It is one thing to turn it back into before the rail came through. But in some areas they just left the track to rot. Well until rails to trails came along. sometimes I got the impression the track was removed to keep out competition. This was partly based on the Milwaukee road and the remove of track for Harlowton. Watching the interview. Towns people figured another rail company would wonder in. But all within a year. The track was gone due to Selling off and recycling. Trying to recover assets. At least this was just he old line being replaced.
It also did not help that passenger rail was themed as "only for the wealthy" up until the aftermath of the Vietnam War (and, amazingly, the Arab oil embargo) democratized passsenger rail - even in the United States. (I am not joking - I used passenger rail in 1979 and 1980 (SEPTA and AMTRAK) as a "high school student" - wealthy I was not! (Remember, Jimmy Carter was President during both years.) A Senator by the name of Biden was taking AMTRAK back and forth between Wilmington, DE and DC weekly - and Congressional salaries had not headed for the stratosphere yet. Where did fares on AMTRAK on the NEC - or anywhere else - go between 1980 - my last ride on the NEC for almost eight years? (Basically nowhere.) In 1987, I was headed back to Wilmington, DE to visit relatives Marcus Hook, PA for New Year's weekend 1987-88 - via WMATA and AMTRAK. (WMATA from Ballston to New Carrolton, then AMTRAK from New Carrolton to Wilmington - again, working stiff.) In Europe, things REALLY got democratized - with increased electrification and use of nuclear power to drive said electrification - especially in France - passenger rail in Europe really became for the average guy and gal - to an extent that the United States did not get to, even though prices dropped even on AMTRAK in indexed dollars; it was NOT price that kept me off the rails between 1988 and 2000 - when I would return to passenger rail.
@@PGHammer21A I didn't know if was for the wealthy. Then again it kind of makes sense. Working people didn't have time to ride across country and take time on a train or even fly. They had to do it as cheap as possible and within quick as possible. My parents enjoyed the train. But my dad said he would never take a buss again. When I first got a chance of it was the light rail down in SLT utah. It was so nice to park away from downtown. Then ride the light rail into downtown. I was able to see store and notice things I never seen before. Another thing as for fun. I took the front runner. I can see the advantage of living in a small town and taking the train into the city. I also heard of how many people wish the am track between Pocatello and Boise Idaho would come back too. I think they said it even ran up to Seattle.
Jerry !!! Look what you just done, we told you to take out the WEST track not the EAST !!! Your fired !
We have swarms of these two-wheeled tyrants in the UK as well, demanding everything, giving nothing, several places in the Southeast they have screamed and wailed for cycle tracks yet once built you might if your lucky see one maybe two people use it a year otherwise they have to spend thousands of taxpayers money maintaining it and cleaning up after the fly-tippers just in case one of these horrors should ever want to use it.
Hmm There´s already enough space for 2 tracks... why not 1 track and 1 "trail" ? Tearing off the tracks to ensure there won´t be any train running again ?
They will still have track there. The East track is being removed and the West track will be rehabbed. They just won't have a runaround track there.
@@gravelydon7072 Ah ok , thanks.
So is this halting the Newport Dinner Train excursions until the work is done?
How much money are they going to put in to this railroad.
Why the big fuss in the comments? If you read the description it says only one of these tracks is being removed. They don't need the siding anymore.
That's what happens when the public waits a long time to increase quality of life choices
sad :...(
Must have rails to trails…..no matter the cost to remove….or make bike path…..
There's got to be a more efficient way of doing that work. Painful to watch.
Sad!
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NOOOOO
When was this track last used?
Well they didn’t wait long.