To date, I really haven’t had any contact with the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council, so I was looking forward to attending their event this morning “Meet The Railroad - Meet The Commuter” at the South Norwalk Metro-North Station, which was widely advertised in every news article I could find as being from 6 AM - [...]

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Sorry, once again I have less than 24 hours notice about the appearance of the M-8 Railcar interior mockup.
Tommorrow it will be at Stamford Metro-North Station at slightly more generous hours than the ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ hours at the New Haven demo - 7 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m.
Until [...]

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Update: In answer to some emails, the video was created with a Canon HG10 HD Digital Camcorder, a Canon SD870IS for the stills, edited with Pinnacle Studio 11 on Windows Vista Ultimate. A Shure SM57 Microphone was used for the voiceover narration, connected to the PC via Creative Labs X-Fi .

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Sunday we reported on the massive I-95 shutdown and 8-mile backup which turned out to be caused by a man shooting himself in the head at the conclusion of a police chase.
The Stamford Advocate now has more details on this story.
It turns out that the man, Eric Niles of Alton, Maine, had showed up at [...]

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Things are not looking all the great for Governor Rell this month. First she said she was kept completely in the dark by DOT regarding the ballooning of the New Haven Rail Yard estimates from $300M to $1.7 BILLION. Then, a video was released where Gov. Rell was in the presense of a DOT official [...]

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