phillyreading wrote: CSXT30,I did not know that the reverser was able to be removed and that would surely keep somebody from moving a locomotive when removed, from the knowledge I have of heavy equipment and automtive knowledge taking out the reverser is like taking the shifter off of a transmission in a car or truck. Have played a railroad simulater on the computor so I know where the reverser would be and what it does but never been on board a live locomotive.Far as those kids coupling and uncoupling cars that took some nerve or something, blowing the whistle most of the way was advertising the fact that they stole the locomotive and alerting people to call the police. Maybe the kids were trying to challenge the authorities by blowing the whistle most of the way, hooking up cars could have been an attempt to make the train look like a regular freight train and not an engine on the loose.Lee F.
CSXT30,
I did not know that the reverser was able to be removed and that would surely keep somebody from moving a locomotive when removed, from the knowledge I have of heavy equipment and automtive knowledge taking out the reverser is like taking the shifter off of a transmission in a car or truck. Have played a railroad simulater on the computor so I know where the reverser would be and what it does but never been on board a live locomotive.
Far as those kids coupling and uncoupling cars that took some nerve or something, blowing the whistle most of the way was advertising the fact that they stole the locomotive and alerting people to call the police. Maybe the kids were trying to challenge the authorities by blowing the whistle most of the way, hooking up cars could have been an attempt to make the train look like a regular freight train and not an engine on the loose.
Lee F.
Lee : These kids sure knew a lot to get that eng. going. Most people don't know about the Lay Handle used to start the eng. either, located a few doors behind the cab. Though the old GEs had a button inside the cab to start them. Let me ask you this : do those simulators have the lay handle or buttons to start them & how about the Generator field swithes & sanders ? I think some of the Shortlines will be tightening up on security after this gets out !!
Daryl (Weldman 87) was that derailment up in Willoughby by Tom's house or when you worked with the Bessimer, now CN ?
Thanks, John
WOW are these kids in trouble. I can not beleive they had the guts to steal a a train.
We had a derailment at work in November and CSX called the FBI in to investigate it because CSX claimed that someone moved a switch and derailed the car, wonder what these kids are going to get as punishment.
I think the railroad better look at some better lock for the switches and do something diffrent with the reverser switch like John said.
When I worked with a small railroad we took the reverser out and put it in a holder under the controls, but that dont mean that somebody could not do the same thing.
Keep us posted as to what happens with the 2 of them.
Have a great day.
Heck, I remember him, and I'm "only" 30. Does that mean I'm not young anymore ;)
He's (Max Headroom) a cool guy! I was into computers
before they were cool! (1960's) He still shows up on SCI-
FI channel once in awhile. Glad some others remember him!
ChesBchRy Good to see you have a gig since Coke and that Max Headroom TV show!
underworld
Jim Fortner; Actually that WAS made into a movie called "End of the Line" Starring
Wilford Brimley and Mary Steenbergen! I have it. It's a neat "little" movie about
saving a shortline from greedy "progressive" business interests. Try checking
around at video stores for old copies.
Oh yeah...It DOESN'T have any stupid ending like "Thelma & Louise" and NOBODY
got killed! Great family movie. Little bit of language, but that's about it.
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Buckeye Riveter wrote: John, do you realize that when they hit Nelsonville, they coupled some cars to the engine and continued on towards Logan? I read they were being sent back to their respective county juvenile jails. Theft of a train will be added to their listing of offenses. I also understand that they laid on the horn the whole trip. This is the engine that they took for a ride.
John, do you realize that when they hit Nelsonville, they coupled some cars to the engine and continued on towards Logan?
I read they were being sent back to their respective county juvenile jails. Theft of a train will be added to their listing of offenses.
I also understand that they laid on the horn the whole trip. This is the engine that they took for a ride.
Buckeye : yes, I read all the articles you had linked there, & they had to break locks off the switches it said. They would never break the locks that first class RRs use. They would need a key or a torch, especially our mainline locks, they are huge & case hardened & I believe run about 75 bucks or more each, I was told.
I heard there are games or simulators out there where you can run a train or fly a helicopter & after playing these & I'll bet this stuff will happen more down the road. Boy, kids coupling cars up, if they don't know what they're doing they easily could have gotten killed or injured very seriously. I see they enjoyed laying on the horn, so that may have helped alert more people. if the reverser for that eng. had been locked up in the office or somewhere, they wouldn't have been able to move it. A normal SOP on RR's is always take it out of the eng.
i wish it was me that went on the ride but not with all the consequences they are facing.
Coupling up some cars and continuing...that's what really makes it a great story!
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What a story Buckeye . If that had been a First Class RR they would be in a lot more trouble I believe. A lot of Federal laws would have been broken then. Though they are really in a lot of trouble anyway.
That clears some things up. That caboose is always parked in that yard. I bet that was a quite event pushing those cars around. It's right off the main drag through the city (AKA RT 33).
Wes
More details:
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/17/20070117-A1-05.html
Apparently, the older boy is a member of a railroading family.
Maybe the locomotive got stuck at the switch by being derailed.
Or maybe they just gave up. All the sudden no security jail moves a notch up the crime belt.
One major question comes to my mind; How do you stop a locomotive that weighs over 150 tons The only way to stop a locomotive would be with another locomotive or string of frieght cars on the track to block the stolen locomotive.
Not sure but I don't think that you have switch control from the cab, usually modern day switch control is done from a tower or office many miles away.
I wonder how far they could have went? Do they have switch track control from the cab?
WoW! I Guess it would be hard to make a get away by train...........they can just
follow your tracks!!!!!
Read about the 2007 GREAT OHIO TRAIN ROBBERY at:
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=240362
and at
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/17/20070117-A1-03.html
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