Any one work for a Railroad A real one?

[Anonymous]

I am a Firefighter and tonight at fire training we were discussing electrical fires and in the topic there was a brief statement about locomotives. One our guys asked why would that be in the subject since these were diesel powered I then had to explain to them how these actually work but since I am only a novice I didnt get too deep in the topic.

My question is this do any of you know if any Railroads have information or is willing to do a presentation on Railroad stuff like Locomotives and how to deal with them in a accident situation or dealing with fires and such. I ask this because in all the trainingg we do this is not covered at all and I think it is important would hate to have some untrained person get hurt because they didnt know.

Is this something sovered in the operation lifesaver program?

Thanks for the information guys and as we say in the Fire service "See you on the roof"

[ericsp]

There are some that frequent the Trains Forum.

You might contact the police department of you local class1 or the American Association of Railroads (AAR) and see if they know where to get such training.

If the locomotive is shut down, I would think that the biggest danger would be the fuel tanks and batteries (usually below the cab). If it is running add voltages of up to 1250V (if I remember correctly) to that.

There is a guy named Randy Stahl who goes to the Trains forum, he works on diesel locomotives for a living. He has recently moved so he has not been there for a while.

[dehusman]

The major class one RR's have training programs in conjuction with the AAR for local firefighters.
Contact the AAR or the Safety dept. or RR police for the RR near you.

Dave H.

[jwar]

Butte College ) Oroville Ca fire sience dept worked with UP and set up a tank car that was really tricked out inside to give firefighters different fire fighting problems. Contact your fire chief, perhaps a fire chief in a larger city.. If no luck contact the nearest railroads, if they have a mainline esp in town. They have people that can help. If you dont have any luck, call the corp headquarters as they love PR, and love more to have a picture in your newspaper when they deminstrate a drill. Just keep going higher untill you goal is done.

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jwar

Butte College ) Oroville Ca fire sience dept worked with UP and set up a tank car that was really tricked out inside to give firefighters different fire fighting problems. Contact your fire chief, perhaps a fire chief in a larger city.. If no luck contact the nearest railroads, if they have a mainline esp in town. They have people that can help. If you dont have any luck, call the corp headquarters as they love PR, and love more to have a picture in your newspaper when they deminstrate a drill. Just keep going higher untill you goal is done.

Chevron has a tankcar like that in conjuction with BNSF (CPDX 911, if I remember correctly). So does Shell/UP (SCMX 2523), although this one does not appear to have all of the appliances the CPDX car does. I have also heard about a DuPont car

The University of Nevada at Reno has a fire fighting academy that offers training in haz-mat, including tank cars (http://fireacademy.unr.edu/). The University of Maryland might be a good place to contact (http://www.mfri.org/). Also FEMA runs the National Fire Academy (http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fire-service/nfa/nfa.shtm).

It sounds like you are probably from a small department. I would recommend looking into subscribing to Firehouse (http://www.firehouse.com/). They have interesting articles and you could probably find some people to contact in there. Since you are a firefighter and a railfan, I would suggest looking at the July 1998 issue (http://cms.firehouse.com/content/magazine/month.jsp?id=75). They have an article about the Kingman, AZ LPG tank car BLEVE.

[Anonymous]

ericsp. You a firemen, I already have a Firehouse subsciption but I figured I would go where the train people were first. but thanks to all the replied I will do some research and update on what I find.

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by polizi

ericsp. You a firemen, I already have a Firehouse subsciption but I figured I would go where the train people were first. but thanks to all the replied I will do some research and update on what I find.

No. However, my father is and I have an interest in firefighting (even before 09/11/01). I cannot be a firefighter due to medical reasons.