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Oh, joy--today I get to work with wet conditions and half of one of my retarders out of commission until Monday. The retarder will take four hours to repair, and Monday is the first chance they'll have to accumulate the necessary equipment. At least that's what I was told. Guess I'll have to derive my pleasure from other aspects of the job...
[quote user="Paul_D_North_Jr"] Carl - What do you do then ? Double the setting on the other half of the retarder ? I presume it's not the 'master' retarder, but one of the 'field' or outer ones ? - Paul North. [/quote] Well, Paul, you just do what you have to do to control the speed of the cars going down the hill. This is the lower half of an intermediate retarder--normally the most vital one I have for fine-tuning my exit speed or holding a car for spacing purposes
Here are the dispositions I found for cars in SP series 654500-654699 (200 cars originally): Up to 45 cars to GVSR 139000-139044 (none currently exist; they may have been restored to their SP numbers). Two cars to CR 222702-222703 in late 1995 (these no longer exist; they were not relettered NYC). Six cars to AM 1700-1705 in late 1996 (these cars no longer exist). Eight cars to IOCR 4000-4006 and 4008 in mid-1998. One car to HPJX 60113 in early 2000. Of the 200 original cars, only 57 still exist
Tower C's the one on the north, with four group retarders. That doesn't mean that she's got less work to do than Tower B--in fact, it seems like quite the opposite in most cases, at least on our tour of duty. (I should note that "she" refers only to the daytime Tower C operator--there are usually males there on the other two shifts, each of which has a female operator in Tower B.) Of course, I'm the guy in front of the diamond--the quarterback, as it were.
You mean the Popsicle-stick cars? That was the only batch built like that, but a few cars went to other railroads from the SP. Some were relettered for Golden West Service (GVSR). Others went to the Arkansas & Missouri (AM), and a couple even went to Conrail. If it weren't so close to my bedtime, I'd research some series. Might just do that for a later post.
Dan, sulfur tanks are about half the size of ethanol tanks. So if the cars struck you as being smallish, it probably was a unit sulfur train. As to CN having unit sulfur trains, it's likely. We on the UP have sulfur tanks running regularly between "up north" and our interchanges with CSX and NS. Often they're just good-sized blocks of the cars in a manifest train, but we occasionally receive solid trains through here. No reason we should have all of the fun! Tina, great to hear
Wow, Jim--I didn't realize that you hadn't seen any of those units yet! I was thinking about you folks who could get up to Milwaukee on a Saturday morning, as I was stuck at work, sending freight cars in your general direction, among others. I'd love to make it to one of these gatherings one of these years. Seniority apparently will never permit it for me; perhaps retirement will.
We get the tractors from Waterloo through here fairly regularly (haven't seen too many lately). We also get the empties coming back and being sent to Waterloo. I'd say, up here in UP country, that the cars are all TTX: usually the 60-foot OTTX cars, but sometimes 89-foot flats (ITTX, I think). I'm pretty sure these tractors go to the east coast, are unloaded, and the empties shipped back. Think of it this way: these aren't just flat cars--they're fairly specialized pieces of equipment
Mine, too, Quentin! Hope you can get the radio program Pipe Dreams over a public radio station where you are (90 minutes every week). The Joseph Jongen composition I mentioned is a totally amazing combination of organ with orchestra--not necessarily pompous or reverent, and definitely intended to bring down the house at its conclusion. I'm trying to remember whose organ piece a professor friend of my daughter's was talking about when he mentioned that one of the score notations could freely
Time to get back into this. There are at least a couple of SSW covered hoppers and a couple of D&RGW gons with the old logos on them. Also at least one SP hi-cube box car with the Sunset Route logo (this was definitely repainted by UP--SP's newest box cars and gons, pre-merger, also had this old logo on them). Haven't seen any for a while, but I'm pretty sure that Western Pacific's "Feather River Route" logo was applied by UP to a box car or two. And there is a series
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