Coming or Going

[Anonymous]

A small point, maybe. How does one tell if a freight car is headed east or west? How do you know which end is the front, and which is the back?

Thanks,
Ron

[Anonymous]

A small point, maybe. How does one tell if a freight car is headed east or west? How do you know which end is the front, and which is the back?

Thanks,
Ron

[Anonymous]

i don't think it matters until it gets to where its going , then the switch crew has to determine if it needs to be turned. It should have a sign on the door to be unloaded from.


am i close ED [:p][8D][:D] lol

[Anonymous]

i don't think it matters until it gets to where its going , then the switch crew has to determine if it needs to be turned. It should have a sign on the door to be unloaded from.


am i close ED [:p][8D][:D] lol

[Anonymous]

A freight car has a "A" & "B" end. The "B" end is the end with the hand brake.




TOM
Retired "SNAKE"
God Bless the Great Northern

[Anonymous]

A freight car has a "A" & "B" end. The "B" end is the end with the hand brake.




TOM
Retired "SNAKE"
God Bless the Great Northern

[edblysard]

Both Derailed (yes, better than close)and Ringer have it right. Most freight cars have no leading or forward end, and the only time it really matters is when a industry needs a certain end in first, as with the boxcar example.
Lubrizoil, in Deer Park, receives quite a few special covered hoppers, designed to hold a only a phospherous salt, nothing else. The cars are stenciled on the sides at each end, "This end in first at Deer Park plant", the other end reads "This end in first at Ohio Chemicals."
It almost always requires us to turn the car on a wye to spot it. And I would assume it gets turned again in Ohio.

The class one that delivers them to us could care less which end is where, they just bring them to us, we have to turn them around somehow and spot them in Lubrizoil correctly, as the cars are designed with the out flow pipes and equipment on one side only, and the plant has facilities on that corrsponding one side only .

Boxcars of grain, peas, rice and such have to be spotted the same way, with the "Unload from this side" lable facing a certain way, as the people who receive them have a conveyor belt only on that side.
You can count on the side that says "unload from other side" having a semi permanet plywood plug or cover on the inside of the door, to prevent leakage, and the side labled "unload this side" having a removable plastic sheet or cloth cover, also to prevent leakage, but allowing it to be removed for unloading.

You will also have to turn some cars that spot on a team track, as access is often limited to one side of the track.

Beyond that, the only people who care which way is what are the car repairmen, as the A end and B end have diffrent hardware, and my helper, who needs to know which end the brake is on when I kick them to him to catch and tie a bumper down. Yes, the brake is on the B end.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[edblysard]

Both Derailed (yes, better than close)and Ringer have it right. Most freight cars have no leading or forward end, and the only time it really matters is when a industry needs a certain end in first, as with the boxcar example.
Lubrizoil, in Deer Park, receives quite a few special covered hoppers, designed to hold a only a phospherous salt, nothing else. The cars are stenciled on the sides at each end, "This end in first at Deer Park plant", the other end reads "This end in first at Ohio Chemicals."
It almost always requires us to turn the car on a wye to spot it. And I would assume it gets turned again in Ohio.

The class one that delivers them to us could care less which end is where, they just bring them to us, we have to turn them around somehow and spot them in Lubrizoil correctly, as the cars are designed with the out flow pipes and equipment on one side only, and the plant has facilities on that corrsponding one side only .

Boxcars of grain, peas, rice and such have to be spotted the same way, with the "Unload from this side" lable facing a certain way, as the people who receive them have a conveyor belt only on that side.
You can count on the side that says "unload from other side" having a semi permanet plywood plug or cover on the inside of the door, to prevent leakage, and the side labled "unload this side" having a removable plastic sheet or cloth cover, also to prevent leakage, but allowing it to be removed for unloading.

You will also have to turn some cars that spot on a team track, as access is often limited to one side of the track.

Beyond that, the only people who care which way is what are the car repairmen, as the A end and B end have diffrent hardware, and my helper, who needs to know which end the brake is on when I kick them to him to catch and tie a bumper down. Yes, the brake is on the B end.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[Anonymous]

[:D]

Yeah, this aside for a minute...

bet no one knew Ed steals CN Locomotives!

Ask him all about it!!

i'm sure he'll be more then willing to share...

[Anonymous]

[:D]

Yeah, this aside for a minute...

bet no one knew Ed steals CN Locomotives!

Ask him all about it!!

i'm sure he'll be more then willing to share...

[Anonymous]

[:p][:p]I believe it would be fair to say that if you were standing on the tracks and looking down the tracks at a freight car, the end thats going away from you could be deemed to be the front, and if the train isn't heading north or south then it must be heading east or west. However if you were standing on the tracks, looking at trains coming or going............weeeeeelllll[:p][:p][:p][:p][:D]. So sorry, I just couldn't resist that[:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

[:p][:p]I believe it would be fair to say that if you were standing on the tracks and looking down the tracks at a freight car, the end thats going away from you could be deemed to be the front, and if the train isn't heading north or south then it must be heading east or west. However if you were standing on the tracks, looking at trains coming or going............weeeeeelllll[:p][:p][:p][:p][:D]. So sorry, I just couldn't resist that[:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

[:D]

Yeah, this aside for a minute...

bet no one knew Ed steals CN Locomotives!

Ask him all about it!!

i'm sure he'll be more then willing to share...

[;)] And Kevin - he got a "pretty" one, too!

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

[:D]

Yeah, this aside for a minute...

bet no one knew Ed steals CN Locomotives!

Ask him all about it!!

i'm sure he'll be more then willing to share...

[;)] And Kevin - he got a "pretty" one, too!

[Anonymous]

Hey Ed, not bad for a lonely loco. mech.

[Anonymous]

Hey Ed, not bad for a lonely loco. mech.