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[:)][:)][quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Train Guy 3 I keep seeing these ballast cars with a odd name over the last two months. The name is " HERZOG ", the letters are in white, and the cars are like maroon / rust in color. Does anyone know who or what " HERZOG" is. [/quote] I have seen a Herzog ballast train around here several times this summer and fall. I learned that (let's see if I can remember this right) they've got a computer with the whole NS system programmed into it, and by using GPS the train can drop the ballast as it goes along, all controlled by the computer and the GPS. It knows where the road crossings etc. are and will stop dropping the ballast right before the crossing and start up again just past it. It sounds pretty neat, but I haven't gotten to see it doing that yet. I usually have seen it just coming into or out of the yard. --Nora [/quote][:)]Me And SLIC were just thinking about that UP has A ballast train thats remote controlled I remember when it was air controlled I guess It works like gps I noticed they have solar panels on one corner of the top so I guess that how It works[:D]
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