QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie Thanx for info, Mark. On the placards for the hazmat - a nice young man that lives in Texas, but "flies" into Kansas with his dog Toto every so often, sent me an Emergency Response Guidebook listing all the chemicals, the signs for them, what clothes to wear for them and really makes me want to back up about 100 feet from a crossing! Ick! Mookie We in the firefighting business often use the "rule of thumb" for hazmat distances. If our thumb hides the scene, we're far enough away. Police agencies use a slightly different measuring tool. You can tell they've been using it if there is a ring of powdered sugar around their eye - looking through the donut hole. If you can see the whole scene, you're back enough....[:D]
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie Thanx for info, Mark. On the placards for the hazmat - a nice young man that lives in Texas, but "flies" into Kansas with his dog Toto every so often, sent me an Emergency Response Guidebook listing all the chemicals, the signs for them, what clothes to wear for them and really makes me want to back up about 100 feet from a crossing! Ick! Mookie
QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1 Mookie Did you look close at the 8997 ? look at the windshield engineer side top toward center . there is a white hunk of metal hanging there. and on many ns dash 9s and the new 2600 series sd 70s. you will see a red flash of light also. just smile you had your picture taken. that is the railcam that ns put in for the crossing accidents and anything else they want to use it for.
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Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken Toto the Cairn Terrier must be a million years old in dog years by now......Title of Emergency Response Guide as related to us by an instructor at the "Rattlesnake Junction" hazmat school at the Pueblo AAR Test Facility is "Nikes, Don't Fail Me Now!!!"[(-D] Dirty Snowy Bird[banghead]
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mark W. Hemphill That's correct -- that "whoop" is the air compressor engaging. EMDs are set up with the compressor driven off the engine (in line), and when not needed the compressor simply doesn't compress. So GEs save fuel by not spinning the compressor except when you need it, as well as wear-and-tear on the compressor, and EMDs save maintenance by not having the clutch. Another six-of-one, half-a-dozen of another choices. Mookie, if you search in Google for "north american emergency response handbook" you will find html versions (and probably a pdf version that's easy to print) of the guide to all the hazmat placards that are used. That enables you to look up the number of the placard and in many cases know what's being hauled in the tankcar. The Transportation Security Administration has proposed that no hazmat load be placarded for security reasons. I haven't heard of any railroad, truck line, chemical shipper, fire department, or emergency response organization liking that idea. Larry gave you the two likely choices for the coal car you saw. One way to tell is If the coal car you saw was aluminum, not bottom-dump, or had a reporting mark ending in "X" -then it's unlikely to be anything other than a bad-order setout, repaired and moving again. If the coal looked gray and kind of porous, it was actually coke -- foundries get single-car orders of coke all the time.
QUOTE: The Transportation Security Administration has proposed that no hazmat load be placarded for security reasons. I haven't heard of any railroad, truck line, chemical shipper, fire department, or emergency response organization liking that idea.
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