NS radio frequency

[tree68]

Two possible reasons you can't hear the DS -
1. The base is too far away and/or you're outside the field of the directional antenna they are probably using on the transmitter. You may be missing more than you think. See if you can discern where the crew is when you hear them and compare that to their possible range of travel.
2. The DS is on a different frequency. He/she transmits on one channel, listens on another. While not that common in the RR world, it could be the case.

At any rate, give some serious consideration to a good outside antenna. That was discussed on a thread here a month or more ago.

[MP173]

ON the scanner, I frequently hear the train crew talking to the dispatcher, but I do not hear the dispatcher...only one end of the conversation. Why would that be?

For instance, a couple of weeks ago an eastbound ran over an man, severing both legs. I could hear the trainmen talking but not the dispatcher.

The interesting thing was the trainmen did not seem to get out of the train to assist the injured man. Cant say that I blame them, but is that protocal or what?

ed

[rrnut282]

Sorry I didn't see your post earlier.

It's way down after the Conrail split. Look at the Fort Wayne Railfan's operations Page
http://www.trainweb.org/fwarailfan/fortwayne_ops.htm for a fairly current listing of trains on the line out of the fort.

Yes, they still use 3 digits. Although to fit in all the "new" Conrail trains, they did make the last digit a letter on many trains. 100's (&Mxx) are priority freight, 200's (&Ixx) are intermodal (TC is 250 -270 ), 300's (&Wxx) are drag freights, 5,6,7,800's are unit trains and 900's are still non-revenue trains.

[MP173]

Thanks for the info....

I figured something was up as I hadnt heard anything on the old NS frequency.

Mike, do you know how many trains a day are running on the NKP line? Used to be around 30-40/day back before the Conrail merger.

Also, do you know the train designations for NS? Have they changed away from the 3 digit number (129, 144, etc)?

ed

[Anonymous]

Check this out for all your scanning needs


http://zippy.cso.uiuc.edu/~roma/rr-freqs/

[rrnut282]

Ed
the ex NKP line Fort Wayne to Chicago went to 161.490 about 5 months ago in a frequency reorganization. 3 out of 5 lines radiating from Fort Wayne changed, so each district got its own channel. I'm guessing it was to reduce "stepped on" transmissions (two talking at the same time) since the Triple Crown yard got its own frequency, separate from the regular "yard channel".

[MP173]

I found my old scanner this weekend and plugged in the frequencies...as best as I could remember them. I live in Northwest Indiana and the ex Nickle Plate line (now NS) runs thru town.

I entered the frequency as 161.25, but have not heard anything on the scanner.

Is that the correct frequency? Does the NS still call out signal indications as they did several years ago?

Thanks,

Ed