re: Your window arrangement. Why not go Full Confusion mode? You can have the live Bailey Yard web cam as your background while you work in other windows.
WARNING: This solution may reduce your productivity.
Seriously, I tried Bailey Yard as a background a couple of times and got nothing else done. A slide show of 15 favorite locomotive photos as my background is bad enough.
ChuckAllen, TX
Ballast train working UP No. 1 track across the diamond. Lots of rock dust.
xjqcf Ballast train working UP No. 1 track across the diamond. Lots of rock dust.
Looks like they're unloading ballast to the side; There's now a big pile west of the diamonds around the eastbound signal bridge The train moved just east of the diamonds and is now unloading there. I assume this is for the diamond replacement project.
Do those Herzog hopper cars have a method of transfering rock from one car to the next? Looks like the last car in that train is some sort of lifting conveyor machine that is moving rock from the front, up to the middle and then discharging it to the side in the big piles. I can't figure how it is getting the rock unless it is coming from all the cars in front of it.... but how?
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Inquiring minds want to know. That job sure would have tied up the streets if it had been brought in by truck.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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What you're describing, with the belt unloader(s) sounds more like the Georgetown Dump Train, not the Herzog ballast unoading system (which discharges ballast like ordinary hoppers, but much faster and more precisely).
The Dump Trains do have a belt that runs the length of the train, underneath the carbodies but above the couplers, leading to the conveyor unloader, This makes it easy to pile stone, dirt, or whatever in a location off the track.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
CShaveRR What you're describing, with the belt unloader(s) sounds more like the Georgetown Dump Train, not the Herzog ballast unoading system (which discharges ballast like ordinary hoppers, but much faster and more precisely). The Dump Trains do have a belt that runs the length of the train, underneath the carbodies but above the couplers, leading to the conveyor unloader, This makes it easy to pile stone, dirt, or whatever in a location off the track.
I looked it up. It was Herzog's Automated Conveyor Train. A promotional video of it isfound at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGwc9gfHF9w .
From listening to the scanner feed they had about 6 carloads left which they took to DeKalb for unloading after which they were to tie up someplace yet further east.
I knew it was "Herzog" because that is what was lettered on all of the cars!
But the final conveyor/discharge car I think was smaller than what was shown in that video and I could only see rock on the 1st conveyor, the last one was not being used as far as I could tell, and since it was all discharged on the other side of the track from the camera's viewpoint, I don't know how it was actually piled there.
xjqcf It was Herzog's Automated Conveyor Train.
That was it. I started watching as soon as it pulled up by the warehouse. I saw them swing around to get under the far signal bridge and then reset on this side of the diamonds. They had to move that second belt S. V. mentioned several times. I even guessed that the car in the middle of the consist was the unit that powered the whole thing, even though I had never seen anything like when it passed by.
The one thing I got wrong was, I wasn't expecting belts under the cars. I was thinking it was going to be more like a 21st Century souped up version of steam engine coal stokers. They must have some pretty smart guys at Herzog.
Semper Vaporo I knew it was "Herzog" because that is what was lettered on all of the cars! But the final conveyor/discharge car I think was smaller than what was shown in that video and I could only see rock on the 1st conveyor, the last one was not being used as far as I could tell, and since it was all discharged on the other side of the track from the camera's viewpoint, I don't know how it was actually piled there.
The second conveyor was the one rotated to the side for depositing the stone, fed by the first conveyor. There appeared to be an inclined plane structure extending to the end cab which did not carry any stone; it might not be designed for that or is used to support the dumping conveyor when it is stowed for movement to a new site
xjqcf is used to support the dumping conveyor when it is stowed for movement to a new site
That is what it was for. It took a couple of attempts to exactly centre the second conveyor before the operator set it firmly down. Then it seemed like there were dozens of things he had to secure and levers to throw before he went back to his cab and they left.
That operators job would be a hard one to hire for. Having to find the right person to combine high tech knowledge with a willingness to do brute force labour.
I'm not sure the spider is winning; she has to respin her web after it gets wiped off. She just won't give up.
Johnny
At least they did not put a pile in our quadrant!!
It is only a matter of time for the swap out .. we may need to ask nicely for a spider cleaning before the work.
First you bring in the ballast, then the rails. Yesterday I saw a loaded CWR train headed east, and just now, aprox. 1732 CDT, I saw an empty CWR train headed back west, trailed by two hoppers whose identity I couldn't make out because of the glare.
I can't say if it was the same equipment because the EB yesterday was trailed by a single, what had to be, ancient Southern Pacific hopper. In OCS service, as its' revenue earning days were long past. It was small and it was old. It would have been worth a photo in itself.
A can of Raid.Or a broom should do the trick.Somebody.
So far, when the web has been swept away, she returns and spins again.
The spider is winning!
Re the spider, I would suggest a little application of Home Defense MAX could deter it for awhile...
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
The new diamond is already here .. behind the "Del Monte Wall" .. Once we see the orange locate paint and flags show up we know things are getting ready.
[quote user="rdamon"]The new diamond is already here .. behind the "Del Monte Wall" .. Once we see the orange locate paint and flags show up we know things are getting ready.[/quote]
Ballast pile in front of the Del Monte facade as well as on the side of the port-a-pot.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
rdamon The new diamond is already here .. behind the "Del Monte Wall" .. Once we see the orange locate paint and flags show up we know things are getting ready.
Just saw a two man team walking around apparently taking measurements
xjqcf rdamon The new diamond is already here .. behind the "Del Monte Wall" .. Once we see the orange locate paint and flags show up we know things are getting ready. Just saw a two man team walking around apparently taking measurements
My guess is that installation of the diamonds will take place over the Memorial Day weekend when volume is traditionally lighter. My former employer always scheduled big projects that could cause service disruptions over holiday weekends when the effects would be less severe.
Another EB CWR train just went through on UP #1...
BaltACD xjqcf rdamon The new diamond is already here .. behind the "Del Monte Wall" .. Once we see the orange locate paint and flags show up we know things are getting ready. Just saw a two man team walking around apparently taking measurements My guess is that installation of the diamonds will take place over the Memorial Day weekend when volume is traditionally lighter. My former employer always scheduled big projects that could cause service disruptions over holiday weekends when the effects would be less severe.
alpinemikeMy former employer always scheduled big projects that could cause service disruptions over holiday weekends when the effects would be less severe.
The joys of working for a service-oriented company. The alternative, of course, is working for a company on its way to bankruptcy and, take it from me, that ain't fun. I (more or less) lived through three corporate bankruptcies; all were at least partly a result of providing poor service to customers.
A private car train just went west on UP. Anyone know what this was?
cefinkjr BaltACD The joys of working for a service-oriented company. The alternative, of course, is working for a company on its way to bankruptcy and, take it from me, that ain't fun. I (more or less) lived through three corporate bankruptcies; all were at least partly a result of providing poor service to customers.
BaltACD
A service oriented company that is dinged by the railfan community constantly.
Folks, we are working with our partners in Rochelle to banish the spider this spring. Plese keep in mind that the Trains editorial offices are more than 100 miles away, so we can't just take off and handle this ourselves.
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
5+ BNSF trucks out there now probably more measuring....
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