That's for the Pepperidge Farm plant in Downers Grove. I'm pretty sure that siding is the last on the racetrack that fouls a main when switching - the remaining local traffic is served from industrial park spurs.
Norm48327 BaltACD 8888?
BaltACD
8888?
No - a different incident that did not get national publicity.
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BaltACDUnfortunately, since one engine 'got away' in such service, my carrier has made the practice against the rules. Now a number of Trainmasters are wondering why their locals aren't doing all their work and are going on the law.
Norm
Typical.
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CMStPnP ^^^ Suspected something like that but geez that has to be expensive with only one car of revenue. Thanks for the response though.
^^^ Suspected something like that but geez that has to be expensive with only one car of revenue. Thanks for the response though.
Doesn't mean they started or ended with one car.
zugmannWe do it all the time where I work. On a busy mainline it can take a long time to get the track time neccesary(and sometimes a long distance depending where you are) to do a runaround move - if there is a place to do a runaround. Not every piece of railroad comes so equipped. So they may be dropping the car off at a facing point switch, or returning from somewhere with a trailing point switch and it was a lot easier (and sometimes the only way possible to do the work) to set up push-pull to return.
On a busy mainline it can take a long time to get the track time neccesary(and sometimes a long distance depending where you are) to do a runaround move - if there is a place to do a runaround. Not every piece of railroad comes so equipped.
So they may be dropping the car off at a facing point switch, or returning from somewhere with a trailing point switch and it was a lot easier (and sometimes the only way possible to do the work) to set up push-pull to return.
Unfortunately, since one engine 'got away' in such service, my carrier has made the practice against the rules. Now a number of Trainmasters are wondering why their locals aren't doing all their work and are going on the law.
We do it all the time where I work.
I would hazard the guess that the car and possibly the engines, is/are fresh from the shop and being ferried back to a yard for distribution... maybe the engines are just a power redistribution move.
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Ok just curious on the train with one hopper car and a locomotive at each end in the first opening segment of the video on the center track. That's got to be expensive to run that. Why would a railroad run a configuration like that? Is that to avoid turning time or locomotive run arounds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVLAF_eLV3M
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