Many reports that Sunset limited is only running SAS - LAX. Reports unconfirmed that UP's Brazos river bridge near Houston has taken major damage and may take weeks to fix. One report says one pier bad. Kinda expected news wire to have a report today. May be the flooding so bad that no pictures available yet ?
UP report on southern flooding. dated jun 3 Brazos out of service at least 14 days ? ? ?
http://www.up.com/customers/announcements/customernews/generalannouncements/CN2016-14.html
blue streak 1 Many reports that Sunset limited is only running SAS - LAX. Reports unconfirmed that UP's Brazos river bridge near Houston has taken major damage and may take weeks to fix. One report says one pier bad. Kinda expected news wire to have a report today. May be the flooding so bad that no pictures available yet ?
Amtrak's webpage is showing that information regarding Numbers 1 and 2, which were due in San Antonio during the wee hours of Tusday, is unavailable due to a service disruption.
Amtrak had not posted a service alert as of late Monday.
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Very unconfirmed reports the Sunset will detour somehow SAS - NOL. Thie probably possible with the freight downturns allowing furloughed T&E to be pilots on detour routes ?
Found video of Sunset detouring over tower 17 to avoid Brazos bridge washout.
https://swrails.com/2016/06/12/the-tower-17-shuffle/
Thank you for this post & video, I was supprised at the track as the train came forward and there was a low joint leaving the crossing that rocked the 197 & #2 but the engineer continued to accellerate. Otherwise, looked like a good connection. Again thanks.
Electroliner 1935I was supprised at the track as the train came forward and there was a low joint leaving the crossing that rocked the 197 & #2 but the engineer continued to accelerate. Otherwise, looked like a good connection.
Is it standard operating procedure to stand so far back in the vestibule as at 2:17ff particularly at that rate of acceleration into a curve with possibly uncertain trackwork? The first thing that came to mind was Cacy...
Overmodstand so far back in the vestibule as at 2:17ff
I'm confused as to what you are talking about. What is meant by 2:17ff and where did the vestibule come into this string?
Electroliner 1935What is meant by 2:17ff
Maybe at the 2 min. 17 second point in the video?
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Electroliner 1935I'm confused as to what you are talking about. What is meant by 2:17ff and where did the vestibule come into this string?
"2:17ff' is citation 'shorthand' for time mark 2.17 and watching (in text, it would be reading) forward an unspecified time. (I could have specified the precise time of concern, but that wasn't as important as flagging where the issue started...)
The vestibule comes in because the conductor is standing in the very rear of it, with apparently no more safety restraint than a chain across his lower hips (where it would do little more than flip him if he were to start falling out). That can't possibly be 'safe', can it? It certainly distracted me from watching the train switch directions the first time I ran the video.
OvermodThe vestibule comes in because the conductor is standing in the very rear of it, with apparently no more safety restraint than a chain across his lower hips (where it would do little more than flip him if he were to start falling out). That can't possibly be 'safe', can it? It certainly distracted me from watching the train switch directions the first time I ran the video.
It looks more like a bar to me, and there is another one about chest high that he is resting his arms on.
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Paul of Covington Overmod The vestibule comes in because the conductor is standing in the very rear of it, with apparently no more safety restraint than a chain across his lower hips (where it would do little more than flip him if he were to start falling out). That can't possibly be 'safe', can it? It certainly distracted me from watching the train switch directions the first time I ran the video. It looks more like a bar to me, and there is another one about chest high that he is resting his arms on.
Overmod The vestibule comes in because the conductor is standing in the very rear of it, with apparently no more safety restraint than a chain across his lower hips (where it would do little more than flip him if he were to start falling out). That can't possibly be 'safe', can it? It certainly distracted me from watching the train switch directions the first time I ran the video.
Correct. Two bars, which makes it pretty safe.
schlimm Correct. Two bars, which makes it pretty safe.
He's leaning on the top bar and the second is above his knees. I was a little confused as I ddn't consider the back door as a vestibule. He looks quite secure and comfortable. I normally think of the space at the top of the steps on a single level car as the vestibule. A space between two portals.
blue streak 1 Found video of Sunset detouring over tower 17 to avoid Brazos bridge washout. https://swrails.com/2016/06/12/the-tower-17-shuffle/
This is a very good video.
Several aspects of the Sunset Limited caught my attention.
Why two locomotives for a relatively light train? The Texas Eagle, which has one more coach than the Sunset, at least as shown, gets by with just one locomotive.
The full length baggage car seems a bit much. It is hard to imagine that the passengers on the Sunset - two coaches and one sleeper, plus some space in the transition sleeper - would have enough checked baggage to justify a full length baggage car. For years the Texas Eagle, which now has one of the new baggage cars, got by with a coach baggage car.
JPS1 The full length baggage car seems a bit much. It is hard to imagine that the passengers on the Sunset - two coaches and one sleeper, plus some space in the transition sleeper - would have enough checked baggage to justify a full length baggage car. For years the Texas Eagle, which now has one of the new baggage cars, got by with a coach baggage car.
continuing problems with bridge pier still sinking. Sunset is still on detour.
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