There has beed many days of both scheduled and unscheduled track work WASH - Perryville effecting mainly MARC. Another one today Friday 12th.
blue streak 1There has beed many days of both scheduled and unscheduled track work WASH - Perryville effecting mainly MARC. Another one today Friday 12th. MARC Service Alert <alert@mtamarylandalerts.com> To:Maryland MTA Alerts Subscriber Jul 12 at 10:14 AM Due to single tracking around unscheduled trackwork, until otherwise announced, all trains will work off of 3 track at Odenton and Bowie State. The schedule will be adjusted to help keep trains moving. Northbound trains 418 and 422 will bypass both Odenton and Bowie State stops. Southbound trains 427 and 431 will also bypass Odenton and Bowie State. All trains are expected to see 25 to 30 minute delays passing through the area.
Amazing how the derailment of a ballast train creates unscheduled trackwork.
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/07/12/train-derailment-odenton-maryland/
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BaltACDAmazing how the derailment of a ballast train creates unscheduled trackwork.
I didn't know Herzog had Difco side dumps.
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I'll bite: how did they manage to get the effect of side-dumping with conventional cars. No stringlining excuse in that location!
Overmod BaltACD Amazing how the derailment of a ballast train creates unscheduled trackwork. I'll bite: how did they manage to get the effect of side-dumping with conventional cars. No stringlining excuse in that location!
BaltACD Amazing how the derailment of a ballast train creates unscheduled trackwork.
Without being on the ground and investigating the signs and marks and other clues that derailments leave, I don't have any idea how Amtrak managed to pull this one off.
BaltACD... I don't have any idea how Amtrak managed to pull this one off.
"Yes but," I heard the member formerly known as Bucyrus say, "if they pulled it off doesn't that imply a string line-type derailment? As opposed to pushing it off..."
Still ranks as my vote for pun of the year.
Overmod BaltACD ... I don't have any idea how Amtrak managed to pull this one off. "Yes but," I heard the member formerly known as Bucyrus say, "if they pulled it off doesn't that imply a string line-type derailment? As opposed to pushing it off..." Still ranks as my vote for pun of the year.
BaltACD ... I don't have any idea how Amtrak managed to pull this one off.
+1 In the unintended humor category.
BaltACD I don't have any idea how Amtrak managed to pull this one off.
I've heard of ballast trains that dumped too much ballast (gate stuck open or similar) and it caused a derailment.
zugmann BaltACD I don't have any idea how Amtrak managed to pull this one off. I've heard of ballast trains that dumped too much ballast (gate stuck open or similar) and it caused a derailment.
Or if the doors didn't open on one side of the car, turning it into an unbalanced load. Just like the little cartoon painted on the ends of centrebeam flats.
Those Difco air dumps are prone to tipping over too, gotta be careful and raise them slowly, and wait until some of the load has poured out before raising it completely.
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SD70Dude zugmann BaltACD I don't have any idea how Amtrak managed to pull this one off. I've heard of ballast trains that dumped too much ballast (gate stuck open or similar) and it caused a derailment. Or if the doors didn't open on one side of the car, turning it into an unbalanced load. Just like the little cartoon painted on the ends of centrebeam flats. Those Difco air dumps are prone to tipping over too, gotta be careful and raise them slowly, and wait until some of the load has poured out before raising it completely.
Cars pictured in the article are not Difco side dumps. They are Herzog bottom dumps.
BaltACDCars pictured in the article are not Difco side dumps. They are Herzog bottom dumps.
Too many people seem to have missed the wicked humor in Zug's post that said 'I didn't know Herzog used Difcos'...
Overmod BaltACD Cars pictured in the article are not Difco side dumps. They are Herzog bottom dumps. Too many people seem to have missed the wicked humor in the post that said 'I didn't know Herzog used Difcos'...
BaltACD Cars pictured in the article are not Difco side dumps. They are Herzog bottom dumps.
Too many people seem to have missed the wicked humor in the post that said 'I didn't know Herzog used Difcos'...
I also do not see any string in that photo either.
BaltACD SD70Dude zugmann BaltACD I don't have any idea how Amtrak managed to pull this one off. I've heard of ballast trains that dumped too much ballast (gate stuck open or similar) and it caused a derailment. Or if the doors didn't open on one side of the car, turning it into an unbalanced load. Just like the little cartoon painted on the ends of centrebeam flats. Those Difco air dumps are prone to tipping over too, gotta be careful and raise them slowly, and wait until some of the load has poured out before raising it completely. Cars pictured in the article are not Difco side dumps. They are Herzog bottom dumps.
Believe me, I am very familiar with the differences between the different types of ballast cars. Switched way too many of them on way too many worktrains. The first part of my post (bolded here) referred to the bottom-dump Herzog cars.
The bit about air-dumps refers to other incidents I have heard about, but thankfully not taken part in.
Or perhaps this derailment had nothing to do with the cars, and they found a spot of bad track that should have been made a higher priority on the to-do list.
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