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Saw something interesting last night.
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[quote user="R. T. POTEET"][quote user="popeye9941"] <p>While trainwatching last night at Delray Junction in Detroit, a train slowly approached a switch, and stopped. I had my scanner on, and heard him tell the operator, "This switch is not cooperating. Need permission to handle manually". The conductor got off the engine and threw the switch manually. A few minutes later the CSX maintainer showed up and did something. A little later another intermodel train slowly approached the switch, barely moving. When he was about 100 feet from the switch, a strobe light on the relay house next to the switch flashed a couple times, and the switch indicator changed from green to yellow. The engineer immediately began accelerating past the switch onto the industrial track.</p><p>It appears that they may have some type of remote control, similar to garage door openers, on the locomotives, to avoid manual handling of switches. Anyone know anything about this.</p><p>[/quote]<br /><br />Actually the conductor of this second train probably said something like, "There's a railfan standing out here; let's do something stupid and completely blow his mind!"[/quote]</p><p>Hahahaha!!!!!!!<span class="smiley">[(-D]</span> <span class="smiley">[(-D]</span> <span class="smiley">[(-D]</span> <span class="smiley">[(-D]</span> <span class="smiley">[(-D]</span> <span class="smiley">[(-D]</span> </p><p> </p>
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