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Two trains leave Pittsburgh at 5:00 pm headed for Chicago......
Solve for X...Show all work.
No looking at anyone else's paper. There will be no leaving one's seat. There will be a bathroom break at which time you will be instructed to turn your papers upside down and not leave your seats until so instructed. Wait for the bell to start.
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Murray Two trains leave Pittsburgh at 5:00 pm headed for Chicago...... Solve for X...Show all work.
X got blocked in a chicago suburb by a broken CN train.
I assumed no gravity, though.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Were the two trains on the same railroad or competitors' lines? Freight or passenger (we need to figure how many crews)?
X is variable, depending on whether the CN blockage (taken as a "given") occurs at South Bend, Wellsboro, or Gary (where CN might drop a train off the bridge).
(Hands paper in, takes off for bathroom...)
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)
As this "test" came with no advance notice I guess it was a "pop quiz" and that's why my palms got sweaty...must be a flash back from my high school days!
Didn't receive instruction soon enough... bathroom break now unnecessary... but you might want to contact the janitorial services for a clean up in aisle 2.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
"testing..."
We get signal. Main screen turn on.
I think we have done enough testing. Now we need some fixing.
Testing delayed by code line failure.
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CShaveRR Were the two trains on the same railroad or competitors' lines? Freight or passenger (we need to figure how many crews)? X is variable, depending on whether the CN blockage (taken as a "given") occurs at South Bend, Wellsboro, or Gary (where CN might drop a train off the bridge).
Y only applies at Sprigsboro, Maynard, and Munster. Z applies only to Thorton. 0 is added for the diamond at Harvey. Add one extra crew to dogcatch at Schoolcraft if they have to double the Valpo hill.
. . . must be job-performance related (like, what other kind is worthwhile ?).
[fn #] Train does not run on Sundays when the Moon is full.
Murray Two trains leave Pittsburgh at 5:00 pm headed for Chicago...... Solve for X...Show all work. In farmer Jones' cornfield. Very messy operating issue. Conductors think they can cover it up.
In farmer Jones' cornfield. Very messy operating issue. Conductors think they can cover it up.
Paul_D_North_Jr . . . must be job-performance related (like, what other kind is worthwhile ?). [fn #] Train does not run on Sundays when the Moon is full.
Johnny
Pueblo, we have a problem!
All kidding aside, it is interesting to note how often when riding NYC area trains...PATH, NJT, MNRR, LIRR, and MTA... we see "student" railroaders being toutered and studying for qualifying. Two weeks ago yesterday there were a several aboard the MNRR NH bound train out of GCT for instance. Usually in the first car as far forward as possible. Often a supervisor is there asking questions or giving instructions or advice of some kind.
Johnny, that wasn't my intent - but I was wondering if anyone would make that connection anyhow !
It was something like this:
Rules Examiner: "My God, man - you'd have collisions with so many trains . . . there's no telling how much damage you'd cause. Why, I oughta fire you right now ! ".
Conductor: "Wait a minute . . . You said to tell you how many trains I'd have to meet and pass today - right ?
Well, today is Sunday - - - and them other trains ain't running today !"
- Paul North.
Paul, you laid it wide open, since you and I have, in the past, mentioned this or that anecdote found in A Treasury of Railroad Folklore. For the benefit of those who do not have the book, the conductor in the story was not the sharpest blade in the drawer--but he was sharp enough to pass this test.
Deggesty Paul, you laid it wide open, since you and I have, in the past, mentioned this or that anecdote found in A Treasury of Railroad Folklore. For the benefit of those who do not have the book, the conductor in the story was not the sharpest blade in the drawer--but he was sharp enough to pass this test.
It was the engineer.
Here's another question. A coal train leaves Point B for Point C, 200 (+/-) miles away. It takes 5 hours to go 175 miles. How long does it take to go the last 25 miles?
Jeff
In honor of Sarcastics Awareness Month, I'll say that it takes half an hour to go the last 25 miles...before which you got about seven hours' rest in the cab and a couple more hours outside, waiting in the wind and rain.
jeffhergert Here's another question. A coal train leaves Point B for Point C, 200 (+/-) miles away. It takes 5 hours to go 175 miles. How long does it take to go the last 25 miles? Jeff
7, but you won't get to C. Tie it down and look for rubber wheels...
zugmann jeffhergert: Here's another question. A coal train leaves Point B for Point C, 200 (+/-) miles away. It takes 5 hours to go 175 miles. How long does it take to go the last 25 miles? Jeff 7, but you won't get to C. Tie it down and look for rubber wheels...
jeffhergert: Here's another question. A coal train leaves Point B for Point C, 200 (+/-) miles away. It takes 5 hours to go 175 miles. How long does it take to go the last 25 miles? Jeff
If the train can hold its 35 mph average it should take approximately another 45 minutes for the last 25 miles.
jeffhergert Deggesty: Paul, you laid it wide open, since you and I have, in the past, mentioned this or that anecdote found in A Treasury of Railroad Folklore. For the benefit of those who do not have the book, the conductor in the story was not the sharpest blade in the drawer--but he was sharp enough to pass this test. It was the engineer. Here's another question. A coal train leaves Point B for Point C, 200 (+/-) miles away. It takes 5 hours to go 175 miles. How long does it take to go the last 25 miles? Jeff
Deggesty: Paul, you laid it wide open, since you and I have, in the past, mentioned this or that anecdote found in A Treasury of Railroad Folklore. For the benefit of those who do not have the book, the conductor in the story was not the sharpest blade in the drawer--but he was sharp enough to pass this test.
I was going to say 12 hours.
I witnessed, on a March 2007 morning, a manifest leave North Fond du Lac, WI (Shops Yard on the WC) at 6 AM and arrive at the north end of Dixie Siding in Neenah, WI at 5:45 PM. For the record that's in the neighborhood of 25 miles.
Dan
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
That reminds me - see the train speeds times in Fred Frailey's recent blog column on his "Adventures on the Soo Line in North Dakota" posted 10-18-2010, esp. in the 3rd paragraph, at -
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/blogs/fred-frailey/archive/2010/10/18/adventures-on-the-soo-line-in-north-dakota.aspx
Well, Don was partly right. It is a trick question. Because of a maintenance curfew east, then south of Point C meant the train wasn't wanted. It's never a good sign when the dispatcher is asked, "How long are you going to hold us?" and the answer is, "I don't know, yet."
The correct answer in this case is 5 hours for the last 25 miles. Sometimes Zug's answer about tieing down and cabbing in happens, but not this time. If it had, then 7 or 12 hours may have been correct.
We had been having such a good trip, we thought maybe they were going to take this train before the curfew began. We even went thru a couple of choke points, one where a couple of trains were held for us to clear. Alas, it wasn't to be. We did get into C and tied up 15 mins before going dead on the law.
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