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QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard If they didnt have the engineer draw off some air, but just closed the angle cocks, and bottled the air, then tied handbrakes to the cut left standing, and then cut the crossing, the EOT would still show a fully charged line...the new crew mounts up, looks at the EOT indicater, sees it ready and charged...away they go. Ed[:D]
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QUOTE: Originally posted by virlon QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard If they didnt have the engineer draw off some air, but just closed the angle cocks, and bottled the air, then tied handbrakes to the cut left standing, and then cut the crossing, the EOT would still show a fully charged line...the new crew mounts up, looks at the EOT indicater, sees it ready and charged...away they go. Ed[:D] away they go.... That would pertain to the crew that bottled the air and tied it down in that condition also... Virlon save your ticket.... the P.E. will rise again.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard You bet it would! Not that we ever bottle the air on the Port[:0] EdQUOTE: Originally posted by virlon QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard If they didnt have the engineer draw off some air, but just closed the angle cocks, and bottled the air, then tied handbrakes to the cut left standing, and then cut the crossing, the EOT would still show a fully charged line...the new crew mounts up, looks at the EOT indicater, sees it ready and charged...away they go. Ed[:D] away they go.... That would pertain to the crew that bottled the air and tied it down in that condition also... Virlon save your ticket.... the P.E. will rise again.
Tom
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QUOTE: Originally posted by AltonFan On at least two occasions I've seen diesel locomotive bodies being hauled by trucks down I-294, north of Chicago. In both instances the trucks were heading south, and the locomotive bodies looked like they were a tan-yellow color (a primer coat?).
dehusman wrote:The MP15 was probably spliced in the middle of the consists account it probably doesn't have alignment control drawbars (stops in the draft gear to prevent the drawbar from excessive slewing whan in compression). Dave H.
It seems like all of SP's SW1500s, MP15s, and MP15ACs were setup to do road switching. So I would think that SP's MP15s would have those drawbars.
DSchmitt wrote:For several years the SP ran Roadrailers tail end of a "box car" train several times a week in each direction on the "east valley" line north of Sacramento. A box car with a Fred was always on the rear.
Oh God, Please Talk To Me.
How'd they hook the boxcar in back of the 'Railers?
Where'd the train go to/from?
Do you know why they had to hang a carbox on the back? I mean 'Railers operate regularly w/o such a thingy.
Last week I saw a light engine move of 18 locomotives (SD70Ms and 9-44CWs).
Tonight I saw a road crew spend four hours rearranging their train and setting out cars before leaving the yard. The train must have gone back and forth a couple dozen times. While there, I saw a train composed of two 5-unit and one 1-unit well cars. It was heading south. This is the first time I can recall seeing a southbound train on UP through here composed entirely of steamship containers. It is the first time I recall seeing a southbound UP train with containers come through here since UP switched the KOAMN from the Sunset Route to the Overland Route.
greyhounds DSchmitt wrote:For several years the SP ran Roadrailers tail end of a "box car" train several times a week in each direction on the "east valley" line north of Sacramento. A box car with a Fred was always on the rear. Oh God, Please Talk To Me. How'd they hook the boxcar in back of the 'Railers? Where'd the train go to/from? Do you know why they had to hang a carbox on the back? I mean 'Railers operate regularly w/o such a thingy.
I am not God, but here is what I know. SP ran Roadrailers between City of Industry, CA and Portland, OR. For a few months SP also ran a short train of boxcars between those two places. I never saw it, but perhaps these trains were combined a few times. Every time I saw SP's, then UP's, Roadrailer train, it was only locomotives and Roadrailers.
Here recently while at work I saw a locomotive pulling flatcars with those super long windmill blades on them. they looked to be well over 100 feet long and were riding on 2 cars each. I also see BNSF "Plane Trains" a few times a week heading from Wichita to Seattle carrying 737 fuselages.
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