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Last night the crew that is now still trying to get to UP's Peavine Mountain repeater made an aborted trip between about 17:00 hours and 2330 hours. They were turned back by high winds and windshield deep snow drifts. At that time they figured that the repeater link had about 14 hours of battery life left. At some point this afternoon DS74 has lost his Peavine Mountain link. The crew, probably with replacement batteries has still not made it to the top, they will work on it for about an hour, if they do not make it in that time, they will turn back. (DS74 just came back online via Peavine, 1456 hrs) Last night, the last westbound that I heard before going to bed rolled by my house at about 0030 hours on the 8th, I live at Lawton, NV (235.5), it had UP 8250 on the point. This train tripped the high-wide detector at West Verdi at MP 229.7, this is where the photo of UP4428 was taken earlier, the train had to be walked, but only that portion that had crossed the detector. After about an hour the train headed to Truckee. At Truckee the train was parked and the crew from that westman took over an eastman with 8294 on the point. They got to MP 237.8 before going dead, this between Lawton and West Reno, NV. This train had both crews on board, the crew that went dead at Truckee and the relief crew that had taken over at Truckee. UP sent a light engine move eastbout out of Sparks and a 3rd crew took over the 8294 eastman. The light engine move that played taxi was a manned helper set moving to Truckee. Incidenally, I learned by talking to crew that manned helpers were implamented last week during the last strom. Not all trains are getting manned helpers. Some have enough HP/Ton to go without DPU or Helper, other trains have DPUs in-trained. As a side note to the 8294 eastman which finally able to move into Sparks from MP237.8 received his track warrent from DS74 via MOW forman. As the DS Peavine link was not working at the time. After DS74 came back online via the Peavin link - heard him inform someone that the plan when they start running trains will be No. 2 track from Shed 10 to Norden and No 1 track Shed 47 to Truckee. More as I hear... SP9033 - Lawton, NV MP235.5
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