Heard for the first time, the mile post detector, had two hotboxes, she (the voice is female) call the car number, truck number. 2nd hotbox, the same way of identifying the which box was hot.
I forgot to mention, a MOW truck, with weilding on the diamonds, waiting on trains to continue work. They had thier speakers volumn up, was able to hear what I assume the engineers and the dispatchers. I'm gonna have to get me a scanner.
Well, that was interesting. Got on the cam, saw a light engine sitting on the far BNSF track, on the far side of the diamond. Shortly thereafter, the headlights went to bright and the ditch lights came on and it crossed the diamond and stopped. Turns out they were headed into the siding.
The light engine didn't stay long, and they're back out off the siding just a few minutes later, still running light.
And as the light engine was blowing for the crossing just out of sight of the diamond, a BNSF eastbound stacker came through on the near track.
Plenty of MOW vehicles in view - I originally thought the locomotive was somehow involved with them.
While it was quiet, you could hear it raining, and the radar looks like they're going to get a good soaking soon.
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I'm a huge fan of the webcam, but have a small query about the weather and temperature display at the bottom right. It's currently showing 46F, but there are folks sitting around in T-shirts and shorts. Either they breed 'em tough in Rochelle, or the number's wrong!
Looking at a few weather apps, they're showing just over 70F, which sounds more plausible. Perhaps the system is picking up minimum overnight temperature, rather than the current value?
BaltACD CatFoodFlambe rdettmer the rail on the rail train is not moving to much because its bolted down in the middle So what happens if the Big E pulls a knuckle or a drawbar along his/her merry way?
CatFoodFlambe rdettmer the rail on the rail train is not moving to much because its bolted down in the middle So what happens if the Big E pulls a knuckle or a drawbar along his/her merry way?
rdettmer the rail on the rail train is not moving to much because its bolted down in the middle
the rail on the rail train is not moving to much because its bolted down in the middle
So what happens if the Big E pulls a knuckle or a drawbar along his/her merry way?
And I see these videos of train and the camera Man is as close to the train as can be, I sure hope no one got hit by that.
I know, thier fault for being so close. but still, thats gonna hurt.
That train you saw today was the B-CHCSTP. Headed to St Paul.
Re: Color of leased vehicles.
It's often really easy to spot the vehicles that used to be owned by certain companies - their distinctive paint scheme or color being the reason, of course.
I'd opine that said companies may not want the public to see a run-down, third-owner vehicle still in their livery. With white, you might still see a shadow of their markings, if the adhesive didn't all come off...
AgentKid Are there still problems and delays at intermodal ports on the US west coast? I just saw a completely empty WB train of well cars and TOFC cars on the BNSF. Bruce
Are there still problems and delays at intermodal ports on the US west coast? I just saw a completely empty WB train of well cars and TOFC cars on the BNSF.
Bruce
That sounds to me like a lot of boxes sitting on the dock (or expected) with not enough rail cars to move them out. It's also indicative of east-west trade imbalances; doesn't take a container to ship dollars westward.
ChuckAllen, TX
Are there still problems and delays at intermodal ports on the US west coast? I just saw a completely empty WB train of well cars and TOFC cars on the BNSF. I haven't seen that since there were stories on the Newswire about problems a few months ago.
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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Edit to my previous post:
Oil companies started making the change in '82 or '83. I was talking to a CPR signal maintainer once, after he had just gotten his first white truck around 2003-5. Before that CPR MOW crews had used the same odd shade of yellow since you could buy trucks in anything other than black.
cefinkjr AgentKid Dakguy201 Around here at least BNSF vehicles are also white. CPR MOW equipment is also white. The truck makers have said if you want to lease instead of buy, you get white trucks. White trucks have a significantly higher resale price for the manufacturers after the lease has expired than any other colour. Or else the lease price will have to be higher. Bruce I'll take your word for that, Bruce. But, when I was managing vehicle leasing on part of the Penn Central, all of our vehicles were leased from a wholly owned subsidiary that we had inherited from PRR, not from the manufacturers. Those vehicles were ugly PC green with white lettering. On top of that, we required so many special modifications that the leasing company bought cab-chassis trucks and had a local body shop add the custom bodies. But that's a whole other issue. So is UP responsible for maintenance or is BNSF? The definitive answer to that question probably lies in the original deal that was hammered out when the second road reached that location and needed to cross the other.
AgentKid Dakguy201 Around here at least BNSF vehicles are also white. CPR MOW equipment is also white. The truck makers have said if you want to lease instead of buy, you get white trucks. White trucks have a significantly higher resale price for the manufacturers after the lease has expired than any other colour. Or else the lease price will have to be higher. Bruce
Dakguy201 Around here at least BNSF vehicles are also white.
CPR MOW equipment is also white.
The truck makers have said if you want to lease instead of buy, you get white trucks. White trucks have a significantly higher resale price for the manufacturers after the lease has expired than any other colour. Or else the lease price will have to be higher.
I'll take your word for that, Bruce. But, when I was managing vehicle leasing on part of the Penn Central, all of our vehicles were leased from a wholly owned subsidiary that we had inherited from PRR, not from the manufacturers. Those vehicles were ugly PC green with white lettering. On top of that, we required so many special modifications that the leasing company bought cab-chassis trucks and had a local body shop add the custom bodies. But that's a whole other issue.
So is UP responsible for maintenance or is BNSF? The definitive answer to that question probably lies in the original deal that was hammered out when the second road reached that location and needed to cross the other.
The normal maintenance responsibility normally falls to the 2nd carrier to the crossing point. If the second carrier had not come to the location the crossing would not be necessary, thus the 2nd carrier gets 100% of the crossing maintenance and upgrading costs. However, each crossing may have it's own maintenance agreement that may be different for reasons that make sense to the carriers involved at the time the agreement was negotiated and signed.
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cefinkjr But, when I was managing vehicle leasing on part of the Penn Central,
But, when I was managing vehicle leasing on part of the Penn Central,
Up here the change occurred in either '82 or '83, so it would have been much later than you remebered.
But it is not the RR's choice. Up here oil company servicing equipment is also white. The truck makers have said if you want to lease instead of buy, you get white trucks. White trucks have a significantly higher resale price for the manufacturers after the lease has expired than any other colour. Or else the lease price will have to be higher.
UP stacks with the "Salt Lake 2002" loco on the front just gone through, heading to Global III.
cefinkjr I've been assuming from the white MoW vehicles that maintenance here is UP's responsibility (UP MoW equipment in this area is always white). Can anyone confirm that or tell me I'm wrong?
I've been assuming from the white MoW vehicles that maintenance here is UP's responsibility (UP MoW equipment in this area is always white). Can anyone confirm that or tell me I'm wrong?
MoW gang working on the near diamond ... again. I imagine that Track Supervisor wishes he had never heard of Rochelle.
UP WB, track inspector with all sorts of blinky lights, two yellow MOW equipment running on tracks, I didn't recognize this pair. at 0723am.
AgentKid Just saw what looks like three generations of one family. Grandma didn't realize you don't need to wave to mid-train DPU units! Bruce
Just saw what looks like three generations of one family.
Grandma didn't realize you don't need to wave to mid-train DPU units!
Maybe that is why so many railfans complain that the Engineer didn't wave back!
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Pkgs.
54 "stacks" EB on UP OS 8:09 pm
And I do mean "stacks" - all double. How does one count cars in such a train with some single wells, some articulated?
This one was notable because it was handled by one unit. I'm not in to modern Diseasels enough to know even who built it, much less its HP, TE, or any other important detail.
UP business train with 3 or 4 each UP business passenger cars just passed over the diamond heading west, 5PM est
If the weather this weekend proves to be better than the forecast I will trek to Rochelle to take an inventory of the work for News Wire.
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Lots of MOW activity at the diamonds today: arc welding, grinding, impact wrench work. Three, maybe four heavy trucks, and they're still at it coming up to 5 PM. At least the temp is up to 50° now.
dknelson A crew this morning seems to be attending to the switch off the main that allows the BNSF to serve the Del Monte plant to the west. It has been a long time since I have seen any BNSF action on that switch lead - back in the day the BN and C&NW used to alternate for which railroad served the plant. Is there a chance the old BN switch is being removed? Dave Nelson
A crew this morning seems to be attending to the switch off the main that allows the BNSF to serve the Del Monte plant to the west. It has been a long time since I have seen any BNSF action on that switch lead - back in the day the BN and C&NW used to alternate for which railroad served the plant. Is there a chance the old BN switch is being removed?
Dave Nelson
the siding is used every workday, most of the time a GP38 with a number of various cars. One time saw a number of center line cars come out full of skids. (pallets). I've also caught them a various times, but the 11am to 12am seems to be the usuall time for it. Mon morning the switcher backed down it about 9am.
It looks like the UP installed a new aluminum signal bridge just beyond the existing black signal bridge on the far side of the crossing. The camera does not include the same area on this side of the crossing, so can not see if there is similar work going on. It looks like the days of the CNW steel signal bridges may be numbered.
Maybe they are going to power the switch?
northwesterner I was watching the feed about 30 minutes ago. A BNSF engine and three cars just backed down the DelMonte lead.
I was watching the feed about 30 minutes ago. A BNSF engine and three cars just backed down the DelMonte lead.
A BNSF local, often running long-hood forward (a GP40? sounds like an old, two-cylinder John Deere tractor), uses that switch late morning every day I've been on at that time.
Looks like the crew there has installed a new telephone pole at the switch. They were digging with a back hoe, and now have moved the tractor up by the tree.
Here comes a covered-hopper train eastbound on the BNSF near track, led by two Norfolk-Southern locomotives. . . Now gone. Everybody hunkered down till the train passed.
Have to check back later. What's with the pole?
/Mr Lynn
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