When I was a Signal Maintainer on the New York City Subway system, I had the bad experiance of crawling under a train to rescue an infant that was the attempted victim of a suicide of his mother. The baby had both feet severed as well as his mother lost her feet too. I went back under the train to retrieve one of his feet. I had a bad time sleeping a couple of nights. Saw dead people in Nam but not children. BTW, They both survived.
retsignalmtr When I was a Signal Maintainer on the New York City Subway system, I had the bad experiance of crawling under a train to rescue an infant that was the attempted victim of a suicide of his mother. The baby had both feet severed as well as his mother lost her feet too. I went back under the train to retrieve one of his feet. I had a bad time sleeping a couple of nights. Saw dead people in Nam but not children. BTW, They both survived.
Thanks for adding that last sentence. The copy I received in an email left that detail hanging.
Worst I saw in Vietnam was what I didn't see: A UH-1 crew simply didn't come back. The Huey was found the next day but no indication of why it was on the ground very near the Cambodian border or where the pilot, co-pilot, and crew chief were. But you half expect to experience things like that in a combat zone; not in a New York subway.
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UP merchandise tran just passed a few minutes ago with a Caboose on the end.
retsignalmtrWhen I was a Signal Maintainer on the New York City Subway system,
You didn't, by any chance, know "Lobie" did you?
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Lobenstein. Worked in power distribution, I believe.
Worked with PD and Track Dept on many track and switch reconstruction projects. Never met him. Signals, Track and PD work around the clock, so there are many people I never ran into.
retsignalmtrNever met him.
Worth asking - small world department type of thing.
He's still very active with the museum and getting the old equipment out on the line from time to time. "Take the A Train!"
Signal Maintainers work on sections that they pick by Seniority. Maintainers have electrical Helpers working with them who pick the sections the same as Maintainers. Usually one maintainer and one Helper per section per tour of duty. One person works, the other watches for Trains and vise versa. I worked in a Construction Gang. Ten Maintainers, doing repairs that the section Maintainers were not able to do, due to time and material needs.
Working for me. 2:06 PM CDT 10/8/18
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
What operating system? (Windows? 7,10, MAC, etc.)
What browser are you using? (IE, Edge, Firefox, etc.... and what version?)
I want to help, but need more info.
I don't have Chrome on my PC so I cannot test it or try various possible fixes on it. I do have both IE-11 and Edge and both of those work fine. I assume you have Winders 10 and thus you will have both of those browsers available to you. You might try one to see if they can get through. Depending on what happens with one of them, I "might" have some other things to try.
dh28473windows xp
Oo-eee--- an antique!
You should still have Internet Explorer (though it is probably version 10). If you cannot find it in the Start menu (Didn't XP have a Start menu? It has been too long since I used it.), look for it (as "iexplore" or "iexplore.exe") in the "C:\Windows" or "C:\Windows\System" or "C:\Windows\System32" folders/directories. Try it to see if things start working.
I hope someone here can chime in saying whether or not Chrome works for them.
I'm using Windows 7 and Chrome, no problems here.
Just caught my favorite loco crossing the diamond, relatively short train for all that power...
EDIT: And right on his heels, a full unit train of covered hoppers (sand?) with one unit leading, one unit DPU on the end. They shoulda borrowed a loco from 1995's train...
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blhanelThey shoulda borrowed a loco from 1995's train...
That's what I keep thinking when I see UP trains with up to five units in front, and just about every day around mid-day they send an intermodal east-bound with one unit and up to about 130 barges (That's what they look like to me.) Today, I counted 118 barges. I know they aren't going from and to the same places, but still...
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Paul of Covington blhanel They shoulda borrowed a loco from 1995's train... That's what I keep thinking when I see UP trains with up to five units in front, and just about every day around mid-day they send an intermodal east-bound with one unit and up to about 130 barges (That's what they look like to me.) Today, I counted 118 barges. I know they aren't going from and to the same places, but still...
blhanel They shoulda borrowed a loco from 1995's train...
Suspect power balancing and shop movements account for trains that have an excessive number of engines for the size of the train. Note 'shop movements' can be both to and from the shop.
Outlying points have a standard power allotment. If 4 or 5 units of that allotment need to go to the shop they will most likely move on the same train, by the same token the power from the shop will move together to the outlying point.
On my old territory, at times Q352 would arrive Cumberland (shop location) with 12 engines - two operating, 10 for the shop that all had been picked up between Willard and Cumberland. Q353 would depart Cumberland with 12 engines and pedal them at the various yards inroute to Willard.
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can anybody share a link for dispatcher of this place? used to get it on tunein on ill.railroads but doesn't work
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/11742/?rl=rr
dh28473I get the I get the Roanoke web cam ok
The two webcams use entirely different protocol to deliver the video, but I don't really know the differences other than knowing they are different. I'd guess you are missing a CODEC for the Rochelle cam or the URL is somehow blocked by either your computer or your ISP.
Yep... seems the Roanoke cam is down now... even directly on YouTube it says it is not available. I don't know if this is because the camera is no longer supported or if maybe just some server is off-line temporarily.
Semper Vaporo dh28473 I get the I get the Roanoke web cam ok The two webcams use entirely different protocol to deliver the video, but I don't really know the differences other than knowing they are different. I'd guess you are missing a CODEC for the Rochelle cam or the URL is somehow blocked by either your computer or your ISP.
dh28473 I get the I get the Roanoke web cam ok
Probably not. For the first time in ... forever ... I'm not able to see the Rochelle webcam. Just a black screen with the corner legends. Using the latest Firefox version. Looks like an outage to me.
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Looking through the spider webs, I can see the diamonds and the trees are waving at me in the wind. Rochelle seems to be working for me. Winders 10, IE-11
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