can anybody share a link for dispatcher of this place? used to get it on tunein on ill.railroads but doesn't work
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...
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...
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.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
blhanelThey shoulda borrowed a loco from 1995's train...
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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...
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
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.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
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.
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.
Working for me. 2:06 PM CDT 10/8/18
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.
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!"
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
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.
Lobenstein. Worked in power distribution, I believe.
Got a last name? Been retired 19 years.
retsignalmtrWhen I was a Signal Maintainer on the New York City Subway system,
You didn't, by any chance, know "Lobie" did you?
UP merchandise tran just passed a few minutes ago with a Caboose on the end.
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.
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.
ChuckAllen, TX
Deggesty I saw something interesting just now: a UP intermodal came in eastbound, and soon after the engine passed out of view, it stopped, backed up until the engine was in view again, stopped, and, after a few minutes proceeded forward again.
I saw something interesting just now: a UP intermodal came in eastbound, and soon after the engine passed out of view, it stopped, backed up until the engine was in view again, stopped, and, after a few minutes proceeded forward again.
Probably shoving the tailend into the yard (drop-off or pick-up) to the west of the diamonds. I have seen that sort of thing several times.
Johnny
Looks like a track gang is working on M1.
Saw some MoW equipment in the area before I stepped away and now I see a large pile of darker rock. Is this ballast from another quarry or did an undercutter come by?
Thank you very much for your reply. I hadn't thought of the factory-made insulated joint solution but it makes perfect sense.
"The old type of field built joint with fiber insulation could not be as solid as the rail and was a weak failure point." is spot on. I often heard that from MoW people from Track Supervisor to Chief Engineer. I wonder if the term "armored joint" might not have been more than a little bit sarcastic.
What I see today being done where an insulated joint is needed for signalling is that a prefabricated insulated joint that is factory made with insulation and epoxy and about two feet of rail on either side of the joint is welded into the track. This joint has all of the strength of the rail and by having the welding away from the joint, there is no heat damage to the insulation. It doen't need to have the bolts tightened as they are fastened with locking bolts. The old type of field built joint with fiber insulation could not be as solid as the rail and was a weak failure point. And most crossing circuits are now done with "audiotone" electronic circuits that put a signal onto the rails that can detect speed, direction and distance from the crossing and adjust the warning operation to activate quickly at an appropriate distance for the speed of the train. This eliminates the need for many insulated joints. Back sixty years ago when I was involved in the instalation of some crossing protections on the PRR, all we had were basic track circuit relays and any basic crossing required eight insulated joints: one in each rail distant from the crossing on each side of the crossing and one in each rail on each side of the crossing. This formed three circuits, one on each side of the crossing and one for the crossing. And if the design called for delaying start times for slow trains, additional sections would be required for time determination. More $$$ and complexity.
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