Just watched a mixed freight EB on UP #1. The first several cars were new farm equipment on 60' flats. The rockin' and rollin' were almost scary. Kept watching and noticed that some cars seemed to be steady. Decided that the difference was the length of the car: Those with a length that put one truck on each diamond rocked alarmingly; shorter or longer cars rocked a little but nothing to be concerned about.
ChuckAllen, TX
BaltACDArby's Venison http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/10/25/arbys-takes-stab-venison-burgers-select-locations/92727506/
Thanks much for that link, Balt. I'll be looking for that ad locally; Tennessee is kind of a fur piece to go for venison. If they would start serving elk, I'd be willing to travel a ways for that. A Cabela's here serves "Sliced Roast Elk" sandwiches in their snack bar and they are great!
Semper Vaporo tree68 cefinkjr Around here, you get to keep it, if you want it (there are circumstances where it's not worth it). Folks have been known to take it for a friend. Small consolation if you're looking at a ~$4,000 repair bill... Look up the price of venison on-line! You just might come out ahead if you can sell most of the carcass!
tree68 cefinkjr Around here, you get to keep it, if you want it (there are circumstances where it's not worth it). Folks have been known to take it for a friend. Small consolation if you're looking at a ~$4,000 repair bill...
cefinkjr
Around here, you get to keep it, if you want it (there are circumstances where it's not worth it). Folks have been known to take it for a friend. Small consolation if you're looking at a ~$4,000 repair bill...
Look up the price of venison on-line! You just might come out ahead if you can sell most of the carcass!
Arby's Venison
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/10/25/arbys-takes-stab-venison-burgers-select-locations/92727506/
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
tree68 cefinkjr PA State Police confiscated the carcass... Around here, you get to keep it, if you want it (there are circumstances where it's not worth it). Folks have been known to take it for a friend. Small consolation if you're looking at a ~$4,000 repair bill...
cefinkjr PA State Police confiscated the carcass...
Semper Vaporo
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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...
The fire pit is now a nice reflection pond
Deggesty Paul of Covington Deggesty So the deer didn't jump into your lap so you could take it home? Are you thinking it was a shmoo? I had not thought of deer imitating shmoos, but I do know that some seem to be so desperate that they leap through windshields.
Paul of Covington Deggesty So the deer didn't jump into your lap so you could take it home? Are you thinking it was a shmoo?
Deggesty So the deer didn't jump into your lap so you could take it home?
Are you thinking it was a shmoo?
I had not thought of deer imitating shmoos, but I do know that some seem to be so desperate that they leap through windshields.
I knew one once that was so desperate (or clumsy) that it tried to leap through my right front fender. PA State Police confiscated the carcass and left me with a repair bill. Something wrong there.
Johnny
DeggestySo the deer didn't jump into your lap so you could take it home?
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jeffhergert I didn't get the train. They decided to throw in a couple of dead heads so I got a 11:45 pm van ride. Or as I told my wife, we're taking the van and going deer hunting. The driver saw one but it was standing down in the ditch away from the road. Jeff
I didn't get the train. They decided to throw in a couple of dead heads so I got a 11:45 pm van ride. Or as I told my wife, we're taking the van and going deer hunting. The driver saw one but it was standing down in the ditch away from the road.
Jeff
Now, if someone would PLEASE disable the auto-focus on the camera...
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I was checking my line-up, I'm second out, and saw I was lined up for MPRCBW at 3am. I noticed it's last OS was just east of Rochelle, so I thought I'd check the webcam, hoping it was working OK. It was. I just missed the head end, but watched the rest of it roll through.
I would think it would do better than 3am, but it hadn't been prompted for a Clinton crew when I logged off the employee site. About 65 miles to Clinton with a 90 minute call time doesn't bode well for this train. Hot it's not. Might be some birds in the area.
Semper Vaporo chrisjmiller Here in the UK, I'm still (after a week) just seeing the "Loading EarthCam Stream" message. Is anyone else having problems, or do I need to relocate across the pond? :) Perks Workfictly fer me. I suppose you had better relocate, but if you are going to move that far, you might as well just move to Rochelle and then you can watch the scene for real and won't care if the webcam is working or not!
chrisjmiller Here in the UK, I'm still (after a week) just seeing the "Loading EarthCam Stream" message. Is anyone else having problems, or do I need to relocate across the pond? :)
chrisjmiller Thanks, SV. It seems to be a problem with the latest update of Chrome, it works for me in Edge.
Thanks, SV. It seems to be a problem with the latest update of Chrome, it works for me in Edge.
chrisjmillerHere in the UK, I'm still (after a week) just seeing the "Loading EarthCam Stream" message. Is anyone else having problems, or do I need to relocate across the pond? :)
It is still dark at Rochelle but I just saw something interesting. Two EB UP trains were coming across the diamonds at the same time. The first train had the high beams and ditchlights on. The second train was about a full engine length behind, on the near track, and only had his low beams on. I guess he didn't want to blind the lead engineer with all his lights reflected back through the lead unit's side mirror.
This reminded me of something I haven't seen for a long time. In the 1980's I lived in a 34th floor apartment that looked down on the CP mainline west out of Calgary. Westbound trains waiting for a green board at Sunalta would stop short of the 8th St. SW underpass, which was below my window. There is nothing like seeing the engineer hit the high beams and ditchlights when he got the green at night, just after a heavy snowfall. It would get so bright, so far away, so quickly, it was like the Sun had been equipped with an on/off switch. Extremely cool.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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PjangisBuut for what purpose?
According to the talk from earlier, it is some type of track test car. Rail geometry or some such. I have seen other talk of developing existing types of test cars that can work at regular track speeds. Most existing types of test cars work at some restricted speed. A passenger car would be a good platform for higher operating speed test cars.
Buut for what purpose? Possible passenger thraaic? Seemed pretty important to pull only on2 cars- one being a passenger(?) car...
cefinkjrBNSF ran one unit, a covered hopper (for braking?), and one passenger car (business car? instruction car?).
I saw that as well. It is the same cofiguration as the test train we were discussing a few months ago, but I'm pretty sure it is a different coach.
This one seemed newer and it had no vestibules. Up here that would make it a Dining Car. The previous car had a vestibule on one end and windows that made it seem like some type of sleeper.
When you think about it, it would seem easier to reconfigure a Diner to hold test eauipment than other types of cars since you would already have an open area and would just have to remove the tables and chairs. And if the equipment was sensitive you wouldn't have to worry about leaky and drafty baggage car doors.
And the hits just keep on comin'. BNSF ran one unit, a covered hopper (for braking?), and one passenger car (business car? instruction car?). Something you don't see every day.
Another unusual scene: Two EB UP stack trains at the same time moving at very nearly the same speed. I caught the power on #2 moving across the screen just about in step with the other train on #1.
rdamonI wonder if this was another train tacked on the end of another. When they get to another yard the two GP15s will break off and take the end somewhere else.
The NYC did something like this in the early '70s but with cabooses, not power. SV-7 (SuperVan) would roll into Collinwood Yard (Cleveland, OH) for a crew change with a caboose about 2/3 of the way back. Cars behind that caboose would be cut off and SV-7 would roll west for Toledo and Chicago. Meanwhile, another set of GP-40s would back down on what had been the rear of SV-7 and would take them west as SV-9; turning southwest at Berea (just west of Cleveland) for the Big Four. Those GP-40s had better be waiting when SV-7 arrived because the published timetable allowed something like 20 minutes before both trains were due out. And since the SVs (solid Flexi-Van trains) were the hottest thing on the road, that timetable was followed or somebody was on the carpet.
Thanks Jeff,
That makes sense. I did not get a good look at the first unit when I saw that there were three. I wonder if this was another train tacked on the end of another. When they get to another yard the two GP15s will break off and take the end somewhere else.
rdamon Caught that too .. Just saw something new as well .. A UP Eastbound had what I though was three GP15s as helpers a little over 2/3 the way back. They sounded like they were working. Are those units equipped with DPU?
To my knowledge, no UP GP15s are equipped for DPU operation. They can operate in a DP consist if MUed to a DP equipped unit.
Now there's a move I've not seen before. EB auto racks on BNSF #2 passing EB containers on #1.
Is it my imagination or is the picture sharper than it was just last week? Of course, a clearer image of our resident spider's handiwork might not be such a good thing.
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