The signal shed on the far side of the diamonds was pulled out Wedmesday morning. I was watching about 0700 CDT and a backhoe was moving around the building. I went away for about an hour and a half and when I returned the shed was gone. The backhoe didn't look big enough to lift the building, so I think a Cherry Picker truck swooped in there and hoisted the shed onto another truck and it was gone.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
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Anybody else notice something missing just west of the diamonds?
schmaltz does anyone know what is happening right now with the signal bridges.
does anyone know what is happening right now with the signal bridges.
Now would be a good time to get a last look at the UP's eastbound signal bridge. It's not going to be there much longer.
I've got Rochelle up in a tiny window; just large enough for me to glance over to see if there's anything worth checking in a larger window. Can't see exactly what's happening even in full screen on a large monitor but the sound still comes through. If I didn't know better, I'd say there was a low-intensity fire fight going on over there.
ChuckAllen, TX
Just heard the BNSF Dispatcher confirm that today is the big cutover and that a westbound would be held at Stewart (5-6 miles to the east of the diamonds) until about 12:30 (CT)
Looks like signal folks are out in force today, and a crane is in position by the eastbound UP signal bridge. This might be cutover day.... but I've guessed wrong before.
There she goes again- running solo, short train. Trying to post a snapshot from the webcam, but not succeeding.
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Thanks for the play-by-play. Did a quick search to see if anything made the news and found this story about the city railroad.
http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=16412&page=72
ROCHELLE — The Rochelle City Railroad is expanding. City council approved the project for the Northern Interchange Yard that will add an additional 2500 feet of track to the north of the existing tracks. [snip]
About 1:50 PM CDT, EB BNSF manifest comes to a hard stop after what sounded like a dynamiter east of the camera about 30-40 cars into the train.
Still sitting there with the crossing gate bells ringing at 2:15 PM CDT.
Ditto, 2:35 PM CDT.
2:44 PM CDT, now shoving west, scanner sounds like making a joint somewhere north of the diamonds. 2:47 now slowly moving east after making a joint and then stopped. 2:50 slowly moving west again.
3:04 PM CDT, now moving west again, conductor should be back on the head-end and dispatchers have jockeying to do for a while. As EB is getting going, a WB stacker comes through on BNSF. So, essentially a 75-minute hit because of a separation, as the DS calls it.
mudchickenThe CAT tamper would be following the tie gang or other production gang passing through. It would not be there to work on the diamonds - It's not suited to heavy lifting or lining.
They gingerly moved the CAT over the diamonds without the tamping action.
When UP did the tie thing on the north track a while back, I happened to catch the tamper coming through as well, which led me to the Plasser page and the videos on some of the product pages. One of the videos, as I recall, was shot in Mojave, I think, coming into town from the south.
When stopping in Tehachapi I have seen a CAT parked with other machinery on the siding on the east end of the town, but I haven't seen one in action. At least not yet. My luck in Tehachapi has been to arrive in town when a lot of MOW work is going on in daylight and traffic is held until near dusk. Great for watching train lights go through town all night, though.
ChuckCobleigh Now the Plasser 09-16 Dynacat is tamping the south track east of the diamonds at 12:30 CDT. I don't know if it's just the rain washing the machine, but it looks very clean and new. BTW, Plasser has some neat videos of other tampers on their web page...just not this one.
Now the Plasser 09-16 Dynacat is tamping the south track east of the diamonds at 12:30 CDT. I don't know if it's just the rain washing the machine, but it looks very clean and new.
BTW, Plasser has some neat videos of other tampers on their web page...just not this one.
Brian Schmidt CShaveRR Don't you wish we could see reporting marks and numbers clearly? And you can, from a bench at the Rochelle Railroad Park.
CShaveRR Don't you wish we could see reporting marks and numbers clearly?
And you can, from a bench at the Rochelle Railroad Park.
I'm sorry--that wasn't very helpful, especially for anyone who lives an hour and a half or further away from the park (that's about our normal distance...right now we're about a week and a half away). Why is this such a difficult question to provide a reasonable answer for?
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
A bunch of spine cars ... and a blue-and-yellow ATSF paint job as the second unit of the second train, if my brief glimpse of it is accurate.
For this Californian, very interesting weather at the crossing within one hour. First overcast, then steady rain, now clear and sunny.
Traffic mirrors the weather. Thirty minutes ago on ATCSMon all was quiet, now it's wait time.
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ChuckCobleighI don't know if it's just the rain washing the machine, but it looks very clean and new.
Could be rain but I don't think I've ever seen a Plasser that looked like it needed a bath.
Maybe we can get a camera here as well ...
http://www.saukvalley.com/2016/06/20/fans-of-bikes-and-trains-will-soon-get-a-new-view-in-oregon/ayirhff/
rdamonA picture on RP shows tie work on the UP which explains the delays yesterday.
Not to mention explaining the army of track equipment and workers today! This includes a white bus that showed up at about 10:30. Most of the visible work is west of the diamonds, but a lot of equipment coming in from the east on the south UP track.
Busy day.
Looks like the BNSF signal crews are busy today. Maybe UP is going to put a full-time welder in the new box! :)
A picture on RP shows tie work on the UP which explains the delays yesterday.
Sorry to ask this question when we are discussing the question a couple posts up, but what ever happened to the demolition of the building behind the diamonds?
Interesting, possibly temporary, structure deposited north of the diamonds next to one of the signal shelters, showed up sometime today. Anybody have any ideas?
I suspect that this has been asked and answered previously but I noticed a switching move today on the BNSF spur to the DelMonte facility and suspect that it is a hand thrown switch as a train returned from the DM track. stopped, then pulled through the switch, stopped, pulled forward out of sight, (suspect past the WB home signal) and then a man left the switch ares and walked East along the track toward where the train went. Since the switch is within the interlocking limits, does this (DelMonte) track have an interlocked signal to access the main? I also saw a trainman riding on the East end of the two cars being pushed by the locomotive as the locomotive was on the West end of the two cars. So does the Rochelle crew consist of three people? And lastly, this locomotive didnot look like a BNSF one, could it have been BJRY (Burlington Junction Railway) doing this switching?
cefinkjr schmaltz I feel an urge to tell you that when there is no action in Rochelle, I turn up the sound and use the occasion to relax. Call me crazy. Old Amish (?) saying: "The whole world's crazy but me and thee. And sometimes I wonder about thee." Actually, the rest of the world is certain that we train-nuts are crazy. I learned to ignore them a long time ago.
I feel an urge to tell you that when there is no action in Rochelle, I turn up the sound and use the occasion to relax. Call me crazy.
Old Amish (?) saying: "The whole world's crazy but me and thee. And sometimes I wonder about thee."
Actually, the rest of the world is certain that we train-nuts are crazy. I learned to ignore them a long time ago.
Old Quaker saying. My granddad was fond of quoting it as:\
"Everybody is crazy but me and thee; and sometimes I wonder about thee."
I always say that 'I am a train-nut; just not well TRAINed.'
Semper Vaporo
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CShaveRRDon't you wish we could see reporting marks and numbers clearly?
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
schmaltz I feel an urge to tell you that when there is no action in Rochelle, I turn up the sound and use the occasion to relax. Call me crazy.
The solid gons unit trains haul taconite to a steel mill in the southeast Chicagoland area. "Dirty-dirt" trains using open-top gons usually have tarps over the loads to keep them from dusting the ROW with the contents.
AgentKid Thank you to the volunteer (I presume) who just climbed up and cleaned off the camera. Bruce
Thank you to the volunteer (I presume) who just climbed up and cleaned off the camera.
Another trip up for more cleaning at 2:50 or so CDT. Adding my thanks, as the view is clearer than I can see these days!
And...it looks like the fire ring got cleaned out as well!
Anyone else getting a bad stream today or is it my internet? Lots of blockniess, ghosting, pauses, etc.
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