Looks like some underground locating going on. Hope the giant spider does not get them!!
Correction: about 21:00 last night, there were people at the pit, they stacked what looked like a lot of paper, then threw gasoline on it, it flamed up pretty good, those sitting on the benches had to scramble away. Flaming bits of paper was flying all around and they were laughing about it. About 8:00 am, a pair of men toured around the pit, then a little later a women in a dress business suit came out and talked on a cell phone for a while.
uh, she was pissed.
Looks like they get to enjoy the smoke from the smoldering fire.
Work going on in the signal cabinet now.
MrLynn At first I thought the smudge in the middle of the screen was smoke, but after a week it hasn't moved. It's not smoke; it's a smudge. Any chance someone could clean the lens?
At first I thought the smudge in the middle of the screen was smoke, but after a week it hasn't moved. It's not smoke; it's a smudge. Any chance someone could clean the lens?
I think someone mentioned that it was cleaned at least a little the other day. If that's the GE version of ALCO snot, it'll take a ladder and a bottle of Windex to get it polished back up. A long pole with a squeegee from the ground won't hack it.
Fire in the fire pit this morning - must be some early morning attendees at the shelter.
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Norm48327 tree68 Starting March 14th (until mid-May), all of NYS has an outdoor burn ban in place. Can't burn nuthin, nohow. That would have been a good idea back when I was a firefighter. We still had lots of open fields and grass fires kept us running until things greened up.
tree68 Starting March 14th (until mid-May), all of NYS has an outdoor burn ban in place. Can't burn nuthin, nohow.
That would have been a good idea back when I was a firefighter. We still had lots of open fields and grass fires kept us running until things greened up.
Before the Europeans came. the plains Indians routinely set fire to the prairie in the spring. We now know that they were releasing nutrients tied up in the dead grasses and making sun space for new growth. What they knew is that the burned places would attract the wild herds as they regrew.
Of course, a side effect was that it limited the growth of trees, which would limit the railroad's fuel supply when they arrived.
tree68Starting March 14th (until mid-May), all of NYS has an outdoor burn ban in place. Can't burn nuthin, nohow.
Norm
rdamon Looks like a windy day for leaf burning.
Looks like a windy day for leaf burning.
We aren't supposed to burn leaves at all, but...
Actually, if they were going to burn, they probably picked a decent day (no wind would be better, of course).
The wind was blowing the smoke across the diamond - nothing on the ground to burn, to speak of, so little chance of spreading.
By the time the smoke got to the houses across the way, it had somewhat dissipated.
Never mind the inconvenience to the train crews.
Starting March 14th (until mid-May), all of NYS has an outdoor burn ban in place. Can't burn nuthin, nohow. And the environmental conservation guys will write tickets.
Most people are used to it by now, but there always seem to be a few who are surprised...
just saw a wp engine pulling a conainer train thru the smoke
I was thinking the same thing and came here to see if anyone else had noticed.
i just saw the spider for the first time in a while must be a sign of spring
jeffhergertCovered hoppers? Possibly a sand train. Jeff
Did they have CATX reporting marks?
EDIT: By that, I mean the bentonite cars, as in this shot.
blhanel Jeff, just caught the last half of another westbound hopper train- had three DPUs mid-train; didn't see what was up front, though.
Jeff, just caught the last half of another westbound hopper train- had three DPUs mid-train; didn't see what was up front, though.
Covered hoppers? Possibly a sand train.
Jeff
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I Just watched a westbound hopper go through at 3pm. It's the one I'm lined up for later tonight. My line-up estimates about 11pm, but 9pm isn't out of the question. Depends on how many long pool trains they need to weave around the short pools.
Well, that was fast!
Popped the webcam at about 6:30 am CDT this morning and snow on the ground. Now at noon, it's gone! Of course, the temps are "moderate" today, so no big surprise.
gp18It appears that top heavy cars rock the most, TOFC, reefers,etc, and mainly on the U.P. tracks. The BNSF trains rocket through with nary a wiggle.
And it seems limited to the UP south track, too. UP's engineering staff is as good as any - as noted earlier, it's probably going to require a signifcant effort (and down-time for the track) to pump out the water in the sub-grade and inject some sort of grouting to keep it out.
I used to be a dock supervisor at an LTL carrier hub - one of these days, Estes/ABF/Yellow-Roadway/R&L is going to send a top-heavy 53' trailer (say, empty chemical drums topped out with siding or some other dense material) that gets loaded on a 89' flat by itself and hits the harmonics juuuuust right on a windy day on the diamond...
a couple months ago was watching the local stop with box cars, refers, and centerlines, when a person rolled under the cars, got up and ran on across the tracks. A man was filming the local and got it on video. He yelled, "Yea, I got her as she came out from under the car."
MrLynnAnother observation: Eastbound UP piggy-back trailers visibly rocking back and forth as they cross the diamonds. Looks positively dangerous!
Here we go again!
I wrote essentially the same thing a couple of months ago and we were thereafter treated to slow orders and heavy-duty maintenance for weeks.
In my obsolete, semi-professional opinion (spent 6 months with MoW 40 years ago), I'd say they have a problem with soft soil under the diamonds. I don't mean the roadbed; I mean the sub-, sub-roadbed --- everything between the ballast and bed rock. That can be tremendously expensive to fix IF it can be fixed at all. But that's the Division Engineer's job . . . and headache. Glad they're his and not mine.
ChuckAllen, TX
Another observation: Eastbound UP piggy-back trailers visibly rocking back and forth as they cross the diamonds. Looks positively dangerous!
MrLynnJust logged on, and what do I see but a man in dark clothes and a bag racing across both sets of tracks, then disappearing off to the left.
I don't watch the cam often, but I've seen more than a few folks cross the tracks there.
Just logged on, and what do I see but a man in dark clothes and a bag racing across both sets of tracks, then disappearing off to the left. A burglar?
Wait—now here's the local with a couple of center-beam flatcars; stopped at the switch, now heading up the siding. Could that fellow have had something to do with that?
Interestingly, an easbound UP intermodal stopped at the signals before the diamonds, waited until the local went up the siding and just started across. Must have gotten a stop signal until the switch was thrown.
Moderators: There's still a smudge just left of center in the cam.
Could that be an indication that some serious signal work is about to begin here, that would take a lot of people being here for a while...somehing like a cutover of the new signals?
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)
Snow dusted & threatening clouds
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
rdamon Is that a new port-a-potty behind the UP signal box on the far right side?
Looks like it...
CShaveRR...a glop of semi-solid exhaust particulate...
ALCO snot lives!
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