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Posted by SushiLover on Thursday, October 15, 2015 1:51 PM

I saw an D&RGW engine earlier today, which made me look this up on Wikipedia. Scroll down to the section about the merger with UP and you'll see a small bit of info on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_and_Rio_Grande_Western_Railroad

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Posted by AgentKid on Thursday, October 15, 2015 11:11 AM

I am always impressed when I see a couple of EB UP loaded coal trains interspersed with an EB BNSF oil train or two.

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Posted by cefinkjr on Thursday, October 15, 2015 10:37 AM

WB UP tank cars (oil empties?) on #1 and lonnnnnng train of every kind of covered hopper you can imagine (grain?) EB on #2 at the same time.  THAT is called producing transportation.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, October 14, 2015 3:12 PM

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Ive always wondered about these locomotives. why is it re lettered but not painted in the UP paint scheme? Is it still owned by Sothern Pacific?

Paint is protection for the metal surfaces - no matter what the colors that are being displayed.  Union Pacific owns what was at one time the Southern Pacific.  Painting locomotives is not a cheap undertaking, I am guessing somewhere in the area of $20K to $30K - maybe more.  If the SP paint is adequately protecting the metal, it will continue to do so until UP decides a particular unit is in need of repainting in addition to whatever other upgrades UP wants to apply to the unit.

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Posted by CBT on Wednesday, October 14, 2015 2:01 PM

Ive always wondered about these locomotives. why is it re lettered but not painted in the UP paint scheme? Is it still owned by Sothern Pacific?

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, October 12, 2015 8:30 PM

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1609 UP westbound, One engine, six or seven short walled gondolas, and A BLUE GREEN, BAY CAB CABOOSE!

A "gang car" assigned to MOW service.  It provides limited office and storage space and seating for transporting MOW gangs.  Transporting between the daily originating point and the work site, not between project locations.  Also gives the conductor a place to ride when shoving the MOW train to/from the daily work site.

Jeff

Ah yes, all that's left for the lowly cabooses (cabeese?), aside from restaurant decorations and museum pieces.  I miss them; for those of us old enough, a freight train without a caboose at the end looks woefully incomplete.

By the way, there's a couple of well-restored cabooses at the Danbury (CT) Railway Museum, where my wife and I stopped back in August.  You can even climb into the cupolas.  And they have a NYC E9 you can walk through and sit in the cab--impressive!  Well worth a visit, if you're passing by on I-84, as we were.

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With the size trains being operated these days, being on a manned caboose would be next best thing to a death sentence.  Slack action, even if belted into one's seat could be leathal.

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Posted by MrLynn on Monday, October 12, 2015 8:04 PM

jeffhergert

 

 
MKT Dave

1609 UP westbound, One engine, six or seven short walled gondolas, and A BLUE GREEN, BAY CAB CABOOSE!

 

 

 

A "gang car" assigned to MOW service.  It provides limited office and storage space and seating for transporting MOW gangs.  Transporting between the daily originating point and the work site, not between project locations.  Also gives the conductor a place to ride when shoving the MOW train to/from the daily work site.

Jeff

 

Ah yes, all that's left for the lowly cabooses (cabeese?), aside from restaurant decorations and museum pieces.  I miss them; for those of us old enough, a freight train without a caboose at the end looks woefully incomplete.

By the way, there's a couple of well-restored cabooses at the Danbury (CT) Railway Museum, where my wife and I stopped back in August.  You can even climb into the cupolas.  And they have a NYC E9 you can walk through and sit in the cab--impressive!  Well worth a visit, if you're passing by on I-84, as we were.

Here's the DRM website: http://www.danbury.org/drm/

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Posted by jeffhergert on Monday, October 12, 2015 4:46 PM

MKT Dave

1609 UP westbound, One engine, six or seven short walled gondolas, and A BLUE GREEN, BAY CAB CABOOSE!

 

A "gang car" assigned to MOW service.  It provides limited office and storage space and seating for transporting MOW gangs.  Transporting between the daily originating point and the work site, not between project locations.  Also gives the conductor a place to ride when shoving the MOW train to/from the daily work site.

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Posted by MKT Dave on Monday, October 12, 2015 4:13 PM

1609 UP westbound, One engine, six or seven short walled gondolas, and A BLUE GREEN, BAY CAB CABOOSE!

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Posted by xjqcf on Sunday, October 11, 2015 11:42 AM

rdamon
Watching a BNSF MofW conga line roll by. Before they showed up an employee went to the far side of signal cabinet by the fire pit.
 

 

I wonder if he was lining the signal for them?
 

That's probably a signal maintainer applying a lock against the UP tracks to protect the movements

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Posted by rdamon on Friday, October 9, 2015 8:40 AM
Watching a BNSF MofW conga line roll by. Before they showed up an employee went to the far side of signal cabinet by the fire pit.
 

 

I wonder if he was lining the signal for them?
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Posted by cefinkjr on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 10:24 PM

CShaveRR

Congratulations, Balt, on the millennial reply to this thread!

Check the number of posts.  Balt was probably the odds on (strange phrase!) favorite to win this honor.  Wink

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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 10:11 PM

Congratulations, Balt, on the millennial reply to this thread!

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 5:51 PM

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Send it to SC!

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Posted by cefinkjr on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 5:15 PM

Looks like we've aquired another spider or the same one returned.  It's not too obvious (to me) most of the time but when the sun is getting low as it is now, the reflections through the web make it almost impossible to see anything.  We need a good rain with wind out of the west.

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Posted by phkmn2000 on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 4:19 PM
The WB UP runs a lot of container trains. Are those mostly empties going back home? If not empty, where are they coming from? I assume there must be some containers coming into the east coast?
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Posted by corwinda on Monday, October 5, 2015 3:39 PM

A close look at the bottom of the hopper shows outlet parallel to the rail. Definitely ballast cars.

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Posted by CBT on Monday, October 5, 2015 2:01 PM

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Looks more like ballast, not coal.  Not sure if that helps.

 

Hay, anything helps here!

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Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, October 4, 2015 7:45 PM

Looks more like ballast, not coal.  Not sure if that helps.

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Posted by rdamon on Sunday, October 4, 2015 4:45 PM

Looks like it is the other guys turn to cross the UP tracks and look for wood.

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Posted by CBT on Sunday, October 4, 2015 4:31 PM

Any reason for a autorack train with an engine and a about 5 cars of coal at the end?

 Rdamon check out this picture, he is on the other side of the tracks.

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Posted by rdamon on Sunday, October 4, 2015 4:30 PM

Except thaat they are crossing the BNSF tracks to get the wood from the other side.

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Posted by CBT on Sunday, October 4, 2015 4:18 PM

Having a nice warm fire!

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Posted by MKT Dave on Friday, October 2, 2015 10:48 AM

here is a link to the photo's i took of the mow action yesterday. Right now there's over 28 photos.

http://s107.photobucket.com/user/scruffy421/library/Rochelle

hope they are acceptable.

The last photo was just taken, over to the right of the BNSF looks to be a lenght of rail.

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, October 2, 2015 9:33 AM

rdamon

Heard a new term (for me) on the scanner today. The MoW crews were asking about the fuel levels on everying including the "knocker". I had to look it up.

http://www.progressiverailroading.com/railproducts/product/Model-MR512-Rail-Knocker--1364

That may be more insight on what they are doing out there. 

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Friday, October 2, 2015 9:31 AM

I take it that the arms in the cages on each side swing in opposite directions so that the ends wallop the sides of the rail heads at the same instant, then swing the other direction to hit the other side of the rail heads.

It "LOOKS" like a silly invention, but I bet it is a most useful (even if extremely noisy) piece of equipment.  I'd love to see it in operation.

I wonder how fast the hammer heads hit the rail.  Once a second?  More?  Less?  Adjustable?  Does it automatically move along the track while in use or is it anchored down in one place to deliver a specified number of blows and then moved to a new location?

Semper Vaporo

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Posted by rdamon on Friday, October 2, 2015 9:20 AM

Heard a new term (for me) on the scanner today. The MoW crews were asking about the fuel levels on everying including the "knocker". I had to look it up.

http://www.progressiverailroading.com/railproducts/product/Model-MR512-Rail-Knocker--1364

That may be more insight on what they are doing out there. 

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Posted by Deggesty on Thursday, October 1, 2015 9:30 PM

tree68

 

 
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I have noticed, along the former Q and former GN, "shunt" signs at public grade crossings--and wondered what their significance is.

 

Where, in relation to the crossing?  

If it's a distance out, it might be where the crossing circuit starts.  

Or not.  I'm not a signal guy.

 

Larry, they were generally close to the crossings. I don't remember them as being far enough away to be where the crossing circuits begin. It may have been MC who responded--and he might take pity on me and respond again.

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Thursday, October 1, 2015 9:26 PM

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Anybody remember it?

Are you talking about the rail grinder train that tore up some containers on a stack train a few years ago?  If I recall, the grinder was on the UP and the stacker was on BNSF.  It's been a while.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, October 1, 2015 9:20 PM

Deggesty
I have noticed, along the former Q and former GN, "shunt" signs at public grade crossings--and wondered what their significance is.

Where, in relation to the crossing?  

If it's a distance out, it might be where the crossing circuit starts.  

Or not.  I'm not a signal guy.

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