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Originally posted by edblysard Elliot, A dynamiter is a car with a bad brake valve...the slightest brake application causes it to blow, and puts the entire train in emergency...Once you find it, you can cut that brake valve out...and the train line runs straight through that car. First chance you get, you have to set it out bad order at the nearest repair facility... Ed Unless of course it is a "slip joint"........... Virlon Save your ticket........the P.E. will rise again. Reply Edit Big_Boy_4005 Member sinceDecember 2003 From: St Paul, MN 6,218 posts Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:55 PM Thanks Ed, I hadn't heard of that usage. Air brakes aren't something that comes up in the modeling world. The flying switch move is at least heard of, but can't really be performed because of low mass on the car, and and the way model couplers work. [;)] Actually your search method for the bad car reminds me of looking for an electrical short in Lionel track. Both equally annoying and difficult to find. I'm back! Follow the progress: http://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/displayForumTopic/content/12129987972340381/page/1 Reply edblysard Member sinceMarch 2002 9,265 posts Posted by edblysard on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:00 PM Yup, Both will drive you nuts! 23 17 46 11 Reply geomodelrailroader Member sinceOctober 2011 67 posts Posted by geomodelrailroader on Saturday, July 23, 2016 7:37 AM On my OSL dutch drops use to be done but The UP who now owns the line has decleared them illegal and they are illegal. Out here on the Nampa Sub of the OSL we have industries that haul hazmat and where I live in Bliss it is no exception. We got a cold storage wearhouses, we got an oil refinery, we got grain elavators,we got silage unloading, and we have a cement plant and they don't want their freight damaged. You don't go dutch drops on the OSL lets take Bliss for example Hulcum Cement delivers car loads of quicklime to Bliss and loads empties with coal ash which is delivered by truck origonal these cars were dutch dropped but today with better crews they pick them up and hook them to the train avoiding dutch drops. Another facility is Lancing Grain they pick up and load grain here and those cars are 90 tons full loaded you don't dutch drop them. In Glenn's Ferry and Gooding we have cold storage one of them is owned by WEL trucking and Glambia Cheese who interchanges refergertor cars with the Union Pacific Fruit Express every thursday and they like their cars undamaged. On the south side we have Agratec who gets car loads of silage and United Oil's Gooding refinery and they don't like their cars smashed. also in this area is Glambia's rail dock and the Gooding branch of Lancing Grain and they don't want damaged cars. This is why a dutch drop is illegal. Cars are pushed down a hill a switch is thrown and the cars are braked. which can cause flatspots or worse derailment. Reply 12 Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. Login » Register » Search the Community Newsletter Sign-Up By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our privacy policy More great sites from Kalmbach Media Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy
On my OSL dutch drops use to be done but The UP who now owns the line has decleared them illegal and they are illegal. Out here on the Nampa Sub of the OSL we have industries that haul hazmat and where I live in Bliss it is no exception. We got a cold storage wearhouses, we got an oil refinery, we got grain elavators,we got silage unloading, and we have a cement plant and they don't want their freight damaged. You don't go dutch drops on the OSL lets take Bliss for example Hulcum Cement delivers car loads of quicklime to Bliss and loads empties with coal ash which is delivered by truck origonal these cars were dutch dropped but today with better crews they pick them up and hook them to the train avoiding dutch drops. Another facility is Lancing Grain they pick up and load grain here and those cars are 90 tons full loaded you don't dutch drop them. In Glenn's Ferry and Gooding we have cold storage one of them is owned by WEL trucking and Glambia Cheese who interchanges refergertor cars with the Union Pacific Fruit Express every thursday and they like their cars undamaged. On the south side we have Agratec who gets car loads of silage and United Oil's Gooding refinery and they don't like their cars smashed. also in this area is Glambia's rail dock and the Gooding branch of Lancing Grain and they don't want damaged cars. This is why a dutch drop is illegal. Cars are pushed down a hill a switch is thrown and the cars are braked. which can cause flatspots or worse derailment.
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