After searching Yahoo groups for a group which "discusses railway bridges" and finding virtually nothing, I se up this list. The Bridge Modeling group is for...
I cannot remember the term used to desribe a switching move where an engine crew gets a car moving. It can be pulling or pushing. Before reaching the siding...
In a message dated 8/1/2005 2:27:24 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, harper-brown@... writes: I cannot remember the term used to desribe a switching move...
This was posted to the Rio Grande Group, but I thought that you all might get a chuckle out of it! I know that I did... Take Care! Brian R. Termunde West...
Hello, It's called Kicking....I am a brakeman on the union railroad.....you get the engine going....then stop the engine...while slack is in the line... pull...
From previous post: When asked why he had done this, the switchman replied, "I was already fired after the first two cars." This reminds me of a story my...
... an ... Before ... loco ... The car ... brake. ... When shoving the cars it is refered to as kicking cars, when pulling it goes by many names such as a...
... Jim, I beleive a dutch drop is when a crew get the car and loco moving, cuts off the car, speeds up and pulls ahead past a switch, relines, reverses!!!...
Howdy folks, The week of August 7 to 13, I'll be driving from Florida to Southern California. Don't want to, but with the Sunset Limited's spotless record of ...
... Dave Because of summertime, the set schedule has gone out the window. If you are going to be in town please drop me a line and we could set up a a specific...
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Last week I was researching my railroad's operation in 1961 and I ran across a couple of issues: First, there was an article about the power company building a...
Kurt I have a number of photos of a beet loader used here in Utah located a few miles from my home. If you would like a copy let me know. Lee Nicholas ... ...
... Like Hudson said, or I have also seen a drop end gondola (with the ends down) as the center car that the poles are secured to, and a flat at each end as...
I have seen the three car arrangement used for poles, but the picture, while of very poor quality, shows only two cars. I believe that Intermountain offers a...
... picture, while ... this type ... Yes, though without seeing the photo it's difficult to tell much. One way would be to support the poles only at the...
... This would create excessive overhang on curves on the floating end. A more likely scenario with long poles would see the poles supported at midpoints on...
... picture, while ... Intermountain ... this type ... =========================== First a "50 foot flat" isn't 50 ft long, they were typicaly 53'6", so the...
Robert Chant commented... ... ProTrak users have requested the same idea... a quick and easy way to get traffic moving on their railroads. So I added "Quick...
... Only on a _model_ railroad with it's far tighter turns and (usually) clearances. A real railroad that could handle high/wide loads should be able to handle...
... will be ... list forms ... alone. I see using switchlists for transfer runs, way freights, locals, etc. that are doing a lot of switching, but what if...
Hi Jared, If your stock extra is all cars going to the same destination and all loaded at the same time - on the same schedule for rest - then you might not...
Jared, When I hired out on the old SAL, we were still using waybills, none of this computor stuff. We occassionaly would run banana reefers out of Charleston...
... ================== Jerry McGee does on his 1905 era P&P. Steve Dolezal does on his 1950 era ATSF Surf Line. ... etc. ... stock ... Y, ... is ... ...
You still need a list because at some point somebody is going to do switch the train even if you don't. The Yardmaster and switch crew at the destination yard...
... ======================= Not quite sure of the exact definition or use, none of the railroads I have been associated with for the last 25 years ever used...
a wheel report on the old ACL-SAL lines was a report showing all cars set off and picked up during a trains movement with set off and pickup times. this report...
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