Happy New Year to all, While researching a local town, I found a rail served business that processed manganeze ore. Would anyone on this list have information ...
I've heard of a scheme where there was a tiny motor fitted to a caboose. This would be disconnected from the wheels most of the time, but when it was started...
a month or so ago I found a web site with a list of customers, states and citys for either the UP or BNSF (Not sure of the one now). I should of buck marked...
... stringent about where cabooses and engines went in the train ... its a matter of how much risk the railroad is willing to take to gain operating...
... From: "dmamfahr" <mamfahr@...> ... And down in Texas we could never figure that out. If there was a caboose off center on the rip track, odds are...
After perusing all the technical problems of engines on both ends of the train, sems to me that at least one railroad has figured out that it's not a big...
... I've seen some rare CTC machines, usually US&S, that provided the control opr with levers to reverse tfc direction between CPs intended for just these...
... Probably had more to do with applicable Hours of Service limitations. Canada didn't have any back then, so if a train made it out of the US within 12 hrs,...
Friends shot a short video of a train crew pushing - by hand - a boxcar past an engine where there was no runaround. The prototype 0-5-0! I'll see if I can get...
... Hi Dave: Dave, I believe what I stated IS right as evidenced by several postings by other. I was sure that someone would ignore my "authority" disclaimer...
... I've done that, A few guys, perhaps with the help of a pinch-bar to overcome the initial inertia, can easily move a freight car. Happy New Year. Roger T. ...
Howdy, First I wish everybody a happy New Year! On Ebay I "won" a Freight Conductor's Record/ It is a little hard cover book (9 x 4 inch) On the cover it says...
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Cut cabooses were used on the NYC after the pool caboose agreement in 1963 (or late '62). This was done where it was desirable to set off cars simply by...
While not DIT, didn't the Rock Island have a passenger train that ran west as one to train then split (Limon Col comes to mind), then the two separate trains...
... west as one to train then split (Limon Col comes to mind), then the two separate trains continued from there as two trains. Doug, That would have been the...
... west ... separate ... As I recall the split off portion was the head end of the train and the B unit was the trailing engine of the consist. The train...
Another example of trains splitting or combining is the 'Lake Shore Limited' every day it does that at Albany NY. I know when it passes Syracuse is had two...
... Sort of, but not quite. The Denver Rocket did have a section which was switched out at Limon, with a destination of Colorado Springs, and the power was a...
... But, at the risk of being called a "nit-picker", it is not a true 0-5-0 unless the car is moved by one person using only one hand! Cheers, Greg Kennelly ...
Hello all, I'm looking for some ideas... I'm wanting to do a large switching layout quite similar to what Lance Mindheim is doing right now with CSX's...
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In a message dated 1/2/2009 1:17:33 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, ... train then split ... there as two ... Sort of, but not quite. The Denver Rocket did have a...
In a message dated 1/2/2009 3:00:31 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, duano40@... writes: On pages 52-54 of Bruce Chubb's operations book, ********* Thanks...
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