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NoWake posted:The entire division was just a week or so past working 365 days safe when something like this happened, resulted in a broken leg for the man on the torch and division-wide re-training on how to use a Palfinger boom. There are stupider ways to cut through something. From the OHSA thread:
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Gorilla Salad posted:There are stupider ways to cut through something. Oh my god...the way that torch just dangles there, lmao
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BrokenKnucklez posted:http://www.baycrossings.com/Archives/2004/05_June/the_great_union_pacific_railroad_meltdown.htm Holy poo poo. Has any work been done to improve the redundancy of the network since? How vulnerable to this sort of incident are the other Class 1's? I take it that this disaster brought about the halt of the mergers in the US?
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Not really. When one part of the system has a meltdown there's other areas that quickly follow. Chicago had a small meltdown last week and it spread about 300 miles away with trains getting backed up. Freight railroads do as little as possible to invest in their system. Yes they claim all this money is getting spent, but its mostly to keep poo poo going rather than build new tracks. I know the UP is building a yard in Texas because the system is so broken down there it takes about 3 days to get a box car from San Antonio to Houston. I was told the other day by the track guys they were to get no over time because stock price dictates no over time.... Tldr: gently caress you that's why.
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i don't get the network view like a dispatcher/dto would but i know from experience that when chicago or north baltimore is hosed, I am hosed. likewise, when atlanta or nj is hosed, i will be hosed shortly after chicago/north baltimore gets hosed. everything in intermodal is interconnected. the cars off of train x turn for train y. the crew off of train x turns for train z. the power turns for train b. if train z, train b or train y departs chicago an hour late, it misses its window through chicago, north baltimore and cleveland or cumberland or wherever. transportation doesn't help the situation by refusing to make yard moves, eating up ramp space with garbage trains or refusing to kick out foreign cars to go home empty. homebrew posted:Holy poo poo. the issue wasn't redundancy or a lack thereof. the issue was congestion. when your yards are plugged, everything moves slowly. when trains move slowly, you need more of everything(labor, power, cars, yard capacity) to run trains.
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It's written by Garey Busey, so the last chapter's probably about how to tie them to full-scale train tracks when they rebuke your advances.
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No chapter on reading signals?
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Sep 27, 2015 07:19
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In a book for foamers? Signal Passed at Danger, every time.
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Sep 27, 2015 11:31
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I know what a Big Boy is, what is a DXT?
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My guess would be some sort of Kiwirail locomotive. They have weird names like that, and are narrow gauge. Edit: I am guessing that they meant DXB. 
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Sep 29, 2015 12:26
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Obey your signals! http://i.imgur.com/yjT8LJR.webm What, no, poo poo, bad train! BAD TRAIN!
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EoRaptor posted:Obey your signals! 
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Oct 2, 2015 00:48
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So in the aftermath of railroads alluding to shutting down over PTC implementation, it looks like the railroads may be getting a break. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-congress-positive-train-control-met-20150930-story.html
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What do US rail use nowadays? Here in glorious sweden we're still stuck on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_control#Sweden ATC-2 (with alot of additional poo poo), ERTMS is scheduled to be rolled out in 10 yearshahahahaa.
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My portion of the world uses CNW's ATC (automatic train control) its simple but effective. Its a two aspect cab signal with proceed and restricting. Clear cab allows 72 max mph, but once you get a restricting cab, and you are under 40 mph, you need to get your train under 23 mph with in 90 seconds or its a penalty brake application (stopping, recover air, proceed at 17 mph). If you are over 40 mph and get a restricting cab signal, its a penalty brake, bring your train to a stop and proceed at 17mph. It alerts you ever 90 seconds to acknowledge the restricting cab or it takes your air. Its simple as hell but very safe. Been in use since the 1940s and we have had zilch for rear enders or collisions. If this was installed every where, collisions could easily be avoided or if there was, it would be very minimal due to being low speed.
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Your head would probably explode if you took a ride here. We use an automatic block system where speed/stops are presignaled through the cab ATC display.
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We have a crude form of it, and its hilariously awful. The people developing the program are doing a poo poo job - mostly because once its done, they are out of work.
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Ours works well most of the time, except for the some situations it obviously wasn't designed for. Like 30mph freight trains on the same line as high speed trains and even then it's usually dispatchers loving up since timetables can usually make up for it.
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gently caress. Any one got a link to a write up on what happened or a video? I'm hoping that was on purpose tonmake a demolition easier.
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HERAK posted:gently caress. Any one got a link to a write up on what happened or a video? I'm hoping that was on purpose tonmake a demolition easier. Sherwood, OR rail trestle. Apparently a grass fire began nearby and spread to the trestle. http://www.oregonlive.com/sherwood/index.ssf/2015/08/burning_railroad_trestle_conti.html
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I've never seen flaming giant domino's before. Seems like a pretty expensive game.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:http://www.baycrossings.com/Archives/2004/05_June/the_great_union_pacific_railroad_meltdown.htm I loving lived this. Hired out right in the middle of it in 1998. Get on a train, sit there 12 hours, another crew comes they sit on it 12 hours, then another crew comes they sit on it for 12 hours. This goes on day in and day out for a couple days and the train doesn't move a single foot. OK fuckers take a look at this https://akronrrclub.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/railroads-warned-about-clandestine-tracking/ I can tell you this is not the only instance/incident.
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B4Ctom1 posted:OK fuckers take a look at this With how easy it seems like it should be on paper I'd be amazed to find out no crazy railfans have rigged up their own systems.
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This is hilarious, I can't believe the railroads would wring their hands over this. Just another example of them getting by using the oldest tech possible. It isn't like someone is intercepting and decrypting transmissions, it's just one step above posting someone at a crossing to write down the ID numbers they see as the cars roll past. Hell, I once did this as a bored 10 year old, I wanted to see how long it would take to see the same car go by twice. I posted up at the crossing with a lawn chair and an umbrella for the sun, my dad soon found me out there though and put a stop to it.
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Because investing in our company requires money, and we can't be bothered doing that. We are to busy treating our employees like 3rd world cattle, minimal repairs to equipment, track and locomotives, and paying out dividends to our share holders. (Sorry for the negatively lately, shits been getting on my nerves at work)
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It's a miracle! http://imgur.com/gallery/t0zUrGk
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Wilford Cutlery posted:It's a miracle! http://imgur.com/gallery/t0zUrGk That seems like the kind of thing that would be accompanied by ominous Latin chanting.
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NoWake posted:This is hilarious, I can't believe the railroads would wring their hands over this. Just another example of them getting by using the oldest tech possible. It isn't like someone is intercepting and decrypting transmissions, it's just one step above posting someone at a crossing to write down the ID numbers they see as the cars roll past. This happens all the loving time, I know dhl and schenker track their cargo by gps already.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:That seems like the kind of thing that would be accompanied by ominous Latin chanting. Can you even get Cultist robes in hi-vis?
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No Pun Intended posted:Can you even get Cultist robes in hi-vis? Kind of modify this? 
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It looks like the FRA is blaming a broken rail for that huge derailment and fire in WV in February. They say that inspectors missed the break on two separate inspections. How does this happen? I assume there are automated ways of track testing, are they just not foolproof? Or are the alarms not automatic? http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/us/west-virginia-train-derailment-investigation/index.html
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:It looks like the FRA is blaming a broken rail for that huge derailment and fire in WV in February. They say that inspectors missed the break on two separate inspections. How does this happen? I assume there are automated ways of track testing, are they just not foolproof? Or are the alarms not automatic? quote:The FRA issued CSX and Sperry Rail Service $25,000 fines each for failure to verify a potential rail defect, Friday's statement said. Welp, there is that wrist slap thing again. Is this the part we hear it was known but no one acted on it because the line was too busy and valuable to shutdown to fix?
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JuffoWup posted:Welp, there is that wrist slap thing again. Is this the part we hear it was known but no one acted on it because the line was too busy and valuable to shutdown to fix? evil railroad corporations lol https://www.fra.dot.gov/eLib/details/L17123#p1_z5_gD_lAC
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:evil railroad corporations lol "The FRA" posted:RAIL FLAW It was a combination of "I don't know/give a gently caress" and "lets just throw a slow order on it, and deal with it later"
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probably. kind of the nature of the beast. who knows
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We always have a section truck supporting the rail tester, so that when a defect is found we just cut in a plug rail right then and there, although finding curve worn rail is not easy. Depends on the type of defect, but fixing a defect is sometimes as simple as drilling the web and bolting on the joint bars, takes all of 15 minutes.
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Anyone here taken the operations management test for up? I feel like this furlough might be longer than I can handle.
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This seems like a poor idea: https://www.facebook.com/StanleyRobertsKRON4/photos/a.228241700530063.67739.227160203971546/743996488954579/?type=3&permPage=1
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