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iyaayas01 posted:TFR had (still has, really) a pestilence of My Little Pony/Brony/etc related avs...like literally over half the semi-regular posters in the forum had them at the height. We had no idea who was buying them (more than likely multiple people from outside, because we're talking literally well over $500 that were spent altogether) and no one has yet owned up to it. I had one until I got this lovely Air Force related one from GiP...but it still references my previous MLP related av from TFR. What he said  I am definitely not animu. As soon as it completely blows over in TFR, maybe I will get something more/less disturbing.
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We have guidelines for running ECP trains. The only ECP trains we have are rare unit trains of all the same kind of car. I haven't seen one for a couple years now. I have seen even less of the ECP retrofit boxes on top of any of the control stands in a while either.
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On our mountainous district we only hate the ride, not the power they provide. Under heavy heavy loads and configured in DP they are just fine crawling up the hill for 4 hours at 14mph.
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Feb 7, 2012 20:26
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Nerobro posted:The fans on top are radiators. The fans for the traction motors are mounted on the body, and blow down to the traction motors. IIRC. Their intakes are inside the body at least.  Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:An incident with a production gang...two fatalities. Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:Conductor and Engineer, The train hit the rider cars which were stopped at 45 mph. I never heard the full story so the only thing I can assume is a switch was either not lined or switched from power to hand and never thrown back. "Restricted speed" is a rule written in blood. It is moving your train at a speed not to exceed 20 MPH but as slow as you need to go to be able to stop quickly to avoid switches lined the wrong way, derail devices, red flags, men, equipment, landslides, the rear end of other trains, even missing bridges, missing track, broken rail, a train or lading wrecked from one track over and onto your track. If it as at night, foggy, a curve with terrain or anything else blocking your view, restricted speed could be less than 1 mph. If there is any question as to your ability to stop, then you may have the conductor walk ahead to ensure the way is clear and then bring you ahead, even if it is miles. Failures to adhere to this rule resulted in these 5 incidents. Two of the incidents resulted in in the two man crew being killed (4 fatalities). At least one of the other incidents resulted in injuries and one of the incidents had no injuries. The FRA has done a review and has required that additional training and testing on restricted speed will continue to be done. Failure of even one of these tests can result in being pulled from service/suspension of licenses. A simple lapse of judgement, situational awareness, or distraction while moving a train at restricted speed can end your life or the lives of others. At any given moment day or night, there are probably 100 trains moving at restricted speed. Many/most of these trains are hauling hazardous materials in populated areas.
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Feb 12, 2012 00:20
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ijustam posted:Do Locomotives have to rev up the engine when the notch up in dynamic braking? Like if you went from notch 8 forward to dynamic, would you have to notch to 0, then hit the dynamic braking lever, and then back to 8? SGNL06 posted:The engine will actually rev up as you increase DB effort. The main alternator is used to excite the fields in the traction motors, so with more excitation you get more braking effort out of the motors. That's how I understand it at least, I'm more mechanic than electrician. Much of the engine spin-up you hear is related not only to the main alternator exciting the traction motor fields, and that big dynamic grid fan, but also many other fans or system of ducts from another fan to cool the 6 traction motors. Often after stopping after descending a long grade in heavy dynamic, the engine will maintain a high RPM idle to continue the traction motor cooling process. Sometimes only 5 minutes, sometimes for 30 or 40 minutes. SouthLAnd posted:Is the high pitched "jet engine" sound in this video what you're referring to? I always thought it was turbocharger noise. Perfect example. Yes that is what you are hearing. The concerto dei freni dinamici.(Apologies for possibly bad Italian).
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Feb 16, 2012 03:00
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I had a spectacular failure last winter that damaged so much in the generator/alternator/electrical cabinet that it caused me to have to evacuate the train. I placed my train into emergency (which broke it in two), hit the emergency shutdown for all the units, and we evacuated to the porch of a nearby porch of a closed hotel to take shelter from the 9 degree F temperatures and 45 mph winds. Three fire departments showed up and had a hell of a time putting out the metal fire. The smoke was toxic. B4Ctom1 fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Feb 16, 2012 |
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What is a foamer you ask? This is a foamer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhYXNwvcl6A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c3NqnEX6vY
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Mar 12, 2012 18:19
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Very old aerial picture of the Cheyenne, WY yard
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Mar 12, 2012 18:38
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BrokenKnucklez posted:That guy takes it above and beyond.
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Mar 15, 2012 07:26
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Do you miss the brown seats? Because those black ones are killer on the back. The 4000's have a mix between brown and black. We have these new brown ones that are also comfy. Hoping they are more durable. It is my understanding that the black USSC seats are all done.They are being phased out as we speak. I am told the USSC CEO left the meeting telling him of this crying.
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Mar 18, 2012 20:27
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ijustam posted:Are the seats in locomotives air-ride like in trucks? At any given time the railroad probably has numerous government and liability complaints about the safety of locomotive seats. Installing air ride seats would be the fix. ptting in air ride seats now would be a huge admittance of guilt on their part. I read something a while back that a few new locomotives a while back came equipped with these seats and they quickly (and attempted secretly) to swap them out for non air ride seats.
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Mar 19, 2012 16:59
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http://www.kearneyhub.com/news/local/article_76c980fc-71d4-11e1-a786-0019bb2963f4.html The worlds biggest rail yard: quote:NORTH PLATTE - A pair of tornadoes in the North Platte, Neb., area Sunday night injured two people, damaged homes and other buildings, knocked over a semi on Interstate 80 and flipped 15 train cars in a Union Pacific rail yard, authorities said.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:If you work for the railroad its pretty well known that they openly hate their employees. I know most companies at least act like they care for you, but this place openly hates you. Your just a number and a liability. Do some reading on FELA (federal employees liability). Basically they just place any blame on the employee. Just read this http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/osha/OSHA20120410.htm
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Mar 21, 2012 21:02
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From a railroader email I received I want to share with you guys.quote:The Union required an engineer to drive the inspection cars on and off of the rails, and a conductor and a flagman were also needed
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Apr 18, 2012 21:29
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9axle posted:We went out the other night with an engineer trainee. We were stopped at a red, waiting on couple that were about an hour away when the engineer decided to crap in the lead engine. I jammed a brakestick against the door and left him there for the whole hour until we got a clear so he could enjoy his stench. He was apologetic and bought breakfast on the way home. Had a similar situation, we did this to a conductor we know very well (known him since we were teens, camped with his family, been shooting/racing together). But he was only pissing down there and we used the switchbroom. But instead of being apologetic he was more.. apoplectic. Anyhow, later while underway as revenge he threw my fireman trainees favorite hat out the window and then threw my time book out and laughed angrily. BTW, the old trick of putting a knuckle pin in a guy's bag is about to go the way of the dodo because they are now making them out of poly instead of steel.
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Sponge! posted:For _freight_ usage? If so polymer must have come a long way... On the flip-side there's probably several hundred thousand TONS of steel knuckle pins in service, which could be replaced by a few hundred tons of poly, with commensurate savings in fuel, eventually... The knuckle hinge pin actually bears no load. When the knuckle is closed and the other pin, the one that locks the knuckle closed, the drawbar, and the knuckle itself bear all the load. The whole thing works fine with no hinge pin installed at all. The hinge pin is just an inert thing that bears only the pivotal load of the knuckles weight as it flips open or closed not any actual draft or buff force. Except for maybe when the knuckle fails and the pin can't bear the load and break away anyways. http://www.google.com/patents/US5630519 On a separate item. The UPRR has hired social media monitors. I was told by attorney reps at the recent union meeting that a UP employee was level 5 permanently terminated under the "conduct unbecoming" rule of the General Code of Operating Rules. This was for posting information on his Facebook about his UP manager which he got from the newpaper police blotter. This post was caught by these new social media employees and forwarded to that manager to handle the termination. I made my arguments to the attorney reps about how something that is a matter of public record can be terminable. The attorneys said the company can do whatever they want. This is because the UPRR has stated their policy clearly enough that if fired, we could possibly have no recourse at a federal mediation law board to try to get our job back. This would likely preclude any litigation for wrongful termination. The railroad lobbies heavily in DC to ensure the federal law boards are unfunded/underfunded to make sure most of these are never mediated. Here is the funny part.. these hearings also cover lots of considerations. Like where the railroad has without any good cause, refused to pay employees for work performed. For example you work 20 overtime hours and they say that you are not entitled to the pay for those hours. Then, as in some sort of twisted joke, take some of the money they did not pay these employees, and then use it to lobby to de-fund the mediation process further.  edit: GENERAL CODE OF OPERATING RULES—Fifth Edition—April 3, 2005 http://www.utu1904.com/files/Download/GCOR%202005.pdf quote:1.6 Conduct Edit #2: quote:1.9 Respect of Railroad Company B4Ctom1 fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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bytebark posted:I work in freight car leasing. Reason the plastic knuckle pins came about in the first place is that the metal ones were falling out of the couplers on rotary-dump coal gondola, into the coal chute (while the car was being tipped) and would gently caress up the coal pulverizing mechanism that they use to break it up into smaller chunks. On our end, any metal crap in coal is a big no-no. At the mine car loading facility, if the metal detector picks up any tiny metal that the magnets didn't pull, the conveyor shuts down and alarms. It isn't 100 percent, but it catches a lot.
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I love this video. It reminds me of a jet plane on rails. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE4A0nPjyqQ
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Apr 21, 2012 14:00
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old news but funny news http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/business_news/x530602459/Police-investigate-theft-of-railroad-tracks-in-Taunton-today-train-derailed (thanks to Aphex)
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also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_6to6eRMos (thanks to aphex)
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Apr 23, 2012 05:39
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ijustam posted:I hope you hosed with him more. When you gotta spend 20 years with a guy, its best to be resilient.
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InterceptorV8 posted:We had someone snag the ECU for a couple of trucks in the yard (they were damaged)and nobody gave a gently caress until I informed them that each one carried a core charge of $1500 and someone just bought a new car with all the fund Tell me more.
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This is the peak of insanity. The government is raiding my expensive retirement for itself.
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bytebark posted:I get railroad retirement where I currently work. When interviewing for the job, it was one of the reasons I said I wanted to work there. The guy interviewing me just said "yeah, we'll see how long that lasts." I got a letter from Wyoming Rep. Cynthia Lummis from a friend as a response to a request for information about her support for the new budget. In it she makes this statement: quote:The House Fiscal Year 2013 budget includes policy options that serve as examples of how to reach budgetary goals. As you are aware, one such policy option would conform Tier 1 Railroad Retirement benefits to be equal to Social Security benefits, a change that would affect only the Tier 1 early retirement benefit. This proposal would not affect those individuals in or near retirement. It is important to note that such policy options are illustrative, and would require subsequent legislative action. The problem with this is that conforming my railroad retirement to social security would be like having the government pass a law to conform your personal expensive retirement, 401k, etc to social security. It saves them nothing, because they put nothing into it to begin with, I DO! I pay a few times more than people pay into social security and now they only want to give me social security for my heavy contribution? The government puts nothing into it.
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via email:quote:https://www.bnsf.com/corpcomm/video/safety-briefings.html?file=/corpcomm/video/Wellington.flv&title=Wellington Would make me poo poo my pants. Remember your rules for being delayed in a block, especially at crew change locations. Big mistake taking off in the fog like that.
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We have cab signals too. But popping the reverser forward and seeing a proceed and then taking off hell bent for leather is suicide.
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Looks stopped to me too. Dumb video.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:UP CCS are a joke. Where else can you fly by while the cab signals change, just acknowledge them, and continue at your current speed with out it being enforced. They come in pretty handy in the dead of winter when you cannot see the signals through the snow and fog.
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First of all, get off your loving camera/phone. You are pulling up to a red signal and your termination (of job or life!) could be on the other side of the signal, not really the best time to be unnecessarily multi-tasking. As far as stopping the train, he repeatedly sets automatic brake and bails off afterwards. You are supposed to be bailing off (actuating) before and during automatic until it finishes blowing down. This is done to prevent the locomotive independent brake cylinders from setting up even a little bit. This is especially true when the train is in full dynamic because it can cause the dynamic force to multiply and cause dangerous buff forces hat could throw light cars off the rail back in your train or even roll the rail under your locomotive. His reason for not doing so is obvious, it takes one hand on each lever and his OTHER loving COCKHOOK IS RUNNING THE BLOODY CAMERA FOR HIS LITTLE FACEBOOK TWITS! Im sorry, but this bothers me more than seeing only 1 in 10 auto drivers making a left against traffic off their drat phone at a intersection. Piss poor decision making. If you really want to catch yourself performing tasks on a locomotive, make the conductor film, or set the camera up to work/hold itself. bisticles posted:Can someone explain what's happening in this video? Particularly curious about the message displayed on the terminal towards the end. The message appears on the secondary control screen when you stop and center the handle. It used to be only for problems, but in the case of newer locomotives it is telling you the state of the AESS. The AESS is the Auto Engine Start Stop system. The locomotive will actually shut down after a pre-programmed amount time as soon as all of the systems have decided that it is safe to do so. When you are ready to proceed it will restart and you will be on your way. This is because an idling locomotive uses more fuel that a diesel semi-truck running full bore. The message you are seeing is the option to press the reset button to delay the process. There are situations where you might want to delay auto shutdown. Like so can keep it running for comfort (Air coditioning/Heat), or if you see that you are only going to be stopped for a moment, and want to save time from having to wait for the prime/start/ready to go sequence.
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Captain Postal posted:Not to be too much of a dick, but that's a poo poo-load of fuel to burn to run the AC. That's gotta be just about the most expensive bloody HVAC system there is. Do they seriously not have auxiliary power for this? The messed up thing is they DO have it on diesel trucks. It keeps the engine and fuel warm, and runs the cab heat/AC. The heat and AC are all electric on these locomotive, yet they cut off (supposedly) to keep the battery banks from dying down too far to start the engine. The messed up thing is some of these newer locomotives employ huge electric air compressors that never stop during shut down, plus some also restart using an air powered starter. Which means the cranking current needed isn't as big of a deal. Let me tell you, when that air powered starter cranks that 16 cylinder (or V-12) engine up, it sounds like god's impact wrench freewheeling. also this:   more posters   related to that video of the near hit redblock run I posted earlier 
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We have one too https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cheyenne,+wy&hl=en&ll=41.130417,-104.789466&spn=0.000544,0.001321&hnear=Cheyenne,+Laramie,+Wyoming&t=h&z=20 That has happened here as well.
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I have a video to share. Please let me know if I did this right: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2Pzikk_x3PKWVpHZVAyX0lmUWc Ok to rehost to share here on SA. Try to keep it here (yeah right).
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May 27, 2012 04:09
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Sponge! posted:You gone done it wrong son. I have hosting too, but wasn't sure how it would respond to having an 88MB vid pulled over and over. That is the east end of the Cheyenne yard, a very old and historic rail yard. There is a refinery adjacent to it. If you zoom out you will see there is another refinery of sorts to the west as well. Also there is a smaller BNSF yard just to the north and west of it. CommieGIR posted:Oh Boy my current town! also, "current"?
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May 27, 2012 11:05
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This is horrible http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...xV0V_story.html
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Frag Viper posted:Pictures of that 5942 dark territory accident. Cant believe no one was seriously injured. For those who do not know this crash http://www.outlawperformance.com/movies/cactus-texas-dark_territory-wreck.htm B4Ctom1 fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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Wife showed me this link thismorning. It happened near where she grew up http://www.cibolabeacon.com/news/breaking_news/train-derailment-near-thoreau/article_70cd490c-e36e-11e1-b8e9-0019bb2963f4.html
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This happened to me recently. It was on my second locomotive. I was transitioning from braking to power. Something caught my eye in the side view mirror. A great deal of black (unburned fuel) smoke. I also noticed that the access panels were twisted. (this is the view from the mirror without the smoke) So I stopped the train and stepped out the back door to head to the other locomotive to shut it down. I noticed how bad the panel door was twisted and how badly the handrails were bent outward. I went upwind of the smoke, avoiding the walkway for safety, walked all the way around to the front door and hit the fuel cutoff.   Once it was dead I could safely assess the damage. When I shut it down it wasn't even making any "expensive" sounds. Sounded like it was idling normally. The smoke had even begun to clear a little as it idled down when we stopped.   Honestly I think it was just a crankcase vapor ignition. Might have been caused by some sort failure to keep combustion out of the crankcase. Other than the cabinet doors, the only visible damage was the missing sheet metal inspection/access hatch.  I manhandled and tweaked the heavy 100 pound (45Kg) each doors back close enough to snap a few of the hasps closed. Reported it to the mechanical desk, dropped the breakers, and tagged/locked-out the fuel cut with a warning to my fellow Engineers "don't even think about starting this locomotive!"  The mechanical guy I talked to said that as long as the crankcase was open like that, the thing would have continued to smoke badly from all the extra unburned fuel out the stack because it could not make any boost pressure.
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KennyLoggins posted:This looks like a whole lot of fun to deal with: I have seen them do that locally with a mantis crane. Like this one http://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/used/mantis/30011-for-sale/1582402/detail/ B4Ctom1 fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Aug 18, 2012 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:From the foamers discussion earlier I remembered this classic Onion News video. It never gets old. I love that video. Autistic Reporter posted:Before the train came to a complete stop it ran over 3 trashbags, a piece of gum, a snickers wrapper, a man, and a glove.. That part always makes me lose it.
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