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I've seen something like that too Putting a 60 Ft flat about mid-train between loaded twinstacks well cars and the flat is doing ALL kinds of gyrations

Its more like "Its a slow news day" stuff and since we see the railroads working on their tracks thay must be unsafe! No one at the news deptment go and asks the railroad "Whats going on here?" The railroad will tell them "its good weather and that the best time to maintance instead in the...

They hauled the one at the bottom out on a lowboy trailer and pulled the other one back up the hill to the track and rerailed it and towed it away

You cant see it but, there is a manifold gauge (steam chest back pressure gauge) and the air brakes are of the automatic trainbrake kind. And its fuel injected!

MU locomotives 844, left, and 4449, right, both have MU control boxes, next to the speed recorders, for useing diesels as helpers as trailing units only. The box above the MU unit is the train radio on 4449 and the "FRED" unit on top of that on 4449 while 844 has its "FRED" on top of the speed...

switching lead Most large flat yards have 1 east/south and 1 west/north main track then a arrival/departure track for each main. A switching lead would be or could be the arrival/departure lead that would have the yard ladder switch near each end with head space between the yard switch and main...

Unlimited Parking ,from a friend of mine who works for UP Big Nothing Big Nusance

Well, the top speed of a real Pacific Coast Shay is 13mph or to quote a old logging enginer "the top speed of a shay is 13mph over a cliff !"sign1 But a shay is Its not how fast you go its how nuch you can pull

I have seen UP's hooks painted silver along with out fit cars and x-passenger cars now MOW crew cars

There other type of cars/loads you really don't want to run though a "Hump Yard" explosives, glass loads( just think insurance pay out) live animals, over size/weight loads. so hump yards would set out these cars and switch them from the flat end of the hump yard as the last thing befor pulling...

Shri and WEED? But all kinds of work equipment have "DO NOT HUMP" painted on them

LCLX Ledcor Communiciaions Ltd. I'd say its for laying cable along the tracks

Do a search on the web for Ferroequus and look for Feroequus and the Canada transportation board meetings about the movement of grain on CP and CN That should answer some questions but leave some unanswered ones

Milw 36A For all of you Milwaukee Road "NUTS" announce1 The Milwaukee Road E9 36A now has the logo on the nose and under the cab windows and 36A on but is still waiting for the "The Milwaukee Road" lettering on the rear flanks and number boards in the nose:thumb:

Well 1 month of trips and 2100 is still going with a few changes leave time is now 1045AM instead of 1030AM. announce1 There is a new web site up. A change of fuel from Diesel to grade #3 oil ( heavier than diesel) more heat less black smoke:thumb: