From the Smithsonian, and from a RR safety book for brakemen, how not to shift a knuckle or coupler, and how to do it.
A CP crewman rides a shoving platform (caboose to the rest of us) after sunset following a week-long ice fog event:
Happy accident time, stopping to get a pic of a CSX hockey stick, and here's a MOW crew and a trio of 40's working in the cold,
That crane is not very useful, lacking a boom and any accessories. Maybe moving it along, on the way to it being scrapped?
The Hoist and tender look more like a pile driver, without the "driver" to me. Pile drivers were among the few crane looking outfits that used a boom cradle for movement. Note the pile driver part being separate from the hoist house, except the cables. http://frisco.org/mainline/?s=pile+driver
Don't know what or where it is going, unfortunately. I do enjoy hearing the 40's rumble and lope along! And they set outside my trainshed and idle away at night often times.
I used to fall asleep to the Milwaukee Road S-12 here, either idling or switching cars late at night. Doug
I always found the sound of an idling (gurgling?) 251 in an MLW RS18 quite comforting. Maybe it's those many, many school lunch hours I spent at the nearby station way back when. That place was always serene, peaceful, and the joy of seeing a train go by was the cherry on the sundae. EMD 2-cycle engines have that smooth, relaxed sound on idle. Not the slow lope of a 251, but as Kurt Moose compared it, a kind of white noise. Mind you, when I was really young, I often fell asleep on the couch listening to my Mom milling about with her Viking vacuum cleaner...
A crew from the Virginia Museum of Transportation was at the Railroad Museum of PA doing some brake work this week.
Yikes. Nowadays, it's done like this, with both feet firmly planted and with the nearest car well separated.
Having restored the Track 1 switch at Derry RD on the NS Harrisburg Line, H24's conductor walks past the power to line up the yard track as the last hours of winter tick away. A GP59E-RP-M4C mother-slug set has replaced the usual GP38 unit. This job has an ex-Conrail shoving platform. The GP59's have been renumbered from the 46xx series to create space on the roster for more AC44C6M rebuilds from Dash9s.
Some of the Dash9 rebuilds were and are being done by NS, some were done by GE in Ft Worth, and some were and sre being done by Wabtec, AFAIK. The initial batch used plain cab Top Hat Dash9 cores which were rebuilt with GE widecabs. Other than that I haven't heard the source of the components. Thank Chris R. Toth and his NS locomotive roster for the info on this program.
