UP's PSR scheme has really made Roseville boring. The shops are about 1/3 the amount of work they used to have. Thankfully none of my friends have been laid off, fingers crossed.
The ice went out off the river last night, but this pic was Friday morning from alongside one of the old riverbank warehouses. This track has been out of use for 20 plus years!
A Union Pacific Safety Awareness Special on October 16, 2009. It stopped in Sugar Land to pick up some law enforcement officers as well as me for a trip west on the Sunset Route to Eagle Lake and back. Yes, they had plenty of donuts on board.
Everyone does even CN did. I think the charitable way to look at it is that psr allows you to rationalize assets and routes and get to a core well executed railroad. Then you build back. That's the charitable way to look at it. Shock to the system kinda thing. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk
It was warm and sunny this March day so I decided to try a few more pics with my good camera. The string of non-bi- level commuter cars reveals quite a grade. The grade continues to the pedestrian tunnel in Roslindale Station. Edit: 'Correction', it is likely that my camera was not horizontal. Ooops. There is a grade but perhaps not that exaggerated.
Every time I see or ride a pusher commuter train, I'm concerned that if anything happened with the front axle of the cab car, the entire train is going to be shoved up my B*** by the engine still in Run-8.
I'd suppose that in theory it would be somehow automatically powered down. But knowing how everything we make seems to have flaws and failures, your scenario is very possible to me!
Do they still have 'Dead Man Switch'? Fail safes? Is the loco accessed via radio? Ya gotta plan on a 10 second lag time while the engineer processes what is happening and then the inertia. I imagine at 35 mph it would be a mess and at 60 to 80mph it would be a big big mess.
I guess too that the threat would be present for only half the trains, as half run locomotive first. The C&NW positioned some of their vast fleet of bi-level push-pulls so that their locomotives faced Chicago. This was done so that select morning inbound trains could better buck heavy nighttime snowfall. Happily, in my years in Chicago, I never heard of anyone's push-pulls (MILW, C&NW, CB&Q, CRI&P and eventually RTA) suffering a mishap of the kind we are discussing.