My brother and his wife live pretty close to a BNSF double tracked main. The track is just under 500 feet from their property. What sucks is that the BNSF engineers will wail on their horns (one long, three short to the crossing than another long blast at the grade) even if it is 3am with no traffic to speak of. This happens at 20 minute intervals on that route 24/7. How there is not an ordinance I have no idea, and I don't know if this is a union thing, if it's a case of "we don't care if we keep everyone up all hours of the night." Look I have loved trains, crossings, signals (especially searchlight style), but I tell you Spur it's insane.
Not sure if this applies to private crossings, but maybe they could get a quiet zone designation? I doubt the crews are doing it out of malice, just following FRA regulations.
From what I've heard over the years, dead track were either RIP tracks or tracks where they scraped engines/cars. It may differ from place to pace though. We used to call it the dead line, cars or engines that were scrap.
You know, that's what I thought but through all my research of the history of that area there's never a reference of anything being torn up there. Throughout my entire childhood, it stored pulpwood racks. Not long-term storage but just a place to hold the continuous flow of racks in and out of town back then. I guess the world will never know lol.
At rayoneir papermill. Csx has a side, and NS sets out on the led on the other side. RJ corman does the switching for both sides and the mill. Csx would go in and drop there cut and grab the local cars off first and back onto the outbounds.
Thats cool and makes sense. The papermill job I worked was joint NS/CSX. CSX had the night shift, NS/Southern side had the day shift and the NS/CofG side had the relief job for days off. After 3 months it would swap everyone. CSX day, Southern relief and CofG night.
@spurgaming5400 that's interesting that Cog still has a turn on it. The yard is set up a little different and its bigger and you can run around on the main using that 3rd track irl
Excellent video, by the way. I've been watching it like 30 minutes at a time.
Thanks friend, I really appreciate that!
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My brother and his wife live pretty close to a BNSF double tracked main. The track is just under 500 feet from their property. What sucks is that the BNSF engineers will wail on their horns (one long, three short to the crossing than another long blast at the grade) even if it is 3am with no traffic to speak of. This happens at 20 minute intervals on that route 24/7. How there is not an ordinance I have no idea, and I don't know if this is a union thing, if it's a case of "we don't care if we keep everyone up all hours of the night." Look I have loved trains, crossings, signals (especially searchlight style), but I tell you Spur it's insane.
Not sure if this applies to private crossings, but maybe they could get a quiet zone designation? I doubt the crews are doing it out of malice, just following FRA regulations.
From what I've heard over the years, dead track were either RIP tracks or tracks where they scraped engines/cars. It may differ from place to pace though. We used to call it the dead line, cars or engines that were scrap.
You know, that's what I thought but through all my research of the history of that area there's never a reference of anything being torn up there. Throughout my entire childhood, it stored pulpwood racks. Not long-term storage but just a place to hold the continuous flow of racks in and out of town back then. I guess the world will never know lol.
If it was pulpwood racks, I wonder if they used to have a lot of fatalities from loads shifting. It could be as simple as dead trees. Who know.
At rayoneir papermill. Csx has a side, and NS sets out on the led on the other side. RJ corman does the switching for both sides and the mill. Csx would go in and drop there cut and grab the local cars off first and back onto the outbounds.
Thats cool and makes sense. The papermill job I worked was joint NS/CSX. CSX had the night shift, NS/Southern side had the day shift and the NS/CofG side had the relief job for days off. After 3 months it would swap everyone. CSX day, Southern relief and CofG night.
@spurgaming5400 that's interesting that Cog still has a turn on it. The yard is set up a little different and its bigger and you can run around on the main using that 3rd track irl
You can make mtys by clicking the cars and clicking empty. It'll automatically tag it as an outbound, circumventing the "industry" timer.
Thats a really good tip and something I didn't know. So it automatically tags it for the outbound trip when its on the spot and emptied.
@@spurgaming5400 yessir. I tried it at one of the Taft Industries on a Depot Highly Pop Save and worked a treat.
My dad can he is a engineer with BNSF
Very cool! Does he like it?