Are surge protectors available that might have eliminated much or "all" of the surge damage? I'm thinking particularly of the switch electrics. Sometimes I wonder how much a 241 can cost!
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Are surge protectors available that might have eliminated much or "all" of the surge damage? I'm thinking particularly of the switch electrics. Sometimes I wonder how much a 241 can cost!
Looking at Figure 1. Derailment site of The Preliminary Report DCA16FR008 now confuses me. If west is in the upper left and east in the lower right, then the divided highway "above" or "north" of the tracks cannot be route U.S. 60, which is south of the tracks on Google Maps. Hel...
Might someone help me out by giving the latitude and longitude of the east switch (points or frog) of the Panhandle control point siding?
On the Eastern Rt. doesn't the diamond at Beverly Junction, where the Gloucester Branch joins, have moveable point frogs?
Is this what triggered NORAC Rule 504b?
Thank you, F-line. In my innocence, not knowing where the "Upper Factory" and the "Lower Factory were (or are), I thought it might be something located just east of Waltham station on the Fitchburg line. . . a few thousand feet long maybe.
Might someone lead me to further information about the above mentioned railroad (if it ever actually existed). Chapter 223, page 107, dated 1849, has an Act to establish a company (of which one of the corporators was my great-grandfather) "hereby empowered to locate, construct, and maintain, wi...
In geographic areas subject to lake effect snowfall do rail operations have similar problems to MBTA's recent one's?
NTSB has issued Accident Report NTSB/RAR-14/02 PB2015-102084 "Collision of Union Pacific Railroad Freight Train with BNSF Railway Freight Train Near Chaffee, Missouri May 25, 2013"
Is this in addition to something like an Ogontz Polar Bear dump valve down low where gravity can do its stuff when the ambient temperature drops below say 37 degrees F?
I feel some relief ... I had lost my faith in sand!
I win . . . . New Haven was to watch switching steam to electric (both ways).
I am a non-railroader curious about operation of the locomotive independent brake when the cab car is controlling. I assume there is an independent brake valve in the cab car (but no J-1 Relay), and that both the actuating line and the independent application and release line are carried through the...
The Globe and Mail audio does not seem to include a conversation at 0539: "The LE advised the Farnham RTC that he had just finished moving the 9 tank cars at the end of the train that did not derail." given as the last entry in Appendix A - Sequence of events, on page 163 of TSB's Railway ...
The Wall Street Journal, Aug 18, p. A3, has a story, with aerial photo, on the collision. There appears to be a turnout forming the southern end of a siding (?), at the locus of the derailment. Fnding it on Google Earth, the coordinates are 36 - 1.422 N, 90 - 59.603 W, elevation 256 ft. at the switc...