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UPS has enough use that they rate entire hotshot trains. Can be interesting when there's a derailment on the line, and you find your package listed in the UPS tracking as "Exception - Train Derailment". Luckily for most users, it's another train causing the delay and it wasn't the hotshot ...

You were one very lucky 9 year old. It's all a question of power which (in watts) is defined as Voltage x Amperage. *one* amp at 750vdc = 750watts. Think about that ... that's basically 1/2 of a microwave oven. Very luckily for you ... voltage is potential difference ... e.g., it's a definition of t...

OXBO, the company that handles the SC-44 move, did a simply amazing job ... Small family owned company, whose primary business is, amongst other things, transporting transformers for power companies. They manufactured a customized jig in less than 24 hours to modify one of their heavy haulers (and a...

Trains have to be shorter; the extreme cold makes it hard to get enough air through a long train to fully release the brakes. Someone needs to tell CSX that ... :wink: Seriously, though, the cold makes the gaskets in the glad hands stiff and brittle, causing issues with proper sealing on the brake ...

At any rate, the end result was an emergency brake application, and the train performing exactly as it was designed to do : stop really darned soon. Unfortunately for the bad guy, an emergency application is not reversible, and the crew was on the spot in discovering and detaining him. So here's a q...

People, arguing about the timetable is pointless. 1) the railroads REQUIRE their employees to protect the information in those (and other) documents (like rule books). They are considered proprietary information. It usually says so in huge capital letters right on the title page of the document. Not...

To intentionally disable a safety device on any RR in this country is reason for dismissal. Thats FRA regs. Not just dismissal, it also makes the culprit liable to a fine, and usually a very very hefty one. A hypothetical question what if PTC WAS active and there was a failure and had to be cut out...

Locomotives and other railcars are moved on flatbed cars all the time.

If it's frame is in good enough shape, it could even be fitted with a set of nonpowered trucks and hauled dead-in-tow in a consist.

a prime mover is not made to skip and bounce around in a unsprung fasion , the derailment most likely did do some serious damage to bearings and maybe even crank shaft itself. From an engineering and mechanical aspect, it would be fascinating to find out if this turns out to be the case. I wonder i...

On the surface sure doesn't look good ... but if the powerplant's ok, the electrics are ok, and the frame isn't bent, it's most certainly repairable. The rest is pennies cost-wise against those major components. Wrong. The entire shell is the frame. Its most definitely destroyed. From the views ive...

scoostraw wrote: Well you gotta believe the NTSB has a pretty good idea what happened. Especially if both people who were on the head end have been interviewed.

I'm an outsider to all of this, but my impression is that the track side speed signs are not meant to be the way that speed is determined on a railroad. The engineer should already know the speeds on the entire route, including any last minute changes, and should follow his/her documentation for th...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/speed-human-error-blamed-for-amtrak-derailment-near-chambers-bay/ Just to throw this out there, Amtrak had a train derail in Chambers Bay just 6 months ago. The engineer was suspended for excessive speed and not following signals. That train ...

http://www.kiro7.com/news/photos-massive-locomotive-moved-after-train-derailment/666679669 Yikes. That looks worse than I thought. On the surface sure doesn't look good ... but if the powerplant's ok, the electrics are ok, and the frame isn't bent, it's most certainly repairable. The rest is pennie...

STrRedWolf wrote:Did the other engine limp back?