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[pennsy]

Hi UPRR,

It pays to double check. I stand corrected. NaOH is far more reactive and expensive. Na2CO3 is also used to balance the chemistry in swimming pools.

[UPRR engineer]

The stuff is extremely hard on wooden RR ties after a few years, when ya kick at them, they bust up like a wet roll of paper towels.

[UPRR engineer]

Alan, I think as far as operations go, there's a mine not far from Green River that originates trains to Barnes Yard in PDX, the OGRBA. I forget what's mined there though. Maybe UPRR can clue us in on that.

OWVT4, OGRT4, they use to be BA's. T4 is a special soda ash track up there somewhere in Barnes i guess.

In addition to soda ash, east of GR we load coal, deliver coal, pick up fly ash <--- Black Butte and Jim Bridger, serve a coke plant, drilling pipe and sand, scrap metal yard, car repair shop <---RS switch engine, fertilizer plant <---- Chevron branch. But soda ash and dog catching the main line is what we do the most.

Theres enough sidings between GR and May? i guess that allows most of the Z's to get back up to the front of the pack. RS, Black Butte (when theres not a train being loaded, Bitter Crick...

[Rockingham Racer]

UPRR: thanks for the info. I looked up the "T4" symbol and it's Terminal 4 in Portland. Like you said, probably a special track for this stuff.

Problem with all those sidings: hand-throw switches, AFAIK.

Check your private messages / email.

[UPRR engineer]

Ill help ya out dude, gotta find the ZIP program on my computer to open it.

[UPRR engineer]

Problem with all those sidings: hand-throw switches, AFAIK.

Where ya asking about Black Butt <--- , Bitter crick?

[UPRR engineer]

Problem with all those sidings: hand-throw switches, AFAIK.

Check your private messages / email.

Wont let me view it buddy. Ill see if i still have what your looking for.

[BlockLine_4111]

I was down in Denver this weekend and saw BNSF coming south along I-25. 2 GE widecabs up front, loads of coal in between, and a GE plus a SD70MAC shoving hard on the rear.

[pennsy]

Yo Taco etc. (Taco Belle ???),

Check out the website for the Orange Empire RR Museum, OERM. They are in Perris, California. Their photos include their Santa Fe F-45, still in running order and beautiful in Red Warbonnet livery. I have had the pleasure of being in her cab.

[Otto Vondrak]

There's too much activity in this thread for something titled "Forum Inactivity."

Let's continue the discussion in a new thread, shall we?

-otto-