Interesting Consist Discussion for the North Side

There's a linked double-R set now on T1 at BON:

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It may be the set mentioned in the previous post, but there is a 5 car set with teo Rotems right behind the power. The head Rotem is a cab car.

I saw a four car set at BON this morning, Engine-Flat-Rotem-Rotem-Rotem.

That the 1035/1826 set.

Three rotems in one set must be a Northside record.

There have been sets of all bilevels on the Salem specials during Halloween in past years. But in regular service, it is indeed rare!

Those Salem special trains were used on regular runs during the day as well. I was very surprised last year when my Newburyport train was 8 bilevels!

First Rotems to operate was on the North Side as a 4 car set. It was 180x-800-801-9xx. 802 was scrubbed due to a yard accident. To my knowledge a full Rotem set has never operated in revenue service.

They usually steal a southside set for the day due to the crush loads.

Are you saying th North Side steals a set? We never run sets from the South Side north. And the North Side ones can't make a visit South due to the lack of cab signal testing requirements.

On Halloween Day, yes. And with the removal of the 1000's only a 1600-equipped set can't be sent south. Anything else has to have the cab signal test done as part of daily inspection no matter what. If it's functional, it needs to be tested. So a Rotem CC set could go right over the Grand Junction and be put into service on the south side.

Not true at all. No cab signals tests are performed North at anytime.

I'm sure BET tests cab signals regularly in the shop before sending things south (why would they send it south before checking if it worked?), but you are probably right regarding daily north side service. CFR states "operating in equipped territory" so it would not need to be tested if the engine is operating North.

ck4049 wrote:That the 1035/1826 set.

And, it's gone. Now 1035-1620-813-flat-1826. On 331 this evening

After a T locomotive died in Beverly, Pan Am Railways lent Keolis one of its old Guilford locomotives to help pull its train back to Boston - as spotted by a roving UHub photographer at Mill Creek in Chelsea.

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