by brettj22
Will power outages in areas that MNCR runs through stop all train service? Is it possible to run the bomb trains, or do all operations stop when there's an outage?
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Jeff Smith wrote:Two words: Cos Cob.All power is supplied from utility companies. If a feeder goes down there is a backup feeder to supply power. MNRR is supplied by designated feeders, only a few feeders are shared with public feeders. So when a local town outage happens it normally does not effect the RR. If it does effect the RR the power director will use an alternate feed. During the black out of 2004 it was not possible to use an alternate feed simply because the outage was a catastrophically huge outage.
With mostly commercial power used now (if not all), if a utility goes down. there's no back up. Unless you want to buy a whole MESS of Honda diesel generators at Home Depot
kitn1mcc wrote:yeah there is a Designated feeder from the Water street Sub in new haven to yard and it did fault a few weeks agoThis is true. But the backup feeder was used to feed the shops until the fault on the utility end was repaired.
Clean Cab wrote:During the blackout of August 2004, trains did run using radios which had battery backups, and cell phones were used. Keep in mind however, the trains that were operating were all rescue moves and all regular operations were suspened for over 24 hours. Funny how trains ran for over 100 years without radios and cell phones. All they had back then was the telegragh and a lot of people at many outlying points.
MNCRR9000 wrote:most do have batteries All Crossing signals doClean Cab wrote:During the blackout of August 2004, trains did run using radios which had battery backups, and cell phones were used. Keep in mind however, the trains that were operating were all rescue moves and all regular operations were suspened for over 24 hours. Funny how trains ran for over 100 years without radios and cell phones. All they had back then was the telegragh and a lot of people at many outlying points.
Since the radios have battery backups do the signals and communications have either diesel generators or battery backups at the interlockings?
MNCRR9000 wrote:Since the radios have battery backups do the signals and communications have either diesel generators or battery backups at the interlockings?Every signal location that I have ever seen has batteries. Actually they typically run off of the batteries with rectifiers charging the batteries so that when commercial AC is lost the locations don't miss a beat. Some older crossings have their lights AC lit, and when the power goes off a relay drops and then the lights run off of DC, but either way, they are protected with batteries. A crossing and a control point/interlocker should last for several hours to cover a power outage. After 5-8 hours is when you'll start having major problems.