Inspection Train Status

[DutchRailnut]

other management ?? is one person ???????

[Jayjay1213]

I saw the 3 car inspection train tonight on some sort of test train in GCT. They were bracketed by BL20's. I also caught a mini bomb in GCT with a BL20, and another deadhead with a BL20 in GCT. BL20's all over the place!!

[Otto Vondrak]

It's for when the president and other management go to view various projects around the railroad.

3 cars for one person? Seems a bit extravigant, eh?

No dude, it's worse than that... one whole RAILROAD for just one person. It's crazy! I want my own railroad...

Seriously, you do realize that the management of Metro-North is just more than one person, right?

-otto-

[rangersfreak1030]

i saw them 2day at like 11:45 am parked in harmon shops

any word on when they will leave?

will they go north?

[DutchRailnut]

believe the geometry testing is done, so no planned use for cars for now.

[Train2009]

i saw them 2day at like 11:45 am parked in harmon shops

any word on when they will leave?

will they go north?

What side of the Harmon Shop you saw them?

[rangersfreak1030]

near where the cab cars sit .......right near where the f10 sits....and the genesis

[RearOfSignal]

I think they're currently inside the shop on one of the spot tracks.

[Train2009]

I spotted one of the Phoebe Snow observation cars as it was inside the Old Harmon Shop this afternoon.

[DutchRailnut]

Their normally stored now in old spot track in Harmon between runs.

[Tadman]

Imagine for a moment you want to celebrate something - a new home, a birthday, a wedding... You would invite people, possible people you like or people that you want to impress, or people that are interested in helping you celebrate. You might invite 10, 20, 50 people, maybe 100. Now, think about how MTA works: elected officials and the management of a railroad decide they want [new station/new siding/new shops/more service... insert here]. Just as you would invite people to your new home, MTA invites pols, voters, management, etc... to their new station. you get somewhere between 10 and 100 people that either asked for the project or helped make it happen, and you take them to the site and show them the fruit of their work. It's called good customer relations. It's why every road has a b-train, and many other companies pursue similar affairs.

[spidey3]

...MTA invites pols, voters, management, etc... to their new station. you get somewhere between 10 and 100 people that either asked for the project or helped make it happen, and you take them to the site and show them the fruit of their work. It's called good customer relations...

Agreed - but that still doesn't answer whether there is some reason why they are always spotted on track 34. I assume that forcing me to get more exercise than I otherwise would is not the reason...

Spidey!!!

[metrony]

...MTA invites pols, voters, management, etc... to their new station. you get somewhere between 10 and 100 people that either asked for the project or helped make it happen, and you take them to the site and show them the fruit of their work. It's called good customer relations...

Agreed - but that still doesn't answer whether there is some reason why they are always spotted on track 34. I assume that forcing me to get more exercise than I otherwise would is not the reason...

Spidey!!!

Also why the need to park two trains on the same platform? Even during the rush hour Metro-North sure is able to use another track.

[DutchRailnut]

why can't walk 250 feet ????

[ajp]

How many other tracks have HEP connections that the cars need
and besides a little exercise wont kill spidey or tadman (we hope)