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'Loco' Thief Steals CSX Locomotive From Siding


Cops Find The Train 7 Miles Away



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Police investigate a CSX locomotive, found 7 miles from where it was supposed to be, on a track near homestead. The amateur engineer was nowhere to be found.

You lock a car, but you don't lock a locomotive. After all, where can you take it? Sounds logical, but logic didn't stop a thief from stealing a CSX Locomotive sometime after 11:30 Sunday night and taking it for a noisy joy ride, in Miami's version of the Great Train Robbery. 

The diesel locomotive, number 2617, was parked on a CSX siding in the Kendall area, awaiting an assignment, when it came up missing. It was there Sunday night, but missing when the railroad went working for it Monday.

Weighing in at more than 120 tons, locked on a track which took it to Miami to Homestead, all the railroad had to do was follow the steel ribbon until they found it.

They did, about 7 miles to the south in Homestead. Miami-Dade police surrounded the out of place locomotive and looked for clues about who took it for a spin, but the driver was long gone.

CSX Transportation spokesperson Gary Sease said it appears the locomotive was taken by an 'unauthorized individual', but as most people don't have experience starting and driving one of the behemoths, investigators believe their thief is someone with more than with a passing fancy for trains.

One police officer who spoke about the theft said it was the first time in 20 years as a cop that he'd seen a stolen locomotive.

Even though the locomotive was driven without the approval of the CSX train tracking system, there was no traffic on the line at the time and luckily, no collision.

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Yeah, if that is the case, Limbo time will be out of sight!

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They will just haffta put a hasp on the Switch and Fuse Panel door. Each Engineer will have a special key for a special Engineer only padlock to lock said door, after the reverser and independant brake handle are removed and placed inside.
This and opening critical breakers will allow the Engine to run if need be, but
not move.

Must not of been a signalled siding or the DS would have known.
Who left the train..(Eng or Engs coupled, with or without cars, displaying a marker)...without derails in derailing position?

Isn't this the same place where they had some kids steal an Engine years ago? They rode around with an Engineer who showed them what to do...



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This is why we lock them up. Or else we'd better notify someone if we can't.

Anybody got a key?

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Calvin wrote:

after the reverser and independant brake handle are removed and placed inside.



"Handles"





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Calvin wrote:

They will just haffta put a hasp on the Switch and Fuse Panel door. Each Engineer will have a special key for a special Engineer only padlock to lock said door, after the reverser and independant brake handle are removed and placed inside.
This and opening critical breakers will allow the Engine to run if need be, but
not move.




 Calvin...... This will cost the carriers many unnecessary dollars..... lets wait and see if it happens again b/4 we make any changes........



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Snippy wrote:

Calvin wrote:

after the reverser and independant brake handle are removed and placed inside.


"Handles"



Thats why I only said Independant handle.
Used ta be on a trailing unit, the Automatic handle had to be removed.
People were stealing the brass handles, it got so bad that Gonerail was
putting those black or red plastic handles on instead. A RFE told me CSX was installing a brass Automatic handle on each eng and making it so they
could not be removed. Now ya gotta pin ta stick down thru the handle to
keep it in position if the chair swings around on a trailing unit and hits it. (UDE)
Everybody had ta have a couple sets of brass handles at home, fer what
reason I'll never know.
I've only ever seen one brass Reverser, it was someones "personal" property.



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Handles

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Never heard it called a reverser handle, but I guess you could view it that way.
handels it is then....

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You ain't gittin' it. The independents are pinned, along with the automatic. Nothing comes out 'cept the reverser and they pinned those in on a bunch of (now gone) EMD Dash nuthin's.

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One time, I had to cut the cable on one of those just so I could have a reverser when we changed ends. Did I violate various LAMCO rules by doing so? OMG! Leatherman tool came in handy, all I can say.

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Didn't realize the independants were pinned. Guess it's been a while since I tried to remove one. I was glad those cheep plastic handles dissapeared.
I can say I have not seen any reversers pinned. We just had a message about
FRA wanting the reverser stowed in the proper place on trailing, and parked engines.


 



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Shoot, where is that?

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Freddie Krueger wrote:

Shoot, where is that?





 On desktop stands its inside the sliding drawer, on Old Conventional stands there is 3 round receptacles on the front of the stand towards the floor, on the newer conventional  stands there are usually 3 little trough like receptacles near the floor below the the control stand.



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