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The FRA's been cruising the Northwest in some kinda 'telemetry' car...which is now inside stall #1 bein' worked over by their guys. Seems ta be self-propelled. Diesel? DE?

Saw some guy last week, asked him about it...but he was yakkin' on a damn cell phone, and he all but ignored me.

Big surprise. I forgot my white hat... Gotta grab a few pics taday. About the length of a Geep, but longer, lower...

And back in #16, an Amtrak "Millenium" unit [GE] passenger loco. Looks like truck work. Not assigned ta me...yet. Big tools, and BIG coil springs in a crate back there. She's awaitin' on the day shift boys ta tackle... Only ONE grunt knows 'em inside out... And he's out till next week!

I'll take my camera ta the joint and try for a few shots. Later grlz!

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You need to get to work on placing microphones, and video cameras inside, and linked to this website for further review. One often wonders what happens inside that car...

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You need to get to work on placing microphones, and video cameras inside, and linked to this website for further review. One often wonders what happens inside that car...



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FRA's making pretty good time. It was here a couple of weeks ago.

GE Passenger locomotive.

Is that the punch line to some sick joke?

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Which one was it Uke?
As far as what goes on inside of one, I have piloted the 217 twice so far. There is a vehicle operator and 3 other guys. There is always the Roadmaster and another official from the Railroad aboard. Anything they find is relayed electronically to jacksonville as it occurs. The roadmaster is on the hot seat explaining why the defects are found....From overhearing some discussions, they seem to be very concerned with spirals and track across bridges... 

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It's that blue Guage Restraint test vehicle. Interesting. Power? Cummins in-line six, turbocharged, lying on its side
with a Voith transmissiondriving only the front truck!

Weird lookin' trucks... Similar to the trucks under the Amtrak "Millenium" units from GE. Pretty cool that ya piloted it Clalvlin. Bet it's a comfy rider, huh? Looks thatta way...

But it's locked tighter'n a crab's ass right now, so I didn't get ta see the innards... 'Cept for the underside.

Few pics...

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Gotta b'lieve that the 'extra' wheels amidship are set to measure 'standard guage' track at centers...
4'-8-1/2" and when a section of rail is tight, and restricts free rolling... DOT/FRA might keep a record, or recommend corrections to that outfit.

Just speculatin' of course...'cause I really don't know much about anything!

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It was always "neat" when the FRA was in town.
I always tried to crack a few jokes and ask where
the FRA dude was from as he was going meticulously
through 6 months of daily transfer records. I discovered
that I'm only "nearly perfect".

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Uke wrote:
Weird lookin' trucks... Similar to the trucks under the Amtrak "Millenium" units from GE. Pretty cool that ya piloted it Clalvlin. Bet it's a comfy rider, huh? Looks thatta way...

I piloted the 217, never had 218......yet.
I thought it would be a good ride, its long like a Cadillac...
I asked the guy running about that, cause it rode like a brick wagon.
They just call an Engineer for these things. To oversee the movement of the car. The Operator drives the thing. No Conductor. I refused to go when I got there the first time. The LC called me and said thats how it was, so I had to go or risk being 
charged with refusing duty.
First thing ya gotta do is watch a video that shows all the safety features of the car and operations. Then ya get together with the crew for a meet and greet and a Job Briefing.
So its about an hour before you're ready to move. Then ya gotta climb in and out that boxcar like fukker to throw switches (no conductor). No step box either..
Once out on the main, away ya go. Theres no stopping and backing up, like when your on the detector car. (broken rail)  This thing checks the geometry (gauge of tracks in all dimensions (crosslevels, superelevations,etc).

Like the FRA guy at the computer was joking with the Road Master its..."One pass...its Your Ass!!"
Fer all the air of Safety having to do with thier every move, you'd wonder why they dont make it easier to get in and out of one of these fukkers. When yer at a high platform station platform yer ok. Anywhere else and its like climbing the Matterhorn.


 



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I took a shitpot of pics yest, but discarded most [blurry, or streaky from moving hands] and the few that I did save... There they be. That Amtrak unit #55, sits in 16 stall waiting for... Somebody ta drop the front truck.

Not me. I've never done one, and wouldn't know where ta start!

I was one of three grunts at the roho yesterday, and was busy cutting wheels. And maintenance on the wheel machine.

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That 217 looks like they slapped a set of trucks on a trailer home...

Some redneck is gonna see this and start getting ideas...

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Actually some of the most gut wretchingly funny moments
on the railroad was when the FRA was in town and those
few unaware kept going on as usual. You know the Donald Duck
voices, the open key on some sick C&W song, discussions
about favorite golf courses or fishing. Tarzan yells without
saying "over". I'm sure every FRA dude passing through laughed
just as hard (only in private).

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I piloted an FRA geometry car for a few miles, it was a highly modified SPV2000. They had lots of food on board, including surplus government cheese.

It had a slightly different radio and I wasn't sure how to use the dispatcher tone on it, and, well, long story short, the dispatcher swore at me over the radio. It would have ended there except that the FRA man standing next to me took exception to the dispatchers radio procedure.

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I've never been on one of these type, but I've pulled the BNsf geometry car a few times on the Hinckley and Brainerd subs. They have big screen TV's and a shit house full of computers. They had an on board cook, tons of grub, and all the crew got was a can of warm Mello-Yello.

I did however power brake the fuck out of that thing...

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I ran one of the CN's test cars last year, it was an old heavyweight office car still painted in WC colors.  We didn't get any food or beverage.

Had an IC SD70 pulling it, major horsepower overkill.

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