Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

Troll · 500 - Internal Server Error

GE bringing good things to life

BlackDog · Purveyor of Positive Attitudes

Though I am not saying that the Ewe-Pee isn't sociopathic enough to have a unit such as that pointed the wrong way but leadng, I am guessing that locomotive was in DP on the rear of the train and not the controlling unit. I wonder how the crew found out about the problem.

Freddie Krueger · Unstable & Irrational

Bob left his can of beans back there to heat up and they exploded.

Calvin · Upgraded Condition?

BlackDog wrote:
Though I am not saying that the Ewe-Pee isn't sociopathic enough to have a unit such as that pointed the wrong way but leadng,

Maybe the crew uncoupled the leading engine so it was away from the fire....
I wasn't there, but it would have really sucked slowing down to 20 or less at every road crossing running that 6592 backwards....

-- Edited by Calvin on Monday 11th of May 2009 01:28:11 PM

Snippy · Force Majeure

See? LAMCO would have ditch lights there. Even if you can't see the signals or the crossings, or the rails. you could run FSA WFO!

LAMCO rocks!

BlackDog · Purveyor of Positive Attitudes

Calvin wrote:

BlackDog wrote:
Though I am not saying that the Ewe-Pee isn't sociopathic enough to have a unit such as that pointed the wrong way but leadng,
Maybe the crew uncoupled the leading engine so it was away from the fire....
I wasn't there, but it would have really sucked slowing down to 20 or less at every road crossing running that 6592 backwards....

-- Edited by Calvin on Monday 11th of May 2009 01:28:11 PM

I thought about that, but I can't imagine trying to cut away from a burning locomotive and then putting the walkway chain up. Here on the mighty CN, the crew would have stopped, collected their gear and got off the unit, hoping the fire would have consumed it as well.

Freddie Krueger · Unstable & Irrational

I would have left my cell phone in the bag, on the engine and run, well that would be a lie, walk for my life, looking for a way to call the fire department, without getting shot for tresspassing.

Troll · 500 - Internal Server Error

BlackDog wrote:

Calvin wrote:

BlackDog wrote:
Though I am not saying that the Ewe-Pee isn't sociopathic enough to have a unit such as that pointed the wrong way but leadng,
Maybe the crew uncoupled the leading engine so it was away from the fire....
I wasn't there, but it would have really sucked slowing down to 20 or less at every road crossing running that 6592 backwards....

-- Edited by Calvin on Monday 11th of May 2009 01:28:11 PM

I thought about that, but I can't imagine trying to cut away from a burning locomotive and then putting the walkway chain up. Here on the mighty CN, the crew would have stopped, collected their gear and got off the unit, hoping the fire would have consumed it as well.

Weyauwega

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyauwega_derailment

Calvin · Upgraded Condition?

BlackDog wrote:

Calvin wrote:

BlackDog wrote:
Though I am not saying that the Ewe-Pee isn't sociopathic enough to have a unit such as that pointed the wrong way but leadng,
Maybe the crew uncoupled the leading engine so it was away from the fire....
I wasn't there, but it would have really sucked slowing down to 20 or less at every road crossing running that 6592 backwards....

-- Edited by Calvin on Monday 11th of May 2009 01:28:11 PM

I thought about that, but I can't imagine trying to cut away from a burning locomotive and then putting the walkway chain up. Here on the mighty CN, the crew would have stopped, collected their gear and got off the unit, hoping the fire would have consumed it as well.

The brake cylinders are in and the handbrake is not applied...Maybe they were hoping the piece of junk would come uncoupled and roll off into the sunset.

BlackDog · Purveyor of Positive Attitudes

Troll wrote:

BlackDog wrote:

Calvin wrote:

BlackDog wrote:
Though I am not saying that the Ewe-Pee isn't sociopathic enough to have a unit such as that pointed the wrong way but leadng,
Maybe the crew uncoupled the leading engine so it was away from the fire....
I wasn't there, but it would have really sucked slowing down to 20 or less at every road crossing running that 6592 backwards....

-- Edited by Calvin on Monday 11th of May 2009 01:28:11 PM

I thought about that, but I can't imagine trying to cut away from a burning locomotive and then putting the walkway chain up. Here on the mighty CN, the crew would have stopped, collected their gear and got off the unit, hoping the fire would have consumed it as well.

Weyauwega

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyauwega_derailment

I know the crew involved in that little bright spot in WC's history. Greg walked back til he saw the flames and then made the cut just to get the hell out of there.

When they looked at the download, the engineer ran a perfect trip. Had he fucked up anywhere, short whistled, 1/2 mph over anywhere, he would have been fired.

Hoghead Bob · Unstable

It was a DPU. And yes it was my can of beans. A year or so I had one of Snippy and Sighs wrong direction wonders about 4th in my consist. The inside of the cab looked like a month old crime scene after a ravioli vs side wall heater malfunction. Smelled like it too. No wonder it ended all the way out here.

-- Edited by Hoghead Bob on Wednesday 13th of May 2009 08:32:24 PM

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Bob, that was courtesy of us, we try to send you our finest. It couldn't have been one of our crews that did that because using the sidewalls for cooking and heating things is strictly against LAMCO rules. So, that leaves, hmmm. . .

Troll · 500 - Internal Server Error

TSA scraps puffer machines at airports

The government is scrapping a post-Sept. 11 airport screening program because the machines did not operate as well as intended and cost too much to maintain, the Associated Press reported.

The so-called "puffer" machines were deployed to airports in 2004 to screen randomly selected passengers for bombs after they cleared the standard metal detectors. The machines take 17 seconds to check a passenger and can analyze particles as small as one-billionth of a gram.

But they would also break down when exposed to dirt or humidity, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement released Thursday. Since 2005, maintenance of the machines cost taxpayers more than $6 million.

Ninety-four of the machines were deployed to 37 airports in 2004, and the government planned to deploy 113 more machines at airports. But because of some of the performance issues, the government decided not to continue the rollout, and the rest stayed in storage.

The machines cost about $160,000 each and were made by General Electric and Smiths Detection.

"They got frustrated with the technology and moved on to something else -- I think is the short story," Smiths Detection vice president Brook Miller said of TSA.

Miller said the puffers had maintenance issues early on because they puff air and then suck it into the system to analyze it. "It just wasn't to be in the airport environment," he said. Puffers are still used at facilities with less human traffic to detect drugs, he said.

Smiths Detection, which is based in England, is one of the manufacturers of the full-body imaging machines that will replace the puffers.

The full-body imaging machines, already used at some U.S. airports, have raised some privacy concerns. In their search for bombs, guns, knives and other potential weapons, the machines create images of passengers through their clothing.

The TSA has removed 60 puffer machines from airports since last summer. TSA spokeswoman Kristin Lee said the machines are being removed on a case-by-case basis, and their removal does not create any security gaps.

Officials from General Electric could not be reached for comment.

The government has spent $42.3 billion on aviation security since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, according to TSA.

(The preceding article was distributed May 21, 2009, by the Associated Press.)

May 22, 2009

-- Edited by Troll on Saturday 23rd of May 2009 07:42:35 AM

Buckethead · Professional Asshole

Now see the result of not hooking up the M/U hose properly?

BlackDog · Purveyor of Positive Attitudes

Buckethead wrote:

Now see the result of not hooking up the M/U hose properly?

Fuel starvation?

Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

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