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The Krink


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I was born to listen/understand railroad radio

communications. It was my job for 26 years.

Back in the BN days they used "numbers" to

identify trains. The Pacific Zip was train 003.

The daily Seattle to Spokane freight was "206"

for a long time and then it was the "dirty 130".

When the BNSF merger happened in 1995, all

the trains had an alphabet train ID. So that took

some getting used to. Many of the trains naturally

had an ID that would translate easily into every

day operations. The garbage train...ROOEVE and

EVEROO. The EVEPAS (Everett-Pasco), EVESPO

(Everett-Spokane), but there are many other

train ID's in the "alpha-format" that many dispr's

dont have the time to make your train distinguishable.

It's BNSF 7645 East, whatever you name might be

in the computer. Notice the dispatchers have more

to worry about than coming up with a clever name

for an "alphabet" train. The dispatchers do understand

the "Z" train.



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BlackDog wrote:

Back in the per-LINTCO days it was "Dispatcher to the ore empties" or "Dispatcher to the coal loads"

 I remember staying a night in an Allience Nebrska motel and

there was TV channel that diplayed a 24hr link with the

crew desk. It showed all the trains going in every direction

and the call times. Of course any BN/BNSF trainman knows

that your "coaltrain symbol in the computer" is about 18 letters

and numbers all mixed-up...something you might dream-up

as a password for entering the BJ. The Oil trains that are

passing through more often also have a train ID that is

a "big mouth-ful". So for "simplicity", empty coal, coal, oil,

grain train, empty grain train, ore trains, will be enough information.



-- Edited by The Krink on Sunday 12th of May 2013 02:54:44 AM

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Back in the per-LINTCO days it was "Dispatcher to the ore empties" or "Dispatcher to the coal loads"

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If there was coal in it, loads was redundant.

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Cy Valley wrote:

If there was coal in it, loads was redundant.

 +1 Snippy thanks *cy* one time for his helpful post.



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Cy Valley wrote:

If there was coal in it, loads was redundant.

 But if there wasn't coal in it, it was empty.  Coal loads met the coal empties.  Coal loads met the ore empties.  Ore loads met the ore empties.  And we made sure the Front of the engine was positioned correctly on the lead unit (most of the time.)



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The coal train met the hopper train.

Out.

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The ore loads met the ore empties and the coal empties.

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What Snippy said. Anything else is incorrect. Why would you even question or doubt it? MORAN!

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2LARRCO has evolved to the point where the info-base that is railroad interchange (with the BIG Western) competitor uses the same symbols for trains... Both outfits know Z-, S-, C, M, U...and so on. Locals that originate and/or terminate on home road however and not interchanged, are unique ta 2LARRCO. The 'garbage' trains are all U trains followed by the ROO symbol (for Roosevelt), which is a gigantuous hole that seems bottomless...near the Columbia River Gorge town of the same name.

ROOEVE... or EVEROO like Krink says. Grainers G, or empties X (for eXtra) heading back ta be refilled, or not...

Union Pacific trains into and originating from Seattle, or Tacoma, or other points in GPNW seem ta follow the 'logic' of the alphanumeric system.

Perhaps HogBob can enlighten us further with his Uncle Pete knowledge...





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So, does he live and survive teh? That man Hogger Bob?

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HAWGBOB was alive and well when I was able to converse with him via cellular communication devices in February of this year. However, as we all know, things could have changed since then. Let's hope that Hogger Bob is alive and well, still.

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Snippy, you should get this shirt:

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Snippy wrote:

So, does he live and survive teh? That man Hogger Bob?

 Who would know better than ol' HogBob hisownselph! Yet his appearances on our little websight grow rare(er) and more rare... Sad but trew!



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