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BlackDog


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Back to the original thread...the pre-LINTCO WC used to use numbers for it's own trains (#3 and 4 went from Stevens Point to Pokegema, 5 and 6 went from Point to Minneapolis, etc.) and then the bulk trains such as grain, coal, etc were letter coded for the connecting railroad and destination. CXMTLD was a LOADED ore train for the CSX to take to the Middletown works, CXFFEM was an EMPTY ore train destined for the mines up on da'range and then for the CSX and Fairfield Alabama. UPGBLD was a LOADED coal train received from the UP at Minneapolis for Green Bay, and it was returned as UPGBEM.

The worst was when the WC got the contract to supply Geneva Steel in Provo, Utah away from the C&NW and UP. These were the SPEM and SPLD trains. You can see where perverted minds with nothing much to do but listen to an SD-45 scream for 11 hours could start getting...inventive.

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Blackie, We still do the same thing as the WC, on certain trains.

Take fer instance the u30613 was inspected in Brunswick on the 13 as empty coal hoppers,

then went west to Bailey mine to be loaded, came back as u30613 loaded coal hoppers, kept going

east and south as the u30613 to Waycross Ga. Then the empty coal hoppers came back north and

west to Brunswick as empty coal hoppers to be inspected and to get a new designation u30617.

You could be called for the U30613 and have an empty coal train or a loaded coal train.

U722**and U729** trains to Newport News

U813** and U822** and u825** and u827** trains to CurtisBay Md

U865** and U891** trains to Console (NS) in Baltimore.

V634** trains to Bennings DC.

V655** trains to Harrisburg and then NS to PP&L.

U749** trains to Dominion Terminal.

T104** and T105** trains for Bostwick Florida.

T388** trains to Terrell NC.

N688** trains to Newport News

T728** trains to Newport News.

We have N series trains that come east Loaded coal trains to Cumberland, then the

power runsaround the train and pulls it west to Keyser WV thence north to the Mt Storm

generating plant near Bayard WV. Then comes back as an empty N series train to Cumberland,

does sashay with the power and goes west as empty coal train.

You are called for the N*****.......yer getting an empty or loaded coal train, youll find out

when ya get there.

 

Yep we run quite a bit o coal outta here...just sayin youre called for the emptys or hopper train works when theres only

one train in the terminal, it would be a bitch running all over the terminal looking at all the hoppers to find your

train, when ya could just go lookin for the N68813...theres only 1 of those critters.  

 

 



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Everything here used ta be numbers tu...

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That's one thing LAMCO does right.

Numbers.

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Unless something's changed, I remember symbols of extra trains sometimes having a letter-number-letter. That would be a single number. Does this still happen, Snipster? Pipes?

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Yeah. They have letters mixed in. Mostly numbers here, anyway.

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I'm thinking just responding to your locomotive number
and direction "without description" of what kind of train
your are, is a "security" thing in a lot of ways.
I've listened to the BNSF airwaves where a dispr wants
to do it like that. The listener hasn't much idea to what
kind of train may be running at the moment. Thankfully
some trainmen (or dispr's) will add the "adjectives".

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The Krink wrote:

I'm thinking just responding to your locomotive number
and direction "without description" of what kind of train
your are, is a "security" thing in a lot of ways.
I've listened to the BNSF airwaves where a dispr wants
to do it like that. The listener hasn't much idea to what
kind of train may be running at the moment. Thankfully
some trainmen (or dispr's) will add the "adjectives".

 The trains "official" id is supposed to be the lead unit's number and direction.  "Desk 12 RTC to the CN 5632 South..." We're supposed to use that id for everything when communicating.  "CN 5632...back'em up three cars to the joint."  not the train symbol  "Q118...back'em up three cars to the joint."   The dispatchers screens show the trains symbol and not the identifying loco number, so sometimes just to save the RTC the aggravation of looking up who's calling him we'll start off with the train's symbol and then the unit number.  "Q118, CN 5632 south to the Desk 12 RTC...we're stopped at a red at East Overshoe, over."   LINTCO has become extremely particular about not using train symbols as identifers and has doled out E-test failures AND investigations for the rapscallions who refuse to bend to LINTCO whims and wishes.



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