Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Bad Day in Georgia

Thunderwagon5000 · Barely a pulse...

Terrible mess, real bad day.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Head-on'r during MIR. Miscommunication cause of the wreck.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Since we don't know what the conditions were, can't speculate but I would have thought that if the signals were suspended, they possibly could have come down and see that the route was lined favorably for their movement.

Pipes FC · Enemy of the State

Wtf is a Signal Suspension, and why does CSX keep doing them?

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

There is a video out there from an ex-CSX employee and talks about "Signal Suspension" and there is
usually/always a person to throw switches at the junction since the dispatcher cant. These "switchtenders"
called off the Conductors X-board and all they have to do is sit in their car until the dispatcher instructs
to throw a switch. Seems the switchtender got it wrong or was instructed wrong. MIR a bad time to turn
signaled territory into "dark territory". Just saying.

Freddie Krueger · Unstable & Irrational

MOW guys have been doing the switch tender duties, they also do the flagman jobs.

jonnycantdo · Upgraded Condition

Conductors are supposed to do flag jobs too...but MOW says that's not in their agreement...irrelevant I say.

Calvin · Upgraded Condition?

Its a sign of the times when the track number is painted on the track

at every road crossing.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

There was a Bellevue crew that had permission to hand line a power switch where single went into double, and pass the stop. BOT lined it the wrong way and the HAWG didn't catch it and they entered the wrong main, numbered 1 and 2. Whoops. I don't know about now but they weren't numbered then.

I've been gone so long that I don't remember which was which.

Pipes FC · Enemy of the State

They hardly ever send the BOTs down to hand throw a switch, especially now.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Pipes FC wrote:
They hardly ever send the BOTs down to hand throw a switch, especially now.

Really? Who lines the switch if you come to a switch that won't lock up or the circuit is down or whatever? That's almost beyond my grasp of understanding.

Pipes FC · Enemy of the State

The maintainer. Except on CSX, when I was a bot most of the switches I threw were on CSX. The one time at Winton Place there two CSX maintainers on the other man doing something else. Matter of fact at LM cabin when I had to throw 4 different switches there was a maintainer in the signal box.

Just last trip she told a train they were going to have to hold at the CP cause the switch wouldn't line. Maybe it's not a rule, but they never seem to want the bot going out there and doing it, we also don't have hot shot pig trains to delay on our side.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Pipes said: we also don't have hot shot pig trains to delay on our side.
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They aren't running that train out of Rickenbacker to Cincy and beyond anymore?

*Cy-manufactured line

Pipes FC · Enemy of the State

Cy Valley wrote:
They aren't running that train out of Rickenbacker to Cincy and beyond anymore?

They did away with the Columbus/Cincy to Florida train a couple years ago. Now it's just a block that goes on one the Chicago trains. Our once hot shot train is now a block that dies in Sharonville, and gets next day transferred to Cincy. It was explained to us as "FedEx is not the same as UPS".

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