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re: Another train derailment
Posted on 4/28/24 at 9:09 pm to FreedomBarefoot
Posted on 4/28/24 at 9:09 pm to FreedomBarefoot
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“To me, in my opinion, you got 32 percent of the weight on the headend.”
“Twenty percent in the middle and 40 percent weight on the rearend,” they continued. “So, to me, that’s why we reported that to the yardmaster and like I said, this is what they want.”
Sounds like a shitty engineer. I ran a whole lot worse.
Anyway, train makeup had nothing to do with East Palestine. An axle being sawed off due to a failed bearing derailed the train.
Posted on 4/28/24 at 9:24 pm to BuckyCheese
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Anyway, train makeup had nothing to do with East Palestine. An axle being sawed off due to a failed bearing derailed the train.
When it happened, they showed the fire from the bearing Twenty miles before it derailed.
Is there a way to know if something was wrong if your the conductor or engineer?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 12:15 pm to BuckyCheese
Looks Like you might be an NSer? Do you guys use trip optimizer? I'm a BNSFer, we almost exclusively use it, under penalty of investigation, so when you say "shitty engineer", i'll retort with shitty AI program to run the trains... and that train make up you cited that was a shitty engineer, maybe, if we were able to split screens and run manually, and had years of experience doing it, maybe... but our trainees come out the program with practically no hands on training running trains, fire up PTC and Optimizer and let'r run...
2-3 years ago, in a 13 month period we piled up 3 bargals/galbars between KCK and Galesburg, ILL, a lot of undulating track, all of them 8-10,000' long 10-14,000 tons, made up almost like you described with DP, Optimizer running and everyone with the DP in high throttle, descending grade, head end ascending grade in low throttle or idle, crazy run in, in middle of train with a bunch of emties.... BOOM, calamity...
So, your generalization of "shitty engineers" doesn't" quite cover everything/one and all situations...
Also, didn't the Palistine train get caught by a detector and they were told to keep moving to next station to set out car or inspect? don't recall exact details...
All that being said, these long trains are no good, and we/the RRs are getting lucky they haven't piled shite up in a major population area yet...
In my humple opin....
2-3 years ago, in a 13 month period we piled up 3 bargals/galbars between KCK and Galesburg, ILL, a lot of undulating track, all of them 8-10,000' long 10-14,000 tons, made up almost like you described with DP, Optimizer running and everyone with the DP in high throttle, descending grade, head end ascending grade in low throttle or idle, crazy run in, in middle of train with a bunch of emties.... BOOM, calamity...
So, your generalization of "shitty engineers" doesn't" quite cover everything/one and all situations...
Also, didn't the Palistine train get caught by a detector and they were told to keep moving to next station to set out car or inspect? don't recall exact details...
All that being said, these long trains are no good, and we/the RRs are getting lucky they haven't piled shite up in a major population area yet...
In my humple opin....
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